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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS better get their act together by the fall and have kids back 5 days. This is beyond ridiculous.[/quote]

Governor Northam has a bill at his desk (SB 1303) to require 5 days in-person except in cases of high in-building spread of COVID-19 (which shouldn't happen with masking and widespread vaccination) for fall. Encourage him to sign it. Then FCPS will have to literally break the law to offer less.[/quote]

He has already indicated he will sign it. There will be 5 days in person (which includes the teachers in person, per the language of the bill) with some sort of virtual option for those students who choose it. [/quote]

And that will be the downfall for FCPS. [b]Pulling together a virtual that is fair and equal and makes everyone happy.[/b] [/quote]

As someone who fully believes Northam will sign SB 1303, I agree. Everyone will have a cow about any reasonable option for a virtual option (ex: a K-12 version of Fairfax Online Campus, Vava k-12, Virtual Virginia, whatever). It'll either be 5 days concurrent burning out teachers and making it tougher on kids or possibly they will simply give up.

Why they won't just ask all the program management types in the area who would happily volunteer their time to come up with a plan and run with that, I don't know. Or just hire a consulting firm to come up with the plan. Or just wholesale steal one from a district already open full-time.[/quote]

As soon as this bill is signed, all the districts need to survey families to get them to commit to a year of online classes for their kids next school year. Then figure out how many teachers are needed to staff the number of kids choosing online school, and choose which teachers get to/have to teach this group. And make a whole county’s worth of online school that way. If they insist on keeping the online kids at their base schools, it means everyone gets concurrent which would be awful for everyone. If they centralized the online stuff at the county level, the in person kids go to their assigned schools, and the DL kids go to “DL FCPS.” But that would require the superintendents to get tough with the DL families and tell them they would probably only have a regular curriculum without language immersion or less popular AP/IB classes. [/quote]

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