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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wrong PP

Schools are open. Students may attend if they wish and simply need to wear a mask

Teachers per recent stats have been present save for this past week and an occasional miss.

But yes, let us all shut down because a small but vocal minority of parents want everyone to wait while they get comfortable with numbers.

Nope, not again, not another long shutdown that hurts the mental well-being of students.[/quote]

Many of my kid's teachers got covid. That, plus sick kids, plus missing buses made for chaos. 2 weeks virtual would have been fine and helped stem the wave of omicron. No one is suggesting close schools.

Now, I agree that it is too late for a couple weeks of virtual to really help. But, kids should have the option to go virtual for the next few weeks to lessen the density and help resolve the omicron wave.[/quote]

Half my kids teachers are out with covid so they spend most of the day in the cafeteria with 20% of the schoolmates doing worksheets.  Virtual may have its drawbacks but seems preferable to this.[/quote]
maybe for you, but half in person is better than 100% virtual, IMO.

Also, we are probably now on the downward trend of omicron.  Maybe I could see going virtual for the two weeks after winter break, but it's too late now.  Even if they made the decision, it would take a week or so to pivot to virtual for everyone. By that point, we will be at the tail end of omicron surge.[/quote]

Half in person is better? Exactly how stupid are you? Teachers arent teaching new material BECAUSE half are out. They would have to re-teach. So the kids sitting in school are not benefiting because they are just doing busy work. How do you not understand this yet? How many people have to tell you this before you get it? [/quote]

Let me spell it out for the "my child has had covid four times and they're fine" people.

I trust masking and outdoor eating. It's served us pretty well. We don't go to restaurants, but my child attended school all through the fall surge and was fine. My husband goes to the office in a mask. Also fine.

That doesn't mean I want to send my child back to sit in an auditorium with a hundred other kids. That's not learning. That's an infectious cluster. Not worth it.

When schools have the staff to teach we will be back. That could be Wednesday. It could be February. [/quote]

To add onto this-I am a para. My job has been regulated to literal babysitting kids in an auditorium. There is no learning. For parents arguing, BUT SCHOOL IS FOR SOCIALIZATION! No kids are socializing. They are glued to their phones. It's actually eerily silent in there BECAUSE they aren't socializing. They arent learning. They arent socializing. They are potentially infecting other students and staff. At what point do you stop and say, "What are we doing here?" It is a disaster and people need to realize that. It's infuriating that people refuse to listen to people actually in the school buildings, who know what is going on. People keep trying their tired "teachers want to teach in jammies and not do their job". You couldnt be further from the truth, but I guess if that helps you sleep better at night..... [/quote]

I am sorry for your experience. My child is in middle school with ball his teachers. No one is using phones or being herded into the cafeteria. Aside from one cancelled bus line it has been business as usual. [/quote]

It’s also been business as usual at my kids high FARM, majority minority middle school…all her teachers are present and teaching and everybody in her friend group is in school. Hoping that it remains this way. She has taken the test several times and so far has always tested negative.[/quote]

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