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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Concurrent has been working in numerous jurisdictions and private schools - it works well.[/quote]

Which jurisdictions and private schools?  [/quote]

It doesn’t work “well.” The teachers are ragged. They forget the online kids. They spend a lot of time reminding in person kids about masks and distance and handling bathroom requests and whatnot which disrupts instruction for the online kids. They have to finagle ways to try to make in person resemble in person without compromising mitigation. I am a teacher and I know many in multiple states. This is exhausting. We will do it but please don’t be fooled because it happens it happened “well.” [/quote]

Have you experience already doing it or are you guessing about this? Concurrent is working fine at my child’s private school. I fully support teachers, but the claim that concurrent is an awful idea is just not true. Kids in the classroom are socializing and happy to be back.[/quote]

I'm the teacher who wrote the question.  I currently teach concurrent, and I wouldn't say it's working fine.  We've put in an incredible amount of effort to make it not that much worse than virtual was, and maybe for the less than half the kids who chose hybrid, the benefits of socializing at lunch, and childcare make up for the instructional loss. In the classroom there's significantly less socializing than there was when we were all virtual.

I assume that the parents who send their kids for the hybrid think it's working fine, or they wouldn't send their kids.  I have a much clearer picture of their academics though, and the level of socialization in the classroom, and I wouldn't say it's fine.

And we are in a much better place technology wise, and ratio wise than the public schools.  None of my teacher friends in public districts doing concurrent describe it as close to virtual in quality, except for the kids who live in households where adults aren't parenting.  [/quote]

I am a parent who probably won't send their kid back to school for concurrent hybrid because I can still work from home and virtual hasn't been that bad for us.

That said, there are a lot of parents who don't get to work from home like me.  Having these parents stay home for a month during an emergency was reasonable, and then two months and three months.  But nobody is paying your cleaning woman or grocery store worker or restaurant cook or postal clerk to stay home, these people have to go in to work jobs that don't necessarily pay enough to pay for some (possibly infected) stranger to come and sit all day with your kid or kids while they're in school.

This has already been a terrible year for kids, I certainly wouldn't want to take them away from the teachers that they have grown to appreciate and respect over the last six months -- and the classmates they've started getting to know and have "been in the bunkers with" in this weird time, and throw them into whole new situations because concurrent is hard.

I have a lot of respect and love for our amazing teachers, especially here in Arlington, and I really hope they can make this work.  Many teachers seem to be doing okay with this.  The teachers I have talked to feel like they have built relationships with kids in their classes, also -- they don't want to switch kids at this stage either.  Teachers, man -- I love you so much.

I hope everything is halted until every single teacher going back is vaccinated.  That is really the absolute MINIMUM that we owe our teachers.[/quote]

Another APS parent who agrees with every word here. Vaccinate the teachers. All of them. Then open for those who need it! At least elementary, anyway. Middle and high are trickier with so much changing classes, etc. [/quote]

It’s incredibly frustrating that we have to choose now, before all teachers get vaccinated, our preference for hybrid or in-person. This means that when all teachers are vaccinated, we will still be stuck in distance learning even after it is much safer to go.

Im choosing hybrid but I am so annoyed that I feel like I’m making a choice that might be bad for my child’s teachers, because they have been amazing and just deserve better than all the stuff they have had to deal with. I wish I could ask them their preference. [/quote]

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