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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alright, I need someone to give it to me straight. What are we thinking for Monday re staffing? Please tell me my kids will be in school.. [/quote]

100% chance they will be in school early in the week.  Later in the week, who knows.  Depends how bad it goes w/ substitutes.    [/quote]

Does APS have any planning in place? Have I missed some metrics as to when school will need to go virtual due to staffing issues? And will they close just certain unstaffed classrooms, entire grades, the whole school? How will staffing be prioritized (e.g. will special needs or younger Elementary kids be prioritized, can substitutes and bus drivers be allocated toward the most in need students?). And will virtual be mandatory? Distance learning didn’t work for us last year. I’d rather just go on vacation than spend the time at home on an iPad. If my kid can’t get a real education for a week or two, then I’d rather use that forced time off work for something enjoyable since I only get limited PTO. [/quote]

I can sympathize that virtual did not work for your child, but it would be very unfair to expect your child's teacher to catch them up and allow make up week if you decide to vacation during virtual.  Not only that, you'd have 10 days of unexcused absences... which is an issue.[/quote]

I wouldn’t expect my child’s teacher to catch them up. Absent being able to throw together a pod like last year (which barely got us through) there will be no real substantive learning even if I hover for 6.5 hours over the iPad. Either school is open for learning or it is closed. I know a lot of other parents of young elementary kids feel similarly. What are they going to do, come after all of us for truancy if we don’t throw together some means of getting our kids to sit on an iPad for 10 days? [/quote]

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