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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At this point all I want to know is their plan for the fall. I wouldn’t send any adolescent into that mess without a vaccine and without vaccinated adults at home. My 14 year old is just a mini adult, biologically, but I’m not letting him come and infect all of us.  in December with their first version of the plan, it was clear it was an s-show, because in secondary schools they didn’t even try to prevent large numbers of kids from intermingling, and then what was going to save them was having them all march in lockstep one way down the hall, and all this exposure for two days a week.

So, what are they going to do in the fall? At least by then the adults will definitely be immunized and hopefully they will have approved something for kids 12 and up. Secondary schools should not be allowed to be breeding grounds for nastier variants. [/quote]

So nice to see another rational adult in Arlington.  Can’t for the life of me understand why they have better cohosting and safety practices in elementary than middle and high. They just shrug at the idea that middle and high schoolers can get and transmit like adults. They literally plan to gather them all together for lunch and at the beginning of the school day. No one is doing that with elementary. The secondary team in Central Admin is out to lunch (hopefully in groups less and 100 ha!) when it comes to student safety.   [/quote]

How would you suggest they cohort secondary schools more than they already are (T/W and Th/F groups *are* cohorts) without compromising educational needs?[/quote]

I’m going to go with (1) no super spreader lunches of 100 kids in a single room and (2) kids go directly to classrooms in AM and aren’t corralled in 100 kid groups in gym, cafeteria and auditorium. I’d love some effort at cohorts but I’d take 1 and 2. Even that’s too much to ask apparently.  Can’t believe their plan doesn’t mandate no large groups of kids.  Pretty sure that’s ALWAYS been in CDC guidance. For all their delays, you’d think they’d have rational safety plan.  The APE crowd doesn’t care but you’d think APS would![/quote]

I have a seventh grader. For sixth and seventh grades, there just isnt that much variation. There’s some in math, and then there’s the electives. It wouldn’t be that hard to group kids together by math level (or at least keep the advanced math kids in one cohort) and then subdivide by foreign language class. It’s not like they respected my kid’s elective choices anyway this year. He’s got an IEP, and certain electives are terrible for him, and some would be good. They put him in all the terrible ones, even when we had this discussion at last years meeting about what to,choose.   This is how I lived my life in secondary school in one of the best school districts in the country. I pretty much had the same kids in all my classes in normal times, because once you were in BC Calculus and AP history, there were only so many ways to slice the rest of the schedule.[/quote]

That’s actually true now that I think about it. My daughter told me she has almost all the same cats in all her classes give or take a few. (Middle school).

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There’s no question at all that they COULD have cohorted the MS kids.  Pretty easily. But they didn’t. And they can’t reshuffle them now and still open. It’s poor planning and execution by the secondary team in central admin. [/quote]

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