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[quote=Anonymous]Has anyone on this thread even look at DCPS’s covid reporting site? 59 staff positive for covid within 3-4 weeks, which much fewer people in the building than they are now moving to. DCPS announced before the break that they had, I believe, 8 schools closed down already due to too many cases in the community. And I believe it was 12 elementary schools with cases in the community. Those are high numbers, presumably to get worse in January with a) more people in each school and b) the holiday break spike.

I don’t really think reopening is the big life change that everyone on this thread is hoping for.

First of all, if Hearst sends back one teacher per grade, every single kid will be impacted. 10 kids per grade will go back out of about 45. I’m curious how many of the complainers on here are a parent to one of the 10 neediest kids per grade. The other 35 kids will be looped into one virtual class and get barely any individual attention. The kids won’t even all fit onto the Teams screen at once so the teacher may not even have eyes on your kid while they are teaching. Plus about half the kids lose their teacher after half the year. I don’t know about you all, but my kids LOVE their teacher at Hearst every single year. That is our family’s biggest reason for staying here and not moving to the burbs. Both of my kids would be devastated to get pulled from their teacher right now, and I feel they are both too emotionally fragile right now to weather another major change like that.

Second of all, the schools that are “more” open than Hearst have adults in and out of quarantine. DCPS has a sub shortage so there isn’t anyone to cover in person instruction (also in my years of experience with DCPS almost every sub is trash anyways), so guess where your kid is? Back at home in virtual instruction! And god forbid if the teacher actually gets really sick. I have never heard a concrete plan of who would teach my kids’ classes if their teacher got too sick with Covid to teach.

Third of all, whoever on this thread said it above me is right. If you force a blanket return policy, many teachers who CAN work virtually CANNOT work in person. It is not a matter of being “young and healthy”. You don’t know who they live with. You don’t know if they are pregnant or sick in another way. And we DO know that many of our Hearst teachers are parents and live outside the city so their kids may be still in virtual school at home. I’m sure that ADA and FMLA cover a lot more than we realize. Personally, I would rather have my kids in virtual school with their teachers than in in-person school with someone else who is potentially not even a Hearst teacher or has never taught this grade level before. I’ll take what I can get during a pandemic.

I want my children to go back when DC’s community spread rate is below the CDC recommended rate. Right now it is far above. I don’t like it but I understand why teachers may not want to go back right now.  [/quote]

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