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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zero chance it doesn’t pass on 2/2. The only thing that vote will tell us is whether elementary goes back 2/16 or 3/3. I’m a high school teacher and I am fully, 100% expecting and planning to be in the building on 3/3 with the 7 kids who chose in person and come to my B day classes on Wednesdays. [/quote]

Agreed. And I strongly suspect that they will send elementary schools back on 2/16. Ziegler said that he's expecting all teachers who want a vaccine to have their first dose completed by next week. By the week of the 16th, many teachers will have had their second dose, and Morse advised Ziegler to consider prioritizing the teachers returning to classrooms first. Not sure if they'll be able to do that or not, but the entire workforce (those who want it) should be vaccinated by 3/3 at the rate they're going with the pod.[/quote]

The vaccination rate is entirely beside the point as it was never a factor of reopening. I mean it’s nice for teachers that it happened but in terms of them holding off or making plans around who has gotten it or when , that’s not going to happen. [/quote]

DP. I agree it was not a factor in reopening. But since vaccines are happening, and [b]returning some staff on 2/16 does make it harder for them to get their second dose [/b](since Ziegler said they cannot hold the POD with extended hours) I can see certain board members voting for a 3/3 return for all. The only question is which motion gets 5 votes.[/quote]

Actually, that's not what Ziegler said. He said that he cannot hold the POD with extended hours, but he did not attribute that to lack of staffing. LCPS is not running the POD, it's the Loudoun Department of Health, in consultation with the VA Dept of Health. They set the hours, because someone from the county health department needs to be there to oversee the handling of the vaccine. That is a mandate from the health department and there's nothing that Ziegler can do about the hours, even if he had 1,000 nurses.

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I fully understood that. The issue is that staff who have to teach in-person starting on 2/16 will have a hard time going to the POD during the work day for their second shot. It is one of the arguments for waiting for 3/3 for all grades. [/quote]

I'm sorry. I completely misread your post.

Although it may cause ES hybrid teachers & staff to shuffle schedules around, cover classrooms for each other, and keep the subs busy, it's worth it. We've had to rearrange schedules due to missing classroom time for the first shot and I think parents understand. It can be managed.[/quote]

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