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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Look you need to stop looking at a Facebook parent group as if they have any power, they can’t make up any conditions of employment but to answer your question, no I do not trust all my fellow staff to be safe and wear masks faithfully. Plenty of teachers are living life as usual, traveling, lax with masks. They’re the ones least worried about going back but yeah we all have to work with them even when we are really careful.[/quote]

Correct. I teach with a team of much younger teachers and they are taking risks with travel and going out that make me extremely uncomfortable. I don’t feel lie I can work closely with them with their behavior and doing so puts mr at risk. Not to mention the kids aspect.[/quote]

[b]I'm a parent and I don't trust the other families. So many are traveling, allowing kids into each others homes to hang out unmasked. These are the ones who will be in school. Assume the careful ones will stay virtual.[/b] [/quote]

+1 Another parent concurring. Some of the behaviors I am seeing with other families makes me very worried about the safety of reopening schools...as in, it won't be safe.[/quote]

Exact same experience.  [b]People who think it's "safe" to open schools under current conditions also lack appropriate judgement in other areas of COVID risk assessment.[/b][/quote]

x1000 for the three parents.  I completely agree with you, and I especially appreciate the last assessment that is bolded.[/quote]

Agree.

This is why we need testing. 
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You know you have the option as an APS parent to remain remote, right? [/quote]

Gee thanks, yes, of course I know I have the option. But how is that the "answer" to everything? My kids would like to be back in person too. I think that could be possible safely in the spring IF APS puts more effective mitigation in place, but not now and not with the minimal mitigation they have in place.

If APS opens in January, they might let me switch my kids from hybrid to virtual but they sure won't let them switch back. So we would be stuck in virtual for the entire rest of the year. Not what we want. I don't think that's what many parents want. How many normal parents really want their kids in a building in January? I suspect it's just the extreme open up crowd who does. And I'm not even sure how many of them will show up since a lot of them seem to have decamped for privates but still are pushing APS to open anyways for other people's kids. I am not entirely sure why. I think they want APS to practice and try it out on other people's kids now so they can push for full time 5 days a week in September. [/quote]

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