I have resigned myself to distance learning for the full year. By the time it might be possible to go back, it will likely not make any logistical sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Not as long as the teachers are unionized.

You again.... it has nothing to do with the teachers. It’s UNSAFE

Per what if the data is stable, we are in phase 2, and the Reopen DC guidelines recommend it, as does the AAP? Honestly, please share with me your source bc I don't see data supporting that.

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Anonymous wrote:I think for schools like Inspired that are phasing in a hybrid starting with the youngest, there is an outside chance that a little bit will happen. But, I am preparing myself for even that phased in approach to be canceled before the year can begin.

Inspired parent here. I agree. I'm sort of suprised they're even attempting hybrid, honestly. Makes me nervous.

Me too. The city's data seems worse and worse every day.

What?! This is DC's most current data. https://coronavirus.dc.gov/release/coronavirus-data-july-21-2020
The amount of fear is just crazy to me.

I'm also losing hope that we could have any in-person school this fall, and I agree it seems unlikely to start in the winter. I'm hoping that we might be able to have at least some in-person school starting in March. But I do think at some point (April? May?) the transition would be so academically disruptive I almost wonder if it would be worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think for schools like Inspired that are phasing in a hybrid starting with the youngest, there is an outside chance that a little bit will happen. But, I am preparing myself for even that phased in approach to be canceled before the year can begin.

Inspired parent here. I agree. I'm sort of suprised they're even attempting hybrid, honestly. Makes me nervous.

Me too. The city's data seems worse and worse every day.

Anonymous wrote:Not as long as the teachers are unionized.

You again.... it has nothing to do with the teachers. It’s UNSAFE

Not as long as the teachers are unionized.

Anonymous wrote:I think for schools like Inspired that are phasing in a hybrid starting with the youngest, there is an outside chance that a little bit will happen. But, I am preparing myself for even that phased in approach to be canceled before the year can begin.

Inspired parent here. I agree. I'm sort of suprised they're even attempting hybrid, honestly. Makes me nervous.

Conditions in January won't be that different from what they are now. If we can't open now what's the justification for opening then? I think we may be distance learning the whole school year.

Anonymous wrote:I think for self-contained special ed classrooms, there is.

You'd be incorrect, we had a meeting with OSSE about this a while ago. Self-contained teachers will quit before that.

I on one hand will be ok with in person if my class is spit in half, I think most are worried with even having 10 kids none will wear masks and these are kids who have limit boundaries as far as personal space, bodily fluids, etc. Not all students in self-contained but there's always at least half the class like this.

If we implement a full national shutdown for 4-6 weeks, yes. See option 2 in the op-ed below. If not, it’s a fantasy, because even areas that are doing relatively well at any given moment are vulnerable when a single asymptomatic person arrives from a hard-hit region. (The mandatory quarantines when crossing state borders, as in Cuomo’s NY, are sadly unenforceable).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/21/toll-covid-19-worsens-us-has-three-options/

I think for self-contained special ed classrooms, there is.

I think for schools like Inspired that are phasing in a hybrid starting with the youngest, there is an outside chance that a little bit will happen. But, I am preparing myself for even that phased in approach to be canceled before the year can begin.

Probably not.

I have already written off DCPS starting off with anything other than 100% DL even though we will not know officially until the end of the month. I cannot convince myself that they will go back in January since that seems like the middle of flu season. I am now trying to convince myself that kids will go back, at least with a hybrid model after spring break.