Anonymous wrote:According to the email today. All Montessori and Immersion students will also be concurrent. I was under the impression that concurrent involved teachers teaching IN school to students at home or in school. However, it apparently means teachers teaching at home or school to students at home or in school. I picked hybrid but have zero desire to send me kid to school to do virtual school while watched by a baby sitter. Especially my kinder kid who I assumed would be taught by his teacher or assistant in person at least some of the day.

So hybrid is basically childcare almost a year into this. When most everyone has child care established or will not be helped by sending the kids some place 2 days a week (and for me my kids would go on different days!).

Assistants will be in the building.

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Anonymous wrote:Most likely your child’s teacher will be in-person unless they specially qualify to teach from home due to specific risk factors. APS isn’t going to hire and pay a whole slew of additional aides to be in classrooms just so teachers can stay home if they want to.

do risk factors include extended family that is high-risk?

No, those requests have been denied at the district level. Schools have some flexibility in how they assign teachers based on their individual program needs.

Anonymous wrote:It’s a big old middle bird to the virtual students.

And the in-person ones, too. The teachers will be teaching to them from computers at their desks, if they are even in the classroom. But there really isn’t another way. They don’t have the staff to accomplish both hybrid and distance at the same time.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how they are going to do specials in the concurrent model? Someone asked our elementary principal how they'd do concurrent gym and music, for instance, and she had no ideas or plans.

Probably like other instruction - special teachers will teach in-school unless they qualify to teach at home, with lesson plans designed to accommodate both in-person and virtual instruction.

Anonymous wrote:Most likely your child’s teacher will be in-person unless they specially qualify to teach from home due to specific risk factors. APS isn’t going to hire and pay a whole slew of additional aides to be in classrooms just so teachers can stay home if they want to.

do risk factors include extended family that is high-risk?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a big old middle bird to the virtual students.

i think it is a big old middle bird to all of the students...

And parents who want their kids learning in-person.

Most likely your child’s teacher will be in-person unless they specially qualify to teach from home due to specific risk factors. APS isn’t going to hire and pay a whole slew of additional aides to be in classrooms just so teachers can stay home if they want to.

Does anyone know what qualifies a teacher to remain virtual? Or when we learn the teacher's status (virtual or in-school)?

I also chose hybrid assuming it meant part-time, in-class instruction with the teacher.. but sending kids to school to learn remotely seems so silly to me.

Anonymous wrote:It’s a big old middle bird to the virtual students.

i think it is a big old middle bird to all of the students...

It’s a big old middle bird to the virtual students.

Does anyone know how they are going to do specials in the concurrent model? Someone asked our elementary principal how they'd do concurrent gym and music, for instance, and she had no ideas or plans.

Anonymous wrote:If the point of your post is just to complain about how ridiculous this is, I 100% agree.

Ha pretty much. My kinder kid needs a decent amount of help during the day, especially in Spanish to get what is going on and to engage. I don't see how that will work with a care giver who is also watching 8-12 other kids. This whole thing is exhausting. I think I am just going to shoot for fall 2021 at this point.

According to AEM, Glebe is also planning concurrent for 2nd graders. I'm not sure if other elementary schools are considering expanding concurrent to even lower grades.

If the point of your post is just to complain about how ridiculous this is, I 100% agree.

According to the email today. All Montessori and Immersion students will also be concurrent. I was under the impression that concurrent involved teachers teaching IN school to students at home or in school. However, it apparently means teachers teaching at home or school to students at home or in school. I picked hybrid but have zero desire to send me kid to school to do virtual school while watched by a baby sitter. Especially my kinder kid who I assumed would be taught by his teacher or assistant in person at least some of the day.

So hybrid is basically childcare almost a year into this. When most everyone has child care established or will not be helped by sending the kids some place 2 days a week (and for me my kids would go on different days!).