Anonymous wrote:I like the way Loudoun is doing it. True hybrid for ES, concurrent for secondary.

This is probably the closest to good it can get but I’m worried if my kids ever needed to quarantine that basically means no live teaching for them the entire 14 days since there’s no online component in hybrid elementary. At least high schoolers can still log in from home if they can’t come in.

Anonymous wrote:My sixth grader has definitely developed a relationship with every one of his teachers. I don't know what grades you guys are at where your kids are completely disassociated from their teachers (and I doubt they are, I think that's just the take that's convenient for you on DCUM, but whatever), but it's probably not middle school in Arlington.

Nor high school in Loudoun. My students send me funny messages about nothing all the time. Former students still email me. I don’t know why parents here like to pretend their kids universally hate teachers as much as they do. Like we all remember being kids and loving some of our teachers.

As a teacher I can see it working in the upper grades. However in primary it does not work. My son goes to a catholic school and the families that chose virtual do concurrent. It definitely doesn’t work well for the kindergartners that are virtual in his class.
I’m fine going back in person, but not looking forward to concurrent. Especially because only 6 of my students chose in person learning.

I like the way Loudoun is doing it. True hybrid for ES, concurrent for secondary.

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My sixth grader has definitely developed a relationship with every one of his teachers. I don't know what grades you guys are at where your kids are completely disassociated from their teachers (and I doubt they are, I think that's just the take that's convenient for you on DCUM, but whatever), but it's probably not middle school in Arlington.

We are tied to it because these are little kids having to make a zillion adjustments already and I don’t want them to have to make more. To me, a teacher makes or breaks the school year.

I recognize that to say it’s less than ideal is an understatement, but when we have to choose between several bad options, I think concurrent is better than changing around schools and teachers. Although the best option is to open schools completely sooner rather than later.

Anonymous wrote:Like, I feel you, NOVA parents, but sometimes it's like you can't stop yourself from taking a beautiful Birkin and turning it into a sow's ear.

They’re never happy

My kids hate school
My kids hate DL
My kids will hate concurrent
My kids hate their teacher
I hate FEA
I hate teachers
Why can’t we have everything we want
What about private schools.

Like, I feel you, NOVA parents, but sometimes it's like you can't stop yourself from taking a beautiful Birkin and turning it into a sow's ear.

This whole idea that kids have developed a relationship with their teachers is a teacher-led fantasy.

My kids have never met their teachers. They could be being taught by Atilla the Hun and they wouldn't know the difference.

It doesn’t work “well.” I know teachers doing it and they are burnt out. You can’t be effective to both groups at once. But its also been explained a MILLION times they do not have the capacity to split secondary fully. So this is the cost of getting any in person.

Concurrent learning is not stupid! Do you remember when parents were panicked three months ago when the idea of going back to school via hybrid classes was raised and folks started realizing that at least half the class would have to lose the teacher they had already developed a relationship with? And would be getting sent into the great unknown, possibly even with students they hadn't developed relaitonships with? Because that is what you'd have to do if you don't find a way to teach the current classes you have with the current teachers assigned to them.

Concurrent can work and is working in other classrooms, so give it a chance guys!

Concurrent has been working in numerous jurisdictions and private schools - it works well.

Why are they still planning for this concurrent model? Why don't they just designate one set of teachers as "virtual" and shift all the kids that aren't going to go in person to that virtual school? Why are we tied so tightly to everyone going to their same school and everyone having to do concurrent?