Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how you got this far into the school year, including presumably having chosen the hybrid option for your child(ren), and are just now hearing about what hybrid will look like. This information has been out there for a long time.

Exactly! I wish more parents had paid attention and had spent more energy on improving it over the last six months instead of complaining about when kids would be back in.

+1. At least in APS this is always what hybrid was going to be. Concurrent is going to make it even more awful. My 4th grader really wanted to go back but when I shared what hybrid was going to look like the answer was "no thanks, I have more freedom in DL".

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There isn’t space for social distancing if everyone is back at the same time.

Unless they get creative...

How?

All that space above the kid's heads! Create a second level in every classroom! It will still be six feet apart! Marty, you aren't thinking 3rd dimensionally!

What about using the recreation centers? At least in Fairfax County we have huge recreation centers that are completely empty during the day. If you need more space, use those.

Then call them up and call district HQ instead of posting on DeeSeeYooEm

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There isn’t space for social distancing if everyone is back at the same time.

Unless they get creative...

How?

All that space above the kid's heads! Create a second level in every classroom! It will still be six feet apart! Marty, you aren't thinking 3rd dimensionally!

What about using the recreation centers? At least in Fairfax County we have huge recreation centers that are completely empty during the day. If you need more space, use those.

Why do you think they are completely empty during the day? I thought they were used by adults and seniors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There isn’t space for social distancing if everyone is back at the same time.

Unless they get creative...

How?

All that space above the kid's heads! Create a second level in every classroom! It will still be six feet apart! Marty, you aren't thinking 3rd dimensionally!

What about using the recreation centers? At least in Fairfax County we have huge recreation centers that are completely empty during the day. If you need more space, use those.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There isn’t space for social distancing if everyone is back at the same time.

Unless they get creative...

How?

All that space above the kid's heads! Create a second level in every classroom! It will still be six feet apart! Marty, you aren't thinking 3rd dimensionally!

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how you got this far into the school year, including presumably having chosen the hybrid option for your child(ren), and are just now hearing about what hybrid will look like. This information has been out there for a long time.

Exactly! I wish more parents had paid attention and had spent more energy on improving it over the last six months instead of complaining about when kids would be back in.

I don’t understand how you got this far into the school year, including presumably having chosen the hybrid option for your child(ren), and are just now hearing about what hybrid will look like. This information has been out there for a long time.

Anonymous wrote:A couple more weeks? This is been the plan from the get go. A couple more weeks is not going to solve what many of us see as a subpar school experience. I’m not trying to be rude, but I do find it frustrating the parents didn’t pay attention in the summer/fall to what hybrid was going to be. Our principal very clearly laid it out. Staring at a screen in a classroom. I want my kids back more than anything so they can see friends, build connections, they can pay attention better in a classroom. But this solution is awful.

In the fall at our school they had parent q and a sessions to go through what hybrid would be. It was supposed to be more pen and paper instruction— paper books, no iPad. This was what our principal told us. That is very different from what it is now. I did pay attention, aps just changed everything as time went on— instructional models, metrics, everything.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There isn’t space for social distancing if everyone is back at the same time.

Unless they get creative...

How?

If you don’t want to go back until it can be a five-day-a-week, business as usual experience, you should choose virtual.

Anonymous wrote:There isn’t space for social distancing if everyone is back at the same time.

Unless they get creative...

There isn’t space for social distancing if everyone is back at the same time.

A couple more weeks? This is been the plan from the get go. A couple more weeks is not going to solve what many of us see as a subpar school experience. I’m not trying to be rude, but I do find it frustrating the parents didn’t pay attention in the summer/fall to what hybrid was going to be. Our principal very clearly laid it out. Staring at a screen in a classroom. I want my kids back more than anything so they can see friends, build connections, they can pay attention better in a classroom. But this solution is awful.

Agree. But brace yourself for the APE “Now means NOW” blowback in 3, 2, 1: they will not take your premise that school attendance increases risk of COVID. They go about as deep as “CDC says it’s safe.” “Safer in school”‘and all that bull.

I am 1000% wanting my kid back in school for a variety of reasons. But when I read the hybrid plan, it sounds like my child will still be staring at a screen most of the day, in a mask, 6 feet apart from every other person, eating lunch at her desk, and being taught the a teacher who is not using manipulative or hands on learning. Two days a week. This sounds terrible. Why can’t APS take a couple more weeks (which we all can see they are going to take anyway) and work the elementary teachers and staff to figure out a real solution? I would much rather wait for a real opening than force the doors open only to have it be a total sh*tshow. I just don’t have any faith that it will be better than DL- and I am increasing my wife and my risk of contracting Covid...