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Anonymous wrote:Signed up for hybrid but will likely opt out and stay virtual unless we see an improvement in the metrics.

You do realize that hybrid won't start for most of the population until the county metrics are 5 cases per 100k population. We are currently at 28. So that would already require a significant improvement.

I really wish that people on DCUM would stop starting their posts with "You do realize that..." It's gratuitously hostile.

Also, I'm not the PP, but no, we do NOT know that hybrid won't start until the county is at 5 new cases per 100,000 people. All we know is that 5 new cases per 100,000 people is the benchmark they're saying they'll use, right now.

DP

Well, I think people don’t realize that even if they put hybrid as their chosen option, that doesn’t mean that all of a sudden, their kids will be thrown back into in-person school, starting February 2020.

That will not be the case.

Right. I don’t think many people realize just how long it will take to reach the 5 per 100k benchmark either. It could take well into the next school year. Hope they reconsider but that’s what we have to go by right now.

I saw a poster claim here the other day we were there back in September. If that's true and a vaccine is going to be rolled out any day, we should have no problem getting back to where we were by next fall.

That poster was wrong. We have not been there since the start of the pandemic.

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Right. I don’t think many people realize just how long it will take to reach the 5 per 100k benchmark either. It could take well into the next school year. Hope they reconsider but that’s what we have to go by right now.

I don't think that many people realize that benchmarks are arbitrarily set and can be changed by the people who set them.

Hybrid for my 9th grader in a magnet. She doesn't know anyone and would be much better in DL if she had a handful of people she knew more intimately.

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Anonymous wrote:Signed up for hybrid but will likely opt out and stay virtual unless we see an improvement in the metrics.

You do realize that hybrid won't start for most of the population until the county metrics are 5 cases per 100k population. We are currently at 28. So that would already require a significant improvement.

I really wish that people on DCUM would stop starting their posts with "You do realize that..." It's gratuitously hostile.

Also, I'm not the PP, but no, we do NOT know that hybrid won't start until the county is at 5 new cases per 100,000 people. All we know is that 5 new cases per 100,000 people is the benchmark they're saying they'll use, right now.

DP

Well, I think people don’t realize that even if they put hybrid as their chosen option, that doesn’t mean that all of a sudden, their kids will be thrown back into in-person school, starting February 2020.

That will not be the case.

Right. I don’t think many people realize just how long it will take to reach the 5 per 100k benchmark either. It could take well into the next school year. Hope they reconsider but that’s what we have to go by right now.

I saw a poster claim here the other day we were there back in September. If that's true and a vaccine is going to be rolled out any day, we should have no problem getting back to where we were by next fall.

We were close but I don’t think quite there. So will e correct me if I’m wrong. And remember that would still only get you hybrid. They want <1 to resume full time in person, right? And no kids will be vaccinated yet.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Signed up for hybrid but will likely opt out and stay virtual unless we see an improvement in the metrics.

You do realize that hybrid won't start for most of the population until the county metrics are 5 cases per 100k population. We are currently at 28. So that would already require a significant improvement.

I really wish that people on DCUM would stop starting their posts with "You do realize that..." It's gratuitously hostile.

Also, I'm not the PP, but no, we do NOT know that hybrid won't start until the county is at 5 new cases per 100,000 people. All we know is that 5 new cases per 100,000 people is the benchmark they're saying they'll use, right now.

DP

Well, I think people don’t realize that even if they put hybrid as their chosen option, that doesn’t mean that all of a sudden, their kids will be thrown back into in-person school, starting February 2020.

That will not be the case.

Right. I don’t think many people realize just how long it will take to reach the 5 per 100k benchmark either. It could take well into the next school year. Hope they reconsider but that’s what we have to go by right now.

I saw a poster claim here the other day we were there back in September. If that's true and a vaccine is going to be rolled out any day, we should have no problem getting back to where we were by next fall.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Signed up for hybrid but will likely opt out and stay virtual unless we see an improvement in the metrics.

You do realize that hybrid won't start for most of the population until the county metrics are 5 cases per 100k population. We are currently at 28. So that would already require a significant improvement.

I really wish that people on DCUM would stop starting their posts with "You do realize that..." It's gratuitously hostile.

Also, I'm not the PP, but no, we do NOT know that hybrid won't start until the county is at 5 new cases per 100,000 people. All we know is that 5 new cases per 100,000 people is the benchmark they're saying they'll use, right now.

DP

Well, I think people don’t realize that even if they put hybrid as their chosen option, that doesn’t mean that all of a sudden, their kids will be thrown back into in-person school, starting February 2020.

That will not be the case.

Right. I don’t think many people realize just how long it will take to reach the 5 per 100k benchmark either. It could take well into the next school year. Hope they reconsider but that’s what we have to go by right now.

I think what’s most interesting to me about the survey results is how many parents would still not be comfortable sending their kids back even when those very strict metrics are met.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Signed up for hybrid but will likely opt out and stay virtual unless we see an improvement in the metrics.

You do realize that hybrid won't start for most of the population until the county metrics are 5 cases per 100k population. We are currently at 28. So that would already require a significant improvement.

I really wish that people on DCUM would stop starting their posts with "You do realize that..." It's gratuitously hostile.

Also, I'm not the PP, but no, we do NOT know that hybrid won't start until the county is at 5 new cases per 100,000 people. All we know is that 5 new cases per 100,000 people is the benchmark they're saying they'll use, right now.

DP

Well, I think people don’t realize that even if they put hybrid as their chosen option, that doesn’t mean that all of a sudden, their kids will be thrown back into in-person school, starting February 2020.

That will not be the case.

Right. I don’t think many people realize just how long it will take to reach the 5 per 100k benchmark either. It could take well into the next school year. Hope they reconsider but that’s what we have to go by right now.

DL for my kids.

Regarding the metrics for return in person, just saw that the BOE also requested reconsideration of the numbers - hopefully to make them less stringent and thus more likely that kids can go back in person (fingers crossed)

Oh, and I selected hybrid for my 5th, 6th and 9th graders. On the day the survey came out

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Anonymous wrote:In-person for my kids. Honestly, DL is working well enough for us that we may ooops change our minds at the last moment, but I want to push MCPS to offer a hybrid option for the families that need it.

The survey wasn't intended to decide whether or not to offer hybrid. Hybrid is coming if the metrics allow. The survey was intended to give schools the info they need to plan for hybrid. I don't think it benefits the schools to have lots of people switching after they propose the hybrid plan.

Yeah, but I can't really tell if it's worth the risk for our family until they tell me what it will look like. There are too many variables in the types of classes the kids may be offered at any given school, and our school is pretty outdated, with crowded hallways, few windows, and bad HVAC. I'm concerned that spread in middle and high schools seems to be more common than in elementary, so I want to be sure my kid is actually going to get something out of it before we assume that risk. I'm sure I'd feel differently if it were elementary school, where DL is much harder for working parents to manage and in-person school seems to show much less spread.

But if half my middle school kid's classes will be the support model, they can do that more effectively from the safety of their own bedroom, with a much shorter school day and less stress. Why risk a classroom full of maskless kids eating lunch together, only to sit and stare at a computer screen for half the day just like she does at home? And if her in-person magnet classes will be taught by a random sub, how is that better than DL with their experienced teacher? She doesn't love Zoom classes, but likes her teachers well enough that she'd probably prefer to stay with them.

So we chose hybrid, figuring that leaves her the option to stay virtual if it turns out there really aren't many benefits to the hybrid model we're ultimately offered.

I get that it's a catch-22—that they can't plan until they have the numbers, but the numbers won't be accurate until they have a detailed plan—but we had to do what's best for our family based on the information we were given before the survey.

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Anonymous wrote:In-person for my kids. Honestly, DL is working well enough for us that we may ooops change our minds at the last moment, but I want to push MCPS to offer a hybrid option for the families that need it.

If you change your mind at the last moment are you guaranteed that your kid will be in all the same classes as Fall Semester?

You aren't guaranteed the same teachers, no matter what.

Anonymous wrote:3rd grade and 6th grade, definitely sending them back as soon as possible. Kids need to around other kids.

+1
Back asap, also went to camp and distance learning hub. No cases anywhere they have been. Active boys 9 and 7 y/o.

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Anonymous wrote:In-person for my kids. Honestly, DL is working well enough for us that we may ooops change our minds at the last moment, but I want to push MCPS to offer a hybrid option for the families that need it.

If you change your mind at the last moment are you guaranteed that your kid will be in all the same classes as Fall Semester?

I don't think you're guaranteed that whether you choose distance, hybrid, or choose hybrid and change your mind. My impression was that everything was up for grabs in the second semester, depending on how many students choose distance vs. hybrid at each school, or even at each grade level.

Anonymous wrote:In-person for my kids. Honestly, DL is working well enough for us that we may ooops change our minds at the last moment, but I want to push MCPS to offer a hybrid option for the families that need it.

The survey wasn't intended to decide whether or not to offer hybrid. Hybrid is coming if the metrics allow. The survey was intended to give schools the info they need to plan for hybrid. I don't think it benefits the schools to have lots of people switching after they propose the hybrid plan.

Anonymous wrote:In-person for my kids. Honestly, DL is working well enough for us that we may ooops change our minds at the last moment, but I want to push MCPS to offer a hybrid option for the families that need it.

If you change your mind at the last moment are you guaranteed that your kid will be in all the same classes as Fall Semester?