Anonymous
01/18/2021 17:51
Subject: LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sports are on. LoCo sports is constantly tweeting pics of basketball players wearing their masks wrong. Not covering mouth or nose. One board member said maybe we should just stop requiring masks then. They didn’t choose that but it’s clear sports will have lots of close contacts (25 from one student alone at Dominion) because of this. Oh well.
As for hybrid return this semester, it’ll happen, but when is uncertain. We have to dip below 200/100k or 10% PCR for 5 days. As of yesterday we are at 419/100k and 17% PCR. So if will likely take awhile. I can envision us getting in a week before spring break, going on spring break, then coming back and finishing Q3 while starting concurrent. Because the board does shit like that a lot.
Q4 will be in person I am certain. Staff vaccinations will happen in Q3, but it’ll take time. The sign up immediately filled and crashed yesterday for the two days they had available.
Truly nobody knows exactly how long it will take those numbers to drop below threshold and stay. I don’t foresee it happening before March at the earliest. Once they start to approach the threshold we will be on alert and it’ll resume once they stay there 5 days. So when you see either get close to either that 200/100k or 10%, start getting ready because the phasing will happen quickly.
I see 0% chance we aren’t in for Q4. 50/50 on whether they attempt to try the last couple weeks of Q3. Spring break is March 29 week and the quarter ends the week after spring break.
APS employees (not me) were able to make appointments in Sterling with plenty of available spots through VAMS.
Loudoun is doing it’s own thing though. We are only to be using our “POD.” Other LCPS teachers who tried other sites were told Loudoun badges wouldn’t be accepted there. And they shouldn’t. Our county has its own supply of vaccines and a plan allegedly. I’m not stealing another county’s because mine can’t get it together. Meanwhile another email to sign up was send out today - for everyone I know the link is blank and dead or it goes to a scheduling page where there’s no available dates any day between now and end of February. Cool.
Same experience here. I have one friend who got a slot on Thursday.
Anonymous
01/18/2021 17:48
Subject: Re:LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are we close to going below the metrics’ thresholds to return?
No. PPR is still above 16%. We need it below 10%.
Oh golly gosh that’s high. What about the cases per 100,000 souls?
Has to be under 200/100k. It’s 601 today.
Yeah third quarter is mostly DL. LCPS made classes 30 mins longer though. Should be fun to have an extra 2 hrs of screen time added to our children’s brains and eyes.
My students are despondent over this. But yeah of course make everyone have an in the building schedule all Q3 despite the fact the literal best case gets us in buildings maybe 2 weeks before end of Q3. Sigh. This reminds me of when kids said they workload was killing them and instead of the board letting go of the awful grading policy requiring set numbers of assignments worth certain percentages they just changed the schedule from AABB to ABAB. Great. Thsnks.
Anonymous
01/18/2021 17:46
Subject: Re:LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are we close to going below the metrics’ thresholds to return?
No. PPR is still above 16%. We need it below 10%.
Oh golly gosh that’s high. What about the cases per 100,000 souls?
Has to be under 200/100k. It’s 601 today.
Yeah third quarter is mostly DL. LCPS made classes 30 mins longer though. Should be fun to have an extra 2 hrs of screen time added to our children’s brains and eyes.
Anonymous
01/18/2021 17:42
Subject: LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sports are on. LoCo sports is constantly tweeting pics of basketball players wearing their masks wrong. Not covering mouth or nose. One board member said maybe we should just stop requiring masks then. They didn’t choose that but it’s clear sports will have lots of close contacts (25 from one student alone at Dominion) because of this. Oh well.
As for hybrid return this semester, it’ll happen, but when is uncertain. We have to dip below 200/100k or 10% PCR for 5 days. As of yesterday we are at 419/100k and 17% PCR. So if will likely take awhile. I can envision us getting in a week before spring break, going on spring break, then coming back and finishing Q3 while starting concurrent. Because the board does shit like that a lot.
Q4 will be in person I am certain. Staff vaccinations will happen in Q3, but it’ll take time. The sign up immediately filled and crashed yesterday for the two days they had available.
Truly nobody knows exactly how long it will take those numbers to drop below threshold and stay. I don’t foresee it happening before March at the earliest. Once they start to approach the threshold we will be on alert and it’ll resume once they stay there 5 days. So when you see either get close to either that 200/100k or 10%, start getting ready because the phasing will happen quickly.
I see 0% chance we aren’t in for Q4. 50/50 on whether they attempt to try the last couple weeks of Q3. Spring break is March 29 week and the quarter ends the week after spring break.
APS employees (not me) were able to make appointments in Sterling with plenty of available spots through VAMS.
Loudoun is doing it’s own thing though. We are only to be using our “POD.” Other LCPS teachers who tried other sites were told Loudoun badges wouldn’t be accepted there. And they shouldn’t. Our county has its own supply of vaccines and a plan allegedly. I’m not stealing another county’s because mine can’t get it together. Meanwhile another email to sign up was send out today - for everyone I know the link is blank and dead or it goes to a scheduling page where there’s no available dates any day between now and end of February. Cool.
Anonymous
01/18/2021 17:40
Subject: Re:LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are we close to going below the metrics’ thresholds to return?
No. PPR is still above 16%. We need it below 10%.
Oh golly gosh that’s high. What about the cases per 100,000 souls?
Has to be under 200/100k. It’s 601 today.
Anonymous
01/18/2021 17:40
Subject: Re:LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are we close to going below the metrics’ thresholds to return?
No. PPR is still above 16%. We need it below 10%.
Oh golly gosh that’s high. What about the cases per 100,000 souls?
Anonymous
01/18/2021 17:38
Subject: LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Anonymous wrote:Sports are on. LoCo sports is constantly tweeting pics of basketball players wearing their masks wrong. Not covering mouth or nose. One board member said maybe we should just stop requiring masks then. They didn’t choose that but it’s clear sports will have lots of close contacts (25 from one student alone at Dominion) because of this. Oh well.
As for hybrid return this semester, it’ll happen, but when is uncertain. We have to dip below 200/100k or 10% PCR for 5 days. As of yesterday we are at 419/100k and 17% PCR. So if will likely take awhile. I can envision us getting in a week before spring break, going on spring break, then coming back and finishing Q3 while starting concurrent. Because the board does shit like that a lot.
Q4 will be in person I am certain. Staff vaccinations will happen in Q3, but it’ll take time. The sign up immediately filled and crashed yesterday for the two days they had available.
Truly nobody knows exactly how long it will take those numbers to drop below threshold and stay. I don’t foresee it happening before March at the earliest. Once they start to approach the threshold we will be on alert and it’ll resume once they stay there 5 days. So when you see either get close to either that 200/100k or 10%, start getting ready because the phasing will happen quickly.
I see 0% chance we aren’t in for Q4. 50/50 on whether they attempt to try the last couple weeks of Q3. Spring break is March 29 week and the quarter ends the week after spring break.
APS employees (not me) were able to make appointments in Sterling with plenty of available spots through VAMS.
Anonymous
01/18/2021 17:34
Subject: Re:LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Anonymous wrote:Are we close to going below the metrics’ thresholds to return?
No. PPR is still above 16%. We need it below 10%.
Anonymous
01/18/2021 17:33
Subject: Re:LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Are we close to going below the metrics’ thresholds to return?
Anonymous
01/15/2021 17:16
Subject: LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how Brabrand at FCPS can guarantee kids will return. The new strains of Covid are more contagious and affect kids more. What is he smoking?
Vaccines.
Anonymous
01/15/2021 16:54
Subject: LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
I don't understand how Brabrand at FCPS can guarantee kids will return. The new strains of Covid are more contagious and affect kids more. What is he smoking?
Anonymous
01/15/2021 11:08
Subject: LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Anonymous wrote:Huh? Loudoun voted for Biden.
Reading skills ain’t your forté
Anonymous
01/15/2021 10:52
Subject: LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Huh? Loudoun voted for Biden.
Anonymous
01/15/2021 10:51
Subject: LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Anonymous wrote:Sports are on. LoCo sports is constantly tweeting pics of basketball players wearing their masks wrong. Not covering mouth or nose. One board member said maybe we should just stop requiring masks then. They didn’t choose that but it’s clear sports will have lots of close contacts (25 from one student alone at Dominion) because of this. Oh well.
As for hybrid return this semester, it’ll happen, but when is uncertain. We have to dip below 200/100k or 10% PCR for 5 days. As of yesterday we are at 419/100k and 17% PCR. So if will likely take awhile. I can envision us getting in a week before spring break, going on spring break, then coming back and finishing Q3 while starting concurrent. Because the board does shit like that a lot.
Q4 will be in person I am certain. Staff vaccinations will happen in Q3, but it’ll take time. The sign up immediately filled and crashed yesterday for the two days they had available.
Truly nobody knows exactly how long it will take those numbers to drop below threshold and stay. I don’t foresee it happening before March at the earliest. Once they start to approach the threshold we will be on alert and it’ll resume once they stay there 5 days. So when you see either get close to either that 200/100k or 10%, start getting ready because the phasing will happen quickly.
I see 0% chance we aren’t in for Q4. 50/50 on whether they attempt to try the last couple weeks of Q3. Spring break is March 29 week and the quarter ends the week after spring break.
Our Lord and savior Jesus Christ taking care of our children and heroes who work with them. Praise the almighty. Thou shalt remain hopeful good will trump evil and we will overcome this virus.
Protect your loved ones and never leave our elderly alone. They once took care of you when you were a vulnerable defenseless human being.
Anonymous
01/15/2021 04:58
Subject: LCPS return to in-person instruction postponed indefinitely
Sports are on. LoCo sports is constantly tweeting pics of basketball players wearing their masks wrong. Not covering mouth or nose. One board member said maybe we should just stop requiring masks then. They didn’t choose that but it’s clear sports will have lots of close contacts (25 from one student alone at Dominion) because of this. Oh well.
As for hybrid return this semester, it’ll happen, but when is uncertain. We have to dip below 200/100k or 10% PCR for 5 days. As of yesterday we are at 419/100k and 17% PCR. So if will likely take awhile. I can envision us getting in a week before spring break, going on spring break, then coming back and finishing Q3 while starting concurrent. Because the board does shit like that a lot.
Q4 will be in person I am certain. Staff vaccinations will happen in Q3, but it’ll take time. The sign up immediately filled and crashed yesterday for the two days they had available.
Truly nobody knows exactly how long it will take those numbers to drop below threshold and stay. I don’t foresee it happening before March at the earliest. Once they start to approach the threshold we will be on alert and it’ll resume once they stay there 5 days. So when you see either get close to either that 200/100k or 10%, start getting ready because the phasing will happen quickly.
I see 0% chance we aren’t in for Q4. 50/50 on whether they attempt to try the last couple weeks of Q3. Spring break is March 29 week and the quarter ends the week after spring break.
As for hybrid return this semester, it’ll happen, but when is uncertain. We have to dip below 200/100k or 10% PCR for 5 days. As of yesterday we are at 419/100k and 17% PCR. So if will likely take awhile. I can envision us getting in a week before spring break, going on spring break, then coming back and finishing Q3 while starting concurrent. Because the board does shit like that a lot.
Q4 will be in person I am certain. Staff vaccinations will happen in Q3, but it’ll take time. The sign up immediately filled and crashed yesterday for the two days they had available.
Truly nobody knows exactly how long it will take those numbers to drop below threshold and stay. I don’t foresee it happening before March at the earliest. Once they start to approach the threshold we will be on alert and it’ll resume once they stay there 5 days. So when you see either get close to either that 200/100k or 10%, start getting ready because the phasing will happen quickly.
I see 0% chance we aren’t in for Q4. 50/50 on whether they attempt to try the last couple weeks of Q3. Spring break is March 29 week and the quarter ends the week after spring break.