Anonymous
Post 08/09/2021 13:17     Subject: APS - getting nervous
Anonymous wrote:I still think there is a 50% chance that they change course at the last minute and start the school year virtual or hybrid.


100% chance that this would violate the law
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2021 11:33     Subject: APS - getting nervous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I still think there is a 50% chance that they change course at the last minute and start the school year virtual or hybrid.

That would be against the law. I think it’s more likely a bunch of parents will unenroll


Yes, fortunately the state took it out of the various administrator/SB's hands (probably to their relief). How can you try to mitigate school-based spread without opening schools...
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2021 11:26     Subject: APS - getting nervous
Anonymous wrote:I still think there is a 50% chance that they change course at the last minute and start the school year virtual or hybrid.

That would be against the law. I think it’s more likely a bunch of parents will unenroll
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2021 11:16     Subject: APS - getting nervous
I still think there is a 50% chance that they change course at the last minute and start the school year virtual or hybrid.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2021 10:33     Subject: APS - getting nervous
Durán has assembled his dream team “ The Cabinet” to advise him. Bunch of idiots and retreads IMO. Such waste of Arlington taxpayer $$. Idiot Durán...he thinks he is at Fairfax and entitled to a “cabinet”. WTF he thinks he is the President?
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2021 00:39     Subject: APS - getting nervous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My kids went in-person, including lunch inside, all last year. Not shut down one day. You all need to calm down. Your poor kids.


So did mine. Pulled them out and put them in a private school which they are going to this year as well. That being said I’m really nervous. Delta changes the equation when it comes to spread. This virus is much more contagious.


Also pulled my kids for private last year and so happy we committed to stay again this year. I am much more nervous though. I’m just coming to terms with the idea that my kids will likely get COVID. My DH and I are both vaxxed as are all the eligible people in our family. I do worry but my kids need (real) school. I’d even be okay with no masks if they’re not going to require n95. Someone on of the Sunday shows described cloth masks as trying to keep water out of a submarine with a screen door. N95s or it’s all for show. I doubt APS would require them because of equity concerns.


A reasonable compromise on the whole masking debate is schools provide KN95/N95s to students who want them and masks are optional. A number of major scientists (Osterholm, Gounder) are saying that since COVID is aerosols (more research came out this week), cloth masks really do hardly anything, especially when you're going to be sitting in a room with the same group of people all day. Gounder had a good chart on her Twitter page, showing the limited protection cloths masks provide vs. N95s. The comparison I hear was a cloth mask is like the protection a chain link fence provides when sand is thrown at it.

If you're worried about a child getting COVID at school, it's KN95 or N95. I'm personally not worried (as shown by the research, my healthy child will get at worst a cold).
Anonymous
Post 08/08/2021 22:38     Subject: APS - getting nervous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My kids went in-person, including lunch inside, all last year. Not shut down one day. You all need to calm down. Your poor kids.


So did mine. Pulled them out and put them in a private school which they are going to this year as well. That being said I’m really nervous. Delta changes the equation when it comes to spread. This virus is much more contagious.


Also pulled my kids for private last year and so happy we committed to stay again this year. I am much more nervous though. I’m just coming to terms with the idea that my kids will likely get COVID. My DH and I are both vaxxed as are all the eligible people in our family. I do worry but my kids need (real) school. I’d even be okay with no masks if they’re not going to require n95. Someone on of the Sunday shows described cloth masks as trying to keep water out of a submarine with a screen door. N95s or it’s all for show. I doubt APS would require them because of equity concerns.
Anonymous
Post 08/08/2021 21:08     Subject: APS - getting nervous
Anonymous wrote:My kids went in-person, including lunch inside, all last year. Not shut down one day. You all need to calm down. Your poor kids.


So did mine. Pulled them out and put them in a private school which they are going to this year as well. That being said I’m really nervous. Delta changes the equation when it comes to spread. This virus is much more contagious.
Anonymous
Post 08/08/2021 19:14     Subject: Re:APS - getting nervous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am not sure who these Covid denial parents are in real life or how many there really are in Arlington. Maybe there are just a few loud ones on DCUM and in APE?

APS schools did fairly ok last spring with distancing and outdoor lunch. My kids at least ate outside on most days. I was really hopeful back in early summer. But now APS seems to have gotten complacent and I'm not sure what the mitigation will be this fall. So I'm worried about the rise in delta and what will happen when my kids go back to school.


I’m so glad they’re wearing masks. I can’t believe what’s happening in Florida.


Same.
Anonymous
Post 08/08/2021 18:59     Subject: Re:APS - getting nervous
Anonymous wrote:I am not sure who these Covid denial parents are in real life or how many there really are in Arlington. Maybe there are just a few loud ones on DCUM and in APE?

APS schools did fairly ok last spring with distancing and outdoor lunch. My kids at least ate outside on most days. I was really hopeful back in early summer. But now APS seems to have gotten complacent and I'm not sure what the mitigation will be this fall. So I'm worried about the rise in delta and what will happen when my kids go back to school.


I’m so glad they’re wearing masks. I can’t believe what’s happening in Florida.
Anonymous
Post 08/08/2021 17:37     Subject: APS - getting nervous
My kids went in-person, including lunch inside, all last year. Not shut down one day. You all need to calm down. Your poor kids.
Anonymous
Post 08/08/2021 17:33     Subject: APS - getting nervous
And I'm going to get mask recommendations from a real, actual epidemiologist. Tons of them on Twitter, actually.

Not from some PTA mom.
Anonymous
Post 08/08/2021 17:28     Subject: APS - getting nervous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What’s the opposite of APS SmartRestart and how can I join?


Smart Restart isn't affiliates with APS. (Thank God.) There are crazies in APE too. My advice? Neither group is worth joining.


Smart Restart isn't crazy. Unless you think wanting outdoor lunch is crazy.

APE (the open up at all costs, anti-mitigation crowd) just paints anyone who isn't in their group as crazy.



Have you seen their twitter feed? Nah. Don't want to be a part of it.

Outdoor lunch is great, but it's not trademarked by SmartRestart. There are APE people who want it too, to keep schools opened.


Both groups are a waste of time and space.

Anonymous
Post 08/08/2021 17:10     Subject: Re:APS - getting nervous
Mitigation being what, exactly? Ill fitting cloth two layer masks that kids touch 100 times a day and get dropped on the deep cleaned floor?
Anonymous
Post 08/08/2021 13:30     Subject: APS - getting nervous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
You have an odd view of what SR is about…either reading too many right wing conspiracy theories or pushing them yourself.

I’m in SR and I’m sending my kids to school. A lot of SR parents sent their kids in person last year too. No one in SR is trying to shut down. We want in person school. We do care about doing it safely. I’m worried about my elementary unvacced kids at lunch and I’m worried about the nut job APE crowd hiding their kids symptoms or contacts.

And I’m also worried that the ant mitigation denial APE agenda will lead to shutdowns and sickness and maybe even virtual which my kids don’t want.

We should all be working together to make sure schools can open safely. Sad some don’t see that.




Open safely. Last year, that meant SR promoting metrics that were impossible to meet. I'm so glad the governor finally forced APS to reopen. Schools were open safely throughout the US and world last year with limited mitigation.

If you're worried about your unvaccinated healthy kids at lunch, then I'd recommend they walk to school as the risk on that ride is more of a risk to them than COVID. Flu and RSV are more of a risk to them (and no one ever proposed these types of measures for them). And I'm sure you saw the peer-reviewed study in Lancet that came out last week that said Long COVID in kids is extremely rare.

I did see also now that your favorite "COVID is going to kill us all" pundits are saying the truth about cloth masks. We're now at Ding, Osterholm and Celine Gounder in the past week alone, talking about how cloth masks provide extremely limited protection, especially in a school setting.


I don't remember Smart Restart promoting metrics... what on earth are you talking about? Look at their website, it's all about mitigation in open schools, not about metrics on opening or closing.

And for the zillionth time, last year is not this year. Delta is here now, things have changed. You need to adjust PP. We all do.

Watch the schools that are opening this summer... it's not pretty.


+1 Well said. The whole of Smart Restart is operating in a tunnel. They seem unable to understand that the landscape has changed. They only see what they want to see at the end of the tunnel, not anything coming in from the left or the right.