At least the superintendent has faith in the school system. Oh, wait:

Exclusive: ACPS Superintendent Hutchings Sends Child To Private School Bishop Ireton
https://www.acpsk12.org/theogony/2020-2021/2020/10/07/exclusive-acps-superintendent-hutchings-sends-child-to-private-school-bishop-ireton/

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Anonymous wrote:I just came on to see if there were any threads with insights into ACPS! I guess not. October 15th is still the presentation to the school board. My kindergartner needs to be in school. All of our neighbors pulled their kindergartners and enrolled in parochial or private, so they're all in person.

I’m sure the public school is thrilled. It’s overcrowded anyway. Thank you to you and your neighbors for making it less crowded for my kids.

Don't thank me, I can't afford private. My kids are in ACPS, such as it is.

Anonymous wrote:I just came on to see if there were any threads with insights into ACPS! I guess not. October 15th is still the presentation to the school board. My kindergartner needs to be in school. All of our neighbors pulled their kindergartners and enrolled in parochial or private, so they're all in person.

I’m sure the public school is thrilled. It’s overcrowded anyway. Thank you to you and your neighbors for making it less crowded for my kids.

Anonymous wrote:All I hope for from ACPS is a reduction of synchronous teacher-led instruction. The SEAL, Intervention, and Encore blocks can be rescheduled for asynchronous learning in the afternoon so that the core academic blocks can be the focus. Otherwise, we are seriously contemplating homeschool or private/parochial because the virtual learning experience has been stressful and draining for our kindergartner. He loved preschool and now he cries at least once a week and tells us school makes him sad several times a week.

Right! Why haven’t they been able to implement these simple and obviously needed changes five weeks into the school year? They are making young kids miserable and creating additional unnecessary stress on families. Can only imagine how awful it’s Ben for teachers trying to perform for kindergarteners on a screen for a full day. Where is the common sense approach?!

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they are going to spend the entire year conducting surveys and evaluations, such that a decision will never get made. Sigh.

+1. Lots of surveys but no work on buildings to prepare. I think it’s just smoke and mirrors. ACPS doesn’t plan to provide in person instruction this year. Makes me want to move to one of the many places schools are open.

You mean places like North Carolina? https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/us/school-teacher-covid-death-trnd/index.html

“None of the quarantined students have developed any symptoms or tested positive, Bailey said. The health department told the administration it believed Davis did not contract the virus from the school.”

So what’s your point?

That's SO reassuring.

This certainly had potential to go a very different direction. If you're okay with your kids attending class with a teacher who had COVID and eventually succumbed to it, then there's really not much for us to discuss

Kids are overwhelmingly not getting seriously ill from COVID. So yes I would send mine to school. I currently send them to day care so I can work. ACPS is operating programs for kids that go to title 1 schools out of rev centers. Not sure why they can’t just expand that since it’s going well so far.

And what about other people who may come in contact with infected kids? Who cares?

Not that no one cares, but child care has been open throughout the pandemic and schools elsewhere are open. Places that take precautions (like my kids daycare) can operate without outbreaks.
COVID is now with us, so we need to manage and take precautions. The goal was never to wait until we eradicate the virus (which is never) to open schools.

I thought the goal was to buy us as much time as possible to either come up with a vaccine or some effective therapeutic treatment.

I thought the goal was to flatten the curve and not overwhelm the hospitals and then manage with precautions so things can open safely. All of that was achieved and most things are open so schools should open as well.

Both were goals, not mutually exclusive. Open schools and watch infection rates rise. Maybe you and your family will be okay. Maybe not. Maybe you and your family will spread it to someone who spreads it to someone who dies. How would you feel then?

I get it. You want zero spread. But that’s just never going to be possible for any disease. If we want that, we close schools and public places for good. Kids will always spread a host of diseases to other people. Schools have been open in some places for over two months without dramatic increases in deaths because people are taking precautions.

You didn’t answer my question and you mischaracterize my position. I understand kids will always spread disease. That happened before the pandemic. What you’re ignoring is that we’re living in a once-in-a-100-year pandemic. Schools are shutting down again in certain neighborhoods in NYC because infection rates are rising to unacceptable levels. Many countries in Europe are about to shutdown again. I get that you’re eager to return to normal, but let’s do this right and keep concern for human health our main priority.

No one is talking about returning to normal. Parents want to open with precautions like they are doing elsewhere. Those neighborhoods in NY city aren’t following distancing and mask wearing guidelines so they should be shut down. Places that take precautions should be allowed to open. My kids have gone to daycare this entire time without issue as have many others. ACPS is operating supervised distance learning. It is fair to ask why that can’t be expanded to in person instruction.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they are going to spend the entire year conducting surveys and evaluations, such that a decision will never get made. Sigh.

+1. Lots of surveys but no work on buildings to prepare. I think it’s just smoke and mirrors. ACPS doesn’t plan to provide in person instruction this year. Makes me want to move to one of the many places schools are open.

You mean places like North Carolina? https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/us/school-teacher-covid-death-trnd/index.html

This teacher, like al the others in featured news stories as succumbing to Covid has one thing in common- they were all overweight
It is a serious risk factor for Covid. We can’t stop school because of teachers poor health choices

So basically what you're saying is: "screw overweight people! Let 'em die!" Thankfully, sociopaths such as yourself are not the ones making decisions at the local level here in the DC area.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they are going to spend the entire year conducting surveys and evaluations, such that a decision will never get made. Sigh.

+1. Lots of surveys but no work on buildings to prepare. I think it’s just smoke and mirrors. ACPS doesn’t plan to provide in person instruction this year. Makes me want to move to one of the many places schools are open.

You mean places like North Carolina? https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/us/school-teacher-covid-death-trnd/index.html

This teacher, like al the others in featured news stories as succumbing to Covid has one thing in common- they were all overweight
It is a serious risk factor for Covid. We can’t stop school because of teachers poor health choices

Also, this: “ North Carolina currently has the eighth-highest number of cases in states across the US, according to data by Johns Hopkins University.” Metrics and location matter.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they are going to spend the entire year conducting surveys and evaluations, such that a decision will never get made. Sigh.

+1. Lots of surveys but no work on buildings to prepare. I think it’s just smoke and mirrors. ACPS doesn’t plan to provide in person instruction this year. Makes me want to move to one of the many places schools are open.

You mean places like North Carolina? https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/us/school-teacher-covid-death-trnd/index.html

This teacher, like al the others in featured news stories as succumbing to Covid has one thing in common- they were all overweight
It is a serious risk factor for Covid. We can’t stop school because of teachers poor health choices

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they are going to spend the entire year conducting surveys and evaluations, such that a decision will never get made. Sigh.

And that’s ACPS in a single sentence. Same thing with renaming TC, falling down buildings, pretending they are considering a second high school.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they are going to spend the entire year conducting surveys and evaluations, such that a decision will never get made. Sigh.

+1. Lots of surveys but no work on buildings to prepare. I think it’s just smoke and mirrors. ACPS doesn’t plan to provide in person instruction this year. Makes me want to move to one of the many places schools are open.

You mean places like North Carolina? https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/us/school-teacher-covid-death-trnd/index.html

“None of the quarantined students have developed any symptoms or tested positive, Bailey said. The health department told the administration it believed Davis did not contract the virus from the school.”

So what’s your point?

That's SO reassuring.

This certainly had potential to go a very different direction. If you're okay with your kids attending class with a teacher who had COVID and eventually succumbed to it, then there's really not much for us to discuss

Kids are overwhelmingly not getting seriously ill from COVID. So yes I would send mine to school. I currently send them to day care so I can work. ACPS is operating programs for kids that go to title 1 schools out of rev centers. Not sure why they can’t just expand that since it’s going well so far.

And what about other people who may come in contact with infected kids? Who cares?

Not that no one cares, but child care has been open throughout the pandemic and schools elsewhere are open. Places that take precautions (like my kids daycare) can operate without outbreaks.
COVID is now with us, so we need to manage and take precautions. The goal was never to wait until we eradicate the virus (which is never) to open schools.

I thought the goal was to buy us as much time as possible to either come up with a vaccine or some effective therapeutic treatment.

I thought the goal was to flatten the curve and not overwhelm the hospitals and then manage with precautions so things can open safely. All of that was achieved and most things are open so schools should open as well.

Both were goals, not mutually exclusive. Open schools and watch infection rates rise. Maybe you and your family will be okay. Maybe not. Maybe you and your family will spread it to someone who spreads it to someone who dies. How would you feel then?

I get it. You want zero spread. But that’s just never going to be possible for any disease. If we want that, we close schools and public places for good. Kids will always spread a host of diseases to other people. Schools have been open in some places for over two months without dramatic increases in deaths because people are taking precautions.

You didn’t answer my question and you mischaracterize my position. I understand kids will always spread disease. That happened before the pandemic. What you’re ignoring is that we’re living in a once-in-a-100-year pandemic. Schools are shutting down again in certain neighborhoods in NYC because infection rates are rising to unacceptable levels. Many countries in Europe are about to shutdown again. I get that you’re eager to return to normal, but let’s do this right and keep concern for human health our main priority.

I am in the exact same situation. With each passing day, my k student gets more and more frustrated. They need to make the virtual learning experience better.

All I hope for from ACPS is a reduction of synchronous teacher-led instruction. The SEAL, Intervention, and Encore blocks can be rescheduled for asynchronous learning in the afternoon so that the core academic blocks can be the focus. Otherwise, we are seriously contemplating homeschool or private/parochial because the virtual learning experience has been stressful and draining for our kindergartner. He loved preschool and now he cries at least once a week and tells us school makes him sad several times a week.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they are going to spend the entire year conducting surveys and evaluations, such that a decision will never get made. Sigh.

+1. Lots of surveys but no work on buildings to prepare. I think it’s just smoke and mirrors. ACPS doesn’t plan to provide in person instruction this year. Makes me want to move to one of the many places schools are open.

You mean places like North Carolina? https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/us/school-teacher-covid-death-trnd/index.html

“None of the quarantined students have developed any symptoms or tested positive, Bailey said. The health department told the administration it believed Davis did not contract the virus from the school.”

So what’s your point?

That's SO reassuring.

This certainly had potential to go a very different direction. If you're okay with your kids attending class with a teacher who had COVID and eventually succumbed to it, then there's really not much for us to discuss

+1 I am NOT okay with it. DP.

I don't think my fellow parents in Alexandria will do the things that would make in-person successful.

I'm talking about the parents who will send their kids in sick or send their kids in after knowing the kids have been exposed to the virus. There will be kids whose parents have told them they don't have to wear masks and they don't have to social distance. And those parents will be up in the faces of the School Board and Central Office staff being bullies.

I don't think Alexandria is ready for schools to open.

Just walk down Mt. Vernon Avenue or King Street and look at all the people flagrantly violating the mask regulations. Do you think those people will abide by safe health practices in our schools? Ha!

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they are going to spend the entire year conducting surveys and evaluations, such that a decision will never get made. Sigh.

+1. Lots of surveys but no work on buildings to prepare. I think it’s just smoke and mirrors. ACPS doesn’t plan to provide in person instruction this year. Makes me want to move to one of the many places schools are open.

You mean places like North Carolina? https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/us/school-teacher-covid-death-trnd/index.html

“None of the quarantined students have developed any symptoms or tested positive, Bailey said. The health department told the administration it believed Davis did not contract the virus from the school.”

So what’s your point?

That's SO reassuring.

This certainly had potential to go a very different direction. If you're okay with your kids attending class with a teacher who had COVID and eventually succumbed to it, then there's really not much for us to discuss

Kids are overwhelmingly not getting seriously ill from COVID. So yes I would send mine to school. I currently send them to day care so I can work. ACPS is operating programs for kids that go to title 1 schools out of rev centers. Not sure why they can’t just expand that since it’s going well so far.

And what about other people who may come in contact with infected kids? Who cares?

Not that no one cares, but child care has been open throughout the pandemic and schools elsewhere are open. Places that take precautions (like my kids daycare) can operate without outbreaks.
COVID is now with us, so we need to manage and take precautions. The goal was never to wait until we eradicate the virus (which is never) to open schools.

I thought the goal was to buy us as much time as possible to either come up with a vaccine or some effective therapeutic treatment.

I thought the goal was to flatten the curve and not overwhelm the hospitals and then manage with precautions so things can open safely. All of that was achieved and most things are open so schools should open as well.

Both were goals, not mutually exclusive. Open schools and watch infection rates rise. Maybe you and your family will be okay. Maybe not. Maybe you and your family will spread it to someone who spreads it to someone who dies. How would you feel then?

I get it. You want zero spread. But that’s just never going to be possible for any disease. If we want that, we close schools and public places for good. Kids will always spread a host of diseases to other people. Schools have been open in some places for over two months without dramatic increases in deaths because people are taking precautions.