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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

We just got a ton of money from the feds for education

They are using that money for summer school or acceleration academies (as they are calling them).

You can not make up for 1- 1 1/2 years of learning loss in a 3-5-7 week summer program. They better be planning on offering tutoring, break programs and additional supports for many years to come.

Anonymous wrote:How would this affect lunchtime, where kids are unmasked? A bunch of kids eating indoors in fairly close proximity seems risky, but I'm not seeing any discussion of this in regard to the 3-ft versus 6-ft consideration.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

We just got a ton of money from the feds for education

They are using that money for summer school or acceleration academies (as they are calling them).

You can not make up for 1- 1 1/2 years of learning loss in a 3-5-7 week summer program. They better be planning on offering tutoring, break programs and additional supports for many years to come.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

We just got a ton of money from the feds for education

They are using that money for summer school or acceleration academies (as they are calling them).

You can not make up for 1- 1 1/2 years of learning loss in a 3-5-7 week summer program. They better be planning on offering tutoring, break programs and additional supports for many years to come.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

I don’t care.

most schools I know that do tables push desks together anyway. your school’s failure to think ahead isn’t going to dictate what the rest of us can do.

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Anonymous wrote:But still require 6 ft and mayor said "no comment" in response to question about changing distancing mandate in light of the research.

Hehe this will be in the FALL. The MOA that they signed requires 6ft. The WTU won't let them get away with that.

It requires 6’ between the students’ desks and the teacher’s work station. It does not require six feet between each of the student desks.

You're reading it incorrectly, it's indeed student desks.

Nope, at best it’s ambiguous so can go to arbitration which would strike it and default to the strict adherence to OSSE and DCHealth guidelines. - contract lawyer

That is good news, but is DCPS going to take this on for Term 4? I doubt it. I agree though that the way it is written it sounds like it applies to the distance between the teacher's desk and the students, which makes complete sense, and is how it is handled in other countries. Why should the teachers care how far the students are apart from each other? So maybe principals can just take it to mean what it appears to mean and work from there.

Maybe teachers care about students? And students’ families?

LOL

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

We just got a ton of money from the feds for education

They are using that money for summer school or acceleration academies (as they are calling them).

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Anonymous wrote:So this new guidance empowers private schools, but what does it do for DCPS? Nothing says they have to take a more aggressive approach. I missed the presser conference but was there any suggestions that DCPS will be pursuing plans that have larger cohorts?

I’m not sure what you mean by empowering private schools but it leaves it up to DCPS schools to do what they want. This is actually what many schools have been asking the administration for - to unbind their hands on the guidelines because they want to open.

DCPS has a number of guidelines that are stricter than what OSSE or DOH requires.

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15 minute wait time between using the bathroom is a big hindrance.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

I don’t care.

most schools I know that do tables push desks together anyway. your school’s failure to think ahead isn’t going to dictate what the rest of us can do.

So I’m currently teaching in person and I certainly am not trying to dictate what other schools can do. I was just pointing out that people probably need to keep their expectations in check about this change.

my school has desks, so no, I am not going to keep expectations in check in the face of nonsequiturs.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

I don’t care.

most schools I know that do tables push desks together anyway. your school’s failure to think ahead isn’t going to dictate what the rest of us can do.

So I’m currently teaching in person and I certainly am not trying to dictate what other schools can do. I was just pointing out that people probably need to keep their expectations in check about this change.

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Anonymous wrote:How would this affect lunchtime, where kids are unmasked? A bunch of kids eating indoors in fairly close proximity seems risky, but I'm not seeing any discussion of this in regard to the 3-ft versus 6-ft consideration.

The risk is probably quite low for a short period of time with proper ventilation. Transmission remains rare on planes where people also all unmask at the same time when meals are served. The key is probably to avoid talking much.

Anonymous wrote:How would this affect lunchtime, where kids are unmasked? A bunch of kids eating indoors in fairly close proximity seems risky, but I'm not seeing any discussion of this in regard to the 3-ft versus 6-ft consideration.

Anonymous wrote:So this new guidance empowers private schools, but what does it do for DCPS? Nothing says they have to take a more aggressive approach. I missed the presser conference but was there any suggestions that DCPS will be pursuing plans that have larger cohorts?