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Anonymous wrote:I'm working from home now and I'm not planning on sending my middle schooler to summer camp in who knows what conditions where they surely won't adequately police spacing or mask wearing in a pool. My kid hasn't had that rough of a time so from my perspective I wouldn't mind riding this out into next school year by which point hopefully we will most all be vaccinated and ready to go.

So this plan is a-okay with me. It's the severely disabled and the youngest kids who need the help the most (and I get sending the high school career center kids with the hands on courses as well).

You are in the minority. And a bit insane.

NP, but at our school barely less than 50% of kids will be back, and even still there are plenty of parents planning to switch from hybrid to DL. Not everyone has your same health profile and risk tolerance

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Anonymous wrote:I think the people who defend Duran fail to acknowledge that we are in the 38 percent in the country in which offer only DL. 62 percent of the country has offered at least some in person learning. Private schools have been in person since September. You don’t need to look too far away for the proof schools are safe even if you don’t want to read the medical literature. Duran has not even offered in person education to special needs kindergarten students!! He has been a pathetic leader just waiting on other school districts. There is absolute no health reason or data to suggest schools should be closed until every single teacher is vaccinated! Northam and Hogan both stated the same. As a healthcare worker, l have been in the office since March. I never once asked for a vaccine as a condition to do my job. Fairfax County knows that and is putting kids first. The APS teachers have had a free paycheck all year at our children’s expense. Its high time we call a spade a spade here. Duran should have brought K through 3 back in December and middle and high school this month.

How do the COVID rates in that 62% compare with Arlington? I'll wait....

Anonymous wrote:No 62 percent includes NJ, NYC, Ny state, Connecticut, Rhode lsland, Dallas and Charlotte. Today it includes DC public schools and Chicago and Nashville. You can’t lie your way out of this. There’s no excuse to not open schools in APS with the amount of risk mitigation and resources in place. Again, 3000 kids in Catholic school have been back in Arlington. Can you tell me how many teachers and kids have died... thought so.

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about the situations of the people on here who are adamant that teachers and kids of middle and high schoolers should immediately or near-immediately return to school? Are the people who are having a really rough time with this here:

* work from home parents who have high powered jobs and are having trouble either balancing everything or hiring additional people to come in and managing that exposure (or maybe pay their nannies more);
* same, except essential workers who have to report to work;
* parents who have lost their jobs and need everything to get back to normal so they can find work;
* stay at home parents who are good people but are just out of their depth assisting with virtual school;
* parents who are working relatively low wage jobs and cannot afford to go on like this much longer;
* parents who have seen their kids academic performance severely deteriorate and just really need help from teachers to get things back on track.
* parents of three or more kids who could manage this for a while but all the demands, all the meals at home, all the homework help, all the tech help, multiplied by however many kids there is just too much at this point.

Anonymous wrote:I think the people who defend Duran fail to acknowledge that we are in the 38 percent in the country in which offer only DL. 62 percent of the country has offered at least some in person learning. Private schools have been in person since September. You don’t need to look too far away for the proof schools are safe even if you don’t want to read the medical literature. Duran has not even offered in person education to special needs kindergarten students!! He has been a pathetic leader just waiting on other school districts. There is absolute no health reason or data to suggest schools should be closed until every single teacher is vaccinated! Northam and Hogan both stated the same. As a healthcare worker, l have been in the office since March. I never once asked for a vaccine as a condition to do my job. Fairfax County knows that and is putting kids first. The APS teachers have had a free paycheck all year at our children’s expense. Its high time we call a spade a spade here. Duran should have brought K through 3 back in December and middle and high school this month.

Anonymous wrote:I think the people who defend Duran fail to acknowledge that we are in the 38 percent in the country in which offer only DL. 62 percent of the country has offered at least some in person learning. Private schools have been in person since September. You don’t need to look too far away for the proof schools are safe even if you don’t want to read the medical literature. Duran has not even offered in person education to special needs kindergarten students!! He has been a pathetic leader just waiting on other school districts. There is absolute no health reason or data to suggest schools should be closed until every single teacher is vaccinated! Northam and Hogan both stated the same. As a healthcare worker, l have been in the office since March. I never once asked for a vaccine as a condition to do my job. Fairfax County knows that and is putting kids first. The APS teachers have had a free paycheck all year at our children’s expense. Its high time we call a spade a spade here. Duran should have brought K through 3 back in December and middle and high school this month.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm working from home now and I'm not planning on sending my middle schooler to summer camp in who knows what conditions where they surely won't adequately police spacing or mask wearing in a pool. My kid hasn't had that rough of a time so from my perspective I wouldn't mind riding this out into next school year by which point hopefully we will most all be vaccinated and ready to go.

So this plan is a-okay with me. It's the severely disabled and the youngest kids who need the help the most (and I get sending the high school career center kids with the hands on courses as well).

You are in the minority. And a bit insane.

Anonymous wrote:No 62 percent includes NJ, NYC, Ny state, Connecticut, Rhode lsland, Dallas and Charlotte. Today it includes DC public schools and Chicago and Nashville. You can’t lie your way out of this. There’s no excuse to not open schools in APS with the amount of risk mitigation and resources in place. Again, 3000 kids in Catholic school have been back in Arlington. Can you tell me how many teachers and kids have died... thought so.

Anonymous wrote:The teachers aren't vaccinated, the buildings aren't ventilated, it's 32 degrees outside and not very conducive to outside lunch or outside anything else, and nobody is even trying to put kids into cohorts. All or most of these problems could be mostly solved in a month or two but never mind that we want what we want NOW.

Anonymous wrote:I think the people who defend Duran fail to acknowledge that we are in the 38 percent in the country in which offer only DL. 62 percent of the country has offered at least some in person learning. Private schools have been in person since September. You don’t need to look too far away for the proof schools are safe even if you don’t want to read the medical literature. Duran has not even offered in person education to special needs kindergarten students!! He has been a pathetic leader just waiting on other school districts. There is absolute no health reason or data to suggest schools should be closed until every single teacher is vaccinated! Northam and Hogan both stated the same. As a healthcare worker, l have been in the office since March. I never once asked for a vaccine as a condition to do my job. Fairfax County knows that and is putting kids first. The APS teachers have had a free paycheck all year at our children’s expense. Its high time we call a spade a spade here. Duran should have brought K through 3 back in December and middle and high school this month.

Anonymous wrote:I saw this announcement today and my heart dropped. We will *talk* about a date for only early elem in a few more weeks. What does that mean for kids in HS? Do they ever get to go back? I'm so frustrated. Once all teachers are vaccinated, they need to open all hybrid back at once. This is ridiculous.

There has been so much fear-mongering from the beginning about the dire consequences if school opened, and here we are in Feb., with schools open all around the country, and our kids are sitting at home. Meanwhile, the worse case scenarios have not happened anywhere.