Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope this happens. The parents who got spots at private schools are not coming back unless public schools open 5 days a week. This needs to happen.

The local Catholic school has kids 3 ft apart and has been open for in-person learning almost the entire school year. No spread in the school. Public systems can be open next year, and need to. We are harming our kids.

Good for you parents who can rearrange your lives to make it happen, but I have three kids at three levels and a full time job and I'm not qualified to teach HS math or science to my teens. How good of a chemistry education do you think DS is getting at home? It's crappy. And even when schools re-open, the chemistry teacher is not coming back, so still no labs. So basically, my kid has learned very little this year.

Why do we care what they do? If they’re happier at private they can stay.

Families that choose private schools DO have an impact on public schools (not that they are wrong or shouldn’t do it). It means decreases funding for public schools, which arguably isn’t that big of a deal for overcrowded schools. Still, private schools draw wealthier families from public schools, so they no longer contribute to the public school’s resources (things like PTA, etc).

So that’s just great, wish all of the wealthy families well as they move on to different schools. It totally changes the dynamic of publics, and not in a great way.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope this happens. The parents who got spots at private schools are not coming back unless public schools open 5 days a week. This needs to happen.

The local Catholic school has kids 3 ft apart and has been open for in-person learning almost the entire school year. No spread in the school. Public systems can be open next year, and need to. We are harming our kids.

Good for you parents who can rearrange your lives to make it happen, but I have three kids at three levels and a full time job and I'm not qualified to teach HS math or science to my teens. How good of a chemistry education do you think DS is getting at home? It's crappy. And even when schools re-open, the chemistry teacher is not coming back, so still no labs. So basically, my kid has learned very little this year.

Why do we care what they do? If they’re happier at private they can stay.

Families that choose private schools DO have an impact on public schools (not that they are wrong or shouldn’t do it). It means decreases funding for public schools, which arguably isn’t that big of a deal for overcrowded schools. Still, private schools draw wealthier families from public schools, so they no longer contribute to the public school’s resources (things like PTA, etc).

So that’s just great, wish all of the wealthy families well as they move on to different schools. It totally changes the dynamic of publics, and not in a great way.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope this happens. The parents who got spots at private schools are not coming back unless public schools open 5 days a week. This needs to happen.

The local Catholic school has kids 3 ft apart and has been open for in-person learning almost the entire school year. No spread in the school. Public systems can be open next year, and need to. We are harming our kids.

Good for you parents who can rearrange your lives to make it happen, but I have three kids at three levels and a full time job and I'm not qualified to teach HS math or science to my teens. How good of a chemistry education do you think DS is getting at home? It's crappy. And even when schools re-open, the chemistry teacher is not coming back, so still no labs. So basically, my kid has learned very little this year.

Why do we care what they do? If they’re happier at private they can stay.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Colorado (Denver burbs not the boonies), elementary has been full time 5 days a week since October with ms and hs hybrid. Our school board just voted to send ms and hs back full time in person 5 days a week after spring break which is in two weeks.

I am exceedingly grateful to have a healthy population and teachers and teachers unions who care about kids. This is public school. I hope your unions stand down, they have destroyed public education and your kids are paying the price.

You are very fortunate, and sadly, very right about unions destroying our public education here. It's unbelievable the crap they have pulled at the expense of our students.

To still be saying this in February 2021 is so sad. You truly don’t even understand all the factors at play and who made what decisions and why. Saying “unions” did it in a RIGHT TO WORK state with no unions means you have never even been aware of everything happening.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Colorado (Denver burbs not the boonies), elementary has been full time 5 days a week since October with ms and hs hybrid. Our school board just voted to send ms and hs back full time in person 5 days a week after spring break which is in two weeks.

I am exceedingly grateful to have a healthy population and teachers and teachers unions who care about kids. This is public school. I hope your unions stand down, they have destroyed public education and your kids are paying the price.

You are very fortunate, and sadly, very right about unions destroying our public education here. It's unbelievable the crap they have pulled at the expense of our students.

There are no teachers unions in Virginia. There is no collective bargaining in Virginia. Yet. I hope the teachers push for collective bargaining. It is embarrassing to me that in Northern Virginia people who CLAIM to be BLUE are avidly anti-union. Learn to walk your talk, people.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope this happens. The parents who got spots at private schools are not coming back unless public schools open 5 days a week. This needs to happen.

The local Catholic school has kids 3 ft apart and has been open for in-person learning almost the entire school year. No spread in the school. Public systems can be open next year, and need to. We are harming our kids.

Good for you parents who can rearrange your lives to make it happen, but I have three kids at three levels and a full time job and I'm not qualified to teach HS math or science to my teens. How good of a chemistry education do you think DS is getting at home? It's crappy. And even when schools re-open, the chemistry teacher is not coming back, so still no labs. So basically, my kid has learned very little this year.

Why do we care what they do? If they’re happier at private they can stay.

It's not a great thing for public schools to lose so many kids to private school. A lot of the families leaving used to be big public school supporters -- PTA donors, active in the schools, leadership and service roles within those communities. I don't want to lose all those families from the public schools. I think it matters. Plus a lot of the districts have funding formulas based on enrollment numbers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Colorado (Denver burbs not the boonies), elementary has been full time 5 days a week since October with ms and hs hybrid. Our school board just voted to send ms and hs back full time in person 5 days a week after spring break which is in two weeks.

I am exceedingly grateful to have a healthy population and teachers and teachers unions who care about kids. This is public school. I hope your unions stand down, they have destroyed public education and your kids are paying the price.

You are very fortunate, and sadly, very right about unions destroying our public education here. It's unbelievable the crap they have pulled at the expense of our students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Colorado (Denver burbs not the boonies), elementary has been full time 5 days a week since October with ms and hs hybrid. Our school board just voted to send ms and hs back full time in person 5 days a week after spring break which is in two weeks.

I am exceedingly grateful to have a healthy population and teachers and teachers unions who care about kids. This is public school. I hope your unions stand down, they have destroyed public education and your kids are paying the price.

You are very fortunate, and sadly, very right about unions destroying our public education here. It's unbelievable the crap they have pulled at the expense of our students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because this language just passed the House of Delegates (bill came from the senate) and is headed to the Governor's desk.

"1. § 1. As used in this act:

"In-person instruction" means any form of instructional interaction between teachers and students that occurs in person and in real time.

"In-person instruction" does not include the act of proctoring remote online learning in a classroom.

§ 2. Each school board shall offer in-person instruction to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public elementary and secondary school for at least the minimum number of required instructional hours and to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public school-based early childhood care and education program for the entirety of the instructional time provided pursuant to such program. For the purposes of this act, each school board shall (i) adopt, implement, and, when appropriate, update specific parameters for the provision of in-person instruction and (ii) provide such in-person instruction in a manner in which it adheres, to the maximum extent practicable, to any currently applicable mitigation strategies for early childhood care and education programs and elementary and secondary schools to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 that have been provided by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1303H1

Online synchronous instruction still counts as in-person.

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Colorado (Denver burbs not the boonies), elementary has been full time 5 days a week since October with ms and hs hybrid. Our school board just voted to send ms and hs back full time in person 5 days a week after spring break which is in two weeks.

I am exceedingly grateful to have a healthy population and teachers and teachers unions who care about kids. This is public school. I hope your unions stand down, they have destroyed public education and your kids are paying the price.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope this happens. The parents who got spots at private schools are not coming back unless public schools open 5 days a week. This needs to happen.

The local Catholic school has kids 3 ft apart and has been open for in-person learning almost the entire school year. No spread in the school. Public systems can be open next year, and need to. We are harming our kids.

Good for you parents who can rearrange your lives to make it happen, but I have three kids at three levels and a full time job and I'm not qualified to teach HS math or science to my teens. How good of a chemistry education do you think DS is getting at home? It's crappy. And even when schools re-open, the chemistry teacher is not coming back, so still no labs. So basically, my kid has learned very little this year.

Why do we care what they do? If they’re happier at private they can stay.

It's not a great thing for public schools to lose so many kids to private school. A lot of the families leaving used to be big public school supporters -- PTA donors, active in the schools, leadership and service roles within those communities. I don't want to lose all those families from the public schools. I think it matters. Plus a lot of the districts have funding formulas based on enrollment numbers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because this language just passed the House of Delegates (bill came from the senate) and is headed to the Governor's desk.

"1. § 1. As used in this act:

"In-person instruction" means any form of instructional interaction between teachers and students that occurs in person and in real time.

"In-person instruction" does not include the act of proctoring remote online learning in a classroom.

§ 2. Each school board shall offer in-person instruction to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public elementary and secondary school for at least the minimum number of required instructional hours and to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public school-based early childhood care and education program for the entirety of the instructional time provided pursuant to such program. For the purposes of this act, each school board shall (i) adopt, implement, and, when appropriate, update specific parameters for the provision of in-person instruction and (ii) provide such in-person instruction in a manner in which it adheres, to the maximum extent practicable, to any currently applicable mitigation strategies for early childhood care and education programs and elementary and secondary schools to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 that have been provided by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1303H1

Online synchronous instruction still counts as in-person.

Anonymous wrote:Because this language just passed the House of Delegates (bill came from the senate) and is headed to the Governor's desk.

"1. § 1. As used in this act:

"In-person instruction" means any form of instructional interaction between teachers and students that occurs in person and in real time.

"In-person instruction" does not include the act of proctoring remote online learning in a classroom.

§ 2. Each school board shall offer in-person instruction to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public elementary and secondary school for at least the minimum number of required instructional hours and to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public school-based early childhood care and education program for the entirety of the instructional time provided pursuant to such program. For the purposes of this act, each school board shall (i) adopt, implement, and, when appropriate, update specific parameters for the provision of in-person instruction and (ii) provide such in-person instruction in a manner in which it adheres, to the maximum extent practicable, to any currently applicable mitigation strategies for early childhood care and education programs and elementary and secondary schools to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 that have been provided by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1303H1

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope this happens. The parents who got spots at private schools are not coming back unless public schools open 5 days a week. This needs to happen.

The local Catholic school has kids 3 ft apart and has been open for in-person learning almost the entire school year. No spread in the school. Public systems can be open next year, and need to. We are harming our kids.

Good for you parents who can rearrange your lives to make it happen, but I have three kids at three levels and a full time job and I'm not qualified to teach HS math or science to my teens. How good of a chemistry education do you think DS is getting at home? It's crappy. And even when schools re-open, the chemistry teacher is not coming back, so still no labs. So basically, my kid has learned very little this year.

Why do we care what they do? If they’re happier at private they can stay.