Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Timely reporting from WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/school-coronavirus-spread/2020/12/29/bbfac9d8-3697-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html

Wow. This is really irresponsible journalism.

If people want teachers to return to school that badly, then they need to move them to the front of the vaccine line.

I am hating this country so much these days.

PP -I just need to vent my bitterness here, as I guess so many of us do. I can’t believe school districts are sending staff into the school buildings at the height of the pandemic when a mutant super contagious strain is at play and when a vaccine is “available,” just not available to them in the foreseeable future. It kills me to see photos of covid denying non mask wearing politicians who attended holiday parties at the White House smiling and grinning as they are administered that precious vaccine. It hurts to read news articles like that one in WaPo because they push an agenda based on “science” at the same time they admit to a dearth of scientific data. It kills me that the military and banks and corporations gets billions and billions, but we can’t spend a fraction of that on getting good ventilation in school buildings and plenty of PPE to all professions that need it.

DL is not fun and I am trying my best. I will try my best when they send me in to the building, too. Maybe, I’ll just remain sitting for the national anthem for awhile.

PP I’m right there with you. Can’t believe I was so careful the last 10 months for all of them to just give up in 2021 and send everyone back in hell or high water.

I will go in the building. I will stay on my side of the room. Kids on theirs. I will perform the requirements of my job. It will not be good. I will not “rock” concurrent or wear myself into the ground going above and beyond to reinvent something incredible so they can claim it was a great plan all along. I will be teaching the kids online the same as I have been and the ones in person will sit at their desk and join and work or not. I’m not going to their desk, they’re not coming to mine, I will try to eat and plan in my car if the Internet will stretch to save myself as much exposure as possible. It is what it is. Just remember, neither the kids nor us are being set up to succeed, just like we weren’t with DL. And when this plan starts to fall apart, it’s not on us. It is not.

I hope the school board and district admin are prepared to own the consequences of their choices. I think we will see a big difference in their posturing once 6-12 is back and they see how different the spread is at that level than it was with cohorted sped and k-2 students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Timely reporting from WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/school-coronavirus-spread/2020/12/29/bbfac9d8-3697-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html

Wow. This is really irresponsible journalism.

If people want teachers to return to school that badly, then they need to move them to the front of the vaccine line.

I am hating this country so much these days.

PP -I just need to vent my bitterness here, as I guess so many of us do. I can’t believe school districts are sending staff into the school buildings at the height of the pandemic when a mutant super contagious strain is at play and when a vaccine is “available,” just not available to them in the foreseeable future. It kills me to see photos of covid denying non mask wearing politicians who attended holiday parties at the White House smiling and grinning as they are administered that precious vaccine. It hurts to read news articles like that one in WaPo because they push an agenda based on “science” at the same time they admit to a dearth of scientific data. It kills me that the military and banks and corporations gets billions and billions, but we can’t spend a fraction of that on getting good ventilation in school buildings and plenty of PPE to all professions that need it.

DL is not fun and I am trying my best. I will try my best when they send me in to the building, too. Maybe, I’ll just remain sitting for the national anthem for awhile.

Anonymous wrote:Timely reporting from WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/school-coronavirus-spread/2020/12/29/bbfac9d8-3697-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html

Wow. This is really irresponsible journalism.

If people want teachers to return to school that badly, then they need to move them to the front of the vaccine line.

I am hating this country so much these days.

Anonymous wrote:So one of the most risk averse packed on the planet — Arlington — will go first?

^ places

So one of the most risk averse packed on the planet — Arlington — will go first?

Timely reporting from WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/school-coronavirus-spread/2020/12/29/bbfac9d8-3697-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has there actually been info to suggest that APS will reopen any time soon? I know the Duran email that said they'd send more information in January, but I didn't necessarily construe that to say that hybrid will happen anytime soon.

Yes- principals met with Duran, then staff were informed right before break. Things could have changed since then but.... that was just a week ago.

They have. The more contagious strain is in the US, the one that is spread by even young children, and the XMAS surge is just beginning. It’s impossibly stupid to reopen now.

Ah, the “new strain.” A ray of hope for the basement dwellers amid the vaccine news. Woohoo!

Huh? I have read that the vaccine protects against the new strain, so there would be no need to hunker down once folks get it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has there actually been info to suggest that APS will reopen any time soon? I know the Duran email that said they'd send more information in January, but I didn't necessarily construe that to say that hybrid will happen anytime soon.

Yes- principals met with Duran, then staff were informed right before break. Things could have changed since then but.... that was just a week ago.

They have. The more contagious strain is in the US, the one that is spread by even young children, and the XMAS surge is just beginning. It’s impossibly stupid to reopen now.

Ah, the “new strain.” A ray of hope for the basement dwellers amid the vaccine news. Woohoo!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has there actually been info to suggest that APS will reopen any time soon? I know the Duran email that said they'd send more information in January, but I didn't necessarily construe that to say that hybrid will happen anytime soon.

Yes- principals met with Duran, then staff were informed right before break. Things could have changed since then but.... that was just a week ago.

They have. The more contagious strain is in the US, the one that is spread by even young children, and the XMAS surge is just beginning. It’s impossibly stupid to reopen now.

And worse, they are messing up the vaccine rollout so it is going at a snail’s pace. Honestly, I am getting so discouraged. Maybe we Americans deserve this. Maybe it is karma for all the awful things our country has done since WWII, like setting up despots in third world countries for our own benefit and profit.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has there actually been info to suggest that APS will reopen any time soon? I know the Duran email that said they'd send more information in January, but I didn't necessarily construe that to say that hybrid will happen anytime soon.

Yes- principals met with Duran, then staff were informed right before break. Things could have changed since then but.... that was just a week ago.

They have. The more contagious strain is in the US, the one that is spread by even young children, and the XMAS surge is just beginning. It’s impossibly stupid to reopen now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s funny that the folks claiming that the “parents that want to open are the ones with problem kids” are pearl clutching when the “open now crowd” shares info about the mental health impacts to kids. The former is the one that’s appalling.

Anecdata doesn’t craft policy. We do not have stats on mental health impact to kids that can separate out “school did this” from LIVING IN A STRESSFUL PANDEMIC DID THIS. School isn’t the cause of all problems just as it was never the solution to them all too. Or why did so many students have mental health issues during regular school which we were told was (shocker) schools fault then too.

DP. It’s not just “anecdata,” mental health-related ER visits for children are up 24-31% during the pandemic compared to the same period last year. That should worry everyone, even if we disagree on what to do about it.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6945a3.htm

Hello, APE member, this is your favorite thing to cite.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has there actually been info to suggest that APS will reopen any time soon? I know the Duran email that said they'd send more information in January, but I didn't necessarily construe that to say that hybrid will happen anytime soon.

Yes- principals met with Duran, then staff were informed right before break. Things could have changed since then but.... that was just a week ago.

What was the timeline given?

APS should ponder this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/health/coronavirus-mutant-colorado.html?referringSource=articleShare

Hahaha. It’s not anything but the Wash Post and the APE nonsense. APS is full steam ahead, community spread and peak pandemic be damned. It’s magically safe at school!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has there actually been info to suggest that APS will reopen any time soon? I know the Duran email that said they'd send more information in January, but I didn't necessarily construe that to say that hybrid will happen anytime soon.

Yes- principals met with Duran, then staff were informed right before break. Things could have changed since then but.... that was just a week ago.

CDC hadn't made their recommendation for school personnel as next priority for vaccine before break, I do wonder if that would change the timing of things.