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Anonymous wrote:if our DC's big three goes back to virtual we are going to be protesting in front of the school and in the media, along with a lot of other parents. virtual way worse for the kids than in person with omicron. the problem will likely be at our school, as it was last year, that the teachers who actually run the school will refuse to come in person again.

Yes this is what I'm hearing from parents. The kids need to be put first now. We had a year of them taking the backseat. They need to be the priority.

Anonymous wrote:if our DC's big three goes back to virtual we are going to be protesting in front of the school and in the media, along with a lot of other parents. virtual way worse for the kids than in person with omicron. the problem will likely be at our school, as it was last year, that the teachers who actually run the school will refuse to come in person again.

Anonymous wrote:if our DC's big three goes back to virtual we are going to be protesting in front of the school and in the media, along with a lot of other parents. virtual way worse for the kids than in person with omicron. the problem will likely be at our school, as it was last year, that the teachers who actually run the school will refuse to come in person again.

Anonymous wrote:Yep, close the schools and keep restaurants and bars open. This will probably happen again—even after virtually everyone agreed it was a horrible move the first time. If our private goes virtual (I.e. the “no learning” model), we will be looking elsewhere next year, potentially geographically.

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Anonymous wrote:We'll be virtual one way or another. Schools will either make the tough call or kids and their classes will be on a rotating cycle of quarantines.

Meanwhile companies are all still out their touting their January returns to the office. What a ride 2022 is setting up to be.

We’ve been in the office since 09/2020 so I think it’s generous if people are still home.

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Anonymous wrote:We'll be virtual one way or another. Schools will either make the tough call or kids and their classes will be on a rotating cycle of quarantines.

Meanwhile companies are all still out their touting their January returns to the office. What a ride 2022 is setting up to be.

We’ve been in the office since 09/2020 so I think it’s generous if people are still home.

Anonymous wrote:We'll be virtual one way or another. Schools will either make the tough call or kids and their classes will be on a rotating cycle of quarantines.

Meanwhile companies are all still out their touting their January returns to the office. What a ride 2022 is setting up to be.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We'll be virtual one way or another. Schools will either make the tough call or kids and their classes will be on a rotating cycle of quarantines.

Meanwhile companies are all still out their touting their January returns to the office. What a ride 2022 is setting up to be.

We’ve been in the office since 09/2020 so I think it’s generous if people are still home.

Anonymous wrote:We'll be virtual one way or another. Schools will either make the tough call or kids and their classes will be on a rotating cycle of quarantines.

Meanwhile companies are all still out their touting their January returns to the office. What a ride 2022 is setting up to be.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe. My kid's class in a HRCS had a breakthrough case in a fully vaccinated student today.

There is a lot of that. The vaccines aren’t stopping people from getting sick

Vaccinated people are getting a cold, tops, unless there is a major other issue. Infected is more accurate than sick. Let's calm down. Many physicians are saying don't freak out about omicron.

The news moves quickly on Omicron, and you need to keep up. We thought it was mild, but now there's a study of patients in UK hospitals that shows it might actually be as virulent as Delta. It's just a preliminary study, but the point is... don't think this is all a big deal for nothing.

The study was based on 24 people. 24 PEOPLE IN THE HOSPTIAL! Why? Because they don't have enough hospital admissions in the UK to do a larger study. Interesting...

I watched the BBC news yesterday and the doctors were saying that they will not be able to tell how serious Omicron is until the week between Christmas and New Year at the earliest with the best indication the first week of January. Omicron is so new there and it takes 7-10 days before patients are typically sick enough to be hospitalized. Nobody really knows yet.

And the US news media picks it's up and runs with it like it's gospel (and the end of the world).

The study is complete and total garbage. Shouldn't even be in the news.

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Anonymous wrote:PG County just announced they are going all virtual until the middle of January.

Watch the dominoes start to fall.

Pathetic.

Why would private schools follow a low performing public school district in continuing a form of education that has been proven to be ineffective and harmful to the well being of children?

In addition to a vaccine mandate, our school is conducting surveillance testing of all students before school starts, as it did in the fall and will continue surveillance testing throughout the remainder of the year.

While virtual is certainly a possibility, it is the last resort and not the first.