No way can high schools with 2500 kids continue to social distance or even wash hands. Forget about buses. It will have to be virtual. Spend the next few months figuring out the virtual plan. Focus now on it. FCPS is a debacle.

Live zoom lessons work best for us. Where there is explanation of new material, some practice, and random checks.
Please no complicated self-paced tasks!

Anonymous wrote:Our union leadership has already stated that we are not childcare and there is no possibility of all students attending school at the same time. The buildings are too crowded and we will not go back to work packed in like sardines against all common sense and medical advice.

Parents should think about how they will manage this-nanny share, one parent stays home and you downsize, etc. This will likely be our new reality until a vaccine is developed.

And union leadership should think about how teachers with kids will manage this, what with “one parent stays home.” That parent is likely to be the teacher. Good luck with the reduced ranks.

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Anonymous wrote:School needs to resume as normal for goodness sake. It’s enough.

Yeah, seriously. People can go back to dying now. We stayed home 6 weeks so if anyone dies after this, it’s not our fault.

8 1/2 weeks. Schools closed here on March 14.

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Anonymous wrote:

Then maybe we should figure out how, as the so-called “richest country in the world “, we can use the next 3-4 months to get an adequate supply of PPE to everyone who needs it. We’ve had since January to work on this.

Another Trump hater? See all of news reports of American intelligence that China kept human transmission secret to be able to buy up medical supplies around the world during December and January. They also stopped exporting. Given that we based our supply chain there for the basic materials, we didn't have PPE that we could magically buy or make under those circumstances. That is shifting now, but please, don't pretend that massive incompetence kept masks from doctors and nurses.

The whistleblower claims US companies were willing to sell P.P.E. to the federal govt but the admin refused to authorize the purchases, so the manufacturer went ahead and exported to the willing buyer overseas. In January.

The six feet rule can not be enforced in a school and its silly to try. Kids should go to school as normal. Health agencies need to aggressively contact trace and isolate infections.

Researchers from China, Boston and Italy performed contact surveys in Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first detected, and Shanghai, China's largest city.
They estimated that removing all interactions normally seen in schools for children up to 14 years old would lead to a reduction in the average daily number of new cases of about 42%, while reducing children's interactions to those typically seen during vacation periods could reduce new cases by 64%.

CNN https://apple.news/ADi67RAfYSvqHl26OXTQSzg

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Then maybe we should figure out how, as the so-called “richest country in the world “, we can use the next 3-4 months to get an adequate supply of PPE to everyone who needs it. We’ve had since January to work on this.

Another Trump hater? See all of news reports of American intelligence that China kept human transmission secret to be able to buy up medical supplies around the world during December and January. They also stopped exporting. Given that we based our supply chain there for the basic materials, we didn't have PPE that we could magically buy or make under those circumstances. That is shifting now, but please, don't pretend that massive incompetence kept masks from doctors and nurses.

Our union leadership has already stated that we are not childcare and there is no possibility of all students attending school at the same time. The buildings are too crowded and we will not go back to work packed in like sardines against all common sense and medical advice.

Parents should think about how they will manage this-nanny share, one parent stays home and you downsize, etc. This will likely be our new reality until a vaccine is developed.

Anonymous wrote:Schools will reopen mostly normal (no assemblies? maybe)

I think it’s overly optimistic teachers on this board suggesting otherwise.

My dear, schools are just the buildings without the kids and parents. They can be open as normal as you wish but if you think the parents will send the kids into the harms way, think again. If you think that teachers will walk into the harms way.. think again.

Anonymous wrote:School needs to resume as normal for goodness sake. It’s enough.

To you PP... the comments like yours truly deserve the matching reply. It is the only deserving reply really:

The school year of 2020/2021 should be consider a transitional year, giving TONS of flexibility to everybody
but mainly the parents and the teachers.

- School presence should not be mandatory, and workload should be lighter.
- Parent would have a choice to send kids to school or keep at home but the material would be executed by some form or another, weekly work submission, monthly online testing.. whatever..
- Kids who would be learning at home would have access to all school resources and they would have a teacher who would be responsible for class of home schoolers and their progress, supervising teacher if you will. In addition to other teachers who pers subject would administer few classes online and supplement the worksheets etc.
- Sick days should be not require doctors visits. The allowance should be ample without consequences, there will be a lot of kids
struggling mentally and emotionally with the school return and the adjustment and PTSD after all this and their mental health will be paramount to their academic success. Stress should be eliminated.

- Bussing - major problem. I don't know how to do this, other then do the shift schools as that many kids s hould not be on the busses again.
- Class density - big problem, again two shift schooling from now on or something...


Schools should look into NATURAL HEALTY way of disinfecting schools without use of any harsh harmful chemicals. Period.
There are TONS of the green options since forever yet schools are always using the most horrible crap. This goes into kids blood system and messiness up their endocrine system. Not a rockets science. This should change.

- Kids going outside FEW times a day for ten minutes each to le them breath FRESH REAL air and not recirculated contaminants.
Kids growing bodies also need access to Sun to be able to assimilate their own vitamin D. Why kids are stored ALL day long in the
schools ..? This is not healthy nor should go on like this.


Again.. The year of transition. Everybody needs to adjust and the allowance should be made for this.

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Anonymous wrote:Should add to the above, rather than say no to playgrounds, I think there should be as much outdoor time as possible. Including, outdoor classrooms as much as possible. Fresh air and sun do help lower virus transmission.

Absolutely! The classes should be shorter and the outdoor breaks every 45 minutes absolute mandatory, weather permitting.

And how will you keep everyone 6 feet apart as they exit and enter the building nine times a day? Plus keeping them apart outside? These ideas do not work with large groups of children.

Anonymous wrote:Should add to the above, rather than say no to playgrounds, I think there should be as much outdoor time as possible. Including, outdoor classrooms as much as possible. Fresh air and sun do help lower virus transmission.

Absolutely! The classes should be shorter and the outdoor breaks every 45 minutes absolute mandatory, weather permitting.

Should add to the above, rather than say no to playgrounds, I think there should be as much outdoor time as possible. Including, outdoor classrooms as much as possible. Fresh air and sun do help lower virus transmission.