Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

NYC is elementary only. And very small percentages opted in. DC is INVITATION ONLY for high risk students. Which is what APS could have done if the entitled in N Arl didn’t insist it is their right to attend in person in the middle of a pandemic. Many of the system you cite above are open under much narrower circumstances. Jamestown’s demand for 80% hybrid is a bit harder to accommodate.

That is a soundbite that doesn't take into account the actual population of schools and seats requested. Even though by percentage, North Arlington schools were higher, the actual seats requested from all schools is not all that dissimilar with a few outliers.

School Hybrid Seats
Carlin Springs 87
Randolph 154
Campbell 185
Drew 188
Montessori 212
Long Branch 215
Barcroft 241
Hoffman Boston 253
Glebe 257
Nottingham 306
Oakridge 318
Barrett 329
ATS 329
Tuckahoe 332
ASF 333
Ashlawn 334
Fleet 338
Taylor 370
Claremont 371
Abingdon 380
Jamestown 386
McKinley 394
Discovery 403
Key 409

Anonymous wrote:

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.

And the variants are just getting started. I’m grateful APS is protecting its teachers in light of what many think will be an increase in hyper contagious strains of the virus. I hope the other area that have been open get their teachers vaccinated ASAP.

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Community rates are so high now that ensuring teacher vaccinations before return is the only responsible option. So just hang on for a few more weeks and APS will start opening next month! You’ve come this far. Let your teachers get fully immunized.

Anonymous wrote:To address the * list:

* Parent of kid who is not getting enough mental, emotional, or physical stimulation for long-term health
* Parent of kid who highly values in-person school
* Parent who highly values in-person school
* Parent of kid getting headaches from looking at a screen all day
* Parent of a kid who is frustrated that they turn in assignments online and teachers can't find them
* Parent of kid who has seen that there are schools here in Arlington and across the country making this work
* Parent of kid who thinks Arlington's extreme risk-averse position is damaging kids
* Parent who believes in science and works in health and thinks APS needs to get its act together

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

NYC is elementary only. And very small percentages opted in. DC is INVITATION ONLY for high risk students. Which is what APS could have done if the entitled in N Arl didn’t insist it is their right to attend in person in the middle of a pandemic. Many of the system you cite above are open under much narrower circumstances. Jamestown’s demand for 80% hybrid is a bit harder to accommodate.

That is a soundbite that doesn't take into account the actual population of schools and seats requested. Even though by percentage, North Arlington schools were higher, the actual seats requested from all schools is not all that dissimilar with a few outliers.

School Hybrid Seats
Carlin Springs 87
Randolph 154
Campbell 185
Drew 188
Montessori 212
Long Branch 215
Barcroft 241
Hoffman Boston 253
Glebe 257
Nottingham 306
Oakridge 318
Barrett 329
ATS 329
Tuckahoe 332
ASF 333
Ashlawn 334
Fleet 338
Taylor 370
Claremont 371
Abingdon 380
Jamestown 386
McKinley 394
Discovery 403
Key 409

Data not very helpful without PERCENTAGES. that’s what dictates hybrid safety.

No - the point is, it's not because only North Arlington schools demanded schools be reopened. Hundreds of families at ALL schools did.