Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 18:10     Subject: I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
Anonymous wrote:Things are not going well for states who have started school already. This really sucks. I was hopeful. I think it will start in person but schools Will have individual closures with positive cases. And bc delta spreads quicker, it will happen more often than last spring.


Agree. I think FCPS is going full bore with opening five days in person so that if/when the shit hits the fan and students and staff get sick in large numbers, they will have much less resistance when they send everyone virtual. No one will be able to say, "They didn't even try!" or claim there weren't many cases in their elementary schools when 20% of the class is out due to symptoms or exposure. I also suspect FCPS knows there's a reasonably large contingent of parents who will pull their kids if cases start showing up in schools. It's much better for this to happen after school starts because it's a lot easier from a staffing perspective to lose students after the first month than it is to gain students.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 18:00     Subject: Re:I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
Anonymous wrote:https://www.change.org/p/fairfax-county-public-school-fcps-virtual-school-option?redirect=false

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No thanks. I want my kids going in. They have special needs and virtual learning doesn't work for them.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:48     Subject: I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
Anonymous wrote:Things are not going well for states who have started school already. This really sucks. I was hopeful. I think it will start in person but schools Will have individual closures with positive cases. And bc delta spreads quicker, it will happen more often than last spring.


Let me guess which states.
We will have positive cases for many, many years. Get used to it.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:45     Subject: Re:I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
Anonymous wrote:https://www.change.org/p/fairfax-county-public-school-fcps-virtual-school-option?redirect=false

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They are requesting a hybrid option? Isn’t that what FCPS tried to arrange last year and ran into a logistical nightmare?
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:35     Subject: I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
Openfcps and their crazy recall stunt is constantly receiving media coverage. Plenty of local coverage and huge amounts of national, right wing media coverage. Such entitlement whining that someone else’s pov is receiving coverage and typifies their mindset that cannot acknowledge opinions differ.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:35     Subject: Re:I’m getting nervous about school because of delta


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cdc-schools-reopening-covid-b1900249.html%3famp


Schools likely to be impacted by delta. Get ready for it.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:32     Subject: I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
Things are not going well for states who have started school already. This really sucks. I was hopeful. I think it will start in person but schools Will have individual closures with positive cases. And bc delta spreads quicker, it will happen more often than last spring.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:29     Subject: Re:I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
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BTDT

Soooo 2020. No thanks.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:23     Subject: I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I already see parents freaking out on social media and saying that FCPS needs a virtual option.


It’s interesting that the 700-odd people who signed the petition for a “virtual option” are being given media coverage in the local media, but when thousands of people signed petitions to recall some of the SB members they’re treated as Trumpies and barely given any media coverage at all.


The petition is over 1500 after just a few days. Open fcps had a much harder time finding on the ground support (other than from national organizations).


There was a reopening petition last summer that got well over 1500 signatures and ZERO media coverage.


Every day for the last several months there’s been coverage of #Open, school board recalls and parent gripes in general. You’ll be OK not seeing your little petition on the news.


It doesn’t need to be in the media now, more just pointing out the hypocrisy that’s going on right now vs. last summer.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:17     Subject: Re:I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
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That ship has sailed. Wave bye bye.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:15     Subject: Re:I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
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What a dumb petition. Maybe they'll amount to more than a rounding error when it's all said and done. Not quite there yet. As others have said ad nauseam, your virtual option is available. You have Virtual Virginia, homeschooling, or perhaps another online private if you can find one. You aren't getting hybrid/concurrent no matter how hard you whine.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:13     Subject: I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I already see parents freaking out on social media and saying that FCPS needs a virtual option.


It’s interesting that the 700-odd people who signed the petition for a “virtual option” are being given media coverage in the local media, but when thousands of people signed petitions to recall some of the SB members they’re treated as Trumpies and barely given any media coverage at all.


The petition is over 1500 after just a few days. Open fcps had a much harder time finding on the ground support (other than from national organizations).


There was a reopening petition last summer that got well over 1500 signatures and ZERO media coverage.


Every day for the last several months there’s been coverage of #Open, school board recalls and parent gripes in general. You’ll be OK not seeing your little petition on the news.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:08     Subject: Re:I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
https://www.change.org/p/fairfax-county-public-school-fcps-virtual-school-option?redirect=false

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Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:04     Subject: I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I already see parents freaking out on social media and saying that FCPS needs a virtual option.


It’s interesting that the 700-odd people who signed the petition for a “virtual option” are being given media coverage in the local media, but when thousands of people signed petitions to recall some of the SB members they’re treated as Trumpies and barely given any media coverage at all.


The petition is over 1500 after just a few days. Open fcps had a much harder time finding on the ground support (other than from national organizations).


There was a reopening petition last summer that got well over 1500 signatures and ZERO media coverage.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2021 17:00     Subject: I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I already see parents freaking out on social media and saying that FCPS needs a virtual option.


It’s interesting that the 700-odd people who signed the petition for a “virtual option” are being given media coverage in the local media, but when thousands of people signed petitions to recall some of the SB members they’re treated as Trumpies and barely given any media coverage at all.


The petition is over 1500 after just a few days. Open fcps had a much harder time finding on the ground support (other than from national organizations).