SS-hybrid or all online but that was this week. With how case numbers are skyrocketing and both WA and CA starting to go back to SIP I have a feeling we will be in OR soon too. We also don't start until after Labor Day so lots can happen in 6 weeks.
FYI I'm 95% sure we will choose to do fully online.
Parents/guardians are given a choice of in person or remote. In person option is shortened days, no on-site PE, no on-site lunch (bagged lunch can be taken home). Lots of restrictions with in person - masks, social distancing, etc.
We are supposedly all starting on campus 5 days a week with tons of precautions in place (tiny classes of 10-12, masks required, no parents in the building, cleaning during the day and deep cleaning overnight, adding ventilation systems to the classrooms, longer classes to make fewer hallway transitions, no lockers, reconfiguring bathrooms, renting tents, being outside as much as possible). I'm still not convinced it's safe and who knows what will happen in 6 weeks?
Worth noting that this plan is totally impossible for most public schools and highlights in a huge way the inequities of education in this country.
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We are in DFW but attend a charter school with campuses statewide. First day if school is August 13th. Families were give 3 options and can change at the 6 weeks grading period. Options were 1) Synchronous virtual, 2) Asynchronous virtual or 3) In-person with masks on everyone and temp checks. If you failed to select before deadline, you were enrolled in option 1. As of the day before the deadline only 20% had selected to go in person.
Due to various counties implementing rules affecting in-person, the district has decided that everyone will be remote until after Labor Day.
ETA- DH and I are both working from home though the end of the year and our kids are very self motivated 4th and 6th graders, so we chose option 1.
Post by librarychica on Jul 19, 2020 15:44:32 GMT -5
We are in Florida and most counties are required to do 5 day a week with precautions and must start in August. Our district (a current hot spot) has requested a waiver, but is also offering synchronous virtual (with your home school, they’ll provide a laptop) and asynchronous virtual (existing state program, you provide tech.) You commit until after Christmas break. We are going asynchronous virtual.
gaudi, wow! Only 20%? That’s surprising. Our private school, 85% said they wanted to go back in person, but literally the question was “Which would you prefer, virtual or in person?” There was no nuance at all. We said in person but also clarified we didn’t want the kids back until we went 14 days with decreasing cases.
gaudi, wow! Only 20%? That’s surprising. Our private school, 85% said they wanted to go back in person, but literally the question was “Which would you prefer, virtual or in person?” There was no nuance at all. We said in person but also clarified we didn’t want the kids back until we went 14 days with decreasing cases.
I think a huge reason people are opting for virtual is the restrictions for in school. Masks on all students regardless of age, no PE, no specials, lunch in classroom, temp checks at beginning of day and after lunch and if they have a fever, they have to go wait in a portable building with nurse until picked up. The superintendent explicitly said "Options 1 and 2 are the only way we can guarantee your student does not get Covid-19 while getting an education" and "Regardless of what the % of deaths is, if I lose 1 student, teacher or staff that is too many."
We won’t find out till 7/30, first day is supposedly 8/19... but at least 2 nearby districts have said they are pushing start back a week and will start virtual for at least the first 2 weeks, which means it’s pretty likely my district will follow suit. All 3 of my kids start at new schools where they know no one at all and also have never even been in the building.
Our old charter school in our current district has said in person M-Thursday with every Friday virtual for grades 6-12 and every other Friday virtual for grades K-5. And they took away the shortened Wednesday schedule. I’m not totally clear on how any of this makes things better, but alas this is what they plan to do. Or you can choose 100% virtual.
90% of my district at large indicated they want in person and would send their kids. Only 10% say they will choose virtual.
With cases going up, they just backtracked our school plan. Now they are talking 2 days a week and splitting classes. I just can't with all the change. I know it is no one's fault but this sucks.
We are all online until at least Halloween. The district will re-evaluate every quarter. The teacher's union requested 14 days of no new cases in the county before considering in person (which seems really unlikely). I don't think that we will go in person this school year (although I hope that I am wrong). Although I was really hoping for in person instruction at least some days of the week, at least I can work on lining up childcare for this virtual stuff.
sdlaura,I know right? Since all of this started we have had 1 day with no new cases in the county. And then it will get cold soon, and everyone will be inside. I hope that I am wrong, but I don't think that we will be going back this year.
Our requirement for reopening is 14 days of declining cases. I'm not confident we'd hit that metric anytime soon. No new cases.. that sure is a requirement.
Our school board isn't meeting until Aug 5. All they've said is K-5 is either all in person or all virtual and it will be parent's choice. It sounds like they're trying to reduce liability since parents will be "choosing" in person.
The Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Ed has asked school districts not to release any plans until August at the earliest. We usually go back right around Labor Day- sometimes right before, sometimes after. They’re also hoping for consistency across all districts - everyone doing the same thing. Which is bananas, because it’s totally not what happened in the spring. Some districts went 1:1 with devices and dove into zoom classes and tons of work. My town had teachers that were actively engaging students throughout the shut down, and others that were aggressively stating on social media that they would NOT be teaching remotely, and didn’t until they were pushed by the administration to do so some time in May. This varies from teacher to teacher - so there wasn’t even equity within the same grade in the same school, let alone across the district.
This is not giving anyone very much time to plan around here.
I have a strong feeling that my kids’ school will go back for a while and eventually transition back to distance learning, and that the public schools will be 100% online. But who knows???
Our county just said all schools but religious are online only until Sept 28. They are waiting to see what kind of nonsense comes from Labor Day before sending kids back.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Jul 21, 2020 13:31:05 GMT -5
Our zoned school district met last night and did not vote but indicated they will now be changing their plan from opening August 21 to not opening until September 8. TBD whether on September 8 they will have "choice" (virtual or online choices) or if it will be online only.
Our county just said all schools but religious are online only until Sept 28. They are waiting to see what kind of nonsense comes from Labor Day before sending kids back.
Totally unrelated, but I just realized that we are in the same county and I think we might have gone to the same law school. DH and I graduated in '06.
Our school district had a virtual town hall yesterday afternoon in the middle of the workday. Then, they didn't know Zoom maxed out, so a ton of people couldn't get in. And those of us who had to actually work during that window of time missed it entirely. So I have no clue what the details are at this point.
I had to change my vote. They had said it would be 2 days in school, three days out. Now they've changed it to fully remote learning for at least the first four weeks. They got all kinds of complaints for the hybrid schedule and they got just as many for the online only learning. Some of the comments are about how "COVID will go away after the election." I don't understand that at all. We are in a very very red county. The school board isn't going to do anything that would hurt Trump.
Post by librarychica on Jul 22, 2020 7:59:51 GMT -5
My county has requested a waiver and there are now two lawsuits (one from the state teachers union) against the state mandate of opening 5 days a week.
Meanwhile I get multiple messages a day telling me to REGISTER MY CHOICE . But the details on the choices keep changing.
In my area, it appears that most public schools will be doing all virtual learning. My county plans on this being in place through the first semester (until the end of January!!!! FIVE months!). It appears that most private schools are going with 100% in person. I think this is largely a "money talks" situation. People paying $$$ want their kids IN school.
I'm waiting for the first private school to have to close because Covid starts spreading. In my immediate area, most people are pretty much on the same page- we wear masks, we social distance, we're taking it seriously. BUT. Even so - putting a bunch of kids back in school, someone will bring it into the school and boom- they're done.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Jul 23, 2020 16:14:22 GMT -5
Our private school has officially announced virtual start on August 19.
I'm fucking livid that they aren't pushing the start date back to after Labor Day to at least minimize distance learning. After Labor Day they will evaluate week to week if they will have in person. And then they'll offer us an option when they do go back to stay distance if we want.
That's it.
I'm madder than I expected to be.
ETA: The day after I posted this, the school emailed that "nothing is final" and they are going to "meet with the teachers next week and then send us another update". They also said not to buy devices because they will provide them.
Great, I guess, for 2nd grade. Still shitty for the kinder kid.