We found out that school system employees can continue to work from home if they need to (students are 100% virtual) and we begin tomorrow virtually.
This was the “best case scenario” in that I can continue to supervise my 4th and 6th grader but I had already planned for kindergartner to do virtual learning from daycare.
Even so, I’m nervous about my ability to keep it all together alone for my 4th grader. I’m not sure how much help she will need since the spring was nothing like the synchronous schedule they have this fall. But, my options are limited since there are no daycare spots for her. All of the newly created virtual learning centers are out of our budget and out of spots anyway. I have a part time sitter lined up for hybrid though, since I would be in the building then.
I’m nervous about this week. I don’t teach in a classroom, so my jobs a little different. I just don’t know what to expect.
campermom- yay!! I’m glad you get to WFH. Your DD will do fine. My 3rd grader is doing well with all the Zoom meetings and stuff. We started last week. It helped to put her schedule with Zoom codes on a white board in her room.
... AND the second day of school a COVID positive kid came to school at my kids’ school. He tested positive yesterday. High school kid. We just got the notice. The only surprise to me is that they actually disclosed it to us.
mommyatty the like was for the disclosure. At least you can see early how they handle it!
We got the full hybrid reopening plan for 9/21. It seems really well thought out. It was interesting to read the requirements on symptoms. Any symptom - and as we all know, pretty much anything can be a COVID symptom - means you have to wait 72 hours after a negative COVID test or 10 days if you don’t get tested, before coming back to school. This should be interesting if a kid has to do this anytime they say their tummy hurts or something. But I understand the need to be strict.
mommyatty the like was for the disclosure. At least you can see early how they handle it!
We got the full hybrid reopening plan for 9/21. It seems really well thought out. It was interesting to read the requirements on symptoms. Any symptom - and as we all know, pretty much anything can be a COVID symptom - means you have to wait 72 hours after a negative COVID test or 10 days if you don’t get tested, before coming back to school. This should be interesting if a kid has to do this anytime they say their tummy hurts or something. But I understand the need to be strict.
This is our policy too. Parents are up in arms over 10 days out of school over a runny nose, but I don't know what they were expecting. There's no good way to try and control spread unless you take it this seriously.
campermom, I'm so relieved for you! That's one major source of worry and stress that you can at least check off and make a plan for. I've been thinking of you.
Our new dishwasher came early!! I asked the installer if he was planning to run a test cycle before leaving and he very politely told me it was already running. It's so quiet!
My youngest was excluded from daycare today for a cough, which is one of the few stand alone symptoms that exclude, apparently. Even a temp over 100.4 would have a second symptom in order to exclude. I called first, I didn’t bring him in.
Now Im finding out that this is the same criteria for schools. This is going to be something.
We are virtual until October (one of the earliest in the state), but my state is entering phase 3 this week and the state wants schools in person now.
They said he can go to the dr and if they write a note saying it’s something else, he can return. (I dk how comfortable I am with that without a negative test...I don’t even know if a dr would do that, I‘m calling to bring him in today though).
So I have 7 hours of meetings on this preservice day. Some of those meetings are for me to develop professional development on Friday to a school full of teachers Ive never met. School starts Tuesday.
I also had a dr appt scheduled for tomorrow, one that I’ve pushed off since March bc my husband has only taken 3 days off work since March so that...I could go to work.
Marriage therapy is in full effect and I’m having him turn right around from his hour commute to come home today so I can work. And if he needs to stay home then he needs to take off the rest of the week
campermom, we have similar illness procedures here. First day of school was yesterday and we are hybrid. They sent two kids home with fevers and will need to quarantine for 2 weeks (or doctor's note). I guess the nurse came to the classroom all suited up in PPE, they have a holding room for sick kids, etc. One HS and one MS went virtual the night before the first day of school - the rumor is the principal tested positive which requires all teachers to quarantine.
I have an update! There is a consulting firm that has been gauging my interest for the last 3-4 years. I talked to them early this year and told them I’m willing to talk about where I could fit in their organization. Then COVID. So I halted the conversation and said “I’m not in a position to go meet you in person and I can’t imagine your leadership would want to hire me without meeting me.” Last night I got an email that I’m likely to get an offer soon. They are looking at their business plan and finalizing some things, then they should be in a position to talk numbers.
I’m so excited. And scared. And excited. And relieved. Because omg I hate my job. But I’ve been here for 12 years.
campermom, This is why we ended up hiring a sting of nannies. My oldest has asthma. He often has a cough, because he has asthma. He had a cough earlier this summer which was a little worse than usual, got him tested not Covid. I was worried that if I sent him to an e-learning site or summer camp that they would just keep sending him back, because he has a cough. On covid testing, sometimes community sites are easier to access. I am getting tested once a week on campus because I am teaching in person. As part of the covid plan.
Today we picked up our devices from school. DS got his laptop and DD was supposed to get an ipad but ended up getting a laptop. Which...ok.
Hopefully we won't need to use it that much.
ETA: Oh also, talking with the Kinder teacher, she had covid in July so she's totally comfortable teaching in that she's not very worried about her own health. How long doe immunity last again? Anyway I'm glad she's comfortable.
Also, talking to her, they are trying to manage symchronous learning without having the kids online be able to see the kids in class because they don't want parents being able to see kids in the classroom in order to preserve their privacy....I was very surprised to hear that. Unfortunately we saw kinder first and third grade second so I don't know if this is how it's going to be for every grade or what.
mustardseed2007, I read something today that the latest "guess" (it's all just guesses at this point, really, and there are probably 3847 studies that all say something different) is that the antibodies hang around for 4 months or so, and that it's likely that if you get it twice, you have longer immunity.