Post by staceymcgill on Jan 13, 2021 16:06:35 GMT -5
My younger child is full time in person by choice - our other choice was fully remote. My older child is hybrid by choice - our other choice was also fully remote. Both are in the same middle school.
Child 1: Full time by choice. Other option is fully virtual. (Elementary) Child 2: Hybrid by choice. Other option is fully virtual. (Middle school)
The middle school isn't big enough to accommodate a full time option, so my older one just goes Thurs-Fri and will do so through the end of the year (at least. Who knows what to expect next fall?)
Our district started all virtual but has offered in person in some capacity since October, with no closures yet.
Our kids are hybrid by choice. Our options are hybrid or fully remote. We don't have a full in person option. We are in our regular school.
I did the math and the nanny was the same price as Montessori or Catholic school for 2 kids. However, I don't know anyone in our community that actually goes to the Montessori school, so that seems weird to me that no one goes there. And the Catholic school was remote from Thanksgiving to now, so I would have had to pay a babysitter on top of tuition.
She's in person full time for now, but today is only day 3 back after a month of remote due to staff shortages, and it's all very touch & go. Right now our district is offering full time in person for K-5, with a fully remote option. 6-12 had hybrid in the fall with a remote option, but is now fully remote. With class changes, the quarantines got too big to sustain staffing.
We have a choice between virtual and in-person on a quarterly basis, but if we leave in-person we lose the guarantee to come back to our neighborhood elementary, and she would also lose her teacher/class. The "virtual academy" is like its own separate self-contained elementary within the district. It is completely different from when the in-person school goes remote, which is synchronous instruction with her usual teacher. I don't love her being back in person with current numbers, but remote is a bad fit for her (and for K in general I think) so we've been hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
Post by esdreturns on Jan 13, 2021 16:16:53 GMT -5
DS1 - Hybrid by choice. He's a 9th grader at a technical high school, so only goes in person during trade.
DS2 - Full time virtual by choice (4th grade). The school is currently in hybrid mode, with full time in person starting next week. After parents in his classroom sent their kid to school waiting on test results, I pulled him out. I'm hoping with the vaccine and improving numbers, I can have him back in school by March.
We chose flexible, which is currently in a hybrid setup. It's gone from virtual to hybrid, to virtual, to hybrid this week depending on number and the board/super.
2 days in person, 2 days virtual, Wednesday are asynchronous for the most part other than a morning meeting and sometimes a small group meeting. Right now only K-6 is in school (6th is MS here).
It will be interesting to see what happens second semester and how classes will shift. I'm wondering if more will go virtual and then they won't be able to sustain keeping kids in a "home" school class.
My older one is full virtual because all public schools for her age group are closed. She did go hybrid for a few weeks and we hope that this model will return in spring when cases are lower and a high percentage of teachers get the vaccine (teachers are prioritized for it now in my state).
While I do not like the full virtual model due to the heavy zoom/homework load which leaves kids pretty burned out we have we're OK more or less. I am highly involved which I was not precovid. I imagine that many families are struggling more than we are if they have any number of normal limitations such as limited space, unstable/lack high speed internet, limited technology (eg working on smart phone or sharing a computer), limited support from parents because of work or other reasons such as limited English which I think impacts 10% of the families. The virtual model as implemented by our school really does magnify the differences in homes when education should be closing the gap.
Post by fivechickens on Jan 13, 2021 16:34:15 GMT -5
I voted by choice, we are doing virtual/remote.
Our has in-person, remote and hybrid.
Remote is teacher run by their school. So they are in zoom all day with their teacher. Hybrid is more like homeschooling with teacher (from the district) direction but not zooming all day and teacher it’s readily available like for remote.
With the exception of a few weeks in November/December, we have been in person full time. Since returning from winter break, only pre-k and elementary are in person. All middle and high school is fully remote.
Honestly, I've been surprised by how well it has gone. There have been a handful of positive cases in the school and almost no spread within the school itself. Most people seem to be doing a good job of quarantining when they have symptoms and the school is managing mask wearing and distancing quite well, in my opinion.
I am very grateful. It hasn't been a completely normal year, but it's been about as good as it gets for something like this.
DS2 has been at daycare since September. They have not had any closures and only one suspected case (our director, who quarantined for two weeks and ultimately ended up being negative). They are very strict about attendance protocols and class sizes are very limited from what they used to be.
We chose full-time virtual. It's the best thing in the world for DD academically, as she doesn't have to worry about organization. DS, I worry he's not being challenged because the elementary school totally screwed up with their virtual plans so it's all kind of cobbled together.
We are full time virtual - by choice. But we are taught by a teacher from my kids normal school and her classmates are all students from that school.
Idk if that makes sense
This is us, too. Our school is hybrid half-day, so we have our school teacher live teaching for her virtual class from 7:30-10:45am M-Thr, with asynchronous work in the afternoon. Friday is fully asynchronous due to teachers having such long hours M-Thr to teach 2 squads of kids. So far, so good. I know my daughter would love to go back to school right now, but we have the 1-symptom exclusion rule right now and about 100-200 kids quarantined per week to do school as "homework" without a teacher until their quarantine is up. This seemed like the only option for us that would be consistent for her.
Post by IrishBelle on Jan 13, 2021 16:57:15 GMT -5
We returned to in person full time in September. Then over Christmas it was announced that everyone would be virtual once they went back to class - elementary was supposed to be 1 week and high school would be 3 weeks (January 25th). Now elementary has been extended to match the high schools.
Looking at how the numbers are in my province, I would be surprised if they go back on the 25th as planned.
Post by dutchgirl678 on Jan 13, 2021 17:04:03 GMT -5
We have been virtual with no choice since March. There are some talks of elementary school going back to in-person hybrid in February but we are waiting from guidance from the state government next week before plans become more specific. Middle and high school may not be able to get back to in-person due to the amount of people that are in rotating classes. My kids are in 4th and 7th grade. The 4th grader is doing great. He loves online learning and is very motivated. My 7th grader is struggling. We just found out she is behind on so many assignments. We are setting up a plan right now to have her catch up before the end of the semester in 3 weeks. I hope she can get it done, otherwise she may fail several classes.
We are full time virtual - by choice. But we are taught by a teacher from my kids normal school and her classmates are all students from that school.
Idk if that makes sense
This is us, too. Our school is hybrid half-day, so we have our school teacher live teaching for her virtual class from 7:30-10:45am M-Thr, with asynchronous work in the afternoon. Friday is fully asynchronous due to teachers having such long hours M-Thr to teach 2 squads of kids. So far, so good. I know my daughter would love to go back to school right now, but we have the 1-symptom exclusion rule right now and about 100-200 kids quarantined per week to do school as "homework" without a teacher until their quarantine is up. This seemed like the only option for us that would be consistent for her.
Ok ours is slightly different. It’s a teacher that just does the virtual class - full day. Each grade has one teacher that is only teaching virtually and the whole class is there together. They don’t intermix with the hybrid kids and neither does the teacher. If that makes sense.
Post by DotAndBuzz on Jan 13, 2021 17:21:40 GMT -5
Older kid goes to private school - they were allowed to go in-person for 2 days a month, by grade, but she has been kept home. Lots of reasons for that. Younger kid is in public elem - school district hasn't gone back in person at all, current plan is to phase that in through March and April, and I'm not sure she'll go to that either.
Child 1: virtual school (technically franchise of FL virtual) Child 2: just switched by choice to distant (virtual) learning so she is registered at, and follows the zoned school’s bell schedule.
Post by notoriousmeg on Jan 13, 2021 17:23:14 GMT -5
We are full time in person by choice. We are able to choose each grading period to be either in person or virtual. You cannot switch mid-grading period. They have been doing a great job. We had to go virtual one week in the fall due to teachers being exposed outside of school, and we were virtual the week after Thanksgiving and the week after Christmas break. All kids had to be tested the weekend before they went back on person which the town coordinated. I have been very impressed with our superintendent all year.
We had a choice between virtual or in person in September. We chose in person and everything went well until Christmas break, when they announced the first week back after the break would be virtual, then two more weeks, now until mid Feb.
Our numbers seem to be getting worse even though we’ve been under heavy restrictions for a few months. It really sucks.
Full time in person by choice. There is a virtual option, but no hybrid option. If you can choose to go all virtual at any time, but full virtual kids can only change to in person starting in the next marking period. You can do virtual if you need to be out for quarantine or other illness, but they don't want you just coming and going at whim.
Post by sillygoosegirl on Jan 13, 2021 18:16:49 GMT -5
Homeschool, by choice.
Other options were full virtual at our regular school or full virtual at the local Spanish immersion magnet school. Although we decided to homeschool before the schools decided what they were doing, because we wouldn't have felt safe with in person or hybrid either.
For the most part, schools across our state have stayed virtual all year, which I expect has been a factor in our having among the lowest COVID numbers in the nation, although it clearly hasn't been enough, because our numbers are still terrible.
Hybrid by choice but its not working well. My sons have each had 11 in person days. Supposed to have 2 a week. they've been in school for 16 weeks. They just keep shutting down. Its very frustrating.
My kindergartener is virtual by choice, my 3rd & 5th graders are virtual with no choice to send them back yet. However, when our school district does bring back the older grades I think we will still keep them all virtual.
Post by katlizabeth on Jan 13, 2021 18:54:06 GMT -5
We’re in person by choice, and have a fully virtual option through the district and the option of a virtual, public, charter school. However, my family is quarantined right now, and both kids are doing virtual. Our school has also switched to virtual for 7 days due to a lack of teachers, and the elementary school for another 7 days due to unknown spread. My cohort (I’m a teacher) has been virtual for one 10 day period, and so has my daughters class. So, while we’re considered fully in person, it’s certainly not a normal year!
Post by mccallister84 on Jan 13, 2021 19:03:26 GMT -5
SS - bc it’s preschool but only one local stand alone preschool opened this year. So my 2 and 4 year old are home full time. We do pod preschool with two other families where we take turns teaching the 3/4 year olds.
We’ve been in person by choice since August. I teach 8th and my daughters are in 4th and 6th - all in the same school. Knock on wood, it’s going well so far. Having some of my kids remote really sucks (it’s hard for me, it’s hard for them and I have no good solution).
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Hybrid by choice as to completely remote. In my district, elementary is 5 days a week and middle and high school are hybrid unless you choose to be fully remote.