I voted we changed by choice; I am homeschooling this year. She will re-enroll in person next fall if the vaccine has been distributed sufficiently; if it's not or we don't feel safe, we'll still re-enroll but virtual. One year is enough for both of us for homeschooling.
We home schooled until we moved in December and the DS started at his new school face to face, by choice. There are only two options, fully virtual or fully face to face. The virtual students are online all day watching the in-person classes - the teachers are having to teach both groups at once.
Full time online school since March 2020. It’s been hard.
Our school will most likely not open up for in person school until next school year. They are allowing the 10-12th graders to go in by appointment only to meet with teachers, but for all other grades, everything is online.
Post by sometimesrunner on Jan 13, 2021 21:23:56 GMT -5
We are in person 5 days a week. We could have chosen all virtual, with the student logging in and viewing live teaching. DS has 1 virtual student in his class and everyone else is in-person. They wear masks all day except for lunch where there are only 4 kids per table (previously 8-10) and installed plexiglass dividers. They also get “mask breaks” where they spread out to predetermined spaces in the room. Only elementary and middle school had the all virtual or all in person options. There aren’t any HS students that attend 5 days/week in person.
full time in person, no choice. choice would have required h or i to quit our jobs.
there is a virtual option for my district, but very few people are using it as our numbers are low overall. i work in an elementary school 2 miles from my son's school so i'm familiar and comfortable enough with our district protocol.
Full time in person. We had to switch schools because our home school offered either full time virtual or hybrid structured as a half day every day. H and I can't work from home.
Luckily my kid is happy at his new school and we may never go back.
Home school since last fall. We were virtual last spring with a public school, and knew Zoom classes wouldn't work for our family - from that experience.
ETA: 4th grade equivalent, and probably going to homeschool through middle school, at least. Had been thinking about it, and Covid was the final straw.
Post by irishbride2 on Jan 14, 2021 8:32:20 GMT -5
My kids are at the school I teach at. Our kids have the choice and can go back and forth between virtual and in person whenever they want. My kids are fully in person, other than the 2 weeks my son had to quarantine because a classmate tested positive.
We’ve been in person since August and have had ZERO cases of community spread. I’m glad we are in person and I’m glad we give kids the choice to be virtual if they are worried.
I still can't believe there are places with in person school.
::wanders out of post::
We’ve been in person since August with zero community spread. It can work. Unfortunately I think many schools aren’t taking the precautions needed to make it safe,
My kids are virtual since Thanksgiving because I was getting worried about numbers in the area. We were over 9% in the county yesterday. Their school is doing great though because they have the kids at home zoom into the classroom all day.
Post by CheeringCharm on Jan 14, 2021 9:47:03 GMT -5
Hybrid by choice. Dying for school to resume full time. My kids really need that in person component to learn. We ended up having to hire a tutor to teach on their distance learning days.
eta: Where we live, the rule is that our school district has to test 10% of the student body and staff every week to be open. If our county ever gets to red zone, then it goes up to 30%. Cases have been low so far and they don't think related to school spread so their mitigation strategies seem to be working.
SS - My 2nd grader started the year in hybrid (by choice), with two days a week in school and the other three distance learning at his daycare. In October they went to full-time distance learning, which he currently does five days a week at his daycare. Starting on the 25th, they will go back to school in-person five days a week (with option to continue virtual). My preschooler has been in-person full time at the same center where the 2nd grader goes for daycare.
100% virtual through the private school he has attended since nursery school (in 2nd grade now). School is in nyc, and we’ve moved to NJ. We moved to NJ too late to get registered peacefully here, and I like that he can still see his old friends. It is taught synchronously, 5 kids in school, 7 kids at home each day. His teachers have done an amazing job. Rates are still crazy in new town and I would not feel comfortable going in person here, and I think it would be tough to form new friendships in masks. I’m glad I’m a sahm so the virtual learning has been pretty stress free for us. My 7 year old loves it and wishes he could go virtual forever. Alas, I sent in his paperwork for local school for next year yesterday, and I’m hopeful he can go in person in the fall.
Post by steamboat185 on Jan 14, 2021 11:02:35 GMT -5
And after 3 days back in person we are now remote again. Someone tested positive my kid is in tears for the first time with since the spring because the back and forth sucks so badly.
This was really hard to answer because since August we've had 5 formats with no format lasting more than a month or two
Full synchronous virtual, Hybrid at 50% capacity: 2 days/3 days rotating "teams" of kids in-person + synchronous virtual, 100% in-person, back to full virtual, and next week we start 100% capacity 80/20: M-Th in-person but asynchronous e-learning Fridays (which is different from virtual)
Post by runblondie26 on Jan 14, 2021 11:24:47 GMT -5
My first grader is hybrid in our towns’s public school system, which is 2 days in person, 2 days asynchronous, one day off. I moved my 6th grader to a charter school in another town, and they are full day, in-person, 5 days a week.
ETA: I’m also working as a substitute teacher in our town’s public elementary school, either in-person, or virtual from home, depending on their needs that day. I have no previous teaching experience, but they need the extra bodies to make the hybrid model work.
Post by Patsy Baloney on Jan 14, 2021 11:29:11 GMT -5
Maybe it's because our school is larger and our state's guidance on back-to-school is strict, but I can't imagine being back in school full-time with everyone in the room so close together!
We are hybrid by choice of the options we have (hybrid or all virtual).
In our system, the virtual kids have a completely separate set of teachers, and I do miss those teachers who used to teach at school. But I’m glad they were given that option.
During the hybrid in-person days, everything is very different for the kids; they stay in one seat all day, wear masks, only have about 10 kids in the classroom, etc. So far, I haven’t heard of any transmission at school. If there are 3 people (kids, teachers, or staff) who get COVID from anywhere during one two-week period, the school shuts down and goes virtual. So far, that has only happened once at my daughter’s elementary, and not at all at my other DD’s middle school.
Maybe it's because our school is larger and our state's guidance on back-to-school is strict, but I can't imagine being back in school full-time with everyone in the room so close together!
Yeah it definitely all depends on what the school can physically do. My students are all 6 feet apart in class. They sanitize their desks and chairs after every class. We eat lunch outside, too, so that helps.
Post by whattheheck on Jan 15, 2021 11:28:06 GMT -5
I didn’t know how to vote on this one.
My MS kid is in our public school and hybrid with the choice being hybrid or full remote.
Our HS was such a shit show that I moved my HS kid to private school and he is full in-person with the option being full in person or full remote. It’s a much smaller student body and they are able to social distance in the classrooms and other areas of the school even with most of the students attending in person.