Yup. Probably the same district. I was not...happy.
I think it was telling that our superintendent didn’t even show up to the reopening meeting.
WTF.
I think we’re in the same district. Lol. Wtf was that about?
I was so annoyed. Like any confidence in the plan evaporated when he didn’t show up. Plus everything else. I was not pleased at all. They seemed to be running in circles with no actual answers.
They also used the word “minimum” in the slide deck. WTF.
We’ve had a few schools open. One had a positive student the first day and several students needed to quarantine. Another had a positive student and contact traced. Three more positive students. Now the school is shut down for a day while they clean and contact trace those students. They estimate around 30 additional students will need to quarantine for 2 weeks.
Almost two weeks ago our school board approved the superintendents plan that included 5 day full time in person, e-learning through your zoned school or virtual through the county virtual school. Our school start date was moved from August 10 to August 24th. But they made very clear that they would be meeting and voting again on August 6 to switch to the first 9 weeks be e-learning/virtual for all and no in person.
We're in Florida, in the 7th largest school district in the country and from what I have found, the only school district out of the top twenty school districts in the county that is planning for full time in person school. And the percent positive rate in our county is at 13% right now. It's a mess. My DH really wants our rising first grader to go in person, so we selected that on the intent form but it may not even be an option.
I have a lot of concerns about sending her, but our school PTA shared the numbers and there will only be about 50% of the students at her school going in person in the fall, so that will help. And masks are required. It's just so hard, DD does not do well with virtual school or school at home and will be very tricky to manage since we both work full time but have some flexibility.
Yup. Probably the same district. I was not...happy.
I think it was telling that our superintendent didn’t even show up to the reopening meeting.
WTF.
I think we’re in the same district. Lol. Wtf was that about?
Yeah I think we are all the same district. Holy crap. You guys are talking about Healy right? I felt like the message was we are going to do the bare minimum or whatever is easiest.
I think we’re in the same district. Lol. Wtf was that about?
Yeah I think we are all the same district. Holy crap. You guys are talking about Healy right? I felt like the message was we are going to do the bare minimum or whatever is easiest.
We’re mid-Hudson, too (Westchester County). Our district is actually walking back the K-5, 5 days, full time plan because they say that last week they thought they had the staffing and space to do it, but now they’re not sure. The good news is that they’re still holding to it for K-2, at least for now. And, they say they’re hoping to bring back 3-5 full time, too, but they need to see if they can fit.
Oh you're lucky. We're in Dutchess. Our district's plan basically said they can't do 100% in person, they don't have the space or transportation capacity, but they haven't talked about having the young kids in person. There was a vague comment about English Language Learners, kids who need interventions, and something about "kids who didn't participate in online learning in the Sprint" being priority for in person, but we'll see.
We're in Rockland and the district I am in did a ton of work on a plan, but it really pissed off the parents. K-3 will be in school every day, but will be half day instruction and virtual components for the other half day. I forget the times, but half the students will be morning school, 1.5 hours off for cleaning, then the other half for afternoon. 4-6 students will be on an a&b schedule for alternating days, virtual components the off days. 7-12 will be on an ABC schedule for every third day in school and virtual the other 2. Parents are going nuts because their kids will be on all different schedules. My kids go to Catholic school and when this plan got announced I was getting calls from friends asking if I though there would be room for more kids. My one friend said she had it figured out with work for an every other day model or a half day model, but she can't do both.
Yeah I think we are all the same district. Holy crap. You guys are talking about Healy right? I felt like the message was we are going to do the bare minimum or whatever is easiest.
Yup. OMG the worst. No confidence. Ugh.
Hopefully more parents complain and they change their minds. It’s really the only way. I don’t have much confidence they will change anything by Friday so I am going to be forced to choose virtual.
Oh you're lucky. We're in Dutchess. Our district's plan basically said they can't do 100% in person, they don't have the space or transportation capacity, but they haven't talked about having the young kids in person. There was a vague comment about English Language Learners, kids who need interventions, and something about "kids who didn't participate in online learning in the Sprint" being priority for in person, but we'll see.
We're in Rockland and the district I am in did a ton of work on a plan, but it really pissed off the parents. K-3 will be in school every day, but will be half day instruction and virtual components for the other half day. I forget the times, but half the students will be morning school, 1.5 hours off for cleaning, then the other half for afternoon. 4-6 students will be on an a&b schedule for alternating days, virtual components the off days. 7-12 will be on an ABC schedule for every third day in school and virtual the other 2. Parents are going nuts because their kids will be on all different schedules. My kids go to Catholic school and when this plan got announced I was getting calls from friends asking if I though there would be room for more kids. My one friend said she had it figured out with work for an every other day model or a half day model, but she can't do both.
It's so hard because nothing they come up with will work for everyone, obviously. We've considered a Catholic school, but they can't commit to in-person class 5 days a week either, and I'm worried they'll be at max capacity if people run there if the public schools won't do 5x a week either. I don't know, it's so rough all around.
We're in Rockland and the district I am in did a ton of work on a plan, but it really pissed off the parents. K-3 will be in school every day, but will be half day instruction and virtual components for the other half day. I forget the times, but half the students will be morning school, 1.5 hours off for cleaning, then the other half for afternoon. 4-6 students will be on an a&b schedule for alternating days, virtual components the off days. 7-12 will be on an ABC schedule for every third day in school and virtual the other 2. Parents are going nuts because their kids will be on all different schedules. My kids go to Catholic school and when this plan got announced I was getting calls from friends asking if I though there would be room for more kids. My one friend said she had it figured out with work for an every other day model or a half day model, but she can't do both.
It's so hard because nothing they come up with will work for everyone, obviously. We've considered a Catholic school, but they can't commit to in-person class 5 days a week either, and I'm worried they'll be at max capacity if people run there if the public schools won't do 5x a week either. I don't know, it's so rough all around.
I know our school is tossing around the idea of using the gym and a small cafeteria for extra room. I don't know exactly how that will work unless they are going to use the area for kids who aren't scheduled to be "in classroom" to still be in the school during the day and doing the virtual learning with a few aides keeping an eye on them. This would be great for parents who need to go to work.
It's so hard because nothing they come up with will work for everyone, obviously. We've considered a Catholic school, but they can't commit to in-person class 5 days a week either, and I'm worried they'll be at max capacity if people run there if the public schools won't do 5x a week either. I don't know, it's so rough all around.
I know our school is tossing around the idea of using the gym and a small cafeteria for extra room. I don't know exactly how that will work unless they are going to use the area for kids who aren't scheduled to be "in classroom" to still be in the school during the day and doing the virtual learning with a few aides keeping an eye on them. This would be great for parents who need to go to work.
Lohud published an article today with the plans for various Putnam/Rockland/Westchester schools. It's mind boggling, truly.
Our school plans to use the gym and cafeteria for "makeshift classrooms" since they're splitting classes in half, meaning they need twice as many classrooms as they normally would, for whichever amount of students that they have in school at a given moment. .
This year is going to be miserable. There is no way to give parents what they need, let alone make people happy with what the schools have to work with. There is no money (at least not in the public schools) to implement what they *have* to implement, forget about the things that would just be nice to have. I ask myself questions all day, and I don't even know what I want the answers to be, or what *would* make me happy.
My husband is an elementary school admin, and I'm just trying to mentally prepare myself for the year to come.
I just hit the button on the flexible option. I really hope we don't go back before it's the right time. I am thankful the Health Dept seems to be pretty restrictive on what they consider an improvement, but dang if it didn't seem like our school board is a bunch if idiots. Unfortunately I can't run due to my job.