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Post by beepdave on Jul 28, 2020 17:01:22 GMT
We'll know our school district's official plan next week, too. I really hope there will be a virtual option. We're a school of choice family and don't want to lose our district! Saying hi to all my fellow West Michigan peas!! Hiiiii! I honestly didn't realize there were so many of us in these parts. ;-) I hope you get to keep your choice!
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Post by maryland on Jul 28, 2020 17:11:46 GMT
In my home state, Maryland, some counties are not going back until the second semester, so Jan. 28th. They will be out almost a year! They got out March 13th this past year.
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Post by katybee on Jul 28, 2020 17:41:39 GMT
I'm on the other side of the coin on this one. I wish the kids were given the option to do a hybrid because there are so many at risk students who will have to survive in abusive homes or without enough to eat and special needs students who will fall through the cracks. Our kids are not going back until February at the earliest. It doesn't matter for my son, who is a senior. At that point, just let them stay home. I also think students who are young and have parents who are essential and HAVE to work outside the home, should be allowed to return. I keep hearing these arguments. What happens when thereâs an outbreak in a school and they end up shutting down. And then starting back up. And then shutting down. This isnât good for working parents or kids. And my school, at least, is going to be a lot like prison. Kids will stay in ONE room, at their desk, 6 feet away from each other receiving all of their instruction via computer. I will be on the computer. I wonât have time to build a relationship with any of them. Even recess is socially distanced...
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Post by RosieKat on Jul 28, 2020 17:47:58 GMT
katybee, I agree. I haven't been impressed by what I've been hearing both officially and through the grapevine. The proposed middle school schedules have kids online synchronously for about half an hour, then asynchronous for about 45 minutes, lather-rinse-repeat. So my kids (who will be virtual for the forseeable future) will still be tied to the computer all school day. I suspect they had put all their energies into planning a hybrid model and then when their feet got cut out from under them, they had to come up with these crappy plans. I'm not impressed. We're going to give it a try, and if it doesn't work out, I'll pull them and do "real" online school. At least that way they aren't stuck at the computer for the whole day.
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Post by breetheflea on Jul 28, 2020 18:13:12 GMT
They haven't officially decided yet. The last idea they tossed out was A/B one week on/off schedule (kids wear masks except when eating) or 100% virtual not connected to your usual school/teachers.
I'm not too thrilled with the minimal info on the virtual program I've read. It's 5-6 hours a day and starts at a certain time and ends at a certain time with set times you have to be at the computer throughout the day...
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Post by artbabe on Jul 28, 2020 18:17:51 GMT
I just got an email this morning that said our district will be all online for now. I think that is smart but I was really looking forward to seeing kids in person. Last year I at least knew all of the kids before we went virtual. Now I'll be teaching kids I've never met before.
So far the two city schools here and one suburban one have announced they are going to be 100% virtual for now. My nephew's schools (another suburb) are set to go back hybrid but I have a feeling that will change, too.
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Post by katybee on Jul 28, 2020 18:38:49 GMT
katybee , I agree. I haven't been impressed by what I've been hearing both officially and through the grapevine. The proposed middle school schedules have kids online synchronously for about half an hour, then asynchronous for about 45 minutes, lather-rinse-repeat. So my kids (who will be virtual for the forseeable future) will still be tied to the computer all school day. I suspect they had put all their energies into planning a hybrid model and then when their feet got cut out from under them, they had to come up with these crappy plans. I'm not impressed. We're going to give it a try, and if it doesn't work out, I'll pull them and do "real" online school. At least that way they aren't stuck at the computer for the whole day. Theyâve told us âasynchronousâ does NOT have to be on a computer. So we are going to make sure, in kinder anyway, that there are plenty of non-computer activities, like writing. But, we have a staff meeting today about more changes to the plan. They are announcing them at the town hall tonight, but my principal wanted us to hear it from her, first. Which, in my mind, is never good...
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Post by beepdave on Jul 28, 2020 18:41:09 GMT
I was wondering if you were talking about GRPS! We are in a different district as well (north), but I work in GR and have friends who teach in GR. It's interesting that when they did the survey in June, 71% of those polled wanted online right away. Now it's more like 50/50. It will be interesting to see how they do it.
Our district is still finalizing plans this week and presenting to the school board on August 10. We are scheduled to start August 25.
I was in the school office yesterday to work and speculation is that the governor is going to take us back to phase 3 today which makes all this moot as everything will have to be online ![:'(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cry.png) I really hope not, some kids really need in person for various reasons plus schools have been busting ass to get a plan ready to submit by the 10th. Well, she didn't move us back to Phase 3 today! She reiterated that our actions today (masking/no masking) will be exactly what impacts our kids when they are scheduled to start next month. She just said they are watching the numbers every day.
ETA: A reporter asked specifically what the cutoff date would be for her to decide whether or not to move back to Phase 3 and she said they don't have a date and their decision will probably come later than anyone would be happy about.
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Post by Skellinton on Jul 28, 2020 18:51:24 GMT
They haven't officially decided yet. The last idea they tossed out was A/B one week on/off schedule (kids wear masks except when eating) or 100% virtual not connected to your usual school/teachers. I'm not too thrilled with the minimal info on the virtual program I've read. It's 5-6 hours a day and starts at a certain time and ends at a certain time with set times you have to be at the computer throughout the day... Yikes, that is a ridiculous idea! How are parents supposed to deal with multiple children who need help on the tablet? How will that work when kids are likely in the same room with competing classes? At least at the end of the year the online stuff was pretty much do when you can.
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Post by kels99 on Jul 28, 2020 19:13:07 GMT
Our whole county (near Seattle) is starting 100% online. There are about 15 school districts and 150,000 students. I'm curious which county. If you don't want to say, that's totally fine! Pierce
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Post by johnnysmom on Jul 28, 2020 19:40:42 GMT
I was in the school office yesterday to work and speculation is that the governor is going to take us back to phase 3 today which makes all this moot as everything will have to be online ![:'(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cry.png) I really hope not, some kids really need in person for various reasons plus schools have been busting ass to get a plan ready to submit by the 10th. Well, she didn't move us back to Phase 3 today! She reiterated that our actions today (masking/no masking) will be exactly what impacts our kids when they are scheduled to start next month. She just said they are watching the numbers every day.
ETA: A reporter asked specifically what the cutoff date would be for her to decide whether or not to move back to Phase 3 and she said they don't have a date and their decision will probably come later than anyone would be happy about. I'm glad she didn't do it today. Honestly I don't think we need to move backwards, though I would be relatively ok if she closed bars/restaurants for a bit considering they weren't supposed to be open in this phase anyhow. But we're doing better than most states including Ohio who just announced they're allowing daycares to return to full capacity. I think she was being unrealistic if she thought cases wouldn't increase as things open, but it seems that's exactly what she expected. Hospitalizations and deaths are still low, let's not panic yet.
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Post by RosieKat on Jul 28, 2020 20:52:14 GMT
They are announcing them at the town hall tonight, but my principal wanted us to hear it from her, first. Which, in my mind, is never good... Keeping my fingers crossed that it's just a courtesy...
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Post by RosieKat on Jul 28, 2020 20:54:35 GMT
They haven't officially decided yet. The last idea they tossed out was A/B one week on/off schedule (kids wear masks except when eating) or 100% virtual not connected to your usual school/teachers. I'm not too thrilled with the minimal info on the virtual program I've read. It's 5-6 hours a day and starts at a certain time and ends at a certain time with set times you have to be at the computer throughout the day... Yikes, that is a ridiculous idea! How are parents supposed to deal with multiple children who need help on the tablet? How will that work when kids are likely in the same room with competing classes? At least at the end of the year the online stuff was pretty much do when you can. This is pretty much how they're telling us our middle school will work. It's not necessarily online all day, as katybee pointed out, but you have to be on at several different specific times throughout the day. That's going to be really tough to make work - we're going to have to have timers and all kinds of things to make sure they are online at the "right" times. I'm sympathetic to everyone having to work this out, as this is a monumental task with no right answers. But I'm still not impressed with what we've heard so far.
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Post by breetheflea on Jul 28, 2020 21:04:15 GMT
They haven't officially decided yet. The last idea they tossed out was A/B one week on/off schedule (kids wear masks except when eating) or 100% virtual not connected to your usual school/teachers. I'm not too thrilled with the minimal info on the virtual program I've read. It's 5-6 hours a day and starts at a certain time and ends at a certain time with set times you have to be at the computer throughout the day... Yikes, that is a ridiculous idea! How are parents supposed to deal with multiple children who need help on the tablet? How will that work when kids are likely in the same room with competing classes? At least at the end of the year the online stuff was pretty much do when you can. I'm hoping whatever the school board votes on on August 11th includes a different virtual option... the one they've said to use if you don't want the A/B schedule is an existing virtual school they only added the lower grades to for this coming year. Crossing my fingers and toes some plan out there takes parents with multiple kids into consideration...
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Post by katybee on Jul 28, 2020 21:11:45 GMT
They are announcing them at the town hall tonight, but my principal wanted us to hear it from her, first. Which, in my mind, is never good... Keeping my fingers crossed that it's just a courtesy... Well....I donât know anything about middle school....but theyâre walking back the elementary plans.
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Post by huskergal on Jul 28, 2020 22:26:15 GMT
I am a teacher. Staff starts back on Monday. All of our district staff development is going to be held as a Zoom meeting. I don't know what we will do at the building level.
Our students are scheduled to start August 10. As of yesterday, we are splitting the students. 25% will attend each day. Friday will be for the students who are choosing the remote route. We are supposed to show the students the apps, etc. they will be using in class. Have a syllabus with both in person and remote plans. The district will decide what will happen starting the week of August 17.
At this point I really think they are preparing us to teach remotely. I am hoping we can teach from our classrooms and not have to be at home. Teaching from home is far from ideal.
Right now, our union members are pushing to allow us to wear scrubs to work if we are in person.
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Post by Night Owl on Jul 29, 2020 0:19:05 GMT
I was wondering if you were talking about GRPS! We are in a different district as well (north), but I work in GR and have friends who teach in GR. It's interesting that when they did the survey in June, 71% of those polled wanted online right away. Now it's more like 50/50. It will be interesting to see how they do it.
Our district is still finalizing plans this week and presenting to the school board on August 10. We are scheduled to start August 25. We live in FHPS system. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) I wonder if Amway/DeVos makes a difference in why they are trying to do in person?
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Post by Night Owl on Jul 29, 2020 0:22:43 GMT
Saying hi to all my fellow West Michigan peas!! Waving Hi to Sprout! We are in the FHPS school district.
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Post by *sprout* on Jul 29, 2020 0:31:59 GMT
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Post by pierkiss on Jul 29, 2020 0:34:54 GMT
We'll know our school district's official plan next week, too. I really hope there will be a virtual option. We're a school of choice family and don't want to lose our district! Saying hi to all my fellow West Michigan peas!! Hiiiii! I honestly didn't realize there were so many of us in these parts. ;-) I hope you get to keep your choice! Me too! đ
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 29, 2020 1:06:22 GMT
I'm on the other side of the coin on this one. I wish the kids were given the option to do a hybrid because there are so many at risk students who will have to survive in abusive homes or without enough to eat and special needs students who will fall through the cracks. Our kids are not going back until February at the earliest. It doesn't matter for my son, who is a senior. At that point, just let them stay home. I also think students who are young and have parents who are essential and HAVE to work outside the home, should be allowed to return. I keep hearing these arguments. What happens when thereâs an outbreak in a school and they end up shutting down. And then starting back up. And then shutting down. This isnât good for working parents or kids. And my school, at least, is going to be a lot like prison. Kids will stay in ONE room, at their desk, 6 feet away from each other receiving all of their instruction via computer. I will be on the computer. I wonât have time to build a relationship with any of them. Even recess is socially distanced... We wonât know anything for sure until Thursday, but from what Iâve read so far from the district it sounds like it will be a lot like what youâve described above. I too am afraid of the potential revolving door of classrooms or school buildings being opened and then shut down again for quarantine. My kid doesnât handle unplanned changes very well so even though virtual isnât ideal at least it can be consistent. Iâm not going to lie, I also think that the kids who will be going in person will be the loud, obnoxious kids my quiet kid really doesnât want to be around. To be stuck in a classroom with all the kids who drive her nuts would be torture. The whole âthe kids need the socialization!â argument is completely invalid under what has been proposed IMO. The odds that my kid will end up in a class with any of her good friends is slim to none, which means she wonât see any of them at all in school anyway since they donât want the kids in different classroom groups to mix. The in person kids will be stuck in one room with the same dozen kids all day, probably for the whole year.
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Post by MissBianca on Jul 29, 2020 1:15:32 GMT
We just got word tonight. Group A Monday and Tuesday in school, distance learning W-F. Group B distance learning M-W and in school Thursday and Friday. I believe the entire half of my state will be following the same or similar plan. I have talked to several parents that teach at local HSâs and they were discussing the same plan
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Post by Skellinton on Jul 29, 2020 2:24:49 GMT
Well, the district where I work is online until at least November 5. I imagine the district where I live will be announcing something similar in the next day or so. It would be very unusual for them to do anything to drastically different. I am super sad and really worried about when I will get to go back to work.
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Post by luckyjune on Jul 29, 2020 2:52:04 GMT
I'm curious which county. If you don't want to say, that's totally fine! Pierce I had not heard that! Thank you! It is expected that the schools in Snohomish County are going to call it for online learning this week. We shall see!
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Post by seaexplore on Jul 29, 2020 3:32:22 GMT
My district is starting 100% online. Teachers have to go into their rooms to teach online. I know I'll be more productive doing that but the commute (35 min one way) to teach in an empty room sucks. My district is in one of the "top 3" areas in CA for infection/spread rate so we'll not be going back anytime soon. We have to be 14 days increase free before we can go back to inperson/hybrid. I don't see us going back at all this school year. My people feel that after the election the virus will suddenly disappear. I don't know that I agree. Sigh.... so... I do what I'm told by my district. We've already started meetings. I was in one yesterday in person, masked up, for 3 hours. Today I was in 2 virtually from home. The next 3 days are full days that we can do either at site or online. I will have to go in at some point because my school computer hates me and I have to have an admin password to fix the date/time issue. I also have some programs to be installed. Whenever the person can work on it, I'll go in. Next week, I will be in person tuesday-friday. Week after we are passing out materials to kids monday/tuesday and start instruction online wednesday.
My district isn't allowing us to bring our kids into our rooms with us but we can bring our kids who are in school TO school with us and our after school program will do their distance learning with them. At my site of 20 teachers, we will have less than 10 kids there. I'm debating on bringing my 4th grader. Dad is home with the 4 year old and I'd like to give him a break. If preschool opens again, dad will have to work there from time to time so the 4th grader will have to go to school with me.
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Post by beepdave on Jul 29, 2020 13:41:18 GMT
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Post by artbabe on Jul 29, 2020 14:01:16 GMT
My nephews's school announced that they will be all virtual to start. I feel bad for my nephew who will be a senior- he loves marching band. Band camp just started this week and he was saying how good it was to get back to normal, and then this happens again... He seems to be taking it well, though.
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Post by beepdave on Jul 29, 2020 14:31:05 GMT
My nephews's school announced that they will be all virtual to start. I feel bad for my nephew who will be a senior- he loves marching band. Band camp just started this week and he was saying how good it was to get back to normal, and then this happens again... He seems to be taking it well, though. Michigan Competing Marching Band has canceled its entire 2020 season. We know a few band seniors this year and they are so bummed!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 15:11:52 GMT
We're facing a hybrid of sorts. It's not finalized yet but the initial plan was to have each grade go to their school once a week and the other four days are online. With 4 grades per building, it could work and spread the classes out.
Another plan that is being considered is that K-6 go to school part time, 7-12 all online. This way, they can put 5-6 graders in the high school, 3-4 graders in the middle school, and K-2 in the elementaries.
I'm not sure how bussing will work though. Before the pandemic, they were having a hard time finding and retaining drivers as it was.
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Post by kibblesandbits on Jul 29, 2020 15:46:17 GMT
I was in the school office yesterday to work and speculation is that the governor is going to take us back to phase 3 today which makes all this moot as everything will have to be online ![:'(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cry.png) I really hope not, some kids really need in person for various reasons plus schools have been busting ass to get a plan ready to submit by the 10th. Well, she didn't move us back to Phase 3 today! She reiterated that our actions today (masking/no masking) will be exactly what impacts our kids when they are scheduled to start next month. She just said they are watching the numbers every day.
ETA: A reporter asked specifically what the cutoff date would be for her to decide whether or not to move back to Phase 3 and she said they don't have a date and their decision will probably come later than anyone would be happy about. GRPS announced the first 9 weeks will be virtual/distance learning. I think that is the absolute wrong decision, but ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/shrug.gif) My district has not announced their plans yet, but I assume it will be along the lines of EGR, who is instituting a split class schedule and kids will have half their day in person, half distance learning. We will see. I am a retired English/History/Econ/Govt teacher and I am busy as a bee lately with consulting and private lessons. The kids in the wealthy districts can afford this kind of adjunct support. The GRPS kids? Guess who is going to get left behind.
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