johnnysmom
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Post by johnnysmom on Aug 4, 2020 22:34:50 GMT
To update on my position. The principal told me yesterday that she pleaded her case with the superintendent/board office and "they didn't say no" so she's pretty sure I'm good to go full-time.....strangest job offer ever  I'm off this week and next then go back full-time unless I hear otherwise (school starts 8/31, families choosing between fully in person or fully online). She's also keeping the other part-time office person who will, in part, monitor the isolation room so that's good, I was worried I'd have to deal with that. But she'll be based in another room so we won't have to share the desk which was one of my concerns. |
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Post by Dani-Mani on Aug 4, 2020 22:54:07 GMT
To be fair, most of our daycares never closed. We never had an outbreak either. I’m not saying our decision is right or wrong but it works for my district.. Only one Virginia district in my area is banning staff from being on site. I want to go back to work. I want to do it safely. The districts around us have half ass plans where teachers and students are going in with little to no social distancing. I feel lucky. Yes, I see how your situation is very different than mine. I hope it all works out for everyone. I do too. I go back Monday but my contract is different from the teachers. They go back later this month. This is our first real virtual attempt; our kids and staff didn’t have internet so we had to do packets with zoom check ins if we could. So this will be a huge test for us all. I’m stunned larger districts are doing hybrid models. My district has about 1,000 kids, three large buildings, and no internet in the county (but we used CARES funding for home hotspots galore and our bus drivers were given the option of driving hot spot buses). And we felt it wasn’t worth the risk. I’m not really sure why the district with 20,000 kids thinks they’ve got this? Our numbers aren’t really rising in this area but also not even close to 0. 🤦🏽♀️ |
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Post by artbabe on Aug 4, 2020 23:51:02 GMT
The kids will be virtual in my district. I'm really hoping they won't made me go to school to teach in an empty classroom, like they are doing in some districts. I would literally being doing the exact same thing I'd be doing if I were working from home, except I would have to drive 40 minutes to sit in front of a computer. Besides that, there are over 50 adults in my building.
My district has been making good choices so far but I'm really worried about this.
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moodyblue
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Post by moodyblue on Aug 4, 2020 23:56:49 GMT
The kids will be virtual in my district. I'm really hoping they won't made me go to school to teach in an empty classroom, like they are doing in some districts. I would literally being doing the exact same thing I'd be doing if I were working from home, except I would have to drive 40 minutes to sit in front of a computer. Besides that, there are over 50 adults in my building. My district has been making good choices so far but I'm really worried about this. Teachers in my old district are waiting to find out if they have to work from school on remote only days. They think they will hear tomorrow, although one junior high teacher said she asked the principal directly and was told yes, but that may not have been the final answer. Word is the superintendent has been going back and forth on this issue. |
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Aug 5, 2020 0:33:04 GMT
@johnnysmom Hopefully. I'm not sure it's a battle they will choose to fight. We did mention the dress code, but I think over the years they've had a change of heart on a few items including colored strands of hair. Not sure if the super's daughter changed his mind, but they definitely don't want to make parents angry for some items.
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johnnysmom
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Post by johnnysmom on Aug 5, 2020 1:41:49 GMT
@johnnysmom Hopefully. I'm not sure it's a battle they will choose to fight. We did mention the dress code, but I think over the years they've had a change of heart on a few items including colored strands of hair. Not sure if the super's daughter changed his mind, but they definitely don't want to make parents angry for some items. The thing is if they don’t enforce the masks then they’ll have other parents ticked. I know some parents are only agreeing to in person (sounds like that’s what their kid wants) because the other kids will be wearing masks. The principals have said it will be enforced but they’re unsure how (though the district’s attorney has backtracked a bit and said a doctors note would be accepted as a reason to not mask 😏). |
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 5, 2020 2:04:19 GMT
@johnnysmom Hopefully. I'm not sure it's a battle they will choose to fight. We did mention the dress code, but I think over the years they've had a change of heart on a few items including colored strands of hair. Not sure if the super's daughter changed his mind, but they definitely don't want to make parents angry for some items. The thing is if they don’t enforce the masks then they’ll have other parents ticked. I know some parents are only agreeing to in person (sounds like that’s what their kid wants) because the other kids will be wearing masks. The principals have said it will be enforced but they’re unsure how (though the district’s attorney has backtracked a bit and said a doctors note would be accepted as a reason to not mask 😏). remove their asses from class Was it here I saw that first time would be remove from class until mask on 2nd time remove from class and send home 3rd time remove from class and enrolled in the online option |
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luckyjune
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Post by luckyjune on Aug 5, 2020 2:32:51 GMT
The kids will be virtual in my district. I'm really hoping they won't made me go to school to teach in an empty classroom, like they are doing in some districts. I would literally being doing the exact same thing I'd be doing if I were working from home, except I would have to drive 40 minutes to sit in front of a computer. Besides that, there are over 50 adults in my building. My district has been making good choices so far but I'm really worried about this. We have been told we are welcome to work either from home or from school. The from school part will be tricky because we don't have computers with cameras. No microphones either. We all used our own computers last spring because our district does not provide staff with anything portable. They can't demand we work from school because the tech is not in place. |
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Post by Skellinton on Aug 5, 2020 4:52:05 GMT
My pre-K program is still up in the air and now they are thinking that we might offer school time care for 30 school age kids so we can supervise them doing their only school work. The schools in my district and every neighboring district are all closed until at least November. In a rural area not far from here they had a summer camp have 25 positive cases just last week. These were kids that were all in groups of 10 with static teachers and they were outdoors except for meals. Not everyone was tested, but of the positive cases every single person was under 20 years of age.
I am really worried I will have to go back and I can’t imagine how we will be safe and or helpful. The entire plan sounds like a nightmare.
The school district where I work is offering child care in other schools (mostly Y programs I think) so I think our program directors are feeling the pressure to offer something.
The uncertainty is unnerving as well. Hopefully some sort of decision will be made by the end of the week,
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Aug 5, 2020 5:02:53 GMT
My pre-K program is still up in the air and now they are thinking that we might offer school time care for 30 school age kids so we can supervise them doing their only school work. The schools in my district and every neighboring district are all closed until at least November. In a rural area not far from here they had a summer camp have 25 positive cases just last week. These were kids that were all in groups of 10 with static teachers and they were outdoors except for meals. Not everyone was tested, but of the positive cases every single person was under 20 years of age. I am really worried I will have to go back and I can’t imagine how we will be safe and or helpful. The entire plan sounds like a nightmare. The school district where I work is offering child care in other schools (mostly Y programs I think) so I think our program directors are feeling the pressure to offer something. The uncertainty is unnerving as well. Hopefully some sort of decision will be made by the end of the week, I just don't understand how spreading won't happen and it's ok if it does. I really try to understand other points of view, but I just can't with this. The "wealthier" districts in our capital city have parents protesting because they want the kids back in school. The slightest chance that my child could get sick bothers me. I'm fortunate to have a choice, but I don't think I'd be out protesting to demand f2f schooling. |
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AmeliaBloomer
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Aug 5, 2020 13:50:08 GMT
Chicago Public Schools, third largest in country (650 schools), just switched to full remote.
Los Angeles, #2, announced full virtual weeks ago. It’ll be interesting to see what NYC does. There’s already a tussle between mayor and governor about it.
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Post by Skellinton on Aug 5, 2020 14:27:54 GMT
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 5, 2020 14:31:40 GMT
Chicago Public Schools, third largest in country (650 schools), just switched to full remote. Los Angeles, #2, announced full virtual weeks ago. It’ll be interesting to see what NYC does. There’s already a tussle between mayor and governor about it. most of the larger school districts in Colorado have gone remote as well. I'm 90% certain my district won't until there is an outbreak |
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Post by luckyjune on Aug 5, 2020 16:44:17 GMT
I agree. And I'm baffled as to why districts even danced with the idea of being back in school buildings. Energy needs to go into planning for online platforms, not the million moving parts of getting kids in schools, only to shut down and go remote anyway. The camps that were crazy enough to open this summer are experiencing cases for both kids and adults. The nature of most camps is to be outside. So if kids and adults are getting infected while spending most of their time in the great outdoors, what do you supposed will happen when kids are in buildings with janky HVAC systems, breathing each other's air? Have we lost our ability to look at a situation, analyze the patterns, and make decisions based on that information? Case numbers up, case numbers based on gatherings up, mixed success with getting people to isolate/wear masks in public. But hey, let's send the kids back to buildings and see what happens. Blinded by $$ and a massive cognitive disconnect=acts of stupidity. |
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Aug 5, 2020 20:12:56 GMT
The large city school in our county just went all on-line. The tech school just went hybrid. Now I have members worried about open enrollment driving our numbers up. Certainly they won't allow that with students coming from hot spots.
ETA: Open enrollment is closed. I think the county is doing that.
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Post by cade387 on Aug 5, 2020 20:36:12 GMT
Fully virtual with staff on site. No rationale other than it might help with some of the "slackers" and we have all worked with them at some point. This blows my mind. Yes, it would be a bit easier for me to teach remotely from my classroom, but it also means I have to take a multi-leg journey on public transportation twice a day AND share indoor space with a bunch of adults who have taken DIFFERENT public transportation. It's not worth it. The crummy thing for me is that I won't even get to be in my classroom - it (along with all the special-subject rooms) is being turned into a homeroom, so I'll be teaching from an administrator's office or the lunchroom or wherever else they can find two square feet of quiet space for me. I would think admin could tell from your work product if you aren't doing your job - ours have our teaching schedule and will "drop in" on Zoom calls, look through assignments/materials posted online, etc. I don't need to be in a classroom for them to do that. Our admins did that last year. They also spot-checked our asynchronous lessons, which I welcomed! Thank you for sharing this. This is one idea that was being discussed at our school and I actually liked it because many of the teachers didn’t have the equipment to actually teach while we were at home. Therefore, we had no live zoom calls, we didn’t get recorded lessons (other than 2-5 minute clips from other people on YouTube,etc). I thought if the rooms were empty, then the school could be on the hook for creating broadcast space and the teachers could use their boards/materials to present. Granted we do not live in an area with public transit, but I didn’t think about getting there being more of a hazard. Thank you for sharing another side for me to learn from. |
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 6, 2020 2:02:34 GMT
The large city school in our county just went all on-line. The tech school just went hybrid. Now I have members worried about open enrollment driving our numbers up. Certainly they won't allow that with students coming from hot spots.
ETA: Open enrollment is closed. I think the county is doing that.
my son's idiot district is celebrating the open enrolled students because they are coming since we won't mandate masks. Fucking idiots |
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Post by playingcinderella on Aug 6, 2020 2:04:18 GMT
Hi! I teach high school theatre and am starting year 12. This is my 3rd year at this school (my DH and I moved so we could teach theatre together when two openings happened at the same school). We are in the Houston area. Prof Learning starts 8/10 in person. 8/24 all kids start virtual and then 8/31 transition years start f2f (prek, k, 6th, & 9th) and full f2f the next week. Parents had the option for f2f or virtual only with the option to change at the end of each grading period. How we are balancing f2f and virtual is still a mess and we have more questions than answers at this point. If we close for quarantine, teachers will be required to teach from classrooms. My own kids will be learning at home this year, I just don't feel good about sending them.
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Post by Merge on Aug 6, 2020 2:49:02 GMT
Oh y’all, I had a harrowing day of training today. Learning to teach in a completely different way, when they only give you a tiny piece of the puzzle at a time and you have no idea what the whole looks like, is terrifying and exhausting. And I’ll just say it - I don’t even teach a subject that is critical. I can’t imagine how ELA and math and other core area teachers are managing.
I wish it was safe to go back. I would much rather be happily decorating my classroom and getting ready for kids in person (really in person, not like a prison school) than doing any of this.
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Post by happyOCgirl on Aug 6, 2020 2:56:50 GMT
I am starting my 25th year of teaching! I taught 22 years in first grade and am now teaching middle school Home Arts (Home Ec). I love my job so much! My elective is the number one choice of all the students. I try to make it the happiest, stress free, most supportive part of their day. I have an advanced class that has 32 spots. 234 students applies to be in that class! I usually feel so lucky to be teaching my dream subject!
I am so sad we are starting 100% online. I found out on Friday my class was the only one the district did not purchase online curriculum for. I am disappointed I have to create all my own digital curriculum (on my own time). I have developed all the curriculum so far, but the class has a lot of hands on lessons (cooking and sewing!).
Sigh. For the first time in my entire life I am not excited to start school.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Aug 6, 2020 3:17:52 GMT
The large city school in our county just went all on-line. The tech school just went hybrid. Now I have members worried about open enrollment driving our numbers up. Certainly they won't allow that with students coming from hot spots.
ETA: Open enrollment is closed. I think the county is doing that.
my son's idiot district is celebrating the open enrolled students because they are coming since we won't mandate masks. Fucking idiots Wow! That is insane! If each state had done the same thing then this wouldn't be an option. Everyone could stay safe. I can't believe they'd switch so they didn't have to wear masks.
Our governor gave 4 medical reasons that would allow someone to not wear a mask. I bet the districts don't enforce it.
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