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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2020 20:16:15 GMT
To remain DL for the remainder of the school year. (Southern Ca)
I am pleased with their decision and hope other district, including the kids, follows their lead.
Some reasons why were 1. Increasing numbers and not being out of purple tier, 2. Logistics, 3. Students wouldn't be guaranteed site and teacher or class they have now due to needing to move people around, and 4. It will take about 6 weeks to from from DL to Hybrid. With it looking like that could maybe happen late Feb into March, there would only be 2 months of school left.
Majority of stakeholders so far agree with the decision.
Has anyone's district made this decision or talked about it?
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Post by refugeepea on Nov 18, 2020 20:21:21 GMT
No, it will never happen. I honestly don't know if I can handle doing homeschooling any more. None of it is online. I haven't had a break since March.
I feel like the right protocols and precautions are taking place at my son's school and in his classroom. I can send him back on November 30. My fear is they will shut down temporarily and open back up again, which I understand but it makes it very hard on kids.
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Post by epeanymous on Nov 18, 2020 20:26:24 GMT
Ours announced a while ago that we were definitely online to the end of the semester. It is difficult, given the current rise in numbers and what I expect to be an acceleration of those numbers from the holidays, to imagine we will be in-person next semester.
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Post by hop2 on Nov 18, 2020 20:27:52 GMT
One school local to me Town 1 *just* went back to full time from hybrid 1/2 days recently. The next town over, Town 2, also local to me just closed for at least 4 weeks possibly til January, from a hybrid model to full distance learning. Same county.
If FB is any indication both districts are full of ‘just get the kids in school’ parents, or at least that’s all I see on FB, just send them back, let the teachers earn their pay. Blah blah blah. As if they aren’t doing almost double for the hybrid or distance learning.
I had no idea how ignorant 1/2 my county was until covid.
I’m pretty sure Town 2 just doesn’t want to deal with the Covid spread from the holidays but they don’t want to tell the parents that right now that their kids are distance learning until 2 weeks after Christmas. they’ll do it in 2 steps.
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Post by caangel on Nov 18, 2020 20:28:22 GMT
I am also in so cal and we have been doing hybrid since about the end of Sept. I have one kid in elem and one in middle school. There has only been once case reported at each school. My middle schooler is hybrid and goes 2 half days a week. My elementary student is DL only, her choice.
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Post by myshelly on Nov 18, 2020 20:34:25 GMT
Ha, no.
Our county is above the positivity rate where the governor had originally said he would consider closing again and nothing is being done. The school district is above the positivity rate outlined in the education agency’s guidelines for in person learning and nothing is being done.
We won’t go remote again no matter what. Nothing will shut down again no matter what.
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Post by johnnysmom on Nov 18, 2020 20:45:43 GMT
I hope not. Our district has been closed for 2 weeks with the elementary and middle school scheduled to go back on Monday (fingers crossed it doesn't change again). It's been a struggle for ds and he's been doing all the work, as the person working on the attendance reports I know many, many, many aren't doing much if anything. We closed b/c one teacher tested positive but since she had lunch in the same breakroom with other teachers there were more in quarantine than we had subs to cover for, the principal is changing things to allow for smaller teacher groups on breaks to help prevent it from happening again. The other thing is, if we close again then it could leave me and most other hourly school employees unemployed. People can only afford that for so long before they go job hunting and we lose good employees for good
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Post by shamrock on Nov 18, 2020 20:53:58 GMT
That would be a hard sell here. There’s been big push back on districts keeping middle & high school hybrid. Many have gone remote for middle & high from Thanksgiving to after winter break. That went over like a lead ballon. Districts didn’t make the move because of cases (and according to Gating Criteria they should have), but because they don’t have the staff to keep them open. Elementary is still going full time in person. Oh and winter sports are full steam ahead.
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Post by MZF on Nov 18, 2020 20:55:30 GMT
Locally, schools are still DL, were scheduled to go back in Jan. Now with the more restrictive guidelines, TBD again. I have empathy for those doing DL with their kids/grandkids--my DS is doing DL with 2 of his, and it's a lot of work, tough on him and the kids. Like everyone, I'm hoping a vaccine is available soon.
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Post by 1girlygirl on Nov 18, 2020 21:00:26 GMT
Our district just went back to remote for middle and high schools on Monday from the hybrid model we’ve had since the beginning of September. Next, K-5 will be remote after Thanksgiving. Our problem isn’t the number of Covid cases, which is extremely low (DS’s at a K-8 that’s only had 3 cases since school began). It’s the teacher’s union, and it is absurd! My teacher friends want to be in the classroom. There’s so much anger and despair from parents, especially the K-5 group of single parent/two working parent households) that I can’t imagine what would happen if they announced remote through the end of the school year.
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Post by Merge on Nov 18, 2020 21:12:07 GMT
Nothing in Texas will shut down again. We have (as predicted) schools in our district running short on adults to teach the kids who are there. District is demonstrably under reporting infection numbers and has raised threshold for shutting down a school three times in five weeks. It’s a shit show!
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Post by huskermom98 on Nov 18, 2020 21:13:22 GMT
My oldest son's district was the only one in the state to start the year 100% online, most other large districts were hybrid while smaller ones were in-person like normal. His district was essentially forced to switch to a hybrid plan because the state refused to allow the 100% online because how how the governor interpreted the state law--elementary & middle schools went back in October and high schools went back last week...but now they are back to online because case numbers are out of control and the state approved a two-week move to online (most of the districts in the area are online for the next couple of weeks or have gone from all in-person to hybrid). Because of how the state law is written they can't just decide to stay online the rest of the year...believe me they would if they could...but for now I can see them asking for an extension every two weeks, regardless of how things look. The upside to all of the craziness is that all of DS's 2nd term classes are online regardless because they are part of a central school that will have online classes all year instead of bringing kids in from 18+ schools whenever the hybrid plan is in place. The downside is that he's going to be home at least 3/4 of the year plus whatever happens 3rd term (which I'm guess will be spent more online than hybrid at the rate the state is going...)
My other son's private school plans to be in-person as much as possible--if numbers within the school indicate they need to switch they will, but otherwise they won't unless all schools are ordered to close.
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Post by Gennifer on Nov 18, 2020 21:17:10 GMT
My kids are doing online anyway, but our district announced yesterday that all students will be online the week after Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks.
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Post by pyccku on Nov 18, 2020 22:32:56 GMT
Our districts (husband is in a feeder district to my HS district) are online until the end of the semester for mine, mid-January at the earliest for his - they won't even discuss it until the next board meeting, in mid-January.
My school is in the zip code that was the world epicenter for COVID in July. We are still at 14.81% positivity even now. The lowest we went was 8% for one brief week when almost no tests were done. Our super announced early on that we will be making decisions on a quarterly basis, none of the "back for a few weeks, then DL again." We haven't heard anything about next quarter but I won't be surprised if we end up DL for another quarter.
The governor just did a presser where he basically said pretty please wear your masks, but he's not doing anything else. So I think we'll probably see it get much worse before it gets better. His view was that the vaccine is coming, so whatever...just do what you want.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Nov 18, 2020 23:03:21 GMT
I hope not. Our district has been closed for 2 weeks with the elementary and middle school scheduled to go back on Monday (fingers crossed it doesn't change again). It's been a struggle for ds and he's been doing all the work, as the person working on the attendance reports I know many, many, many aren't doing much if anything. We closed b/c one teacher tested positive but since she had lunch in the same breakroom with other teachers there were more in quarantine than we had subs to cover for, the principal is changing things to allow for smaller teacher groups on breaks to help prevent it from happening again. The other thing is, if we close again then it could leave me and most other hourly school employees unemployed. People can only afford that for so long before they go job hunting and we lose good employees for good Wow. We aren't supposed to eat together.
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Post by johnnysmom on Nov 18, 2020 23:10:42 GMT
I hope not. Our district has been closed for 2 weeks with the elementary and middle school scheduled to go back on Monday (fingers crossed it doesn't change again). It's been a struggle for ds and he's been doing all the work, as the person working on the attendance reports I know many, many, many aren't doing much if anything. We closed b/c one teacher tested positive but since she had lunch in the same breakroom with other teachers there were more in quarantine than we had subs to cover for, the principal is changing things to allow for smaller teacher groups on breaks to help prevent it from happening again. The other thing is, if we close again then it could leave me and most other hourly school employees unemployed. People can only afford that for so long before they go job hunting and we lose good employees for good Wow. We aren't supposed to eat together. Small school. The only other real option is to force the teachers to eat in their cars Since the kids are eating in the classrooms they can't take their lunch there. I believe the principal is going to divide the library into a couple areas for staff lunches since the library isn't in use right now.
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Post by Skellinton on Nov 18, 2020 23:31:05 GMT
Well, I live in one district, work in another. Where I work is online at least until January and I don’t think it will open up at all this school year. Where I live is doing kindergarten on person, but the child I know only goes 2 days a week for half a day and I don’t think they do anything on the days they are not in school. They keep wanting to open up more, but our state went into a strict lock down until at least December so it will be interesting to see what happens. Our numbers are growing worse everyday.
The uncertainty is the hardest part for me. It would be nice to just know, although I know that is impossible.
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Post by Alexxussss on Nov 19, 2020 0:17:47 GMT
I wish my district would do the same. We’re a relatively small district and there are 55 cases.
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Post by gorgeouskid on Nov 19, 2020 1:42:52 GMT
If you don't mind saying, which school district?
My small district is considering, despite my county having been continuously in purple. They've applied for the TK-2 waiver, and are anticipating returning special ed (even severe) students very soon. The TK-2 waiver is unlikely to be granted for some time, because only 30 schools are granted at a time, and they are prioritizing Title I schools and districts.
The superintendent just sent an email today that an unspecified staff member at an unspecified location had a positive test result and is ill. Four additional people (15 minutes cumulative of contact within 6 feet) will be quarantining for 14 days. (Our teachers have the option of working on campus or from home; quite a few are working on campus. All administrators and classified staff are on campus.)
Teachers do not want to be remote. It's haaaaard. It's so much more work than being face to face with far less reward.
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Post by freecharlie on Nov 19, 2020 1:55:45 GMT
Most of the districts around her are online through the end of the semester.
I'm worried that we are not online, but I am also grateful as I love teaching and I love being with my students
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Post by maryland on Nov 19, 2020 1:57:20 GMT
What is DL?
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Post by freecharlie on Nov 19, 2020 1:59:26 GMT
I hope not. Our district has been closed for 2 weeks with the elementary and middle school scheduled to go back on Monday (fingers crossed it doesn't change again). It's been a struggle for ds and he's been doing all the work, as the person working on the attendance reports I know many, many, many aren't doing much if anything. We closed b/c one teacher tested positive but since she had lunch in the same breakroom with other teachers there were more in quarantine than we had subs to cover for, the principal is changing things to allow for smaller teacher groups on breaks to help prevent it from happening again. The other thing is, if we close again then it could leave me and most other hourly school employees unemployed. People can only afford that for so long before they go job hunting and we lose good employees for good Wow. We aren't supposed to eat together. we have staff that eats in the lounge. I am not one of them. I eat with my dept partner and sometimes with my friends. My teaching partner and I would have to quarantine if either one of us tests positive whether we eat together or not. When we eat together there is a minimum of 6feet between us
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Post by freecharlie on Nov 19, 2020 1:59:40 GMT
distance learning aka online only
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Post by Merge on Nov 19, 2020 2:13:29 GMT
Most of the districts around her are online through the end of the semester. I'm worried that we are not online, but I am also grateful as I love teaching and I love being with my students I am so torn about this. I hate teaching online and have managed to build good rapport with my in person students in just a few weeks. But dang, I feel like we’re endangering people.
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Post by maryland on Nov 19, 2020 2:13:45 GMT
distance learning aka online only Thanks! In our area, they say online learning or remote school, so I was so confused!
A lot of dumb high school kids went to Homecoming parties (hosted by parents, school cancelled Homecoming) and Halloween parties, so cases at our school went from hardly cases any to 22! School closed as of Nov. 9th and 7th-12th is online until Jan. 4th, but will probably be longer. People around here could care less. The kids in k-6 will get to go 2 days a week.
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Post by Judy26 on Nov 19, 2020 3:28:07 GMT
Our SD just went from in school to one week of hybrid to full DL. Our very rural county went from less than 70 total cases and 0 deaths mid October to over 600 cases and 17 deaths this week. My son and his GF both have Covid and are in quarantine. She is an ICU nurse and was exposed at work. But if you go anywhere around here you will see few masks even though they are state mandated. Selfish people suck!
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Post by seaexplore on Nov 19, 2020 3:52:46 GMT
Ha, no. Our county is above the positivity rate where the governor had originally said he would consider closing again and nothing is being done. The school district is above the positivity rate outlined in the education agency’s guidelines for in person learning and nothing is being done. We won’t go remote again no matter what. Nothing will shut down again no matter what. Yes. Same as mine. My super actually sent out an email that said we will not be closing (even though we just went back to purple this week) and will put out fires and quarantine as necessary. AND we can stay open because we have a waiver (that is magical and apparently protects anyone in school from getting covid) that allows TK-6 to stay open even if we were to close. Apparently if you opened when it was red, or under a waiver, you get to stay open regardless of what the numbers do. So, to hell with teachers, staff, students- we're staying open because kids "need socialization" and "need in person instruction". All the while we're having kids get sent home to quarantine for 10 days if they're "sick" at home or have a headache, stomach ache, etc. It's all so very stupid. I wish we would close between Thanksgiving and Christmas and stay closed for 2 weeks after. This would protect the people at school and let families do whatever the hell they want to do over breaks and get sick and whatever. It just pisses me off.
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 19, 2020 3:52:52 GMT
One of my previous coworkers is fighting for her life right now. She is in her 30's and on a ventilator.
My old school has five classes now in quarantine. The junior highs and senior highs are online now and 3-5 will go to that after Thanksgiving. The teachers hate it, but the alternative of not having enough subs to cover all of the sick teachers just meant there wasn't coverage and that leads to lawsuits.
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Post by msliz on Nov 19, 2020 3:59:08 GMT
DD's hs started out the semester in hybrid, but they switched to all distance learning this week. Maybe they'll go back to hybrid at some point, but I doubt it will be anytime soon.
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Post by angel97701 on Nov 19, 2020 4:32:06 GMT
My state/district has been DL since March. DS14 is special needs and the isolation is VERY difficult for him. I would not be excited if the entire year was DL. My hope and prayer is that by sometime in January they may go hybrid. The fall increase in numbers was expected. Our state is started lock-down today. No indoor eating, closed gyms, etc.
On top of that I was exposed through a conversation with the director of Sylvan tutoring. We had a 10 minute conversation with masks on, and were about 4-6 feet apart. State is tracking me. I have a myriad of minor symptoms simply due to dry air, seasonal allergies, IBS, aches from overworking and new carpel tunnel symptoms. Since notification I've actually taken 2 naps mid-day. My temp is staying normal, and I have no loss of taste or smell. So I've decided to not test yet, unless other symptoms crop up.
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