Local School District Voted...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I wish my district would do the same. We’re a relatively small district and there are 55 cases.

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

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

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.

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!

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.