Our School Reopening Plans
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Due to Luke’s DE classes, he will take the 2 day in person option. We will skip the bus, however. Their plan is to limit to 1 per seat, every other row. They estimate that the 75 person buses will carry 11 people.
Niiiice.
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Dual Enrollment. He gets college credit.
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And that lasted all of two weeks.
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In other words, the teacher’s union won.
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Not to plug it again, but the NYT’s podcast The Daily had a good episode about school reopenings. Link below.
Anyway, @LuFins-Dad looks like Fairfax County is doing the same. The ripple effect this has throughout the region and workplaces is enormous!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000485711785
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@Copper said in Our School Reopening Plans:
unless physical distancing and face covering recommendations are implemented with extremely high levels of consistency
Yup, the teachers won more days at home with pay for doing nothing
Because covid
Not sure this is true for all school districts in the US. In talking with some friends, the school may have remote learning, but the teachers are required to be in the building to do the remote teaching. For them, it will be a regular day schedule.
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@Copper said in Our School Reopening Plans:
Right, every State, City and County make their own rules.
And the feds can threaten to take away money when they want to make some rules.
True, Copper. But don't forget the average percentage from the feds is around 12%, mostly going towards Title I. So, it's not huge.
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I doubt many teachers are doing that, @Copper
All of the teachers I know are working their ass off to teach, whether online or in person. And most say online is way harder and exhausting. This includes my mom who, somehow (?), teaches special ed students. She actually had a medical incident due to the stress involved in trying to successfully teach April.
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@89th said in Our School Reopening Plans:
I doubt many teachers are doing that, @Copper
All of the teachers I know are working their ass off to teach, whether online or in person. And most say online is way harder and exhausting. This includes my mom who, somehow (?), teaches special ed students. She actually had a medical incident due to the stress involved in trying to successfully teach April.
Your mom's still teaching?? I'm not surprised about the stress, it's rough for teachers right now, too. Your mom okay?
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Yup, she’s retiring next spring though (planned before COVID, it’s just odd her last year will be virtual). She’s fine, thanks for asking. Docs think it was a mini stroke of some sort...this was back when teachers were scrambling to learn online teaching technology, and particularly tough as my mom had to also update all of her special ed students’ individual education plans as well. Combine that with an unhealthy amount of screen time (teaching), just a bad combo of events!
