15 Th year 3rd year of a brand new building. My principal, who I came in with got assist. Supt. Job. My school’s AP DIDN’T get the job and took one at another school. our new guy has been in 4 districts in 8 years. Ladder climber. really not looking forward to this year
Feels like our new principal is the same, she wants an admin building job and this is just a stepping stone for her. She lives like an hour from our school, which I think is really stupid anyway.
We ain’t going back this fall. They’re already planning weird hybrid schedules and stuff. No way that works
the great thing is that the admin who hired him (they are friends) is gone to another district and my former principal is his boss now. And she loves me
How the hell is that going to work with elementary kids? “Well, Mikey, you’re off 1st grade this week. Milk’s in the fridge! See ya at 5:30!”
It’s not going to work, the sheer logistics of everything is going to make that almost impossible. - keeping kids 6 feet apart in a classroom setting? How? Especially in your loathed schools - hybrid schedules? Having to work around parent schedules. Also bus routes will be a nightmare
Teach HS History in NC. Rumor for us right now is that HS students will be online, and they could have elementary students go to the high school so they could spread them out more. Who knows. I also don't see any way high school sports happen this year, especially with a '2nd wave' in the Fall.
I think we'll have school like normal in vast majority of buildings in Kansas. I think there's been maybe 4 cases in the county of ~12,000 I teach in. Trying not to get political at all, we know a lot more about Covid than we did and now there isn't the fear of the unknown that there was in late winter/early spring. Hopefully as a society there's a long term change to better health habits like wash your hands, don't share drinks with people (students I've had are awful about this), use good coughing/sneezing etiquette, get good sleep every night and stay your ass home when you are sick.
My 8th grade son’s final project for Civics this semester (due today) - “design a plan for how to come back from COVID safely”
Yeah my biggest fear is that they come up with a hybrid model where teachers come in all 5 days and my kids only go to school 2-3 days a week.
I just don’t see how that would be possible. The sheer logistics of it baffles me. Such as - half go in the morning, half in the afternoon - k through 8th go to school, high school does online (who’s going to enforce that?) - keeping 6 feet apart (what about your schools that have 1000+ students)
It would take coordination with every parents’ work schedule. It will not happen. I have a son going into 5th and another going into 3rd. Are they going to be at school different days?
Exactly, at best I think we all go back in September. If not, get ready for another few months of poorly enforced distance learning again.
DPI released our reopening plan https://fox6now.com/2020/06/22/wisc...s-guidelines-for-reopening-schools-this-fall/
i’d lean towards the 2 day/week model but even then i just don’t see any in-person instruction is safe
Another former student, she just graduated this past May https://www.wlbt.com/2020/06/22/pair-arrested-murder-miss-national-guard-member/
My district announces that they will be giving the parents an option to either send their child to school or to do distance learning from home. You would have to pick and stick with it for the whole semester though, and it will be re-evaluated at xmas. I already raised the question to my principal, superintendent, and school board, that if I get sick is the district going to help me out financially if you are not giving me the option to stay at home or come in? The way I see it, I am higher risk, as most teachers are, than the kids. Still haven’t heard anything back from that.
I just want my question on record so when we have a mass outbreak with teachers I can sue my district, The Texas Education Agency, and the governor of the state.
My principal/superintendent are "fighting to have kids in the classroom" this fall... like a month from now. I'm probably the youngest on staff at 31 and I don't feel great about it, but I can't imagine how the ones who are older and have more risk factors feel. So that's fun.
Mentioned this in the covid thread, I work with fragile students/students who are in trouble when exposed to sickness. I have a large caseload and service 6 schools. What am I supposed to do?
nightmare scenario. those kids need services the most but probably need to be at home. fuck this sucks so much.
school district a county over is going back virtually august 17th then phasing in a few weeks after depending on the environment. that seems like a reasonable plan we’re in the ~20%+ range
Rumors around here that elementary is going back with masks and middle and high are going with M&W, T&Th cohorts with virtual Fridays. But, who knows
I get your perspectives, but it has completely eliminated a whole person's income from my family, and stressed the shit out of my wife being home with the kid for literally unknown amount of time She is not a teacher and never claimed to be, but suddenly had to be except for that 30 minutes a day that the kid was on zoom meeting with the class, that ended a couple of months ago Imagine if we turned the tables and (without covid) said hey teachers, you are gunna be at the school with your entire class 24/7 starting today and we will let you know sometime several months or years later when you will get a relief
our salaries got frozen too imagine demanding teachers literally risk their lives for the same shit pay
Everyone above the age of 10 has to wear a mask, no social distancing. Full class sizes, only 15% of kids chose to do virtual. Teachers can use up to 20 paid days off before being docked 40% of their daily pay until they recover if they happen to get sick. We had 9 teachers resign this week alone because of the dumbassery that is happening. RIP to myself, it’s to late to even get out of my contract to find another job in another school, I’m single and have no other income. Fuck Texas, fuck Greg Abbott, fuck TEA, fuck Devos, fuck Pence, and Fuck Trump.
nothing for fall yet, but im expecting at least an attempt at a hybrid schedule to start. we had to present a plan for in-person, distance, and hybrid to the state, who will make final recommendations by the end of the month. however, i will be in the classroom in a couple weeks for our summer district-wide early intervention program. normally its all grades 1-5 and we split our six elementarys into two different sites, but this year we cut it down to just grades 1 and 2 for the in-person session (we have been doing twice a week distance learning throughout the summer prior to this for all elementary grades). class sizes are going to be capped at 8 students and the host building has three levels, so we will be able to be very spread out at least (and i will do as many activities as possible outside). cant help but feel like the canary.
I realize what message board and what thread I am in but what in the actual fuck? #1 COVID isn't very deadly, unless you are immuno compromised or have comorbidity. It is however highly contagious. This has led me to the inference that a ton of people have had it asymptomatically, a minority has showed symptoms and been tested positive (and as the # of tests and accuracy of tests increase so does the reported # of cases) and a much lower percentage has been hospitalized with a very slight percentage dying which at the current time runs between 110,000-130,000 americans total depending on the source. IF you are immuno compromised ...what in the fuck are you doing in education in the first place? You deal with human petri dishes and pathogen breeding grounds daily. #2 Anecdotally Child Protective Services in Kansas is completely overwhelmed right now with kids that are in unsafe homes. Kids at home due to no school plus lots of parents stuck at home due to job loss/cut hours, plus financial stress & restrictions + stress and nonsense of upcoming election & societal unease = the kids get absolutely shit on. A) what in the fuck are you in education for if it isn't the kids. B) The kids that are in shitty situations socioeconomically or with lack of internet access in rural areas are ABSOLUTELY FUCKED during prolonged time away from in person school. The longer the poor kids aren't in school the more fucked they are. I was in a district that was the gold standard of online instruction in Kansas, all kids get IPads, small town ~7,000 population where a local ISP gave vouchers to every district student family household in order for them to have internet service during the quarantine in March-April-May. I still had 10-15% of non responders during the quarantine. Another ~10-20 percent was intermittent with submitting work. In bigger cities the ISP's sure as fuck are not giving free internet to poor people. In what way are we expected to do virtual school with kids that can't access it. And where do kids need education? Literally kids from everywhere. I'm sure many of you will disagree with my post. Cool. Hopefully you at least take the time to think about the kids that need the school the most.
1) Your math sucks. 133k is the current count and according to the vast majority of experts that is well undercounted. 2) Kids & teachers exposed to this highly infectious disease go home to see grandparents and others that are at high risk of serious complications.
1) I apologize I'm 2,056 lives away from the top range # I gave. 2) Great, what about the poor kids getting dumber as well as the rest of the kids that can't afford to have an at home tutor/parent helping with each lesson. 3) This is apparently a pandemic, stay the fuck away from the immuno comprised! Seriously how is that not common sense at this point? Your home contains has an immunocompromised person in it? Boom You social distance and mask around them. That's common courtesy.
Not at all. This has become a very misinformed topic. Both parties have and will continue to try to exploit this "crisis" for the benefit of their power. And also what's that have to with educating kids?
3) This is apparently a pandemic, stay the fuck away from the immuno comprised! Seriously how is that not common sense at this point? Your home contains has an immunocompromised person in it? Boom You social distance and mask around them. That's common courtesy. You say this, then try to both sides the issue while throwing crisis in quotation marks. Come the fuck on.