classes are online
parties are still going to happen
virus still gonna spread
parties are still going to happen
virus still gonna spread
Reopening Schools
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cone said:
classes are online
parties are still going to happen
virus still gonna spread
Not really a very good haiku, but I guess it's a good try.
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KES and BMSS have a confirmed case each. Crunch time for BISD. Be interesting on how they respond.
KES had highest in person opt in the district at ~85%
KES had highest in person opt in the district at ~85%
Our district has had a few confirmed cases a full week in now and are only notifying people that have been in contact about the cases.
Huh. I thought the 5 count on the dashboard was from the people in quarantine plus one each at the high schools. Interesting. And still only a total of 64 in quarantine.HumbleAg04 said:
KES and BMSS have a confirmed case each. Crunch time for BISD. Be interesting on how they respond.
KES had highest in person opt in the district at ~85%
Ours is notifying those enrolled at the school. Then that is almost immediately posted on social media, although someone is falling down on the job because I didn't know about the MS or elementary till TexAgs. lolP.U.T.U said:
Our district has had a few confirmed cases a full week in now and are only notifying people that have been in contact about the cases.
Have a kid at both. Could possibly not be a confirmed case yet and just presumptive. ISD handling it same way it seems like.88planoAg said:Ours is notifying those enrolled at the school. Then that is almost immediately posted on social media, although someone is falling down on the job because I didn't know about the MS or elementary till TexAgs. lolP.U.T.U said:
Our district has had a few confirmed cases a full week in now and are only notifying people that have been in contact about the cases.
"According to district guidelines, if a staff member or student is suspected, presumptive, or confirmed for COVID-19, the Health Services department will be notified.
The employee or student will be directed to follow the advice from medical professionals and CDC guidelines, including the possible imposition of a quarantine and required symptom-free period prior to returning to work or school; and the individual has improvement in symptoms; and at least ten (10) days have passed since symptoms first appeared.
Boerne ISD has:
- Identify and notify others who may have been exposed and place these individuals on a mandatory 14-day quarantine. Parents have been notified by phone and in writing if their student was identified as having been exposed
- Enhanced sanitation of areas of the building occupied by the affected person have already begun.
Have one kid at Boerne High and another at Clark in Northside ISD with both going back in person. Fortunately we are a healthy family so no worries. We did find out that only 40% of Clark is going back in person on Sept 8, but my son said his friends are all going back in person so he's happy.
For those back in in-person, what has it been like for your kids, especially elementary?
jenn96 said:
For those back in in-person, what has it been like for your kids, especially elementary?
Mine is loving it so far. Masks and changes to PE, Art, recess, and music kinda suck but much happier kiddo being back in school.
jenn96 said:
For those back in in-person, what has it been like for your kids, especially elementary?
2nd and 4th grade and they love it. My 10 year old hadn't been around another 10yr old since March due to the fact we had just moved and he hadn't met friends yet. The change in his demeanor since being back in school for a week has been awesome. Neither complain about the mask and their only small complaint is that they don't get to have PE with large groups.
9th, 11th, 12th all very happy
HS junior, relieved and happy, although he often asks the rhetorical wistful question 'when will this end... '
88planoAg said:
HS junior, relieved and happy, although he often asks the rhetorical wistful question 'when will this end... '
I just say November 4th when I gaet that question.
Son started kindergarten and loves it. He was going to daycare before and loves it more than that.jenn96 said:
For those back in in-person, what has it been like for your kids, especially elementary?
Same.HumbleAg04 said:88planoAg said:
HS junior, relieved and happy, although he often asks the rhetorical wistful question 'when will this end... '
I just say November 4th when I gaet that question.
HumbleAg04 said:88planoAg said:
HS junior, relieved and happy, although he often asks the rhetorical wistful question 'when will this end... '
I just say November 4th when I gaet that question.
January 20th.
7th grade son. So far he loves it. He loves it so much that he forgot his mask yesterday at home.
Apparently my wife's school teachers will have both in person and online. For kindergarten. Seems dumb as ***** We thought teachers would strictly be online or in person but admin isn't going that route. She's annoyed by it and i think rightfully so.
They have to do small group throughout the day. How the **** is she supposed to handle the in person kids while deal with the online small groups?!?! She can't set up centers because of sharing/COVID19. So does admin just expect the kindergarten kids to sit quietly and twiddle their thumbs while my wife deals with the online kids? Have these morons never been in a kinder classroom????
The simple truth is the online kids will become an afterthought because trying to manage both well at that age is next to impossible.
They have to do small group throughout the day. How the **** is she supposed to handle the in person kids while deal with the online small groups?!?! She can't set up centers because of sharing/COVID19. So does admin just expect the kindergarten kids to sit quietly and twiddle their thumbs while my wife deals with the online kids? Have these morons never been in a kinder classroom????
The simple truth is the online kids will become an afterthought because trying to manage both well at that age is next to impossible.
That's a terrible way to do it. I can see that working in a college or high-level high school class but it's ridiculous for little kids.tylercsbn9 said:
Apparently my wife's school teachers will have both in person and online. For kindergarten. Seems dumb as ***** We thought teachers would strictly be online or in person but admin isn't going that route. She's annoyed by it and i think rightfully so.
They have to do small group throughout the day. How the **** is she supposed to handle the in person kids while deal with the online small groups?!?! She can't set up centers because of sharing/COVID19. So does admin just expect the kindergarten kids to sit quietly and twiddle their thumbs while my wife deals with the online kids? Have these morons never been in a kinder classroom????
The simple truth is the online kids will become an afterthought because trying to manage both well at that age is next to impossible.
Cy-Fair here. Wife's school is the same...for our kid in 1st grade they have 3 in person classes, 2 virtual teachers and 2 hybrid teachers. I think its about 70/30 in person to virtual at our school. My wife went to her AP and made sure our child was put in a full in person class for the very reasons mentioned above.jenn96 said:That's a terrible way to do it. I can see that working in a college or high-level high school class but it's ridiculous for little kids.tylercsbn9 said:
Apparently my wife's school teachers will have both in person and online. For kindergarten. Seems dumb as ***** We thought teachers would strictly be online or in person but admin isn't going that route. She's annoyed by it and i think rightfully so.
They have to do small group throughout the day. How the **** is she supposed to handle the in person kids while deal with the online small groups?!?! She can't set up centers because of sharing/COVID19. So does admin just expect the kindergarten kids to sit quietly and twiddle their thumbs while my wife deals with the online kids? Have these morons never been in a kinder classroom????
The simple truth is the online kids will become an afterthought because trying to manage both well at that age is next to impossible.
jenn96 said:That's a terrible way to do it. I can see that working in a college or high-level high school class but it's ridiculous for little kids.tylercsbn9 said:
Apparently my wife's school teachers will have both in person and online. For kindergarten. Seems dumb as ***** We thought teachers would strictly be online or in person but admin isn't going that route. She's annoyed by it and i think rightfully so.
They have to do small group throughout the day. How the **** is she supposed to handle the in person kids while deal with the online small groups?!?! She can't set up centers because of sharing/COVID19. So does admin just expect the kindergarten kids to sit quietly and twiddle their thumbs while my wife deals with the online kids? Have these morons never been in a kinder classroom????
The simple truth is the online kids will become an afterthought because trying to manage both well at that age is next to impossible.
Yeah. It can work for middle and HS but something like kindergarten when you only have one teacher is terrible. I don't know wtf admin is thinking. I am guessing it's as simple as limiting the amount of kids in the rooms. So instead of a teacher having 20 kids they only have 12 with 8 online.
I just don't see how small group is at all possible which is a large part of the early grade levels.
CypressCPAg said:Cy-Fair here. Wife's school is the same...for our kid in 1st grade they have 3 in person classes, 2 virtual teachers and 2 hybrid teachers. I think its about 70/30 in person to virtual at our school. My wife went to her AP and made sure our child was put in a full in person class for the very reasons mentioned above.jenn96 said:That's a terrible way to do it. I can see that working in a college or high-level high school class but it's ridiculous for little kids.tylercsbn9 said:
Apparently my wife's school teachers will have both in person and online. For kindergarten. Seems dumb as ***** We thought teachers would strictly be online or in person but admin isn't going that route. She's annoyed by it and i think rightfully so.
They have to do small group throughout the day. How the **** is she supposed to handle the in person kids while deal with the online small groups?!?! She can't set up centers because of sharing/COVID19. So does admin just expect the kindergarten kids to sit quietly and twiddle their thumbs while my wife deals with the online kids? Have these morons never been in a kinder classroom????
The simple truth is the online kids will become an afterthought because trying to manage both well at that age is next to impossible.
That seems even more idiotic. Having hybrid in addition to only in person and only online?!?? What in the ever loving ****. They're making this way to complicated.
This is what they should do.
1. Break up your teachers as strictly online or strictly in person
2. Give the in person teachers slightly less kids. The reason..,, Eventually some parents will move their kids from online to in person . It will be far less than the other way around. So you give an in person teacher 15 kids to start. Online 25. And then when kids move to in person you just move those kids into an in person teacher class.
3. Also eventually you will have a need to transition a teacher or two to in person. Consolidate the online kids as necessary.
I know this may be a pain for parents to have to change teachers but honestly thems the breaks if you choose to keep your kid at home.
We're also Cy fair. Ten kindergarten teachers. School had three when it opened in 2017. My wife was one of the original ones to open the school.
We are one of the districts that planned on splitting the kids, but the virtual parents are mad that it could be up to 3 teachers for their kids in the first 9 weeks. I have a feeling the district is going to end up having all the teachers teach both.
Yes I think the problem is numbers choosing online. One of the plans in BISD as I understand it was to have a virtual school, with admin and teachers. But the number of online students didn't support a whole separate structure, so now we have synchronous instruction (I think at all levels, for sure MS and HS) with both e-learners and in person having one teacher. The advantage is transitioning in and out of in person keeps students in the same class.
Damn, I'm in Cy Fair. This is going to be a disaster.
RRISD - System failed at 8:45. Came back online relatively quickly.
2nd block of high school glitched out. All the Westwood kids had to get back on the class. And since, everything has been A-OK.
The kid seems to be having fun seeing familiar faces that she hasn't seen since March.
2nd block of high school glitched out. All the Westwood kids had to get back on the class. And since, everything has been A-OK.
The kid seems to be having fun seeing familiar faces that she hasn't seen since March.
88planoAg said:
Yes I think the problem is numbers choosing online. One of the plans in BISD as I understand it was to have a virtual school, with admin and teachers. But the number of online students didn't support a whole separate structure, so now we have synchronous instruction (I think at all levels, for sure MS and HS) with both e-learners and in person having one teacher. The advantage is transitioning in and out of in person keeps students in the same class.
Well my wife's school is basically 50/50. It probably one if the most affluent elementary schools in Cy fair. I know in general the wealthier schools have favored in person but this school also has a significant Asian/Indian population so that's why it's a bit of an outlier.
So the fact that it's 50/50 makes me question it even more. I could understand it more if only like 25% of kids were online but that isn't the case.
Also Cy fair has left it up to the individual principals on how to handle. That makes sense because the % varies greatly campus to campus. One of our friends teaches at a elementary in jersey village. Only 30 of 160 kindergarteners are in person. Contrast that to my wife's (and my own sons school, we live across the street from it) which is basically 100 in person and 100 online. Then there's a Fairfield school with 130 of 200 kids in person. So there are very different needs by school.
tylercsbn9 said:88planoAg said:
Yes I think the problem is numbers choosing online. One of the plans in BISD as I understand it was to have a virtual school, with admin and teachers. But the number of online students didn't support a whole separate structure, so now we have synchronous instruction (I think at all levels, for sure MS and HS) with both e-learners and in person having one teacher. The advantage is transitioning in and out of in person keeps students in the same class.
Well my wife's school is basically 50/50. It probably one if the most affluent elementary schools in Cy fair. I know in general the wealthier schools have favored in person but this school also has a significant Asian/Indian population so that's why it's a bit of an outlier.
So the fact that it's 50/50 makes me question it even more. I could understand it more if only like 25% of kids were online but that isn't the case.
Also Cy fair has left it up to the individual principals on how to handle. That makes sense because the % varies greatly campus to campus. One of our friends teaches at a elementary in jersey village. Only 30 of 160 kindergarteners are in person. Contrast that to my wife's (and my own sons school, we live across the street from it) which is basically 100 in person and 100 online. Then there's a Fairfield school with 130 of 200 kids in person. So there are very different needs by school.
Asians (read Indians) have been leaning heavily on remote school and the home pods. So if you're kids school is heavily Indian that would explain the lower in person numbers.
My niece's experience with her daughter's first grade zoom:
The teacher's internet went down mid-Zoom lesson today. 16 first graders took over the class. It was quite a ride and I wish I had recorded it.
- At first, there was a rapid discussion that her screen was frozen with several attempts to shout her name and tell her that her screen was frozen.
- Then, they quickly moved on and chose one student to replace the teacher.
- Some turned to anarchy claiming the teacher died and shouting "No teacher! No teacher!"
- Others tried to be mature and calm everyone down. Adelle at one point said, "you guys, we aren't in kindergarten."
- A few became IT specialists and tried to figure out how to fix it before declaring the whole school went down.
- A couple decided to take an early lunch or use the time to schedule play dates with their friends (not sure they were parent approved.)
- The class-elected teacher tried to read a book to everyone so three more kids followed her lead, which lead to four books being read simultaneously.
- Most started to leave the Zoom meeting after that, but not before making a big announcement about it.
- That led to a couple students still loyal to the MIA teacher to shout they ARE NEVER LEAVING the meeting.
- Teacher finally came back on an hour later for whichever kids would show up and they acted as if nothing happened.
The teacher's internet went down mid-Zoom lesson today. 16 first graders took over the class. It was quite a ride and I wish I had recorded it.
- At first, there was a rapid discussion that her screen was frozen with several attempts to shout her name and tell her that her screen was frozen.
- Then, they quickly moved on and chose one student to replace the teacher.
- Some turned to anarchy claiming the teacher died and shouting "No teacher! No teacher!"
- Others tried to be mature and calm everyone down. Adelle at one point said, "you guys, we aren't in kindergarten."
- A few became IT specialists and tried to figure out how to fix it before declaring the whole school went down.
- A couple decided to take an early lunch or use the time to schedule play dates with their friends (not sure they were parent approved.)
- The class-elected teacher tried to read a book to everyone so three more kids followed her lead, which lead to four books being read simultaneously.
- Most started to leave the Zoom meeting after that, but not before making a big announcement about it.
- That led to a couple students still loyal to the MIA teacher to shout they ARE NEVER LEAVING the meeting.
- Teacher finally came back on an hour later for whichever kids would show up and they acted as if nothing happened.
Multiple news crews at Wylie schools covering the massive outbreak of Covid, or just 4 out of 30,000 students and staff. All of them were community spread and not in the schools. But with all of the helicopters and news vans you would think there was a mass shooting.
Those poor kids
Thank goodness more schools opened this week so Boerne can share the love.
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