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Post by angelashly on Oct 5, 2020 9:24:13 GMT -6
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Post by scarlettpanda on Oct 5, 2020 12:00:51 GMT -6
Dear God I need numbers to get better so these kids can go back to school full time because I'm about to lose my shit. I'm finding it nearly impossible to get any work done when I'm working at home and trying to navigate 2nd grade and kindergarten and WHY does someone need help ALL THE TIME?!
And our school board can't even agree enough on what to do. They can't even agree whether or not they should form a committee to discuss it. They'll discuss forming the discussion committee at the next meeting. ARRGGGHHHHH
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Post by pinesnow on Oct 5, 2020 12:13:33 GMT -6
Dear God I need numbers to get better so these kids can go back to school full time because I'm about to lose my shit. I'm finding it nearly impossible to get any work done when I'm working at home and trying to navigate 2nd grade and kindergarten and WHY does someone need help ALL THE TIME?! And our school board can't even agree enough on what to do. They can't even agree whether or not they should form a committee to discuss it. They'll discuss forming the discussion committee at the next meeting. ARRGGGHHHHH Pretty sure you’re local to me. I also have a K and a 2nd grader (and a 7th grader but she is 99.99% independent) and we opted for remote for the first session. I HAAAAATTEEEE IIIIIIT. I lost my job when all this BS began. I can’t even imagine working on top of remote schooling. They really do always need some shit. MOM AINT AT SCHOOL AND YOU ALL SEEMED TO MANAGE FINE WITHOUT ME THERE. 🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️ I surrender. It’s been a day.
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Post by scarlettpanda on Oct 5, 2020 12:21:15 GMT -6
pinesnow, LT for commiseration. I surrender, too. It's only Monday. I just want to cry.
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Post by justkeepmoving on Oct 5, 2020 12:30:56 GMT -6
Dear God I need numbers to get better so these kids can go back to school full time because I'm about to lose my shit. I'm finding it nearly impossible to get any work done when I'm working at home and trying to navigate 2nd grade and kindergarten and WHY does someone need help ALL THE TIME?! And our school board can't even agree enough on what to do. They can't even agree whether or not they should form a committee to discuss it. They'll discuss forming the discussion committee at the next meeting. ARRGGGHHHHH I’m right there with you and also with a K and 2nd grader. H had the audacity to tell me last week that it can’t be that hard as it’s not like rocket science. I about killed him. It’s impossible. And my 2nd grader now has a 1 second attention span.
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Post by Pistol on Oct 5, 2020 17:49:09 GMT -6
So I saw the local school posted this on fb. We went from yellow to orange so let's start combining groups and reducing spacing between students?!?!
PHASE 2 | Update Hello parents.
*school district* has reached the point where we can begin to make adjustments to how we attend school and are actively preparing for PHASE 2 of our learning plan.
In PHASE 2 we are going to combine both COHORT 1 and COHORT 2 to attend school together 4 days a week Monday – Thursday. Parents will still have the option to have their children assigned to COHORT 3 (fully remote). Fridays will remain VIRTUAL LEARNING days for all students. Because our staff is still fully responsible for both in-person and remote learning we need this time to prepare lessons, videos, and resources for the virtual learning experience. Fridays will also remain an essential day of cleaning throughout the district.
The ability to combine both cohorts was granted by the Health Department. For this to happen, changes have been made to our plan design. Students are now permitted to have a separation of 3 feet in classrooms and other areas. We will still work to space our students as far as is reasonably possible in all settings. I have posted the details of the PHASE 2 plan on our website and social media sources.
The timeline for these changes is given below:
October 5-9 – Intent Forms MUST be submitted. This form will indicate whether your child will attend school in-person or participate fully in remote learning. Forms may be submitted electronically to this email address: *snip* or to your child’s building of attendance. Only one form is needed for each family. A copy of the form is attached to this message.
October 12-16 – Students will be assigned to a cohort
October 19 – 22 – COHORT 1 students (current and newly assigned) attend. COHORT 2 students (current and newly assigned) are virtual COHORT 3 students (current and newly assigned) are virtual
October 26 – 29 – COHORT 1 students (current and newly assigned) are virtual COHORT 2 students (current and newly assigned) attend on campus COHORT 3 students (current and newly assigned) are virtual
November 2 – 5 – BOTH COHORT 1 and 2 students combine to attend on campus COHORT 3 students are virtual
Please understand that if our county alert level changes we may be forced back into our original arrangement or be moved to completely remote. We are going to continue to work toward returning to school, but we will do so in steps and with the blessing of our health department.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
I tried to edit out all triangulation stuff but I may have missed something. 🤷♀️
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Post by Pizzaslut on Oct 5, 2020 19:17:58 GMT -6
Dear God I need numbers to get better so these kids can go back to school full time because I'm about to lose my shit. I'm finding it nearly impossible to get any work done when I'm working at home and trying to navigate 2nd grade and kindergarten and WHY does someone need help ALL THE TIME?! And our school board can't even agree enough on what to do. They can't even agree whether or not they should form a committee to discuss it. They'll discuss forming the discussion committee at the next meeting. ARRGGGHHHHH Pretty sure you’re local to me. I also have a K and a 2nd grader (and a 7th grader but she is 99.99% independent) and we opted for remote for the first session. I HAAAAATTEEEE IIIIIIT. I lost my job when all this BS began. I can’t even imagine working on top of remote schooling. They really do always need some shit. MOM AINT AT SCHOOL AND YOU ALL SEEMED TO MANAGE FINE WITHOUT ME THERE. 🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️ I surrender. It’s been a day. I know we are local and I never thought I would be so happy to have DS miss the K cutoff. They have been going to daycare/preK since 6/1. I don’t know how I would’ve done anything if they didn’t since I am still going into work a few days per week. I feel for the parents who have to help 5, 6 and 7 year olds through all of this.
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Post by betty on Oct 6, 2020 11:39:44 GMT -6
And now there’s another big group of kids quarantined in our district. The school dashboard says 51 middle schoolers (6-8 grade) are quarantined and a handful from other buildings. Each grade is 100-120 kids, so this is a lot. And we’re kind of rural and in 45 country so almost no one is taking this seriously. DS is going to have to start riding the bus home after XC ends in 2-3 weeks and I’m so nervous.
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Post by betty on Oct 6, 2020 11:43:46 GMT -6
Pistol That’s crazy! I’m so disappointed in the decision making going on in our local schools in the county. Like, what are they thinking???
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Post by angelashly on Oct 6, 2020 12:30:07 GMT -6
I missed what he was just saying about schools?
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Post by betty on Oct 6, 2020 12:34:57 GMT -6
So DeWine just said that they’re going to start looking into if kids don’t need to be quarantined if they were exposed to a covid positive person but both were wearing masks. Because people are apparently complaining that too many kids are being quarantined. OMG. Seriously? Just follow the CDC guidelines. You can’t know that the masked person was wearing their mask correctly or if it was an effective mask/material.
He said the health dept is going to try to gather data to determine if the quarantine rules can be relaxed. They’re going to follow 10 school buildings and use rapid tests to closely monitor quarantined kids. I don’t agree with them even entertaining this idea. JUST FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES. DONT MAKE UP YOUR OWN.
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Post by angelashly on Oct 6, 2020 12:36:49 GMT -6
So DeWine just said that they’re going to start looking into if kids don’t need to be quarantined if they were exposed to a covid positive person but both were wearing masks. Because people are apparently complaining that too many kids are being quarantined. OMG. Seriously? Just follow the CDC guidelines. You can’t know that the masked person was wearing their mask correctly or if it was an effective mask/material. He said the health dept is going to try to gather data to determine if the quarantine rules can be relaxed. They’re going to follow 10 school buildings and use rapid tests to closely monitor quarantined kids. I don’t agree with them even entertaining this idea. JUST FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES. DONT MAKE UP YOUR OWN. So that is what he was talking about.
They are already doing this at my campus. Say 19 kids in a room and one tests positive. the only kids that will find out they were exposed are those that were within 6ft of this person and not masked for longer than 15 minutes
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Post by betty on Oct 6, 2020 12:41:03 GMT -6
So DeWine just said that they’re going to start looking into if kids don’t need to be quarantined if they were exposed to a covid positive person but both were wearing masks. Because people are apparently complaining that too many kids are being quarantined. OMG. Seriously? Just follow the CDC guidelines. You can’t know that the masked person was wearing their mask correctly or if it was an effective mask/material. He said the health dept is going to try to gather data to determine if the quarantine rules can be relaxed. They’re going to follow 10 school buildings and use rapid tests to closely monitor quarantined kids. I don’t agree with them even entertaining this idea. JUST FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES. DONT MAKE UP YOUR OWN. So that is what he was talking about.
They are already doing this at my campus. Say 19 kids in a room and one tests positive. the only kids that will find out they were exposed are those that were within 6ft of this person and not masked for longer than 15 minutes
I can maybe see that with college kids. They’re adults. These are school children. We can’t expect that the kids were consistently wearing their masks properly 100% of the time during the exposure. I specifically asked our health department whether mask wearing mattered when determining who to quarantine and they said no because there are so many variables to masks. I just think this is a bad idea. Hopefully the experiment they’re going to test will say the same.
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Post by angelashly on Oct 6, 2020 12:56:29 GMT -6
So that is what he was talking about.
They are already doing this at my campus. Say 19 kids in a room and one tests positive. the only kids that will find out they were exposed are those that were within 6ft of this person and not masked for longer than 15 minutes
I can maybe see that with college kids. They’re adults. These are school children. We can’t expect that the kids were consistently wearing their masks properly 100% of the time during the exposure. I specifically asked our health department whether mask wearing mattered when determining who to quarantine and they said no because there are so many variables to masks. I just think this is a bad idea. Hopefully the experiment they’re going to test will say the same. Oh I don't think it is good practice at all. The kids I've been seeing are not wearing masks the right way. I guarantee they aren't doing it in class correctly either. I think this gives people a false sense of security. I know he wants people in school but this isn't the way to do it.
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Post by betty on Oct 6, 2020 12:57:52 GMT -6
A reporter just basically asked him why he thinks an Ohio study of 10 buildings would overrule CDC guidance and expertise. He gave a non answer in my opinion. But I’m glad she asked it the way she did.
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Post by Rusty Red on Oct 6, 2020 13:04:18 GMT -6
I barely blink looking at the numbers anymore. Not sure what that says.
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Post by NamasteBirches on Oct 6, 2020 13:18:56 GMT -6
Our dashboard is still at 0. Seems too good to be true. They have plans to go back every day but Wednesday starting next week. Seems like a dumpster fire waiting to happen.
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Post by Pistol on Oct 6, 2020 13:24:15 GMT -6
Damn. 1335 new cases and 132 hospitalizations
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Post by frantastic on Oct 7, 2020 7:43:27 GMT -6
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Post by Pistol on Oct 7, 2020 7:50:03 GMT -6
Assuming I can get my meds straightened out, I'm going to go vote today.
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Post by gymngemini on Oct 7, 2020 10:32:58 GMT -6
I got my poll place assignment today so I'm officially an election official on election day. I'm going to try to vote early on Friday since my dad will already be watching my younger two to take may oldest to a check up/flu shot.
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Post by ftwr on Oct 7, 2020 10:36:25 GMT -6
Yes, they've mixed up Whitehall and Worthington ballots (at least). We've had people in our neighborhood group who got Worthington ballots. I double checked mine yesterday before the news even broke. I don't know why I felt the need to but I did.
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Post by pearbear on Oct 7, 2020 12:08:26 GMT -6
I got my poll place assignment today so I'm officially an election official on election day. I'm going to try to vote early on Friday since my dad will already be watching my younger two to take may oldest to a check up/flu shot. I signed up but haven’t received anything. I wonder if they had enough help? Maybe I should call.
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Post by Rusty Red on Oct 7, 2020 12:15:56 GMT -6
Lovely numbers.
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Post by gymngemini on Oct 7, 2020 12:22:54 GMT -6
I got my poll place assignment today so I'm officially an election official on election day. I'm going to try to vote early on Friday since my dad will already be watching my younger two to take may oldest to a check up/flu shot. I signed up but haven’t received anything. I wonder if they had enough help? Maybe I should call. So when I trained on Sunday they said they were still needing people for Cuyahoga. It was a weirdly long amount of time from when I applied to when I got my notice that I was accepted.i think it's totally worth a call! I had to leave a message and they called me back.
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Post by betty on Oct 7, 2020 12:43:17 GMT -6
Yes, they've mixed up Whitehall and Worthington ballots (at least). We've had people in our neighborhood group who got Worthington ballots. I double checked mine yesterday before the news even broke. I don't know why I felt the need to but I did. How do you have your ballot already? I thought they weren’t mailing them until yesterday? We’re waiting on ours.
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Post by ftwr on Oct 7, 2020 12:49:31 GMT -6
Yes, they've mixed up Whitehall and Worthington ballots (at least). We've had people in our neighborhood group who got Worthington ballots. I double checked mine yesterday before the news even broke. I don't know why I felt the need to but I did. How do you have your ballot already? I thought they weren’t mailing them until yesterday? We’re waiting on ours. I was shocked as well. My boss got hers, she lives on the other side of Columbus, and several of us in our city have gotten them. I didn't get the notice from the BOE that it was mailed until yesterday. I wonder if they prepared those who had their request submitted and approved prior to 10/5 early and then processed the stragglers on 10/6 and after. Knowing what I do from a previous position at my current employer, we'd get 1098Ts and student refunds ready ahead of time and then send them out on the day we said we would. I wonder if that's what they did.
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Post by Pistol on Oct 8, 2020 12:33:59 GMT -6
Cool cool. Just keep on rising...
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Post by Pistol on Oct 8, 2020 12:35:07 GMT -6
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Post by Pistol on Oct 8, 2020 12:36:21 GMT -6
Not sure if both will post the first time so I linked both tweets. Will edit if needed. But yea. Lots of trending the wrong way here in Ohio...
ETA-took out the first since it shows in the second one.
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