Current Events > Your Insight on why Chicago Public Schools insist on In Person NOW

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Chicago Public Schools have been doing remote learning. Now that the vaccine is so close CPS wants to switch to physical classrooms. What is the reasoning for not waiting?

I am assuming that there is some advantage or perceived advantage and CPS is not just doing it because they can.

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Stupidity mostly of superintendents and pressure from parents who don't want to take care of their kids during the day.

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I think it is more than pressure from parents wanting child care because those parents will be even more demanding when they catch coronavirus and are bed-ridden.

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I'm a high school teacher. We're still remote, but teachers had to return to the classroom on November 30.

Numerous staff and teachers are testing positive and we don't even have kids in the buildings. It's not safe.

Our current plan is four cohorts of students that will meet in-person twice a week. Example: Cohort 1 on Monday/Tuesday, everyone online Wednesday for cleaning and contact tracing, Cohort 2 on Thursday/Friday. Weekend to clean and contact trace. Cohort 3 and 4 the next week. They're online any time they're not in class with me.

10 kids max in each classroom, six feet apart, etc.

It's a gigantic mess, and our interim superintendent is a moron. Parents just want their kids out of the house, and that is the saddest part.

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no reason. its pressure from parents which makes this even more sad. these families can't afford proper care for their children while they work so they'd rather send them to school and increase their chances of being exposed to COVID...and the Governments response is "welp...all we can do is send them back to school"....This country needs to fuckin do better.

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We should get the vaccine to the teachers and students next.

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In person is simply 1000x better for k-6. Virtual will never be able to compete for those ages.

Doesn't mean it's the right call though


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Ludwig Von 2 posted...

We should get the vaccine to the teachers and students next.

I'm in round 2 of the vaccine in NC.

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Spiritlittle posted...

I'm a high school teacher. We're still remote, but teachers had to return to the classroom on November 30.

Numerous staff and teachers are testing positive and we don't even have kids in the buildings. It's not safe.

Our current plan is four cohorts of students that will meet in-person twice a week. Example: Cohort 1 on Monday/Tuesday, everyone online Wednesday for cleaning and contact tracing, Cohort 2 on Thursday/Friday. Weekend to clean and contact trace. Cohort 3 and 4 the next week. They're online any time they're not in class with me.

10 kids max in each classroom, six feet apart, etc.

It's a gigantic mess, and our interim superintendent is a moron. Parents just want their kids out of the house, and that is the saddest part.

I am guessing that the positives did not change policy in any way. Chicago Public Schools has non-teaching staff that could do their work from home but they must come in even after an arbitrator concluded that their case for working remotely is stronger than CPS'.

There are so many ways to fake case/death data. The simplest is understaffing the departments which process the data: for instance health, medical examiners, input scanning, internet site management. Another way which seems innocuous is to instantly move any pupil or staff with symptoms to remote status. This way remote learning gets the poop. You see school districts with data that pupils/teachers in remote learning are more likely to test positive, be hospitalized/die.

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CobraGT posted...

I am guessing that the positives did not change policy in any way. Chicago Public Schools has non-teaching staff that could do their work from home but they must come in even after an arbitrator concluded that their case for working remotely is stronger than CPS'.

There are so many ways to fake case/death data. The simplest is understaffing the departments which process the data: for instance health, medical examiners, input scanning, internet site management. Another way which seems innocuous is to instantly move any pupil or staff with symptoms to remote status. This way remote learning gets the poop. You see school districts with data that pupils/teachers in remote learning are more likely to test positive, be hospitalized/die.

Nope.

To me, it needs to be all online or all in-person, and in-person is not safe.

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