Why? What difference would a few days make?theNetSmith said:
there is word that CSISD is considering moving the first day of classes from the 13th to the 18th.
Teacher prep is the reasoning behind the delay.nthomas99 said:Why? What difference would a few days make?theNetSmith said:
there is word that CSISD is considering moving the first day of classes from the 13th to the 18th.
FlyRod said:
This seems potentially pretty big.
https://theeagle.com/news/a_m/texas-a-m-university-system-facility-to-manufacture-potential-covid-19-vaccine/article_a6b80250-d04b-11ea-beee-b783290b011f.html?utm_source=The%20Eagle&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Breaking%20News
EBrazosAg said:
If you as a school administrator haven't been prepping your teachers all summer you got bigger problems than 5 days can handle ....
EBrazosAg said:
Don't ask for logic ... but yes, for some reason the 18th seems to be the date that is being considered. Totally agree with KidDoc latest post. Crazy part is you never hear anyone say what number is too many or how few is low enough. That makes clear imho that it's politics not science driving things when it comes to back to school.
Anyone who thinks this is a fool who should be openly mocked for their stupidity.Shepherd Boy said:
It's laughable that some think they haven't been working on this all summer.
well..... maybe going through all those scenarios you posited and coming up with viable options on how to address them.theNetSmith said:
https://www.kbtx.com/2020/07/28/college-station-isd-to-discuss-possible-calendar-change-thursday/
I will be shocked if CSISD schools start class on the 18th. Someone mentioned the date being pushed back for teacher prep, but the decision involves way more than that.. there are so many unanswered questions at this point.. like the as-yet-unknown recommendation from the health dept..
Imagine an elementary school serving hundreds of students in grades 1-4, and the parents of >60 of those students have requested that their child attend virtual classes, but.. those students aren't all in the same grade. Suppose those desiring remote instruction are more or less evenly divided over all 4 grade levels. Do you ask a couple of the teachers at the school to prepare and present curriculum across multiple grade levels? What if only a handful of those students are 3rd graders, but you have a 3rd grade teacher with a respiratory disease, and that teacher is not willing to put their life at risk to come to campus and teach face-to-face classes? Should that teacher stay home and teach 1st and/or 4th graders virtually? What if TWO of your 3rd grade teachers don't want to come back to campus due to health concerns? Are you going to fire them because they feel that teaching at the school is hazardous to their health, even though they are under contract? Good luck with that. And if you do so, are you going to find suitable replacements on such short notice?
As someone else mentioned, the goalposts keep moving, so.. what should the administration have been doing to prep the teachers "all summer"?
I hope you're right -- that scenarios such as the one or two I described are being considered and planned for -- we'll see. Not saying anyone is throwing their hands in the air. I'm glad that you are so prepared for the return of the university students in whatever form that takes, but things are different for our schoolteachers. I can't speak to what the administration has been doing to prepare for the return to classroom teaching because there hasn't been a whole lot of communication between themselves and the teachers.cavscout96 said:well..... maybe going through all those scenarios you posited and coming up with viable options on how to address them.theNetSmith said:
As someone else mentioned, the goalposts keep moving, so.. what should the administration have been doing to prep the teachers "all summer"?
I started in March preparing for the return of the university students in August. It's not that hard. You make a flexible plan and adjust it as the picture becomes increasingly clearer.
It does, however, take some modicum of desire to actually see the thing work out and look for solutions rather than throwing your hands in the air with each obstacle that arises.
They should've been considered, but I don't think they have been, at least not to the depth required to have the "playbook" of contingency responses any public (and in my opinion critical infrastructure) organization should have 5 months into a global pandemic. Go watch the zoom recording from the CSISD workshop from July 15. Several of the board members ask about the pretty basic scenarios that should've been identified and planned for profusely, and the superintendent says things like "we'll just take that on a case by case basis" or other answers that aren't crisp to the level you'd expect with months of planning.theNetSmith said:cavscout96 said:
I hope you're right -- that scenarios such as the one or two I described are being considered and planned for -- we'll see. Not saying anyone is throwing their hands in the air. I'm glad that you are so prepared for the return of the university students in whatever form that takes, but things are different for our schoolteachers. I can't speak to what the administration has been doing to prepare for the return to classroom teaching because there hasn't been a whole lot of communication between themselves and the teachers.
sounds like the admin is asleep at the switch. color me shocked.theNetSmith said:I hope you're right -- that scenarios such as the one or two I described are being considered and planned for -- we'll see. Not saying anyone is throwing their hands in the air. I'm glad that you are so prepared for the return of the university students in whatever form that takes, but things are different for our schoolteachers. I can't speak to what the administration has been doing to prepare for the return to classroom teaching because there hasn't been a whole lot of communication between themselves and the teachers.cavscout96 said:well..... maybe going through all those scenarios you posited and coming up with viable options on how to address them.theNetSmith said:
As someone else mentioned, the goalposts keep moving, so.. what should the administration have been doing to prep the teachers "all summer"?
I started in March preparing for the return of the university students in August. It's not that hard. You make a flexible plan and adjust it as the picture becomes increasingly clearer.
It does, however, take some modicum of desire to actually see the thing work out and look for solutions rather than throwing your hands in the air with each obstacle that arises.
I don't think this stat is accurate. This morning WTAW reported that 64% of responding parents in CSISD want in-person schooling with 60% of teachers reporting the same and 24% stating no preference.theNetSmith said:
...and the parents of >60 of those students have requested that their child attend virtual classes, but..
on another note, what are "we" waiting for? Is an IndependentSD beholden to TEA for day to day operational policy and procedure? How so? Why?nthomas99 said:They should've been considered, but I don't think they have been, at least not to the depth required to have the "playbook" of contingency responses any public (and in my opinion critical infrastructure) organization should have 5 months into a global pandemic. Go watch the zoom recording from the CSISD workshop from July 15. Several of the board members ask about the pretty basic scenarios that should've been identified and planned for profusely, and the superintendent say things like "we'll just take that on a case by case basis" or other answers that aren't crisp to the level you'd expect with months of planning.theNetSmith said:cavscout96 said:
I hope you're right -- that scenarios such as the one or two I described are being considered and planned for -- we'll see. Not saying anyone is throwing their hands in the air. I'm glad that you are so prepared for the return of the university students in whatever form that takes, but things are different for our schoolteachers. I can't speak to what the administration has been doing to prepare for the return to classroom teaching because there hasn't been a whole lot of communication between themselves and the teachers.
This is a carry over from the "we're watching and planning for at home education" repeatedly said in the spring, week after week as it was plainly obvious the kids weren't going back. Meanwhile, many of us drowned at home, teaching our kids while working remotely in industries that didn't slow down at all. At one point, we emailed a teacher and said "I know you aren't allow to teach my child yet, but can you remind us of the previous and current learning objectives and point us towards some resources so we can teach her?" Her response: "I'm sorry, I don't know if I'm allowed to share that information with you." At that moment, it crystalized for me that the system really is terribly broken and the incentives are messed up.
If they can't deliver, they need to hand back the money and let us figure out how to plan for our kids. Don't worry about the teachers. You loose the $$$s and micro-schools across the district would pop up instantly, paying higher wages and reducing the exposure to a handful of students. I don't see any other way to properly change the incentives other than to expose the institutions to some degree of market forces (just like TAMU).
From the Texas DSHS Website:Esteban du Plantier said:
In her 30s?
Wonder if this was one of those stories where she died and had covid, but death was from a car accident or something. Or what the exacerbating factors were.
75AG said:
A woman in her 30's is certainly concerning. And the lack of additional information is even more so. Question for you health attorneys (and this may have been discussed pages ago), do HIPAA protections end at death? I can think of no reason that the cause of death during this pandemic, should not be released. Death of a 30 YO due to COVID-19 is NOT enough information.
I agree with this. Every year young people die from flu, varicella, coxsackievirus. It is very rare but it happens.AggieBaseball06 said:75AG said:
A woman in her 30's is certainly concerning. And the lack of additional information is even more so. Question for you health attorneys (and this may have been discussed pages ago), do HIPAA protections end at death? I can think of no reason that the cause of death during this pandemic, should not be released. Death of a 30 YO due to COVID-19 is NOT enough information.
No. It's really not concerning at all. Tragic? Yes. But we've known for months that young people, even those without conditions, run the risk of dying from this. I think this was our first death of someone under 40 in the 4.5 months we've been dealing with this.
If 10 more people in their 30s die from this in the next few weeks, I'll get concerned. But 1? Very unfortunate and sad for her family but it doesn't even move the needle of concern for me.
I thought you were yanking our collective chains with this one. I had to look it up.KidDoc said:
I agree with this. Every year young people die from flu, varicella, coxsackievirus. It is very rare but it happens.
cavscout96 said:I thought you were yanking our collective chains with this one. I had to look it up.KidDoc said:
I agree with this. Every year young people die from flu, varicella, coxsackievirus. It is very rare but it happens.
