Quote Originally Posted by Tybee View Post
My grandchildren here go back to school August 31. Right now, they are masking indoors but not outside on the playground.

Honestly, I think by September they will send them home and go remote again, if the numbers continue to rise. Last year the parents could choose all remote, and many did. My granddaughter went 2 days a week remote, 2 days in person, then back all days in the classroom for the last 6 weeks.

My mom's nursing home just reported a case in the rehab center, a fully vaccinated patient who caught it from a healthcare worker at the hospital, prior to admission. So they are under 14 days quarantine again.

Since I am a big believer in online learning (that's how I teach) and very concerned with the unvaccinated children, I am fine with them coming home to learn if need be. Not thrilled, of course, but I am very worried about the little ones getting this Delta variant.
When Covid first made news back in Feb/March 2020 and schools had to scramble to do virtual learning, my youngest would only do certain assignments because he figured they'd never fail kids because online learning was thrown together. I got on him and told him to not be so sure and to do his work. Kept getting updates from the school that he wasn't turning in assignments. Got home from work to see him playing on the computer. Went "mock 1" on him and made him cry (He was 15/16 at the time). Told him to get his *** upstairs and do his work. He literally spent the last day getting everything caught up. Went from F's to A's in literally 8 hours.

This last school year when schools had the opportunity to get virtual learning plan in place, things were a complete 180. He stayed on top of his work and got straight A's the entire year. (He is normally a straight A student so that is also why I got so mad at him copping out of not doing his work before). If he could stay virtual this year, I would be all for it. He didn't have to get up at 5am to catch the bus. There was plenty of downtime during the day to get work done. But this will be his Senior year and I am happy that he will get to have a normal one in person with his peers. But.... I have a feeling that come December, things will change and they will go back 100% virtual. I don't know why because Covid rates have been pretty much null since Covid first started. I know people where I live are against getting vaccinated and I suspect that schools will use that as the reason to go virtual again.