The Official CoronaZoneVirus Thread

They are now dining together, in shifts, six apart, etc., can go out in the hallways and common areas with masks, and they are having larger groups in the activity room. But they still can’t go off-premises without a two week quarantine on return, and we still can only visit in person with masks once a week for 30 minutes, outside or now in the private dining room in cold weather. I let her Biltmore pass lapse.
We’re doing 45 minutes visits with no contact. It’s the same here for the off campus quarantine. Dining room is going to be opened back up with 2 to a table with monitors. I’m worried and excited for them. During our quarantine, we’ve done a renovation on our main dining room, it’s still not done (I won’t even go into who was doing it. I’ll just say, it’s six months in and still not completed 🤬)
 
We’re doing 45 minutes visits with no contact. It’s the same here for the off campus quarantine. Dining room is going to be opened back up with 2 to a table with monitors. I’m worried and excited for them. During our quarantine, we’ve done a renovation on our main dining room, it’s still not done (I won’t even go into who was doing it. I’ll just say, it’s six months in and still not completed 🤬)
For the dining room, they’re setting up four 3x3 (?) tables in a cross pattern, corners touching, with a gap in the middle. Needless to say, that eats up a ton of space, so they’re also using the activity room. So far, so good!

Condolences on your dining room pest...

Edit to add: so one resident per small table, four at the combined table, and a fair amount of hollering for the hearing-impaired 🤪
 
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For the dining room, they’re setting up four 3x3 (?) tables in a cross pattern, corners touching, with a gap in the middle. Needless to say, that eats up a ton of space, so they’re also using the activity room. So far, so good!

Condolences on your dining room pest...
My plan is to open up two dining rooms so all of them can participate. Our DON suggested her, I and the other women in our meeting today, to finish on our own (pest is on vacation), I’ll post pictures when we are done. 🙂
 
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I'm so fuggin over virtual school. wtf
I don't know how they are doing it your way, but I would seriously like to hear more about how it's being handled. Where I am, the kids are being allowed to switch back and forth between in-person and virtual. I still keep a paper gradebook, and it is ridiculous. I only have one class that is not AP or college credit, and they are transferring into my AP classes with high grades having done a bunch of BS work, which is not fair to the kids who have actually been doing the work all along, especially because GPAs and class rankings are important issues with those kids.

Our county's virtual school HQ is housed at another school (sent those kids to yet another school). You guessed it. The first COVID cases (confirmed) among teachers spread at that virtual HQ. Yep, there are no kids there either. Oh, but two of the teachers at that virtual HQ have children in my classes. I took off until tomorrow waiting to be sure the parents of those kids got the all clear from the department of health. I haven't left the house since last Friday.

I am over it, too.
 
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My HS kids split between virtual and in person. Half the school is alternated between.

Monday - whole school Zoom schedule with teachers
Tuesday - 1/2 school virtual work assigned by teacher, no Zoom; 1/2 school attend in person classes
Wednesday - the halves switch
Thursday - switch back
Friday - switch again

My kids go to school in person on Wed and Fri.

The good thing is they have far less homework than historical because it’s done virtually. But I’m certain the pace is slower than desired.
 
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Let me clarify from earlier.

"Virtual" (to us) means the courses are put together by a third party. Certain teachers merely are facilitators in there and grade those BS assignments. Those kids get the equivalent credit for whatever class.

"Remote" is what we do one day a week with the kids who are "in person."

I think it depends on where you are as to whether "virtual" and "remote" are synonyms.

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I started designing online classes in like 05. I am comfortable with it; many aren't. It is a lot of front-end work, but I am treating my onsite classes as remote. Kids are with me, but they are doing everything online. Wednesday is the only "remote" time the kids are not at school.
 
Let me clarify from earlier.

"Virtual" (to us) means the courses are put together by a third party. Certain teachers merely are facilitators in there and grade those BS assignments. Those kids get the equivalent credit for whatever class.

"Remote" is what we do one day a week with the kids who are "in person."

I think it depends on where you are as to whether "virtual" and "remote" are synonyms.

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I started designing online classes in like 05. I am comfortable with it; many aren't. It is a lot of front-end work, but I am treating my onsite classes as remote. Kids are with me, but they are doing everything online.

The virtual work in HS appears to be mostly prepared by their teachers but some canned stuff is mixed in by their choosing.

There are some students who opted for all virtual learning. No clue what their coursework looks like. Could be canned stuff like you describe.
 
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The virtual work in HS appears to be mostly prepared by their teachers but some canned stuff is mixed in by their choosing.

There are some students who opted for all virtual learning. No clue what their coursework looks like. Could be canned stuff like you describe.

Yeah. Most districts are contracting that out to third parties.


Edit: like the .avi...had a chance today a couple of times in extra innings
 
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The virtual work in HS appears to be mostly prepared by their teachers but some canned stuff is mixed in by their choosing.

There are some students who opted for all virtual learning. No clue what their coursework looks like. Could be canned stuff like you describe.
yeah and it's super confusing because every teacher manages their content differently.

I can't imagine how far behind inner city Memphis students are getting
 
yeah and it's super confusing because every teacher manages their content differently.

I can't imagine how far behind inner city Memphis students are getting
This is a good point.
I've made lots of videos simply explaining navigation and guidance on assignments.
If a teacher does it right, it is a lot of work.
 
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You all see where they punctured that womans brain with a nasal swab?
 

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