Plan to Return to Face to Face Learning?

[SchoolNurseK]

If your schools are virtual, or optionally virtual (like us), is there a plan of when to end the virtual option?  Are you using data thresholds or measures you must meet for a period of time?  I am seeing some promising trends in our area and I would like to start advocating for our Charter to look at ending the madness that is synchronous in person/virtual learning, I just need some direction.

Thanks!  You are all such a lifeline in this sideways time! 

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

34 minutes ago, k1p1ssk said:

The teachers in my building have been turning to me for every little thing (think "Make me handwashing signs! Make me a step-by-step visual aid for how to don and doff masks! Print and laminate that sheet that you made available for all of us on the district website and then let me ignore it and come to school with a cough and sore throat anyway!) and they don't like that I don't have all the answers right away. We (the nurses in my district) also have this sense from a lot of staff that nursing is "the enemy" now. They see us in cahoots with admin, and that our lack of supplies is us actively not understanding how "unsafe" our environment is, not that there is still a national shortage of PPE... That the whole reason we even have kids in the building is because nursing said it was safe to do so even when it wasn't safe... When in actuality, we have come up with a lot of creative ways to keep them safe, going above and beyond DPH and DESE's recommendations and worked all Summer doing so, without pay.

UGH, I'm sorry your school is like this! I've actually been feeling the opposite - I have NEVER gotten so much love from staff. One even nominated me for this weekly HS award that usually stays within teachers. I am exhausted, but I feel greatly appreciated.

Now, does that disappear in the after COVID times? Likely, but sadly those times are likely 1-2 years away...