GREEN BAY, Wis. (NBC26) -- Some parents want their kids back learning in person immediately.
Some would rather take a conservative approach.
But many Green Bay Area Public Schools families agree: the district's plan for return isn't ideal.
"I couldn't believe that they just said 'ok... we're just basically [going to] forget gating criteria [and] forget community spread,'" Lea Walschinski, a mother of two students, said.
Monday night, the district's school board held its first meeting since approving a plan to bring students back in person three weeks after staff has access to a vaccine. But without a firm date, many parents say their questions remain unanswered.
"Teachers... if they don't want to vaccine, they don't have to," Elizabeth Darkhabani, who has two children, said. "I'm a teacher, so I would not get the vaccine."
At the meeting, superintendent Stephen Murley spoke about working with health providers to streamline teacher vaccine distribution. For some parents, that doesn't provide enough security.
"They decided three weeks after the teachers are eligible for vaccine," Walschinski, who is in favor of a slow return to in-person learning, said. "Well, just because they're eligible on that time doesn't really give them time to get fully vaccinated."
And others aren't happy with the uncertainty of the plan.
"Shut everything down for adults for a year and let the kids go back now for a year," Darkhabani said in favor of bringing students back immediately.
On Monday night, the district provided input on PPE and equipment distribution. But Walchinski says she doesn't want to be forced to decide to bring her kids back in person.
"I am still faced with this huge decision of what do I do and what's safest for my family," she said. "And I feel pressured."
But parents like Darkhabani disagree.
"I have the right to choose," Darkhabani said. "I want my kids in school. Parents have the right to choose if they want to be virtual. I'm not given that choice."
And while the school system looks to fill a vacant spot in the board, parents say they don't know what the future will hold.
"I think that they might actually bring them back," Walchinski said when asked if she believes the district will eventually make it back to class by the end of the current school year.
"Honest to God, I do not think they will be back to school this year" Darkhabani said.
