What's the alternative, not having any school for the next school year? We have to try and set up some sort of structure and learning. I've read where some school districts have turned school buses into mobile wifi hotspots and parked them in lower income neighborhoods during the day.
heard in an interview with chicago school district superintendent that this was one of their solutions to the wifi issue. not sure how this will work for rural areas concerning physical distance between those needing internet.
It is a big part. Just had a work conference via google meets with fellow teachers and that came up. The answers are still unclear.
again though, how do you deal with the students that inevitably test positive and require isolation and the parents work?
we'll just ask all the old folks to provide daycare for the parents that work. like the peace corp only with higher turnover.
There is no alternative. When schools reopen children and staff will get infected. People will panic and say we opened too soon. Schools will close, families will struggle to feed their children three meals a day. As well as struggle to find daycare. With the possibility of making the decision of leaving your 5 year old child home by themselves. Or lose your job. Cool thing with school buses. Where do the computers come from? You just wait until the first lawsuit is filed against schools for reopening. It will happen.
There are a ton of old smartphones that people have laying around. They can be refitted with a limited version of Android or OS with apps for learning. All I'm saying is that you have 3 options. 1. O school attendance for the year. 2. 100% school attendance for the year. 3. Combination of in school and home learning. Option 3 makes the most sense to me because if you set up a formula of 20% in school teaching and 80% homeschool teaching and if there is a outbreak in a specific school, district, or area you can cut the 20% in school part and still have 80% of your plan in place. There are no easy or perfect answers but we have to try something.
Are we able to test every student at least weekly yet.? I can’t imagine it happening without at least a huge increase in capacity. Social distancing for preschool kids? Tough enough herding them without that aspect being added to a daycare centers protocol.Still looking for answers and we aren’t getting it from current leadership in government. The article about French schools opening was only about a million kids
Not including preschool the estimate for elementary ,middle, and high school students is 56.6 million kids
To me the potential for a huge surge in the virus without being able to test daily is too great a risk as kids infect kids infect teachers infect parents and the economy is shut down again with even greater fear in consumers about reopening. The deaths are presently around 92 ,000 estimate of around 11200 by end of July I can envision a scenario where this gets out of hand so quickly that the entire country is dealing with the issue on a scale that was akin to NY. Herd immunity seems like a fallacy unless 1.) a vaccine is distributed that successfully controls infection, 2.) a treatment that counters the worst affects and reduces mortality is developed or 3.) testing available to all anytime. I tend to believe that H.C. is more right than wrong here. Remember the economy will only return with consumers with cash. To that end a really big plan needs to be coming soon.
If I said that I have no children, so I'm okay with them all going back to school and just seeing what happens, would that make me a monster?
Meals, daycare? I have family members who with phase 1 or 2 for opening back up(whatever it is right now) Wondering. Who's going to watch my kid while I'm at work? Unless you're a first responder, etc daycares/summer camps are turning your child away. That's just going to get worse during school times. I don't know what to do, but at the end of the day. low income families are going to need far more help with the things WE take for granted.
I'd say churches have the ability to handle some child care and a new job might be paying seniors to babysit without docking their social security so it's affordable for the parents and worth it for the seniors. It takes a village to raise a child is going to have meaning again.
Going to be a challenge for sure. According to my wife (retired elementary teacher) there are discussions/ideas being kick around like, mornings afternoon sessions three days a week, all desk facing forward spaced apart, masks, temps, no play/recess, add buses and space kids with plexiglass screens, ect. On line classes for those that have great support at home and excel currently anyway. 30% of teachers are over 50 so that could be a consideration some way? There are years when a district/school is hit hard with norovirus and they will shut schools down. Herd immunity each year happens when kids come back to school and a good percentage get ill as the years progress's it improves. I feel bad because so many kids depend on school's for support and meals as their home life is not stable. They need to be a priority imo.
