thought this might be worthy of its own thread so as not to get too lost in the others. i feel most parents and working parents especially need a plan that they trust to be put forward and implemented in order to be comfortable with a return to schools and daycare. there are other stakeholders in these decisions who's concerns and safety also need to be addressed. from the teachers to the administration staff to the lunchroom staff to the transportation folks to many others i haven't thought about yet. before america gets back to work, what do we do with the kids? huge issue with potentially very bad results if we get it wrong. https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/covid19_reopen-america-schools.pdf?mod=article_inline the first link is to a pdf file put fwd by the american federation of teachers. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/201.../Schools-Decision-Tree.pdf?mod=article_inline cdc flow chart guidelines https://www.marketwatch.com/story/t...-schools-in-the-fall-2020-05-19?mod=home-page good article tying many of the questions together with some of the larger school districts broad overviews https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/...re-faced-with-another-challenge-no-childcare/ localized to hawaii but some of the options for childcare out side the box that are being discussed. especially important here where grandparents are often the caregivers for working parents. obesity and diabetes in hawaii are off the charts compared to the rest of the country leaving them part of the most vulnerable segment of the population in concern of the virus's impact.
https://www.businessinsider.com/70-...d-after-french-schools-begin-reopening-2020-5 this a link that i posted yesterday in another thread about what happened in france after the first week of allowing some students back. there guidelines included max of 10 kids per class in preschool age students and 15/class for the other age groups. where ever cases were IDed the schools were shut back down for deep clean/disinfected. what is a parent to do in the case where the plan is going to be a start/stop in the case of cases resulting in closures for the cleanings? what about the disparity in the classroom sizes? how will you deal with that? 23.1 students An average of 23.1 students fill the typical American primary school classroom, which is just above the O.E.C.D. average of 21.4 students. In lower secondary schools, the average American class size is 24.3 students, compared with 23.9 across the O.E.C.D.Sep 11, 2009
It’s a huge problem. I’m long past having school-aged kids, but I have grandkids who are going to be affected. I haven’t read the links you posted yet, but with the rise of this Kawasaki-like syndrome, I can’t believe that there’s a safe way to do school until we get a vaccine. I don’t know what my kids will decide, but I’m hoping they home school next year.
with cities and states already strapped for cash or even bordering bankruptcy, where is the cash coming from to open schools? provide daycare? here many state, city and county workers are either losing hours in attempts to try and manage budget shortfalls, or furloughed till future notice. seems to be trouble brewing between the federal guidelines and local distribution of funds already. https://www.chalkbeat.org/2020/5/5/21248179/equitable-services-coronavirus-private-schools https://www.chalkbeat.org/2020/5/6/...e-devos-guidance-on-cares-act-private-schools
Right now, my daughter is being allowed to work from home and my son-in-law is furloughed from his job and drawing unemployment . He’s providing childcare while my daughter works. All of that is pretty tenuous. He could get called back to work at any time and then they will have to make some tough choices. He doesn’t want to go back to his old job because it involved working at area hospitals, otherwise known as Covid ground zero. We may have to chip in so he can stay home until there’s a vaccine. Like almost everyone, life is a bit uncertain at the moment.
My youngest daughter has been able to work at home during this time as she works for OHSU and does scheduling. My oldest daughter had knee surgery so she is on a leave of absence and she works for Southwest Airlines and my son is a teacher and has been doing his classes online while his fiance just had a baby in February so she is also on a leave of absence which is good as she is a nurse at OHSU.
My advice....don't have any....although I'm thrilled I'll have a new grandson any day now...due on the 28th as it is
1. Start school back up in August. The virus will be less contagious during the summer months. 2. Break class sizes down into smaller groups. 3. Schedule the smaller groups so they physically come into school two 1/2 days a week. 4. Set up lesson plans so there is some in school teaching followed up by video based instruction that they do from home. If the virus flares up in different areas the kids would only be losing 1 day a week of actual in class time.
IMHO we are back to a question of testing capabilities and are no where near enough capable of doing it.
see my response about testing being necessary. and labs ability to process them quickly enough to be relevant.
Same old problem. For such an "advanced" healthcare system, we sure do seem to be having a hard time getting this most basic portion of the response right. On a different note, did you catch the Google Doodle today for Iz Kamakawiwoʻole's 61st Birthday? https://g.co/doodle/t2s2bsh
Take teacher and student temperatures before coming into the class. Kids with any kind of symptoms stay home, I don't care if it's a sneeze...same with teachers. Use masks if need be. Have kids wash hands more than usual. Extra deep cleaning by janitors. Etc etc
video based instruction note. not everyone has access to the internet in rural communities or the devices to play it.
what do parents do that are @ work about students sent home? will they need to quarantine for 14 days? how does parent work if must stay home with kids?
