breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Mar 15, 2020 15:12:16 GMT
Yes I believe so. We are on spring break this week and most likely will be the next the district has told us. I think it’s a good idea. I only worry about the kids who rely on the breakfast and lunch and how they will be able to eat. I think it’s a good idea to shut them down. We need to bunker down and flatten the curve In my district they are handing out sack breakfast/lunches (sack brunches?) in front of certain schools from 10-12 on weekdays. Our schools are closed until April 27th. |
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pyccku
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Post by pyccku on Mar 15, 2020 16:11:17 GMT
Mesa Unified School Districts, the largest school district in the State of Arizona, just sent out an announcement that they are not canceling any classes next week. Keep in mind that the students and faculty are all returning from Spring Break, with a lot of people returning from out of state and out of country travel. About 16 or 18 districts within the State of Arizona are suspending classes for one week, I just think this is completely irresponsible on the district! (eeeek, and with this post I'm officially "nice as pi"!! Now they are closed. |
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Post by ameslou on Mar 15, 2020 16:22:47 GMT
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QueenoftheSloths
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Mar 15, 2020 16:33:12 GMT
MN, the governor announced a plan to close for 2 weeks to prepare for a long term shut down. It sounds like they have considered a lot of elements of the plan, and while there is still a lot of work to do, it's good to know they are thinking and planning for things. I could tell the governor, a former teacher, has really wrestled with the closure.
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Country Ham
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Post by Country Ham on Mar 15, 2020 16:42:17 GMT
As our chief medical officer announced yesterday it's not necessary to close schools, I assume our district will follow this advice. No cases in the NW here yet Apparently my state's Department of Education is recommending that school districts hold off on closing schools until they have a confirmed (!!) case of COVID within a school (not the community, the schools). That's why ours hasn't closed from what I understand. But my son's two baseball games are canceled Monday and Tuesday evenings because the county we were playing against are closed next week for a 2 week spring break. It's all getting confusing. |
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lizacreates
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Post by lizacreates on Mar 15, 2020 19:20:57 GMT
I think there'll come a time very soon when all schools nationwide will close. We have 66 COVID-19 cases in Illinois and two days ago (?), our governor ordered the closing of all our schools, including training centers / educational centers that serve the disabled.
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brandy327
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Post by brandy327 on Mar 15, 2020 19:27:19 GMT
NH just shut all schools in the state down for 3 weeks, effective immediately. Teachers get a week to get online learning ready.
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ddly
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Post by ddly on Mar 15, 2020 19:42:06 GMT
In VT the governor had a press conference Friday and essentially said the schools need to stay open so older care givers don’t get infected. I don’t know whether or not to be pissed that he didn’t seem to care about teachers/staff. We just came off a vacation so we don’t have another until mid April.
Our district will not do online learning due to many students, and even staff, that don’t have internet. We are pretty rural.
I’ll keep showing up for the kids. I trust the AOE and Health Dept to steer our superintendents right.
Edited to add - I was reading earlier where they were recommending closures of at least 8 weeks.
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Post by salem on Mar 15, 2020 19:49:03 GMT
NH just shut all schools in the state down for 3 weeks, effective immediately. Teachers get a week to get online learning ready. I watched the Governors news conference earlier. Is your district ready to roll with online classes? Ours isn’t quite ready yet, although I didn’t expect them to go more than a day or two before the switch. The district just needs to get laptops and hotspots set up for kids that don’t have access.. I’m honestly shocked that he went 3 weeks right off though. |
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Country Ham
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Post by Country Ham on Mar 15, 2020 20:12:53 GMT
Tennessee Department of Education guidelines: GUIDELINESWhat's interesting is that there is no consistent pattern. My county is one of the latest spring breaks. Two of our neighboring counties are on spring break this coming week, and another the week after so they are taking an extra one. Mine go back to class tomorrow. My daughter just wants this one day to complete her two midterms she missed being off with the actual confirmed flu. None of my neighboring have a positive case of Corona virus but are still canceling. |
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ddly
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Post by ddly on Mar 15, 2020 20:13:01 GMT
Well, Gov just announced schools need to shutdown by Wed. until April 6th. It’s going to be a shit show at school the next 2 days with teaches trying to teach and prep 2 weeks of work for kids to take home. I’m a special educator and I have a triennial eval due 4/25 so hopefully 5here will be something put into effect for plans/Evans that end up out of compliance because it’ll happen.
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brandy327
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Post by brandy327 on Mar 15, 2020 21:11:29 GMT
NH just shut all schools in the state down for 3 weeks, effective immediately. Teachers get a week to get online learning ready. I watched the Governors news conference earlier. Is your district ready to roll with online classes? Ours isn’t quite ready yet, although I didn’t expect them to go more than a day or two before the switch. The district just needs to get laptops and hotspots set up for kids that don’t have access.. I’m honestly shocked that he went 3 weeks right off though. We already have chromebooks for every student on our district and they were all sent home with students on Friday. And a poll that they had at the beginning of the year, 90% of our students have internet at home. Those that do not have internet, they mentioned using the cellphones as hotspots. They had an emergency school board meeting today at 4 that they live streamed. Our superintendent said in his opinion, only his opinion, but he thinks it'll end up being somewhere around 6 weeks of closure. The teachers are heading to school tomorrow to basically come up with a plan. By Wednesday, they plan on trying it out. During the board meeting today, they said taking attendance will be done via email from the parents. They still seemed a little iffy on how to best serve the special education students, especially the ones that receive PT. |
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Post by cmhs on Mar 15, 2020 21:44:01 GMT
NYC mayor Diblasio is announcing right now NYC schools will be closed starting tomorrow for at least one MONTH and possibly for the rest of the school year!
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Post by salem on Mar 15, 2020 23:08:19 GMT
I watched the Governors news conference earlier. Is your district ready to roll with online classes? Ours isn’t quite ready yet, although I didn’t expect them to go more than a day or two before the switch. The district just needs to get laptops and hotspots set up for kids that don’t have access.. I’m honestly shocked that he went 3 weeks right off though. We already have chromebooks for every student on our district and they were all sent home with students on Friday. And a poll that they had at the beginning of the year, 90% of our students have internet at home. Those that do not have internet, they mentioned using the cellphones as hotspots. They had an emergency school board meeting today at 4 that they live streamed. Our superintendent said in his opinion, only his opinion, but he thinks it'll end up being somewhere around 6 weeks of closure. The teachers are heading to school tomorrow to basically come up with a plan. By Wednesday, they plan on trying it out. During the board meeting today, they said taking attendance will be done via email from the parents. They still seemed a little iffy on how to best serve the special education students, especially the ones that receive PT. We will have the same set up. I didn’t even think about the attendance thing, but good idea! I know the Special Ed team will be the toughest part for our district too. Good luck to you guys. |
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Post by brandy327 on Mar 15, 2020 23:26:49 GMT
We already have chromebooks for every student on our district and they were all sent home with students on Friday. And a poll that they had at the beginning of the year, 90% of our students have internet at home. Those that do not have internet, they mentioned using the cellphones as hotspots. They had an emergency school board meeting today at 4 that they live streamed. Our superintendent said in his opinion, only his opinion, but he thinks it'll end up being somewhere around 6 weeks of closure. The teachers are heading to school tomorrow to basically come up with a plan. By Wednesday, they plan on trying it out. During the board meeting today, they said taking attendance will be done via email from the parents. They still seemed a little iffy on how to best serve the special education students, especially the ones that receive PT. We will have the same set up. I didn’t even think about the attendance thing, but good idea! I know the Special Ed team will be the toughest part for our district too. Good luck to you guys. I actually have a special ed student, but he's all main streamed, doesn't have a para, etc. He does all regular classes but he'll not be getting his social groups. We have great staff and honestly, my kid is one that will be ok with this. It'll require more help from me or dh in explaining things to him, but we'll manage. We have several students though that do not do well with changes, especially sudden changes. It's going to be really hard for them. I know our superintendent did say that if all else fails, they'll find some way to get those few students to the school. I'm not sure how that would be possible but... Good luck to your district as well! Let's hope all of this goes relatively smoothly. |
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Post by ddly on Mar 15, 2020 23:33:14 GMT
I’m a special educator and our district is doing packets. I work in high school but I worry about packets. I don’t have high needs kids but I have struggling readers and kids that can barely perform basic operations. I don’t know how they’ll do with packets. I’m curious to see what providing services to them will look like. I’m really just worried about them.
They say we’ll close until April 6th but we know there is a very high likelihood it will be longer. I don’t feel good about this at all.
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Post by MalleyCat on Mar 15, 2020 23:36:41 GMT
Our Placer County(Northern CA) district game notice of a 3 week closure at the end of Friday. It’s really 4 weeks, if you factor in a week of Spring Break. Most school districts around of have closed.
Our district is working on a game plan for the kids to do independent and on-line study.
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Post by sassyangel on Mar 16, 2020 1:44:57 GMT
Yes. They closed K-12 in ND.
Big turnaround from the governor, so clearly he’s getting actionable information from somewhere, that’s urging caution. Thank goodness.
Now, if people will just keep their kids and themselves home.
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Post by Dani-Mani on Mar 16, 2020 2:11:05 GMT
I made a list in another thread. We’re over 30, but some states most schools are on break this week so nothing from those states. Some governors are recommending but not yet mandating. We will absolutely hit all 50, no doubt in my mind.
This is scary to me. A nationwide shut down of public education is unfathomable to me as an educator.
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Post by ameslou on Mar 16, 2020 2:50:11 GMT
As our chief medical officer announced yesterday it's not necessary to close schools, I assume our district will follow this advice. No cases in the NW here yet Apparently my state's Department of Education is recommending that school districts hold off on closing schools until they have a confirmed (!!) case of COVID within a school (not the community, the schools). That's why ours hasn't closed from what I understand. But my son's two baseball games are canceled Monday and Tuesday evenings because the county we were playing against are closed next week for a 2 week spring break. It's all getting confusing. Which county are you in? We are Knox Co. |
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Country Ham
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Post by Country Ham on Mar 16, 2020 3:26:39 GMT
Which county are you in? We are Knox Co. Clay Co (so you get when I post very small population, poor etc). But there is something going around around FB saying they are planning on closing Wednesday. The vice principal's wife even got in on the discussion saying it's not "official" but the person has inside knowledge. I think it's because the Juniors are writing their ACT on Tuesday, and they are finishing up Benchmarks on Monday. The director of schools is quoted. |
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