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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 19, 2020 17:09:17 GMT
I've seen different mortality rates for infants, but haven't seen a study on transmission - most studies are looking at child age children as they're specifically looking at how reopening schools will affect the community as whole. My husband and I were just talking about this. Kids are not in school in a bubble. For about every 10 kids there is at least one adult. Why are teachers nervous? Because we know we have been underfunded for years. There are not enough custodians to clean adequately. There is no money to hire any more (as stated by the school board). So nothing extra will be able to be done during a pandemic. There are no good cleaning agents teachers are allowed to use on a regular basis. We can’t use Lysol, Clorox, or bleach. Not diluted and not full strength. We know kids get sick over and over because our classrooms are breeding grounds. There is no money for PPE for staff or students. One local school district told teachers there is no “pot of gold” for extra funding for safety measures. There are people who will send their children sick to school. There are groups here that already have decided that kids won’t spread it so when a family member tests positive they will send their students anyway. There is no money to help with ventilation systems. My classroom has windows that are 8” big. My classroom registered 86 degrees on more than one occasion. That is a lot of stagnant air sitting around. There are not enough buses and bus drivers to split the kids up. There are big classes. Class sizes in this country are large so even half the class won’t help with keeping kids 6’ apart. From what I have read, our country is one of the few worldwide that is doing a horrible job with mask wearing and trying to keep numbers down. The anti-maskers have kids-and those kids and families are going about their lives in some cases to prove that it is a “hoax.” I don’t think worldwide that is as common as here. So let’s stop blaming the teachers and start looking at the real reasons schools should not open. Resounding to all of the above!
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Post by lucyg on Jul 19, 2020 23:46:32 GMT
I am grateful our district is sticking with distance learning in the fall, pending how things go with the COVID.
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pyccku
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Post by pyccku on Jul 20, 2020 1:06:31 GMT
The crazy thing is this - the study didn't really look at whether or not the kids got the TEACHERS sick. No, it found that the kids got their FAMILIES sick.
So for all of the Karens out there who raise a stink and tell the teachers to suck it up and take the risk...well, it turns out that it's Karen and Brad who will be in the most danger. I wonder if that changes things a little bit?
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Post by Merge on Jul 20, 2020 2:20:53 GMT
The crazy thing is this - the study didn't really look at whether or not the kids got the TEACHERS sick. No, it found that the kids got their FAMILIES sick. So for all of the Karens out there who raise a stink and tell the teachers to suck it up and take the risk...well, it turns out that it's Karen and Brad who will be in the most danger. I wonder if that changes things a little bit? It wasn't even done when school was in session. Teachers were not in the picture. There is not, to my knowledge, any scientific data on student-student or student-teacher transmission in the type of environment that many American schools would be using. The closest thing we have is the information that there has been widespread transmission between all parties at daycares and summer camps despite best attempts at masking and distancing. I just want to point out that one thing that is frequently overlooked in the French studies is that French school authorities severely limited the numbers of students who could come back at one time. They put priority on certain at-risk groups, set a number limit, and allowed families in those groups to sign their kids up first come, first serve. Some families who wanted to come back were not allowed because there was not room. If that was tried in the US, there would be absolute fury. Lawsuits and parents marching their kids up to the doors demanding that they be allowed to attend like all those other kids. We have no sense, here, of government authority to deny anyone anything for the common good. It would never happen. I also want to say that I believe that everyone here has kids' best interests at heart. On this board, there are no 'enemies' or people who want kids or teachers to die. That's not the case at all. But I think what we all need to understand is that we have to think very locally on this issue. What may work in one state and city may present absolute disaster in another, and when people who live in that other area say that this solution won't work for us, we need to believe them. Our educational setup and funding, not to mentioned the infection rate, vary so widely from state to state and even district to district that none of us can be an expert on someone else's situation, no matter how well-intentioned.
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