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Post by agengr2004 on Aug 17, 2021 20:30:33 GMT
Merge , I think 'lost their f-ing minds' is quite an apt description for what's happened the last couple years. my supervisor's daughter is a first grader in one of the NW Phoenix suburbs. She just told me that so far they've had 120 positive cases, and 649 close contact quarantines. They've only been in school 1 1/2 WEEKS. And of those 120 COVID cases, only SIX of them were teachers. They can't REQUIRE masks because of (douchey Republican) governor Ducey. My cousin lives in Roswell and his 1st grader is now virtual because they closed the school for the next two weeks.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Aug 17, 2021 20:40:32 GMT
Well the localish school district that was going to allow parents to opt their children from masks has reversed their decision that didn’t take long. I’m really curious if we will hear about cases if we don’t have kids in the schools. It was easy to find last year but not finding any mention of it in their site this year. I don’t have a child there anymore but am still curious.
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Post by refugeepea on Aug 17, 2021 20:57:48 GMT
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 17, 2021 21:30:05 GMT
Well the localish school district that was going to allow parents to opt their children from masks has reversed their decision that didn’t take long. I’m really curious if we will hear about cases if we don’t have kids in the schools. It was easy to find last year but not finding any mention of it in their site this year. I don’t have a child there anymore but am still curious. In my area, every school district has a Covid dashboard online that anyone can look up to see how many cases have been reported in each school’s community in our district. It was broken down further by how many cases were reported with students and how many with staff at each school and also how many were exposed and quarantined, and it was updated weekly. Ours is down now too, probably because school is still out on summer break so there isn’t really anything to report at the moment. Some of the school buildings are being used for summer care and for community education classes but that’s it. I’m sure once school starts up again on the 30th that the dashboard will be back up too. I feel like I keep spouting doom and gloom about this topic but it really seems like this next school year is going to be a royal shit show. I think when things initially turned a corner this spring for the better with many in my area rushing to get vaccinated, the governor and everyone else breathed a huge collective sigh of relief thinking things would be able to get back to being relatively normal by this fall. With herd immunity, things would be okay even if the younger kids couldn’t get vaccinated but then herd immunity hasn’t happened. They thought they were headed toward being in the clear this fall with most of the teachers and staff getting vaccinated earlier this spring. Things went so sideways so fast this summer with Delta and now they are stuck going forward with no plan in place to deal with this and no safety net either.
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Post by Merge on Aug 17, 2021 21:34:27 GMT
Well the localish school district that was going to allow parents to opt their children from masks has reversed their decision that didn’t take long. I’m really curious if we will hear about cases if we don’t have kids in the schools. It was easy to find last year but not finding any mention of it in their site this year. I don’t have a child there anymore but am still curious. In my area, every school district has a Covid dashboard online that anyone can look up to see how many cases have been reported in each school’s community in our district. It was broken down further by how many cases were reported with students and how many with staff at each school and also how many were exposed and quarantined, and it was updated weekly. Ours is down now too, probably because school is still out on summer break so there isn’t really anything to report at the moment. Some of the school buildings are being used for summer care and for community education classes but that’s it. I’m sure once school starts up again on the 30th that the dashboard will be back up too. I feel like I keep spouting doom and gloom about this topic but it really seems like this next school year is going to be a royal shit show. I think when things initially turned a corner this spring for the better with many in my area rushing to get vaccinated, the governor and everyone else breathed a huge collective sigh of relief thinking things would be able to get back to being relatively normal by this fall. With herd immunity, things would be okay even if the younger kids couldn’t get vaccinated but then herd immunity hasn’t happened. They thought they were headed toward being in the clear this fall with most of the teachers and staff getting vaccinated earlier this spring. Things went so sideways so fast this summer with Delta and now they are stuck going forward with no plan in place to deal with this and no safety net either. One of the issues we had last year was that the district only reported cases that it could confirm were acquired in a district facility. That really depressed the numbers. Will be interesting to see if the new supe does the same.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 17, 2021 21:51:30 GMT
One of the issues we had last year was that the district only reported cases that it could confirm were acquired in a district facility. That really depressed the numbers. Will be interesting to see if the new supe does the same. Honestly since my kid was 100% virtual last year I never really paid much attention to the district dashboard until her friends in hybrid were one by one sent home to quarantine because of confirmed cases in their various classrooms last spring. After the second or third friend told DD that they had to go get a Covid test within the course of a week, I started paying closer attention to it. Since we have no virtual option within the district for her grade this year, we will absolutely be paying much closer attention to the district dashboard going forward.
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