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LSP2005
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
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What I suggested to my superintendent and he thought was a good idea:
1. For the middle and high school:
- two and a half hour science lab on one or two days a week
-two and a half hour special class I.e. tech ed, computers, woodworking, foods, etc.
- one hour class with rotating English, math, language arts, social studies team teacher.
-kids in middle to high school are in school one or two days a week.
-all other classes distance learning.
2. For elementary school:
- small classes of 10 people.
- place fifth grade at the high school In unused rooms
- place fourth grade at the middle school In unused rooms
- place k to 3 in elementary classrooms. Our elementary classrooms already have sinks in the rooms. K and 1 also have bathrooms in classrooms.
I keep rereading your ms/hs suggestion and just can't make sense of it. I also can't imagine where they would get 2-3x the elementary teachers they currently have. It just doesn't seem at all feasible.
. My district has a $7 million slush fund from a building they ended up not building for a variety of reasons. We have four elementary schools too. It is a really large district compared with what is on LI. I honestly think you could do this if some districts merged. It would end up being a cost savings in the long run with one administration.
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MrsT809
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by LSP2005
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by LSP2005
What I suggested to my superintendent and he thought was a good idea:
1. For the middle and high school:
- two and a half hour science lab on one or two days a week
-two and a half hour special class I.e. tech ed, computers, woodworking, foods, etc.
- one hour class with rotating English, math, language arts, social studies team teacher.
-kids in middle to high school are in school one or two days a week.
-all other classes distance learning.
2. For elementary school:
- small classes of 10 people.
- place fifth grade at the high school In unused rooms
- place fourth grade at the middle school In unused rooms
- place k to 3 in elementary classrooms. Our elementary classrooms already have sinks in the rooms. K and 1 also have bathrooms in classrooms.
I keep rereading your ms/hs suggestion and just can't make sense of it. I also can't imagine where they would get 2-3x the elementary teachers they currently have. It just doesn't seem at all feasible.
. My district has a $7 million slush fund from a building they ended up not building for a variety of reasons. We have four elementary schools too. It is a really large district compared with what is on LI. I honestly think you could do this if some districts merged. It would end up being a cost savings in the long run with one administration.
I don't even mean the money, I mean where would you find all those new teachers? If you're going down to 10 kids per class that's easily twice as many teachers. I've seen articles about teachers leaving their positions (and I've seen it personally as well) so I think it's already going to be difficult to find good teachers let alone to increase the number of elementary teachers by that much.
As for the secondary, I just don't follow what you mean by 2.5 hours for special and 1 hour rotating the core subjects with them only being there 1 or 2 days a week. Idk if it's just me but I don't follow you there.
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LSP2005
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by LSP2005
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by LSP2005
What I suggested to my superintendent and he thought was a good idea:
1. For the middle and high school:
- two and a half hour science lab on one or two days a week
-two and a half hour special class I.e. tech ed, computers, woodworking, foods, etc.
- one hour class with rotating English, math, language arts, social studies team teacher.
-kids in middle to high school are in school one or two days a week.
-all other classes distance learning.
2. For elementary school:
- small classes of 10 people.
- place fifth grade at the high school In unused rooms
- place fourth grade at the middle school In unused rooms
- place k to 3 in elementary classrooms. Our elementary classrooms already have sinks in the rooms. K and 1 also have bathrooms in classrooms.
I keep rereading your ms/hs suggestion and just can't make sense of it. I also can't imagine where they would get 2-3x the elementary teachers they currently have. It just doesn't seem at all feasible.
. My district has a $7 million slush fund from a building they ended up not building for a variety of reasons. We have four elementary schools too. It is a really large district compared with what is on LI. I honestly think you could do this if some districts merged. It would end up being a cost savings in the long run with one administration.
I don't even mean the money, I mean where would you find all those new teachers? If you're going down to 10 kids per class that's easily twice as many teachers. I've seen articles about teachers leaving their positions (and I've seen it personally as well) so I think it's already going to be difficult to find good teachers let alone to increase the number of elementary teachers by that much.
As for the secondary, I just don't follow what you mean by 2.5 hours for special and 1 hour rotating the core subjects with them only being there 1 or 2 days a week. Idk if it's just me but I don't follow you there.
finding teachers will be hard, I do admit that. But for my district we have a huge pool of subs, over 100 that are qualified, so I think my district will be okay. I can't speak to other states or schools.
As for the labs and specials. My kids have a thing called cycles. They do robotics, woodworking, foods, computers, technology, windstorm programming, art, pottery, and a few other options. So my thinking was instead of meeting daily, they would meet like a college class for 2.5 hours one day. Same for science labs. So instead of dragging the lab out over a few days they would do the lab in one day.
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| Posted 6/9/20 8:45 PM |
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Naturalmama
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School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
I still believe that it is going to come down to two options- open as normal, or stay 100% online. I just don't see anything else working.
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| Posted 6/9/20 9:09 PM |
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NicoleF219
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by LSP2005
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by LSP2005
What I suggested to my superintendent and he thought was a good idea:
1. For the middle and high school:
- two and a half hour science lab on one or two days a week
-two and a half hour special class I.e. tech ed, computers, woodworking, foods, etc.
- one hour class with rotating English, math, language arts, social studies team teacher.
-kids in middle to high school are in school one or two days a week.
-all other classes distance learning.
2. For elementary school:
- small classes of 10 people.
- place fifth grade at the high school In unused rooms
- place fourth grade at the middle school In unused rooms
- place k to 3 in elementary classrooms. Our elementary classrooms already have sinks in the rooms. K and 1 also have bathrooms in classrooms.
I keep rereading your ms/hs suggestion and just can't make sense of it. I also can't imagine where they would get 2-3x the elementary teachers they currently have. It just doesn't seem at all feasible.
. My district has a $7 million slush fund from a building they ended up not building for a variety of reasons. We have four elementary schools too. It is a really large district compared with what is on LI. I honestly think you could do this if some districts merged. It would end up being a cost savings in the long run with one administration.
I don't even mean the money, I mean where would you find all those new teachers? If you're going down to 10 kids per class that's easily twice as many teachers. I've seen articles about teachers leaving their positions (and I've seen it personally as well) so I think it's already going to be difficult to find good teachers let alone to increase the number of elementary teachers by that much.
As for the secondary, I just don't follow what you mean by 2.5 hours for special and 1 hour rotating the core subjects with them only being there 1 or 2 days a week. Idk if it's just me but I don't follow you there.
It's not going to be ten in a class and that's it. The groups of ten will be on alternating schedules. A hybrid model of in school and remote. That's an idea that's been floating around
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MrsT809
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School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Here are the newly released guidelines from nys for special education. I figure this gives a peek at what they may expect in fall. Face masks required for staff but not students for all those that have been debating that.
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/06/doh_specialeducationguidance.pdf
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Naturalmama
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by MrsT809
Here are the newly released guidelines from nys for special education. I figure this gives a peek at what they may eject in fall. Face masks required for staff but not students for all those that have beg debating that.
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/06/doh_specialeducationguidance.pdf
Same for camp. Children do not have to wear masks, but staff does. So, I am not sure children will have to wear masks all day in September.
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KarenK122
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by MrsT809
Here are the newly released guidelines from nys for special education. I figure this gives a peek at what they may expect in fall. Face masks required for staff but not students for all those that have been debating that.
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/06/doh_specialeducationguidance.pdf
I just read this earlier getting prepared for our ESY. Glad to see the kids do not need to wear masks. Unless they relax the social distancing, there will be no way regular school can happen in the Fall. Most schools do not have enough room to split the classes nor do they have enough teachers. Alternating days may work but I still do not think most schools will have enough room.
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by KarenK122
Posted by MrsT809
Here are the newly released guidelines from nys for special education. I figure this gives a peek at what they may expect in fall. Face masks required for staff but not students for all those that have been debating that.
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/06/doh_specialeducationguidance.pdf
I just read this earlier getting prepared for our ESY. Glad to see the kids do not need to wear masks. Unless they relax the social distancing, there will be no way regular school can happen in the Fall. Most schools do not have enough room to split the classes nor do they have enough teachers. Alternating days may work but I still do not think most schools will have enough room.
Our principal said at our last PTA meeting that it keeps her up at night - trying to figure out where to put the kids.
I guess if they aren’t switching for specials they can use that space - but then again they will need more teachers.
I hope this summer goes well as things start to open up and they can go back full time in the fall and still be able to enjoy school a bit. Like a pp said - if it’s going to be that miserable I’d rather keep them home.
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MrsA1012
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School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
There is no reason that schools cannot open up basically normally. Kids rarely get sick almost never die and multiple studies show that even if they get sick they don't spread the illness. Flu is a far greater threat to kids and schools operate normally during flu season. Get on with life, this is ridiculous !
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by MrsA1012
There is no reason that schools cannot open up basically normally. Kids rarely get sick almost never die and multiple studies show that even if they get sick they don't spread the illness. Flu is a far greater threat to kids and schools operate normally during flu season. Get on with life, this is ridiculous !
I agree. I feel like covid is pretty much over. If they just sanitize the schools, by September we can start back to normal, IMO.
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GoldenRod
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by MrsA1012
There is no reason that schools cannot open up basically normally. Kids rarely get sick almost never die and multiple studies show that even if they get sick they don't spread the illness. Flu is a far greater threat to kids and schools operate normally during flu season. Get on with life, this is ridiculous !
Everyone is trying to be overly cautious. We've studied the flu for over 100 years, so we know almost everything about it. We know that if you get the flu as a child, you don't develop lung scarring as an adult. We don't know that with Covid-19. Some very small-scale tests indicate that some people get permanent lung scarring, and other organ damage.
I agree that we need to start getting back to normal, but it's all of the unknowns that keep people from starting things up again.
Yes, most long-term side effects will only affect those who have severe infections. Most other organ damage will only happen for severe cases.... or will it? The unknowns are what are scaring everyone.
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Naturalmama
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by nycbuslady
Posted by MrsA1012
There is no reason that schools cannot open up basically normally. Kids rarely get sick almost never die and multiple studies show that even if they get sick they don't spread the illness. Flu is a far greater threat to kids and schools operate normally during flu season. Get on with life, this is ridiculous !
I agree. I feel like covid is pretty much over. If they just sanitize the schools, by September we can start back to normal, IMO.
In states that have already reopened, cases are spiking. So I wouldn't say COVID is over. With that being said, I do believe Cuomo was so overly cautious, sometimes too much so, IMO, that NY can quite possibly avoid a second wave and the spikes that are happening in Florida, Texas, & California. I do find it interesting that Georgia was the first state to reopen, April 24th, and they have not seen a spike.
I do believe that if numbers continue to stay low through the summer, they can open schools pretty close to normal. DiBlasio says he believes NYC will enter "low level transmission" sometime later this summer/early fall. My main concern is if they can't open as normal- because I do believe that is the only hope we have for our kids to not be remote learning in the fall.
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
A 10-student class size means not opening normally.
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| Posted 6/10/20 9:34 AM |
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Naturalmama
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School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NaFfOKrw5dVvsl4fnwbZ892cs_c3LUMCENKhDD5cGVk/edit
Here is a letter from the chancellor of NYC public schools, on what they are thinking September will look like.
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by Naturalmama
Posted by nycbuslady
Posted by MrsA1012
There is no reason that schools cannot open up basically normally. Kids rarely get sick almost never die and multiple studies show that even if they get sick they don't spread the illness. Flu is a far greater threat to kids and schools operate normally during flu season. Get on with life, this is ridiculous !
I agree. I feel like covid is pretty much over. If they just sanitize the schools, by September we can start back to normal, IMO.
In states that have already reopened, cases are spiking. So I wouldn't say COVID is over. With that being said, I do believe Cuomo was so overly cautious, sometimes too much so, IMO, that NY can quite possibly avoid a second wave and the spikes that are happening in Florida, Texas, & California. I do find it interesting that Georgia was the first state to reopen, April 24th, and they have not seen a spike.
I do believe that if numbers continue to stay low through the summer, they can open schools pretty close to normal. DiBlasio says he believes NYC will enter "low level transmission" sometime later this summer/early fall. My main concern is if they can't open as normal- because I do believe that is the only hope we have for our kids to not be remote learning in the fall.
How do we not know that the spikes are because more have access to testing? We can't keep stopping life if the numbers spike. I wonder if we actually looked at the number of spikes of the flu and other deadly illnesses would be also be afraid and stop everything. It has never happened and this could have been done differently from the beginning.
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Naturalmama
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
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Posted by Naturalmama
Posted by nycbuslady
Posted by MrsA1012
There is no reason that schools cannot open up basically normally. Kids rarely get sick almost never die and multiple studies show that even if they get sick they don't spread the illness. Flu is a far greater threat to kids and schools operate normally during flu season. Get on with life, this is ridiculous !
I agree. I feel like covid is pretty much over. If they just sanitize the schools, by September we can start back to normal, IMO.
In states that have already reopened, cases are spiking. So I wouldn't say COVID is over. With that being said, I do believe Cuomo was so overly cautious, sometimes too much so, IMO, that NY can quite possibly avoid a second wave and the spikes that are happening in Florida, Texas, & California. I do find it interesting that Georgia was the first state to reopen, April 24th, and they have not seen a spike.
I do believe that if numbers continue to stay low through the summer, they can open schools pretty close to normal. DiBlasio says he believes NYC will enter "low level transmission" sometime later this summer/early fall. My main concern is if they can't open as normal- because I do believe that is the only hope we have for our kids to not be remote learning in the fall.
How do we not know that the spikes are because more have access to testing? We can't keep stopping life if the numbers spike. I wonder if we actually looked at the number of spikes of the flu and other deadly illnesses would be also be afraid and stop everything. It has never happened and this could have been done differently from the beginning.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. However, the school districts will follow the CDC guidelines, and they will most likely recommend social distancing until there is a vaccine or effective treatment/cure. Do I agree? Not necessarily. But I do believe that is what will happen.
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Smaller class sizes are a pipe dream, especially in city schools like NYC where they are already overcrowded and stuffed to the gills.
Masks are a pipe dream, NO child particularly in elementary school will keep the on. My kids were in Target yesterday with me and I was fighting with them nonstop to put the mask on their face, they lasted about 10 min before all hell broke loose.
Keeping kids, especially little ones, 6 ft apart is a pipe dream. Humans are social creatures, they gravitate to one another. Kids NEED to interact and play. Oh, and good luck keeping high school kids apart from their girlfriends/boyfriends/teammates/etc. You know outside of school ALL students no matter the age will be interacting anyway, social distancing among kids is going to be virtually impossible.
Going to school part time is a pipe dream, parents have to work and not all have the ability to find care. Furthermore, if you can go to school for even ONE day then you can go for FIVE. Exposure is exposure so it's all or nothing.
Remote learning for another year is a pipe dream. Make NO mistake here, ALL kids have fallen behind this spring. Remote learning, no matter how well it's implemented, is nowhere near as good as being in the classroom. If we expect kids to grow academically and be prepared going forward they NEED to be in school. Period. End of discussion.
So what is the answer? It's honestly simple.
Just open the damn schools and go forward as usual WITH a few extra safety precautions.
Have hand sanitizer readily available around the schools.
Do temp checks to make sure nobody is sending their kids to school sick.
Encourage frequent hand washing, especially before and after lunch.
Put more resources and effort into disinfecting classrooms and increase the frequency for cleaning.
And that's it because everything else is a joke.
Kids won't wear masks or stay away from each other. NO district has the means to decrease class size to almost single digits. Kids NEED to be in school FULL time. Remote learning isn't comparable to being in school. And most of all, our children NEED to be educated properly and EVERY day.
Lastly, by September COVID could be a nothing issue at that point for all we know.
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by Hofstra26
Smaller class sizes are a pipe dream, especially in city schools like NYC where they are already overcrowded and stuffed to the gills.
Masks are a pipe dream, NO child particularly in elementary school will keep the on. My kids were in Target yesterday with me and I was fighting with them nonstop to put the mask on their face, they lasted about 10 min before all hell broke loose.
Keeping kids, especially little ones, 6 ft apart is a pipe dream. Humans are social creatures, they gravitate to one another. Kids NEED to interact and play. Oh, and good luck keeping high school kids apart from their girlfriends/boyfriends/teammates/etc. You know outside of school ALL students no matter the age will be interacting anyway, social distancing among kids is going to be virtually impossible.
Going to school part time is a pipe dream, parents have to work and not all have the ability to find care. Furthermore, if you can go to school for even ONE day then you can go for FIVE. Exposure is exposure so it's all or nothing.
Remote learning for another year is a pipe dream. Make NO mistake here, ALL kids have fallen behind this spring. Remote learning, no matter how well it's implemented, is nowhere near as good as being in the classroom. If we expect kids to grow academically and be prepared going forward they NEED to be in school. Period. End of discussion.
So what is the answer? It's honestly simple.
Just open the damn schools and go forward as usual WITH a few extra safety precautions.
Have hand sanitizer readily available around the schools.
Do temp checks to make sure nobody is sending their kids to school sick.
Encourage frequent hand washing, especially before and after lunch.
Put more resources and effort into disinfecting classrooms and increase the frequency for cleaning.
And that's it because everything else is a joke.
Kids won't wear masks or stay away from each other. NO district has the means to decrease class size to almost single digits. Kids NEED to be in school FULL time. Remote learning isn't comparable to being in school. And most of all, our children NEED to be educated properly and EVERY day.
Lastly, by September COVID could be a nothing issue at that point for all we know.
I would love for this to be all that's necessary but almost all of these precautions were happening in March when cases skyrocketed. I think the only thing we know is that we have no idea what will happen in September.
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by Hofstra26
Smaller class sizes are a pipe dream, especially in city schools like NYC where they are already overcrowded and stuffed to the gills.
Masks are a pipe dream, NO child particularly in elementary school will keep the on. My kids were in Target yesterday with me and I was fighting with them nonstop to put the mask on their face, they lasted about 10 min before all hell broke loose.
Keeping kids, especially little ones, 6 ft apart is a pipe dream. Humans are social creatures, they gravitate to one another. Kids NEED to interact and play. Oh, and good luck keeping high school kids apart from their girlfriends/boyfriends/teammates/etc. You know outside of school ALL students no matter the age will be interacting anyway, social distancing among kids is going to be virtually impossible.
Going to school part time is a pipe dream, parents have to work and not all have the ability to find care. Furthermore, if you can go to school for even ONE day then you can go for FIVE. Exposure is exposure so it's all or nothing.
Remote learning for another year is a pipe dream. Make NO mistake here, ALL kids have fallen behind this spring. Remote learning, no matter how well it's implemented, is nowhere near as good as being in the classroom. If we expect kids to grow academically and be prepared going forward they NEED to be in school. Period. End of discussion.
So what is the answer? It's honestly simple.
Just open the damn schools and go forward as usual WITH a few extra safety precautions.
Have hand sanitizer readily available around the schools.
Do temp checks to make sure nobody is sending their kids to school sick.
Encourage frequent hand washing, especially before and after lunch.
Put more resources and effort into disinfecting classrooms and increase the frequency for cleaning.
And that's it because everything else is a joke.
Kids won't wear masks or stay away from each other. NO district has the means to decrease class size to almost single digits. Kids NEED to be in school FULL time. Remote learning isn't comparable to being in school. And most of all, our children NEED to be educated properly and EVERY day.
Lastly, by September COVID could be a nothing issue at that point for all we know.
I would love for this to be all that's necessary but almost all of these precautions were happening in March when cases skyrocketed. I think the only thing we know is that we have no idea what will happen in September.
But cases weren't skyrocketing in schools. In fact, it's STILL extremely RARE that a kid would even contract COVID if the CDC/WHO is to be believed.
I guess my point is, I think everyone is spinning their wheels on this school reopening thing and trying to come up with all these new measure but in short, there really isn't anything they can do. Why? Because all of these guidelines and suggestions are simply impractical and will be difficult if not impossible to implement.
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MrsA1012
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by Hofstra26
Smaller class sizes are a pipe dream, especially in city schools like NYC where they are already overcrowded and stuffed to the gills.
Masks are a pipe dream, NO child particularly in elementary school will keep the on. My kids were in Target yesterday with me and I was fighting with them nonstop to put the mask on their face, they lasted about 10 min before all hell broke loose.
Keeping kids, especially little ones, 6 ft apart is a pipe dream. Humans are social creatures, they gravitate to one another. Kids NEED to interact and play. Oh, and good luck keeping high school kids apart from their girlfriends/boyfriends/teammates/etc. You know outside of school ALL students no matter the age will be interacting anyway, social distancing among kids is going to be virtually impossible.
Going to school part time is a pipe dream, parents have to work and not all have the ability to find care. Furthermore, if you can go to school for even ONE day then you can go for FIVE. Exposure is exposure so it's all or nothing.
Remote learning for another year is a pipe dream. Make NO mistake here, ALL kids have fallen behind this spring. Remote learning, no matter how well it's implemented, is nowhere near as good as being in the classroom. If we expect kids to grow academically and be prepared going forward they NEED to be in school. Period. End of discussion.
So what is the answer? It's honestly simple.
Just open the damn schools and go forward as usual WITH a few extra safety precautions.
Have hand sanitizer readily available around the schools.
Do temp checks to make sure nobody is sending their kids to school sick.
Encourage frequent hand washing, especially before and after lunch.
Put more resources and effort into disinfecting classrooms and increase the frequency for cleaning.
And that's it because everything else is a joke.
Kids won't wear masks or stay away from each other. NO district has the means to decrease class size to almost single digits. Kids NEED to be in school FULL time. Remote learning isn't comparable to being in school. And most of all, our children NEED to be educated properly and EVERY day.
Lastly, by September COVID could be a nothing issue at that point for all we know.
I would love for this to be all that's necessary but almost all of these precautions were happening in March when cases skyrocketed. I think the only thing we know is that we have no idea what will happen in September.
But cases weren't skyrocketing in schools. In fact, it's STILL extremely RARE that a kid would even contract COVID if the CDC/WHO is to be believed.
I guess my point is, I think everyone is spinning their wheels on this school reopening thing and trying to come up with all these new measure but in short, there really isn't anything they can do. Why? Because all of these guidelines and suggestions are simply impractical and will be difficult if not impossible to implement.
I could not agree more. It is either remote learning ( which is dreadful ) or an essentially normal opening. After 6 months we have enough data to know that healthy kids almost never die and multiple studies showing they are not spreaders. It is absolutely perfect amount of knowledge where we know every possibility ? No. However, it is more than enough to make a decision.
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ali120206
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School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Rhode Island set a goal today to start in person school on 8/31! There are restrictions, spacing and masks but, it's nice to hear a state working towards it actively.
I read an article yesterday how an area in Virginia was thinking kids would go one day a week.
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| Posted 6/10/20 7:04 PM |
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RainyDay
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by ali120206
Rhode Island set a goal today to start in person school on 8/31! There are restrictions, spacing and masks but, it's nice to hear a state working towards it actively.
I read an article yesterday how an area in Virginia was thinking kids would go one day a week.
What would be the point? How will parents handle not having kids in school regularly? Will some type of protection be put into place to allow those parents to have either alternate schedules or work from home?
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| Posted 6/10/20 8:17 PM |
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ali120206
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by RainyDay
Posted by ali120206
Rhode Island set a goal today to start in person school on 8/31! There are restrictions, spacing and masks but, it's nice to hear a state working towards it actively.
I read an article yesterday how an area in Virginia was thinking kids would go one day a week.
What would be the point? How will parents handle not having kids in school regularly? Will some type of protection be put into place to allow those parents to have either alternate schedules or work from home?
There is no point in going one day a week...
I'm lucky to work for a company that is flexible but, this isn't an ideal long term working solution either.
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| Posted 6/10/20 8:36 PM |
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NervousNell
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..being a mommy and being a wife!
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Re: School reopening guidelines (Massachusetts)
Posted by ali120206
Posted by RainyDay
Posted by ali120206
Rhode Island set a goal today to start in person school on 8/31! There are restrictions, spacing and masks but, it's nice to hear a state working towards it actively.
I read an article yesterday how an area in Virginia was thinking kids would go one day a week.
What would be the point? How will parents handle not having kids in school regularly? Will some type of protection be put into place to allow those parents to have either alternate schedules or work from home?
There is no point in going one day a week...
I'm lucky to work for a company that is flexible but, this isn't an ideal long term working solution either.
Exactly. One day a week would be a disaster and do absolutely nothing for these kids. Might as well continue with the nonsense distance learning and just accept the fact that these kids will suffer long term social and emotional damage, and be under educated moving forward.
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