schools closed for end of academic year

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Anonymous wrote:This sucks! I knew kids won’t get to go back to finish off the school year but it makes me so sad!☹️
On top of that the uncertainty of having school in the fall is just too much.. I feel bad for my kids in elementary school. They can’t learn on zoom, especially Kindergarten kids

I have a kindergartener. It's not ideal but okay overall. I always felt like older kids had it worse because stakes are not as high for the K kids.

Let’s just remove that uncertainty and say we won’t be opening schools until Jan 2021 at the earliest and started really cultivating online learning.

Zoom classes are kind of lame, but one on one with zoom could be pretty good, and since teachers don’t have to do a lot of the administrative and discipline for the class, and can focus on just instruction, maybe that could work out to individual instruction time 2-4 times a week with EACH student. On top of group lessons/lectures to give broad introductions.

I see your point about more individualized instruction, but I can already hear parents howling about how THEIR kid didn’t get as much individualized instruction as some other child in class. It will be a no-win situation for teachers.

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I think Smith et al need to work overtime thinking outside the box because right now the distance "learning" that my 8th grader is getting is lame. He teaches Geometry to himself using Kahn Academy. If they went to school in shifts, that would be much better than the current situation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This sucks! I knew kids won’t get to go back to finish off the school year but it makes me so sad!☹️
On top of that the uncertainty of having school in the fall is just too much.. I feel bad for my kids in elementary school. They can’t learn on zoom, especially Kindergarten kids

Who are you people who actually thought there was a possibility of schools opening up? Have you been watching the news and paying attention to other school districts?

I do think you need to come to terms with the situation for yourself and for your kids.

Schools are not going to open until January 2021, at the earliest. Be prepared to adjust to that reality.

+1

It’s not worth even trying to reason with these people. They don’t get it and won’t until it happens.

Good. More time for other families to prepare.

Listen. There is no way schools will remain closed that long. It's just not going to happen. We can't shut down life for this. You all are acting like people are dropping like flies from this virus. The death rate from this for people who aren't already sick with a bunch of other stuff is extremely low. People are staying sick for like 5-10 days. Yes it's more serious than the flu but give me a break. It's not worth stopping our lives for close to a year. This virus is not a death sentence. I feel like all you people screaming that we stay closed forever are acting like it is.

I don't think everything is going to stay closed. Private businesses will open. But, there is a difference between school and other businesses. I even think daycares will be allowed to open before schools can.

HUGE liability for schools to open up in the fall before flu season. Unlikely to happen. Have you been around for snow days? MCPS is going to take the safer option, no doubt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

It actually is happening.

While you were drooling over Hogan closing school did you also hear the remainder of the press conference where he talked about how good the statistics are and how things are starting to open tomorrow at 7am?

We will be out living life. See you on the flipside.

you will be golfing. That's what opens at 7AM.

He actually didn't say how good the numbers are. You clearly stopped listening when he said you could golf.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This sucks! I knew kids won’t get to go back to finish off the school year but it makes me so sad!☹️
On top of that the uncertainty of having school in the fall is just too much.. I feel bad for my kids in elementary school. They can’t learn on zoom, especially Kindergarten kids

Who are you people who actually thought there was a possibility of schools opening up? Have you been watching the news and paying attention to other school districts?

I do think you need to come to terms with the situation for yourself and for your kids.

Schools are not going to open until January 2021, at the earliest. Be prepared to adjust to that reality.

+1

It’s not worth even trying to reason with these people. They don’t get it and won’t until it happens.

Good. More time for other families to prepare.

Listen. There is no way schools will remain closed that long. It's just not going to happen. We can't shut down life for this. You all are acting like people are dropping like flies from this virus. The death rate from this for people who aren't already sick with a bunch of other stuff is extremely low. People are staying sick for like 5-10 days. Yes it's more serious than the flu but give me a break. It's not worth stopping our lives for close to a year. This virus is not a death sentence. I feel like all you people screaming that we stay closed forever are acting like it is.

I don't think everything is going to stay closed. Private businesses will open. But, there is a difference between school and other businesses. I even think daycares will be allowed to open before schools can.

HUGE liability for schools to open up in the fall before flu season. Unlikely to happen. Have you been around for snow days? MCPS is going to take the safer option, no doubt.

The flu happens every year though, and we don't close school for it. Yeah mcps closes for snow days for one snowflake-but they close for 1-2 days-not almost a year. I expected the closure for the rest of the school year but at a certain point enough is enough.

[Anonymous]

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I don't think everything is going to stay closed. Private businesses will open. But, there is a difference between school and other businesses. I even think daycares will be allowed to open before schools can.

HUGE liability for schools to open up in the fall before flu season. Unlikely to happen. Have you been around for snow days? MCPS is going to take the safer option, no doubt.

It's not an MCPS decision. Schools are open every year during flu season. And - can I say this without using bold and all caps? No, I can't.

WE CAN'T KEEP SCHOOLS CLOSED FOR YEARS. KIDS NEED TO BE IN SCHOOL.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

No one is hoping for this but I didn’t think you needed to be a rocket scientist to see the reality of the situation but apparently one does need some kind of advanced degree to understand it. No one would be happier than me to be wrong but life doesn’t run on hopes and wishes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

No one is hoping for this but I didn’t think you needed to be a rocket scientist to see the reality of the situation but apparently one does need some kind of advanced degree to understand it. No one would be happier than me to be wrong but life doesn’t run on hopes and wishes.

Actually it does seem like some are hoping for this. And as I much as I have tried I can't understand why. I think some people just thrive on being negative and miserable. I can't wait for things to be normal again. Yet it seems there are all those being like "nothing will be normal for 5 years". "The kids won't get back until 2022" etc... it's concerning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

No one is hoping for this but I didn’t think you needed to be a rocket scientist to see the reality of the situation but apparently one does need some kind of advanced degree to understand it. No one would be happier than me to be wrong but life doesn’t run on hopes and wishes.

Actually it does seem like some are hoping for this. And as I much as I have tried I can't understand why. I think some people just thrive on being negative and miserable. I can't wait for things to be normal again. Yet it seems there are all those being like "nothing will be normal for 5 years". "The kids won't get back until 2022" etc... it's concerning.

LOL You mean the people that have heard about pandemics in the past? Yes, people that know the history of pandemics are discussing the reality of what a pandemic is and what happens when one hits the world. By concerning, does that mean it is making you do some research and learn about pandemics? That would be a good thing to do right now.

[Anonymous]

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I don't think everything is going to stay closed. Private businesses will open. But, there is a difference between school and other businesses. I even think daycares will be allowed to open before schools can.

HUGE liability for schools to open up in the fall before flu season. Unlikely to happen. Have you been around for snow days? MCPS is going to take the safer option, no doubt.

It's not an MCPS decision. Schools are open every year during flu season. And - can I say this without using bold and all caps? No, I can't.

WE CAN'T KEEP SCHOOLS CLOSED FOR YEARS. KIDS NEED TO BE IN SCHOOL.

No they actually don't. They can be educated, but they don't need to be in school. Cramming kids in packed classrooms is not what happens in a pandemic. No one in the world is doing this. You can all caps and bold all you want, but go read and learn about pandemics and the response from the rest of the world.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

No one is hoping for this but I didn’t think you needed to be a rocket scientist to see the reality of the situation but apparently one does need some kind of advanced degree to understand it. No one would be happier than me to be wrong but life doesn’t run on hopes and wishes.

Actually it does seem like some are hoping for this. And as I much as I have tried I can't understand why. I think some people just thrive on being negative and miserable. I can't wait for things to be normal again. Yet it seems there are all those being like "nothing will be normal for 5 years". "The kids won't get back until 2022" etc... it's concerning.

Basically everybody who knows anything about infectious diseases is saying that nothing will be normal for several years. I agree that it's concerning that nothing will be normal for several years. I also agree that this doesn't mean that schools will stay closed for several years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't think everything is going to stay closed. Private businesses will open. But, there is a difference between school and other businesses. I even think daycares will be allowed to open before schools can.

HUGE liability for schools to open up in the fall before flu season. Unlikely to happen. Have you been around for snow days? MCPS is going to take the safer option, no doubt.

It's not an MCPS decision. Schools are open every year during flu season. And - can I say this without using bold and all caps? No, I can't.

WE CAN'T KEEP SCHOOLS CLOSED FOR YEARS. KIDS NEED TO BE IN SCHOOL.

No they actually don't. They can be educated, but they don't need to be in school. Cramming kids in packed classrooms is not what happens in a pandemic. No one in the world is doing this. You can all caps and bold all you want, but go read and learn about pandemics and the response from the rest of the world.

They do need to be in school. The rest of the world is not going to keep its schools closed for years, and the US shouldn't either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

No one is hoping for this but I didn’t think you needed to be a rocket scientist to see the reality of the situation but apparently one does need some kind of advanced degree to understand it. No one would be happier than me to be wrong but life doesn’t run on hopes and wishes.

Actually it does seem like some are hoping for this. And as I much as I have tried I can't understand why. I think some people just thrive on being negative and miserable. I can't wait for things to be normal again. Yet it seems there are all those being like "nothing will be normal for 5 years". "The kids won't get back until 2022" etc... it's concerning.

LOL You mean the people that have heard about pandemics in the past? Yes, people that know the history of pandemics are discussing the reality of what a pandemic is and what happens when one hits the world. By concerning, does that mean it is making you do some research and learn about pandemics? That would be a good thing to do right now.

Which pandemic are you referring to? Spanish flu? Because even that lasted less than 2 years and we didn't have nearly the medical knowledge and advancement that we do now. It's not the same and it can't be compared.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

No one is hoping for this but I didn’t think you needed to be a rocket scientist to see the reality of the situation but apparently one does need some kind of advanced degree to understand it. No one would be happier than me to be wrong but life doesn’t run on hopes and wishes.

Actually it does seem like some are hoping for this. And as I much as I have tried I can't understand why. I think some people just thrive on being negative and miserable. I can't wait for things to be normal again. Yet it seems there are all those being like "nothing will be normal for 5 years". "The kids won't get back until 2022" etc... it's concerning.

Nobody is even saying that. Can you point out those posts which say nothing will open back up for two years?

I’m a PP who said not to expect school to open in the fall.

Schools will be the LAST thing to open. Everything else will open up first. But it will take longer for schools.

Other countries have different dynamics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't think everything is going to stay closed. Private businesses will open. But, there is a difference between school and other businesses. I even think daycares will be allowed to open before schools can.

HUGE liability for schools to open up in the fall before flu season. Unlikely to happen. Have you been around for snow days? MCPS is going to take the safer option, no doubt.

It's not an MCPS decision. Schools are open every year during flu season. And - can I say this without using bold and all caps? No, I can't.

WE CAN'T KEEP SCHOOLS CLOSED FOR YEARS. KIDS NEED TO BE IN SCHOOL.

No they actually don't. They can be educated, but they don't need to be in school. Cramming kids in packed classrooms is not what happens in a pandemic. No one in the world is doing this. You can all caps and bold all you want, but go read and learn about pandemics and the response from the rest of the world.

They do need to be in school. The rest of the world is not going to keep its schools closed for years, and the US shouldn't either.

The rest of the world didn't have a half-assessed social distancing response that they're now giving up on while the death toll is still rising daily because they're tired of being at home and want to get their nails done.
The rest of the world doesn't have the highest death rate.