The prospect of kids not going back to school until 2021

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not all universities are closed for the fall. Some are still making plans. Some are having students arrive on campus a few weeks early, and ending the fall semester at Thanksgiving.

Exactly

They'll change their tune. Classes aren't the only thing to worry about. You have high density dorm rooms, and older faculty/staff are more at risk. A single death of a staff person who contracts it from a student will open up the university to massive liability. Wife works at a university. If she contracted the virus from a student and died because the university was stubborn and opened up, I'd sue the pants off of them.

That's ridiculous. No one is forcing her to return to a job. She can choose not to return.

Yeah, no, I can't get behind forcing people to choose between unsafe working conditions and losing their jobs. The idea is to have safe working conditions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My thoughts are that mental health is important too. It's not mentally healthy for anybody, especially children, to be locked indoors and socially isolated for months, years on end. Open the schools in the fall.

Nobody is locked indoors. Tons of kids are outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not all universities are closed for the fall. Some are still making plans. Some are having students arrive on campus a few weeks early, and ending the fall semester at Thanksgiving.

Exactly

They'll change their tune. Classes aren't the only thing to worry about. You have high density dorm rooms, and older faculty/staff are more at risk. A single death of a staff person who contracts it from a student will open up the university to massive liability. Wife works at a university. If she contracted the virus from a student and died because the university was stubborn and opened up, I'd sue the pants off of them.

+100
without hesitation

Good luck with that!! How do you prove where she got it? No one is forcing her to go to work. If all the proper protocols are in place she's no more at risk than when she goes to the grocery store or gets her haircut. But go ahead and pay for a the lawyer.......

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Daycare will be open in the fall probably before. Interestingly Maryland has 2200 daycares open for essential workers since March and only 50 have had to close temporarily due to a case. If daycares are open without outbreaks people will be asking why schools cannot be open with appropriate precautions.

What sort of social distancing measures have the essential worker daycares put in place?

A lot. My daycare sent a link from the state and said they will be following similar guidelines. No parents will be allowed inside, staff do curbside drop off pick up, staff wearing masks and face shields, daily temp checks, limits to outside walks, etc. It doesn’t seem like a pleasant environment.

[Anonymous]

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Good luck with that!! How do you prove where she got it? No one is forcing her to go to work. If all the proper protocols are in place she's no more at risk than when she goes to the grocery store or gets her haircut. But go ahead and pay for a the lawyer.......

PP, that's just not true. Generally people are expected to fulfill the conditions of their employment. And the IF in "if all the proper protocols are in place" is key. Iamnotalawyer, but presumably the lawsuit would not be about "I got covid from [Person A]," but rather about the proper protocols NOT being in place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Daycare will be open in the fall probably before. Interestingly Maryland has 2200 daycares open for essential workers since March and only 50 have had to close temporarily due to a case. If daycares are open without outbreaks people will be asking why schools cannot be open with appropriate precautions.

Or, looked at a different way, 50 daycares in MD have had to close in the past 8 weeks because of COVID cases ....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daycare will be open in the fall probably before. Interestingly Maryland has 2200 daycares open for essential workers since March and only 50 have had to close temporarily due to a case. If daycares are open without outbreaks people will be asking why schools cannot be open with appropriate precautions.

Or, looked at a different way, 50 daycares in MD have had to close in the past 8 weeks because of COVID cases ....

Sounds like an alarmist way to look at it but ok.

[Anonymous]

Sorry folks, I love it this way. Some effort but a full paycheck. Knowing MCPS I'm 100% sure they won't open for a long time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Daycare will be open in the fall probably before. Interestingly Maryland has 2200 daycares open for essential workers since March and only 50 have had to close temporarily due to a case. If daycares are open without outbreaks people will be asking why schools cannot be open with appropriate precautions.

What sort of social distancing measures have the essential worker daycares put in place?

Ours turned into a daycare for essential workers. They are running at less than half their normal capacity. From what I hear from their updates they are:

Requiring temperature checks in front of a director upon arrival and parents must bring their own thermometer and the parent/caregiver must be the one to take the temperature. All temperatures are recorded in a log.

Caregivers dropping off or picking up must wear masks. Only one caregiver is allowed in the lobby at a time. There are often lines of parents/kids waiting to drop off in the mornings and parents lined up to get their kids in the afternoons. No parents/caregivers are allowed past the lobby.

Staff must wear masks and gloves. Kids over the age of 5 must wear masks. They require what they consider to be “excessive” hand washing for staff and students.

Each classroom can have a maximum of 10 people in it, including staff.

Only one classroom is allowed outside at a time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daycare will be open in the fall probably before. Interestingly Maryland has 2200 daycares open for essential workers since March and only 50 have had to close temporarily due to a case. If daycares are open without outbreaks people will be asking why schools cannot be open with appropriate precautions.

What sort of social distancing measures have the essential worker daycares put in place?

A lot. My daycare sent a link from the state and said they will be following similar guidelines. No parents will be allowed inside, staff do curbside drop off pick up, staff wearing masks and face shields, daily temp checks, limits to outside walks, etc. It doesn’t seem like a pleasant environment.

I can only imagine how the youngest kids will react to a bunch of masked strangers on the first day of school. Some kids in kindergarten who went to daycare and preschool have to be peeled off their parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey, I have an idea. Why don't we have all the middle and high schoolers stay home (legal age to stay home alone) and divide up all the elementary students throughout the county's elem/middle/high school facilities?

This idea has already been bounced around. The problem is insufficient elementary-certified staff. DCUM would have you believe that there isn’t a teacher and sub shortage because MCPS can just hire any unemployed warm body to teach reading and long division.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daycare will be open in the fall probably before. Interestingly Maryland has 2200 daycares open for essential workers since March and only 50 have had to close temporarily due to a case. If daycares are open without outbreaks people will be asking why schools cannot be open with appropriate precautions.

What sort of social distancing measures have the essential worker daycares put in place?

Ours turned into a daycare for essential workers. They are running at less than half their normal capacity. From what I hear from their updates they are:

Requiring temperature checks in front of a director upon arrival and parents must bring their own thermometer and the parent/caregiver must be the one to take the temperature. All temperatures are recorded in a log.

Caregivers dropping off or picking up must wear masks. Only one caregiver is allowed in the lobby at a time. There are often lines of parents/kids waiting to drop off in the mornings and parents lined up to get their kids in the afternoons. No parents/caregivers are allowed past the lobby.

Staff must wear masks and gloves. Kids over the age of 5 must wear masks. They require what they consider to be “excessive” hand washing for staff and students.

Each classroom can have a maximum of 10 people in it, including staff.

Only one classroom is allowed outside at a time.

If only kids over five have to wear masks why bother? That’s like a small minority of kids in most daycares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey, I have an idea. Why don't we have all the middle and high schoolers stay home (legal age to stay home alone) and divide up all the elementary students throughout the county's elem/middle/high school facilities?

“You” have an idea? This wS one of the options in the governor’s plans.

[Anonymous]

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MCPS reported 70% participation with distance learning. The quality of education should improve when they prepare for the fall, and they are working on it now.

My children and their friends are learning very well with distance learning.

Get with the program, OP.

Not OP, but you don't need to speak for everyone. I have a middle schooler and the distance learning is not any kind of substitute for in person. But if it works for you, then it's great and it works for everybody!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The schools should open. Even if a vaccine becomes available, it won’t help just because those who were tested positive for the virus and recovered ( tested negative) are getting infected and testing positive again. Unless coronavirus does not follow the regular bath way to immunology, a vaccine ( which contains traces of coronavirus) won’t help at all.

Stop repeating this falsehood.