Allegedly there are several options for the fall none of which include being back full time?

[Anonymous]

So what happens if a vaccine takes 3, 4, 5 years?

Or doesn't happen at all?

Do we just completely abandon in person public education in this country?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what happens if a vaccine takes 3, 4, 5 years?

Or doesn't happen at all?

Do we just completely abandon in person public education in this country?

Right? Like some people seem to have no problem with this? It's insanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No inside info, but until there’s a vaccine, 100% back in the classroom will not happen. There’s just not enough space, teachers or busses. No school system was designed to support the constraints that will be in place until a vaccine is widely available.

Sorry to be a down, I just don’t think it’s going to happen.

Like half the country already announced going back to normal instruction in the fall. And there is no guarantee a vaccine will ever be available so this is just not feasible.

Tell me one school system that has announced that school will resume in the fall exactly the way it was last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No inside info, but until there’s a vaccine, 100% back in the classroom will not happen. There’s just not enough space, teachers or busses. No school system was designed to support the constraints that will be in place until a vaccine is widely available.

Sorry to be a down, I just don’t think it’s going to happen.

Like half the country already announced going back to normal instruction in the fall. And there is no guarantee a vaccine will ever be available so this is just not feasible.

Tell me one school system that has announced that school will resume in the fall exactly the way it was last year.

Cincinnati public schools. And there are lots more. They are offering an online option for people who want it-but classes will be in person for the public schools.

[Anonymous]

Because many schools are so overcrowded that MCPS cannot hope to divide the student body and achieve safe physical distancing, OP.

My teen’s high school is one of those schools.

We are reaping the consequence of the state and county not listening to MCPS and families sounding the alarm all these years.

MCPS depends on state and county governments for its annual operating budget and capital improvements, including adding to existing schools or or building new schools.
Principals, parents and other stakeholders have requested more space for years! But it costs so much to build that those holding the purse strings were dragging their feet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No inside info, but until there’s a vaccine, 100% back in the classroom will not happen. There’s just not enough space, teachers or busses. No school system was designed to support the constraints that will be in place until a vaccine is widely available.

Sorry to be a down, I just don’t think it’s going to happen.

Like half the country already announced going back to normal instruction in the fall. And there is no guarantee a vaccine will ever be available so this is just not feasible.

Tell me one school system that has announced that school will resume in the fall exactly the way it was last year.

Cincinnati public schools. And there are lots more. They are offering an online option for people who want it-but classes will be in person for the public schools.

So no social distancing or anything. Just regular old crowded classrooms and hallways?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No inside info, but until there’s a vaccine, 100% back in the classroom will not happen. There’s just not enough space, teachers or busses. No school system was designed to support the constraints that will be in place until a vaccine is widely available.

Sorry to be a down, I just don’t think it’s going to happen.

Like half the country already announced going back to normal instruction in the fall. And there is no guarantee a vaccine will ever be available so this is just not feasible.

Tell me one school system that has announced that school will resume in the fall exactly the way it was last year.

Cincinnati public schools. And there are lots more. They are offering an online option for people who want it-but classes will be in person for the public schools.

This doesn’t sound like the way school was last year. Again show me a school that’s opening exactly as it was last year. I’ll wait.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Cincinnati Public Schools now has a plan for how to get kids back in the classroom come fall despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Start times will be staggered. Everyone will get a daily health screening. Masks are mandatory, and desks will be six feet apart.

There will be proper social distancing on school buses and students will eat meals in the classrooms instead of the cafeteria.

There will also be a virtual learning option for parents who don't feel safe sending their kids back to school. However, this is not final and CPS wants to hear from parents.

[Anonymous]

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/03/868507524/israel-orders-schools-to-close-when-covid-19-cases-are-discovered?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR2Sy30Nnp4LWXmzjGYrdUeQ40tdJAb_Hycdk-zJnLtnEvoLJM1e-AeEoN4

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No inside info, but until there’s a vaccine, 100% back in the classroom will not happen. There’s just not enough space, teachers or busses. No school system was designed to support the constraints that will be in place until a vaccine is widely available.

Sorry to be a down, I just don’t think it’s going to happen.

Like half the country already announced going back to normal instruction in the fall. And there is no guarantee a vaccine will ever be available so this is just not feasible.

Tell me one school system that has announced that school will resume in the fall exactly the way it was last year.

Cincinnati public schools. And there are lots more. They are offering an online option for people who want it-but classes will be in person for the public schools.

This doesn’t sound like the way school was last year. Again show me a school that’s opening exactly as it was last year. I’ll wait.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Cincinnati Public Schools now has a plan for how to get kids back in the classroom come fall despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Start times will be staggered. Everyone will get a daily health screening. Masks are mandatory, and desks will be six feet apart.

There will be proper social distancing on school buses and students will eat meals in the classrooms instead of the cafeteria.

There will also be a virtual learning option for parents who don't feel safe sending their kids back to school. However, this is not final and CPS wants to hear from parents.

Also,these are recommendations. A final decision has NOT been made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/03/868507524/israel-orders-schools-to-close-when-covid-19-cases-are-discovered?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR2Sy30Nnp4LWXmzjGYrdUeQ40tdJAb_Hycdk-zJnLtnEvoLJM1e-AeEoN4

They went back to school in May. Honestly that was just dumb.

[Anonymous]

I'm on a new england school board and we have determined that there is no possible way to return FT under normal conditions with current CDC guidelines. We don't have enough classroom space to distance, we don't have enough bathrooms to allow proper contact tracing, we don't have enough buses to safely transport, etc.
So unless CDC guidelines significantly change in the next 3 months, we have to adopt some sort of hybrid model.
We'll have several different models and contingencies to those models, and hope to have more science-based guidance by mid-August to open in some fashion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm on a new england school board and we have determined that there is no possible way to return FT under normal conditions with current CDC guidelines. We don't have enough classroom space to distance, we don't have enough bathrooms to allow proper contact tracing, we don't have enough buses to safely transport, etc.
So unless CDC guidelines significantly change in the next 3 months, we have to adopt some sort of hybrid model.
We'll have several different models and contingencies to those models, and hope to have more science-based guidance by mid-August to open in some fashion.

Curious- do you know what the term "guidelines" mean? Because they aren't things you HAVE to do and also they say very specifically that you do what you can. Nobody is going to be able to do all of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm on a new england school board and we have determined that there is no possible way to return FT under normal conditions with current CDC guidelines. We don't have enough classroom space to distance, we don't have enough bathrooms to allow proper contact tracing, we don't have enough buses to safely transport, etc.
So unless CDC guidelines significantly change in the next 3 months, we have to adopt some sort of hybrid model.
We'll have several different models and contingencies to those models, and hope to have more science-based guidance by mid-August to open in some fashion.

So you will just not have school resume until cases are at 0 then? The cdc guidelines are to be used as a wait for it...GUIDELINE. It's not the Bible on going back to school. And CDC themselves knows it's not realistic for any school system to do all of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm on a new england school board and we have determined that there is no possible way to return FT under normal conditions with current CDC guidelines. We don't have enough classroom space to distance, we don't have enough bathrooms to allow proper contact tracing, we don't have enough buses to safely transport, etc.
So unless CDC guidelines significantly change in the next 3 months, we have to adopt some sort of hybrid model.
We'll have several different models and contingencies to those models, and hope to have more science-based guidance by mid-August to open in some fashion.

So you will just not have school resume until cases are at 0 then? The cdc guidelines are to be used as a wait for it...GUIDELINE. It's not the Bible on going back to school. And CDC themselves knows it's not realistic for any school system to do all of it.

Why do you think it’s all or nothing? I don’t understand that narrow way of thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/03/868507524/israel-orders-schools-to-close-when-covid-19-cases-are-discovered?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR2Sy30Nnp4LWXmzjGYrdUeQ40tdJAb_Hycdk-zJnLtnEvoLJM1e-AeEoN4

They went back to school in May. Honestly that was just dumb.

I sometimes wonder why I comment here at all... Please read the article before saying things like this.