Where schools are open...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d like to know how many school systems have bus service that are open

Most of them? Schools in big cities are least likely to have buses, and they’re the most likely to be closed

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:interesting to contrast with this map
https://covidactnow.org/?s=1408382

Shows that schools can be opened safely even in areas with high community spread.

Just because schools are open where there is high community spread doesn't mean it's happening safely. In fact, it could be those areas are not closing down enough and causing the high community spread.

You can keep making up your own theories to justify your position, or you can listen to the experts who are saying that schools are not significant drivers of community spread.

Except there is a lot of data and a lot of experts who say otherwise. Like here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5694/mja2.50823
or here:
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-12-02/shut-them-down-why-schools-might-not-be-safe-during-covid-19
The people saying that schools are drivers of community spread are largely scientists, whereas the people who say schools are magical transmission free zones are largely politicians. Not that difficult to see why a politician might want schools open, pretty hard to see why a scientist or data analyst would lie about this.

[Anonymous]

Please stop spreading the total lie that schools are a source of Covid transmission.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/09/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/#link-7ZQ4USVKVBAVTPTHXRVKSTUH3U

WaPo today reports on how college classrooms are not the source of spread - it is the socializing in dorms/shared housing etc.

This is not hard, folks. Controlled environments are not Covid spreaders. You are free to keep your children away from school as long as you wish. The rest of world wants to move forward - starting with the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please stop spreading the total lie that schools are a source of Covid transmission.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/09/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/#link-7ZQ4USVKVBAVTPTHXRVKSTUH3U

WaPo today reports on how college classrooms are not the source of spread - it is the socializing in dorms/shared housing etc.

This is not hard, folks. Controlled environments are not Covid spreaders. You are free to keep your children away from school as long as you wish. The rest of world wants to move forward - starting with the kids.

So, a bunch of teens in a dorm = spreading, but a bunch of teens in a college classroom = not spreading? What an amazing virus that knows whether it’s in a school setting or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please stop spreading the total lie that schools are a source of Covid transmission.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/09/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/#link-7ZQ4USVKVBAVTPTHXRVKSTUH3U

WaPo today reports on how college classrooms are not the source of spread - it is the socializing in dorms/shared housing etc.

This is not hard, folks. Controlled environments are not Covid spreaders. You are free to keep your children away from school as long as you wish. The rest of world wants to move forward - starting with the kids.

Wow, that would be convenient. Too bad that isn’t how an airborne respiratory illness works. Ridiculous that people keep trying to push this idea that things they consider morally good are “safe” while anything they consider extraneous is hazardous.

[Anonymous]

Again. You miss the point. Do read WaPo - again today on the difference between teens in a controlled environment - classrooms where entry means you have a mask and are distanced vs in a dorm with no controls in place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please stop spreading the total lie that schools are a source of Covid transmission.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/09/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/#link-7ZQ4USVKVBAVTPTHXRVKSTUH3U

WaPo today reports on how college classrooms are not the source of spread - it is the socializing in dorms/shared housing etc.

This is not hard, folks. Controlled environments are not Covid spreaders. You are free to keep your children away from school as long as you wish. The rest of world wants to move forward - starting with the kids.

So, a bunch of teens in a dorm = spreading, but a bunch of teens in a college classroom = not spreading? What an amazing virus that knows whether it’s in a school setting or not.

I am utterly flabbergasted by your lack of basic critical thinking skills with this statement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please stop spreading the total lie that schools are a source of Covid transmission.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/09/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/#link-7ZQ4USVKVBAVTPTHXRVKSTUH3U

WaPo today reports on how college classrooms are not the source of spread - it is the socializing in dorms/shared housing etc.

This is not hard, folks. Controlled environments are not Covid spreaders. You are free to keep your children away from school as long as you wish. The rest of world wants to move forward - starting with the kids.

Not teachers, they want to stay at home and keep kids at home so they don’t have to teach in person school.

[Anonymous]

I had family (who happen to be public school teachers) in Florida tell me that schools have to be open there because parents need childcare, but that parents in the DMV don't because they are all rich and have nannies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had family (who happen to be public school teachers) in Florida tell me that schools have to be open there because parents need childcare, but that parents in the DMV don't because they are all rich and have nannies.

She's not wrong.

[Anonymous]

Private schools are open. Catholic schools are open. Schools in parts of virginia and pennsylvania are open. Carroll county maryland was open until they pivoted back to virtual recently.
Many places to send kids to if in-person is a necessity. With exposure comes risk, but we've found it worth it for our kids.

[Anonymous]

We live in an area with very high community spread. My elementary DS has been full time in person (suburban public school) since early October. One case since then (a child). Zero cases among teachers or staff. Masks and social distancing in the classroom (still 18-20 per class...our school has huge classrooms..one of the reasons they were able to go back full time). 80% are learning in person, 20% distance learning. The distance learners have their own teacher (so teachers are not teaching both online and in person). It’s just one school and certainly isn’t indicative of anything, but it has been going very well for us. As of now, they intend to resume school as normal after winter break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in an area with very high community spread. My elementary DS has been full time in person (suburban public school) since early October. One case since then (a child). Zero cases among teachers or staff. Masks and social distancing in the classroom (still 18-20 per class...our school has huge classrooms..one of the reasons they were able to go back full time). 80% are learning in person, 20% distance learning. The distance learners have their own teacher (so teachers are not teaching both online and in person). It’s just one school and certainly isn’t indicative of anything, but it has been going very well for us. As of now, they intend to resume school as normal after winter break.

Which school/ location?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in an area with very high community spread. My elementary DS has been full time in person (suburban public school) since early October. One case since then (a child). Zero cases among teachers or staff. Masks and social distancing in the classroom (still 18-20 per class...our school has huge classrooms..one of the reasons they were able to go back full time). 80% are learning in person, 20% distance learning. The distance learners have their own teacher (so teachers are not teaching both online and in person). It’s just one school and certainly isn’t indicative of anything, but it has been going very well for us. As of now, they intend to resume school as normal after winter break.

Do they test regularly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in an area with very high community spread. My elementary DS has been full time in person (suburban public school) since early October. One case since then (a child). Zero cases among teachers or staff. Masks and social distancing in the classroom (still 18-20 per class...our school has huge classrooms..one of the reasons they were able to go back full time). 80% are learning in person, 20% distance learning. The distance learners have their own teacher (so teachers are not teaching both online and in person). It’s just one school and certainly isn’t indicative of anything, but it has been going very well for us. As of now, they intend to resume school as normal after winter break.

Which school/ location?

Suburban public in Arizona. Moved here 2 years ago.