Anyone else predict schools will close again?

[Anonymous]

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Probabilities for school closures are going up by the day, but politicians will never, ever, give the order to close schools, because it's suicidal. What will happen is that schools will close piecemeal when they have too many students out and not enough teachers. Then the Governor will be able to say that *he kept schools open*.

But they’ll open back up. The era of perma DL-for-all is over.

Correct. It's all about optics. Schools will be Delta petri dishes, because no one wants to go into quarantine, so no one will test unless their symptoms are so dire they need hospitalization, so kids will all be sick with "something other than Delta", and then a lot of adults (vaccinated or unvaccinated) will be hospitalized with Covid, and some will die.

But schools were kept open, so please vote for me.

A political platform never sounded so good. It's got my vote for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Probabilities for school closures are going up by the day, but politicians will never, ever, give the order to close schools, because it's suicidal. What will happen is that schools will close piecemeal when they have too many students out and not enough teachers. Then the Governor will be able to say that *he kept schools open*.

But they’ll open back up. The era of perma DL-for-all is over.

Correct. It's all about optics. Schools will be Delta petri dishes, because no one wants to go into quarantine, so no one will test unless their symptoms are so dire they need hospitalization, so kids will all be sick with "something other than Delta", and then a lot of adults (vaccinated or unvaccinated) will be hospitalized with Covid, and some will die.

But schools were kept open, so please vote for me.

A political platform never sounded so good. It's got my vote for sure.

Sure. People will die, but nobody cares as long as it's not them and the kids are in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How ridiculous they do not have a plan for online learning. Total incompetence. [/quote

Carroll County doesn't have virtual learning and it's doubtful there's any plan for it.

[Anonymous]

I'm in Rhode Island and our public schools stayed open all last winter during which we swapping back and forth with North Dakota for highest COVID rates in the country. We got a couple extra days off before the holidays when rates were really high and a week of "virtual" in January, but for the most part if administrators commit to in-person they are going to stick with it. For individual schools, it's a little different because we did have schools close for a few days to a week when they ran out of unquarantined teachers.

[Anonymous]

I think there is a good chance of virtual after major family holidays or if enough staff are out. There are not enough subs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Probabilities for school closures are going up by the day, but politicians will never, ever, give the order to close schools, because it's suicidal. What will happen is that schools will close piecemeal when they have too many students out and not enough teachers. Then the Governor will be able to say that *he kept schools open*.

But they’ll open back up. The era of perma DL-for-all is over.

Correct. It's all about optics. Schools will be Delta petri dishes, because no one wants to go into quarantine, so no one will test unless their symptoms are so dire they need hospitalization, so kids will all be sick with "something other than Delta", and then a lot of adults (vaccinated or unvaccinated) will be hospitalized with Covid, and some will die.

But schools were kept open, so please vote for me.

A political platform never sounded so good. It's got my vote for sure.

Sure. People will die, but nobody cares as long as it's not them and the kids are in school.

Ok, that may happen. That's not a reason to keep schools closed, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in Rhode Island and our public schools stayed open all last winter during which we swapping back and forth with North Dakota for highest COVID rates in the country. We got a couple extra days off before the holidays when rates were really high and a week of "virtual" in January, but for the most part if administrators commit to in-person they are going to stick with it. For individual schools, it's a little different because we did have schools close for a few days to a week when they ran out of unquarantined teachers.

This was our experience in a maryland catholic school. We were out around the holidays because our cases in the area were spiking, but then back after New Year. I will take an extra long winter break compared to being virtual the entire year.

[Anonymous]

This whole thing is dumb. Not having plan B for virtual will hurt kids education in the long run. There should be a plan when covid hits the fan…. Which will happen unfortunately. It’s already happening in the anti maskers states. Ive already warned DS, just enjoy as much in person as possible. But do expect things go back virtual. Things don’t look like it’s going end in 2021.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in Rhode Island and our public schools stayed open all last winter during which we swapping back and forth with North Dakota for highest COVID rates in the country. We got a couple extra days off before the holidays when rates were really high and a week of "virtual" in January, but for the most part if administrators commit to in-person they are going to stick with it. For individual schools, it's a little different because we did have schools close for a few days to a week when they ran out of unquarantined teachers.

This was our experience in a maryland catholic school. We were out around the holidays because our cases in the area were spiking, but then back after New Year. I will take an extra long winter break compared to being virtual the entire year.

In Michigan, our public school was also open most of the year. Only closed in November/December.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Probabilities for school closures are going up by the day, but politicians will never, ever, give the order to close schools, because it's suicidal. What will happen is that schools will close piecemeal when they have too many students out and not enough teachers. Then the Governor will be able to say that *he kept schools open*.

But they’ll open back up. The era of perma DL-for-all is over.

Correct. It's all about optics. Schools will be Delta petri dishes, because no one wants to go into quarantine, so no one will test unless their symptoms are so dire they need hospitalization, so kids will all be sick with "something other than Delta", and then a lot of adults (vaccinated or unvaccinated) will be hospitalized with Covid, and some will die.

But schools were kept open, so please vote for me.

Yes, the optics of 'education is good. kids belong in school'

The fear-mongering has lost its power; parents know. they know its safe for kids. they know virtual was a disaster. and now, the decision makers know that the parents know. there will be no virtual

The data is not backing you up on these platitudes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Shutting down for the rest of the week. Wow, how will they ever come back from that?

Well 2 weeks to flatten the curve did turn into 18 months of school disruption.

I seriously laughed out loud at this. Sad but true statement. things seemed so much simpler then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Probabilities for school closures are going up by the day, but politicians will never, ever, give the order to close schools, because it's suicidal. What will happen is that schools will close piecemeal when they have too many students out and not enough teachers. Then the Governor will be able to say that *he kept schools open*.

But they’ll open back up. The era of perma DL-for-all is over.

Correct. It's all about optics. Schools will be Delta petri dishes, because no one wants to go into quarantine, so no one will test unless their symptoms are so dire they need hospitalization, so kids will all be sick with "something other than Delta", and then a lot of adults (vaccinated or unvaccinated) will be hospitalized with Covid, and some will die.

But schools were kept open, so please vote for me.

A political platform never sounded so good. It's got my vote for sure.

Specifically, a random 90 year old who refused to get vaccinated will die. I mean, WHO CARES? That is their choice. The rest of us need to move on.

[Anonymous]

No, they should not close and really ought to realize that people will rise against them if they do.
Enough with this BS. Moving on people. Adults need to vaccinate and kids need to go to school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How ridiculous they do not have a plan for online learning. Total incompetence.

Oh yeah, sure. But have MCPS or FCPS mention anything regarding VS and the pitchforks come out. "You don't want our kids in-person!"

I say just wait until the cases get so bad, as they already are trending towards, and let the Gov shut it down.

Not sure why you’re linking to the story about Baltimore County from a couple weeks ago…that had nothing to do with closing schools, and Baltimore County schools are open and in person.

[Anonymous]

Kids were in-person school in much of the U.S. all of the last school year.
No news of baby coffins piling up anywhere. And we all know liberal news would have been all over that if there was something to be all over.

What do you people want? Are you that detached from real life that you think MD should do what few anxiety-ridden, unable to evaluate risks, vaccinated dcum parents think?
Then again, yes, yes, you are.
You are one of those that are so incapable of rational thinking that you think anyone disagreeing with you is a troll.
Russian troll or a Trumper!
You can't comprehend that Biden voters who favor all the liberal ideas are appallled that, similarly to Trump and co, liberals are using this pandemic as a political weapon. I am appalled by it.
You skip any statistic and news about kids living normally around the U.S., and you are afraid that your kid might miss two weeks of school if they get sick? So, CLOSE the SCHOOL for in a person is your answer?
As with everything with you people, you do not have logic in any of your arguments.