Schools back in-person in 2022 due to mass-vaccine

[Anonymous]

This reminds me of the year after Katrina. Several (well-off) families from New Orleans relocated to our neighborhood. If they can’t open the schools, we may have to move to where the schools are already open. Plenty of great districts in NY to choose from.

[Anonymous]

To everyone considering moving to a red area: you're at least moving AFTER the election, right? It seems a bit unfair to move somewhere because of their policies and then try to change the philosophy and policies that you moved there for.

[Anonymous]

New Trier HS reclosed 5 days after reopening. IL is getting slammed by COVID. See the Chicago Tribune article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New Trier HS reclosed 5 days after reopening. IL is getting slammed by COVID. See the Chicago Tribune article.

If you believe the exaggerations of the article, I guess you could say 122 cases per 100k people is "getting slammed". Interesting though that nobody is reporting on hospitalizations or deaths. Why do you think that is? Is it because people below 40 years old have an almost 0% chance of dying from COVID?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New Trier HS reclosed 5 days after reopening. IL is getting slammed by COVID. See the Chicago Tribune article.

If you believe the exaggerations of the article, I guess you could say 122 cases per 100k people is "getting slammed". Interesting though that nobody is reporting on hospitalizations or deaths. Why do you think that is? Is it because people below 40 years old have an almost 0% chance of dying from COVID?

Yeah, who cares about the over 40 crowd, amirite? Let's just warehouse the old folks, and isolate them by themselves until this is all done, so you don't have to have your kids at home.

You're grotesque.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New Trier HS reclosed 5 days after reopening. IL is getting slammed by COVID. See the Chicago Tribune article.

If you believe the exaggerations of the article, I guess you could say 122 cases per 100k people is "getting slammed". Interesting though that nobody is reporting on hospitalizations or deaths. Why do you think that is? Is it because people below 40 years old have an almost 0% chance of dying from COVID?

Yeah, who cares about the over 40 crowd, amirite? Let's just warehouse the old folks, and isolate them by themselves until this is all done, so you don't have to have your kids at home.

You're grotesque.

COVID risks for 40 year olds are awfully low, too.

But along these lines, why it is more fair to deprive students of an appropriate education than to tell elderly individuals to self-isolate? Seriously, I'd like to know. I'm not saying everyone else should go back to normal, I'm just saying to reopen elementary schools, and think about opening middle/high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To everyone considering moving to a red area: you're at least moving AFTER the election, right? It seems a bit unfair to move somewhere because of their policies and then try to change the philosophy and policies that you moved there for.

There are Democrat or mixed areas that are also opening schools. The politics don't matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(And I do realize 2:28 is a troll. I'm just curious what they'll say.)

I don't think they are a troll because I didn't write that post but I wholly agree. You -do- have to plan for emergencies. Granted the pandemic was unforeseeable; however school shutdowns have occurred because of the flu or fire or other circumstances. You're a dumb and careless parent if you don't consider your backup plan for that. Or if your childcare falls through unexpectedly.

In the case of the pandemic, I don't think anyone could have predicted the spring circumstances a year prior; however, this fall was completely predictable. In April and May members of my friends and family group began talking about what we would do if school didn't reopen in-person in the fall.

Just because you're an ostrich with its head in the sand doesn't mean the rest of us were or are. If you're scrambling right now, the end of October, because of your ineptitude and failure to anticipate what you needed to do to support DL for your kids then that's on you for not being a good parent and caretaker of your child/ren, special needs or otherwise.

Schools don't shut down for 1+ years. They didn't for past pandemics, wars or national disasters. When I was growing up my high school was destroyed by a tornado. We were back in classrooms a month later after they found alternative space for us and power was restored to most of the town. Shutting schools down indefinitely is unprecedented.

How do you prepare for this? Really, how? I've been trying get him into private therapy programs. But, half of them are still shut down (or virtual), and the other half are overbooked. Which absolutely makes sense, since I'm sure I'm not the only person seeking extra private therapy to make up for the loss of SPED programs.

So we've got child care taken care of. If for some reason my current provider fell through I have a list of alternatives. When it comes to child care, I'm confident that I could deal with nearly any foreseeable outcome. What I can't deal with, though, is a broad shutdown of educational services in the county for an extended- and indefinite- period of time.

Where did either of those two earlier posters go? The ones telling me I should have foreseen having an autistic child during a pandemic. I'd really like to know how I could have planned for this better. Apparently a lot of people could benefit from their insights, given that I'm told ABA therapists are being slammed with requests in Montgomery County and they're not able to accommodate the demand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New Trier HS reclosed 5 days after reopening. IL is getting slammed by COVID. See the Chicago Tribune article.

If you believe the exaggerations of the article, I guess you could say 122 cases per 100k people is "getting slammed". Interesting though that nobody is reporting on hospitalizations or deaths. Why do you think that is? Is it because people below 40 years old have an almost 0% chance of dying from COVID?

Yeah, who cares about the over 40 crowd, amirite? Let's just warehouse the old folks, and isolate them by themselves until this is all done, so you don't have to have your kids at home.

You're grotesque.

If all the teachers over 40 die, just replace them with all of the 21 year olds desperately clamoring to become public school teachers. There must be at least 3 million of them, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of the year after Katrina. Several (well-off) families from New Orleans relocated to our neighborhood. If they can’t open the schools, we may have to move to where the schools are already open. Plenty of great districts in NY to choose from.

I have a lot of Amazon boxes. Do you do ppu?

[Anonymous]

+1 in fact anyone under 70 is extremely low risk and 99% recovering. Our obese unhealthy president kicked it in 2 days much to the dismay of everyone here.

Individuals should be making the choice to self isolate, not the other way around of having them dictate schools remain closed forever.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New Trier HS reclosed 5 days after reopening. IL is getting slammed by COVID. See the Chicago Tribune article.

If you believe the exaggerations of the article, I guess you could say 122 cases per 100k people is "getting slammed". Interesting though that nobody is reporting on hospitalizations or deaths. Why do you think that is? Is it because people below 40 years old have an almost 0% chance of dying from COVID?

Yeah, who cares about the over 40 crowd, amirite? Let's just warehouse the old folks, and isolate them by themselves until this is all done, so you don't have to have your kids at home.

You're grotesque.

COVID risks for 40 year olds are awfully low, too.

But along these lines, why it is more fair to deprive students of an appropriate education than to tell elderly individuals to self-isolate? Seriously, I'd like to know. I'm not saying everyone else should go back to normal, I'm just saying to reopen elementary schools, and think about opening middle/high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New Trier HS reclosed 5 days after reopening. IL is getting slammed by COVID. See the Chicago Tribune article.

Did you read the article? The HS is not "getting slammed by COVID". The halted their plan because of a surge in cases in Illinois.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/winnetka/ct-wtk-new-trier-postpones-return-to-campus-tl-1022-20201019-bres6lfgbbapjmurf5bjl5gzs4-story.html

While officials had indicated they could potentially resume in-person student instruction this week, in an Oct. 16 parent letter, New Trier Superintendent Paul Sally said given the number of positive cases of COVID-19 in the township and across the state, the halt of hybrid instruction will remain in place for the week of Oct. 19.

“As in the previous week, our pause this week is due to the continued seriousness of the COVID-19 numbers across Illinois and in our community, not the number of New Trier student and staff cases,” Sally said.

“News reports or rumors about an outbreak closing the school are false,” Sally said, urging families to view the latest metrics on New Trier’s COVID dashboard.

[Anonymous]

+1 the people that would dispute our facts have moved on and this thread will disappear into the DCUM boards...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New Trier HS reclosed 5 days after reopening. IL is getting slammed by COVID. See the Chicago Tribune article.

Did you read the article? The HS is not "getting slammed by COVID". The halted their plan because of a surge in cases in Illinois.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/winnetka/ct-wtk-new-trier-postpones-return-to-campus-tl-1022-20201019-bres6lfgbbapjmurf5bjl5gzs4-story.html

While officials had indicated they could potentially resume in-person student instruction this week, in an Oct. 16 parent letter, New Trier Superintendent Paul Sally said given the number of positive cases of COVID-19 in the township and across the state, the halt of hybrid instruction will remain in place for the week of Oct. 19.

“As in the previous week, our pause this week is due to the continued seriousness of the COVID-19 numbers across Illinois and in our community, not the number of New Trier student and staff cases,” Sally said.

“News reports or rumors about an outbreak closing the school are false,” Sally said, urging families to view the latest metrics on New Trier’s COVID dashboard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(And I do realize 2:28 is a troll. I'm just curious what they'll say.)

I don't think they are a troll because I didn't write that post but I wholly agree. You -do- have to plan for emergencies. Granted the pandemic was unforeseeable; however school shutdowns have occurred because of the flu or fire or other circumstances. You're a dumb and careless parent if you don't consider your backup plan for that. Or if your childcare falls through unexpectedly.

In the case of the pandemic, I don't think anyone could have predicted the spring circumstances a year prior; however, this fall was completely predictable. In April and May members of my friends and family group began talking about what we would do if school didn't reopen in-person in the fall.

Just because you're an ostrich with its head in the sand doesn't mean the rest of us were or are. If you're scrambling right now, the end of October, because of your ineptitude and failure to anticipate what you needed to do to support DL for your kids then that's on you for not being a good parent and caretaker of your child/ren, special needs or otherwise.

Schools don't shut down for 1+ years. They didn't for past pandemics, wars or national disasters. When I was growing up my high school was destroyed by a tornado. We were back in classrooms a month later after they found alternative space for us and power was restored to most of the town. Shutting schools down indefinitely is unprecedented.

How do you prepare for this? Really, how? I've been trying get him into private therapy programs. But, half of them are still shut down (or virtual), and the other half are overbooked. Which absolutely makes sense, since I'm sure I'm not the only person seeking extra private therapy to make up for the loss of SPED programs.

So we've got child care taken care of. If for some reason my current provider fell through I have a list of alternatives. When it comes to child care, I'm confident that I could deal with nearly any foreseeable outcome. What I can't deal with, though, is a broad shutdown of educational services in the county for an extended- and indefinite- period of time.

Where did either of those two earlier posters go? The ones telling me I should have foreseen having an autistic child during a pandemic. I'd really like to know how I could have planned for this better. Apparently a lot of people could benefit from their insights, given that I'm told ABA therapists are being slammed with requests in Montgomery County and they're not able to accommodate the demand.

I'm back. I've had a busy day. Here is what you should have done: line up support. Why weren't you contacting MoCo in April and May about what was happening? Why weren't you calling your insurance about coverage for therapists in June and July and August? Why weren't you working with other parents of SPED kids for a pod? Why weren't you working with your employer to rearrange your schedule so that you could be more present during the day for your kid? Why didn't you work with the school to establish a set of core classes that your child will attend and classes that he may or may not depending on your day?

You seem to have copious amounts of time to spend here on DCUM complaining but I don't see you saying anything about what you have actually done. Cry me a river and I'll build a boat for me and my kid because I planned ahead while you didn't. As far as I can tell what you have done is...NOTHING. Get your act together and start being a better parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another option is for people to form micro schools or for those with PODs to just got to a homeschool curriculum and let the PODS teacher monitor/help set curriculum etc... Home school only takes about 3 hours a day. As someone posted above due to equity even when they go back the range of ability in the grade will be large. Those students who did learn will be left on their own or have to sit and repeat work as the teacher will need to catch up those who were unable to learn.

+1 I know 3 low-income families who have done precisely this. The parents have set up a schedule. There are a total of 7 kids with one mom monitoring it all. The mom does not speak English but that doesn't stop her from ruling that roost and making sure all of the children are working hard at their job of school.