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

[Anonymous]

PA released their guidelines for schools:
https://www.education.pa.gov/Documents/K-12/Safe%20Schools/COVID/GuidanceDocuments/Pre-K%20to%2012%20Reopening%20Guidance.pdf

They plan to open in July (summer school).

It's sort of a dense document, but as i read it, looks liek things will generally be open this fall, with minor modifiations.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1 The OP said hybrid model, which is in the middle. He or she didn't say no school until a vaccine is available.

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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.

Ummm I did read it. They went back in May.

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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.

You have to follow GUIDELINES so teachers and staff have the confidence to return. No public school family wants FT online learning, and no small town with a small hospital wants a Covid outbreak. So you follow the guidelines to the best of your ability, and hope they're reasonable. Maybe we can't do 6' distance, but can do 4'.

[Anonymous]

Pretty sure we’ll be getting a second wave from the protestors and looters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure we’ll be getting a second wave from the protestors and looters.

And from the Rs returning from their yuge convention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PA released their guidelines for schools:
https://www.education.pa.gov/Documents/K-12/Safe%20Schools/COVID/GuidanceDocuments/Pre-K%20to%2012%20Reopening%20Guidance.pdf

They plan to open in July (summer school).

It's sort of a dense document, but as i read it, looks liek things will generally be open this fall, with minor modifiations.

It doesn't imply minor modifications. The document calls for social distancing in the classroom, which means less kids per class and also staggering arrivals and making other modifications to schedules. For some schools that may be easy, but for schools in more populated places, there will be major changes.

[Anonymous]

Oh goody, another thread on DCUM about MCPS and coronavirus, 90 days from now. Though it seems like a hundred years ago, 90 days ago was March 4, 2020. Remember March 4, 2020?

I do wonder who is taking the "no school school until there's a vaccine" line, though.

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You have to follow GUIDELINES so teachers and staff have the confidence to return. No public school family wants FT online learning, and no small town with a small hospital wants a Covid outbreak. So you follow the guidelines to the best of your ability, and hope they're reasonable. Maybe we can't do 6' distance, but can do 4'.

The Lancet metastudy said 1 meter, so 3'.

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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.

Everywhere is going to start resuming in person. It will be the opposite of the spring when states closed and others followed. Now states will open and others follow. No one’s going to want to be the only place with all the businesses open and schools closed. If you can’t get on board,homeschool. In person is happening.

[Anonymous]

The Pennsylvania document is full of "to the extent possible" / "as feasible" type language. Which means everything is flexible and nothing is set in stone. No kids are going to be 6 feet apart all day long. Schools are going to just have to do what they can with what they have. Nothing else is practical.

[Anonymous]

Oh man, the state of PA really punted with this one. They are putting all the onus on the local school boards to try and figure out what is feasible and what isn't. They have helpful "considerations" that aren't requirements, just fun suggestions to consider. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

None of the options in the governor’s plan involved being back full-time in the fall. It doesn’t happen like that will happen until there is an effective treatment or a vaccine.

[Anonymous]

You can find it here:
http://marylandpublicschools.org/newsroom/Documents/MSDERecoveryPlan.pdf

This lays out the possible scenarios quite clearly. It's way more than we've received in Va.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that vaccine is the key. Without it, I cannot imagine anyone taking on the responsibility of starting regular school with virus still being present.

Because you are all a bunch of sheep who cannot understand the data or reality. Most of us cannot imagine NOT going back to school. I mean, it's so important to eat in a restaurant and get your nails done, but not send your kid to school. There is no reality in which that makes any sense.