Colleges should just keep the students there even if they are sick

[Anonymous]

I have no idea where you get these lunatic ideas, but this is not the way it is done. Kids who test positive, should stay at school in isolation. I have heard at my son's school the isolation and quarantine units are pretty nice...one is at a 4 star hotel with nice linens and steak for dinner. These kids are all recovering nicely. It's fine. You should not have sent your kid to school helicopter lady.

This lunatic idea (yes, I agree....parts of it are unenforceable anyways)...so let me revise in the form of questions....

If a school only has capacity for say 100 students to be in quarantine due to being tested positive for COVID...what happens when they hit capacity?
If a school's health center and/or hospital have a certain capacity to deal with ill students (along with community illnesses)....what happens when they hit capacity?

I think those are the two underlying issues.....so....I suppose a more accurate statement would be....if there is no more room for your kid to quarantine on or off campus, then what? The kid (or kids parents) should be responsible for their own quarantine housing?
As for the health center....same...if they are at capacity...where should student go?

That is why the likes of JMU are just taking the easy way out and sending all on-campus resident students "home" -- thus punishing those students - the majority mind you - who are not Covid positive and/or have not been exposed. Plus...word on the street is that most freshman are simply moving "off-campus"...not going home necessarily.

It's all one big Sh@t Show no matter what. There's really no good solution.

[Anonymous]

At our kid's school, they signed that they understood that they were there if they got sick. Parents are NOT allowed to pick up sick kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I have no idea where you get these lunatic ideas, but this is not the way it is done. Kids who test positive, should stay at school in isolation. I have heard at my son's school the isolation and quarantine units are pretty nice...one is at a 4 star hotel with nice linens and steak for dinner. These kids are all recovering nicely. It's fine. You should not have sent your kid to school helicopter lady.

This lunatic idea (yes, I agree....parts of it are unenforceable anyways)...so let me revise in the form of questions....

If a school only has capacity for say 100 students to be in quarantine due to being tested positive for COVID...what happens when they hit capacity?
If a school's health center and/or hospital have a certain capacity to deal with ill students (along with community illnesses)....what happens when they hit capacity?

I think those are the two underlying issues.....so....I suppose a more accurate statement would be....if there is no more room for your kid to quarantine on or off campus, then what? The kid (or kids parents) should be responsible for their own quarantine housing?
As for the health center....same...if they are at capacity...where should student go?

That is why the likes of JMU are just taking the easy way out and sending all on-campus resident students "home" -- thus punishing those students - the majority mind you - who are not Covid positive and/or have not been exposed. Plus...word on the street is that most freshman are simply moving "off-campus"...not going home necessarily.

It's all one big Sh@t Show no matter what. There's really no good solution.

I am sure they will send kids home before they reach capacty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I have no idea where you get these lunatic ideas, but this is not the way it is done. Kids who test positive, should stay at school in isolation. I have heard at my son's school the isolation and quarantine units are pretty nice...one is at a 4 star hotel with nice linens and steak for dinner. These kids are all recovering nicely. It's fine. You should not have sent your kid to school helicopter lady.

This lunatic idea (yes, I agree....parts of it are unenforceable anyways)...so let me revise in the form of questions....

If a school only has capacity for say 100 students to be in quarantine due to being tested positive for COVID...what happens when they hit capacity?
If a school's health center and/or hospital have a certain capacity to deal with ill students (along with community illnesses)....what happens when they hit capacity?

I think those are the two underlying issues.....so....I suppose a more accurate statement would be....if there is no more room for your kid to quarantine on or off campus, then what? The kid (or kids parents) should be responsible for their own quarantine housing?
As for the health center....same...if they are at capacity...where should student go?

That is why the likes of JMU are just taking the easy way out and sending all on-campus resident students "home" -- thus punishing those students - the majority mind you - who are not Covid positive and/or have not been exposed. Plus...word on the street is that most freshman are simply moving "off-campus"...not going home necessarily.

It's all one big Sh@t Show no matter what. There's really no good solution.

I am sure they will send kids home before they reach capacty.

+1. My kids school has metrics to hit to tighten and loosen various restrictions on activities. One of which Is isolation and quarantine capacity. If they are in danger of hitting capacity, kids go home. But long before that, they contact trace and shut down and quarantine the gym or dining facility or class with a hotspot. And if that doesn’t work, they go remote learning with kids mostly in dorms in singles for two weeks. And if that fails, kids go home.

For now, they watch, surveillance test, and gradually loosen restrictions. Quarantined until a positive test, then kids could be outside or in their residence hall in their room or grab and go food the first week. This week, classes started online and but most classroom building stayed shut. Kids grabbed meals and ate and socialized outside. Next week, classes go in person and classroom buildings open up. But you can’t be in them unless you have an academic reason. Then they open up safer on campus recreation facilities and some areas for small group in person socially distant masked meetings. They keep surveillance testing. Cases rise, facilities fill, restrictions come back.