Poll: Schools will reopen when?

[Anonymous]

I think colleges will be closed for the rest of the semester (shifted to remote learning). Spring commencement canceled. we'll see if they offer summer semester.

K-12 schools, we'll see. I know Seattle schools (closed for 6 weeks) have already said seniors in good standing will graduate at the normal time, even if the school year is extended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised by the responses. I think MCPS will open in two weeks, take some of spring break away and move on as normal.

Maryland closed schools for 2 weeks when there were 50ish cases in the area? How will they justify reopening when there will be so many more cases? If it wasn’t safe to be open with less than 100 cases it won’t be safe with hundreds or thousands of cases. They’ve backed themselves into a corner by closing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it will be different in different states, like Wuhan and Hong Kong, HK recovered faster.

I say April. But I’m in Florida.

Have schools there reopened?

I couldn’t get clear data online. They are in discussions of when. Universities first. Hong Kong Disney reopened shops and restaurants but not park. They are already past the peak and are talking when opening.

[Anonymous]

I think they’ll stay closed until next fall. The big decision was to close them in the first place; now that they’ve done that, it’s slightly easier to simply extend the closings.

The spikes in infections are supposed to get extreme later in the spring, and they’re not going to open schools in the middle of all that.

I hope I’m wrong about all of this. My kid definitely wants to be in school and it’s a big year for them.

[Anonymous]

Lets see..

China.. readical lock down.. military style measures..

January what.. 14? ... Februray 14.. March 14.... that is two months now and they are still not operational..

so.. we.. no tests yet, everybody frolicking around, laissez faire attitude.

so two monts from now would be.. March.. Aprill May.. May 14...

Not a chance in H.

Double that.. June.. July and now you are into the summer zone..
so yes, at this time the Fall looks very probable.

We can reevaluate this in one month and we will know better how it fare.

Big country.. we are.

[Anonymous]

With cicadas coming next year we are losing two springs in a row

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With cicadas coming next year we are losing two springs in a row

Schools don’t shut for cicadas. It just gets harder to keep the kids focused. And doesn’t last as long as this pandemic will. Plus, only bugs will die.

[Anonymous]

May

[Anonymous]

For public schools, fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised by the responses. I think MCPS will open in two weeks, take some of spring break away and move on as normal.

Maryland closed schools for 2 weeks when there were 50ish cases in the area? How will they justify reopening when there will be so many more cases? If it wasn’t safe to be open with less than 100 cases it won’t be safe with hundreds or thousands of cases. They’ve backed themselves into a corner by closing.

Agree, its hard to imagine when the Superintendent will be able to confidently say its safe to go back and they are risk-averse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Fall at the earliest. The 2019/20 school year is done. On top of that, school will look very different when they go back.

Repeating grades?

No, we are 3/4 of the way through the year. They will socially promote everyone unless there is a extenuating circumstance. This is happening to the entire world, not just us. Like a said on a thread yesterday, 2020 is going to have a big fat asterisk next to it for every measurement that we use to determine human achievement/success. Things are going to be very different after this, things we looked at as normal will not be the norm anymore. Think if 9/11 happened to the entire planet, not just the US, so many things changed about our society and not just here but all over the world and that was just as a result of something that happened in the US. This is literally happening to everyone. A new normal is being created right now, and for the next few weeks and months it’s going to get even more intense.

What will be different?

It’s hard to say exactly, but I suspect that sanitation stations will be added to all public buildings (kind of like defibrillators, fire extinguishers, and first aid kits now), mandatory hand washing will become the norm (at the beginning and end of the day, before and after recess, lunch, snack time, PE), maybe even temperature monitoring as kids enter and exit the school. In addition 1-1 digital devices will be the rule not the exception, teacher planning will include ways to deliver content remotely, School systems may even employee remote learning specialists that provide instruction to small groups of kids that are sick or cannot come to school for some other reason. Smaller class sizes with kids learning social distancing early, staggered school hours to accommodate small class sizing and all the other things. These are things that I can think of off the top of my head without us actually going through this... but expect some things will take quite an adjustment while some will be just small changes. I would suggest that we keep an open mind and understand that there will starts and stops and a bumpy road ahead. The sooner we work towards our new normal and stop fighting for they way things used to be, the better outcome will be for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fall.

Unless they cancel Summer vacation entirely and restart mid-June. The peak of the virus season is supposed to be May.

Another vote for Fall.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Fall at the earliest. The 2019/20 school year is done. On top of that, school will look very different when they go back.

Repeating grades?

No, we are 3/4 of the way through the year. They will socially promote everyone unless there is a extenuating circumstance. This is happening to the entire world, not just us. Like a said on a thread yesterday, 2020 is going to have a big fat asterisk next to it for every measurement that we use to determine human achievement/success. Things are going to be very different after this, things we looked at as normal will not be the norm anymore. Think if 9/11 happened to the entire planet, not just the US, so many things changed about our society and not just here but all over the world and that was just as a result of something that happened in the US. This is literally happening to everyone. A new normal is being created right now, and for the next few weeks and months it’s going to get even more intense.

What will be different?

It’s hard to say exactly, but I suspect that sanitation stations will be added to all public buildings (kind of like defibrillators, fire extinguishers, and first aid kits now), mandatory hand washing will become the norm (at the beginning and end of the day, before and after recess, lunch, snack time, PE), maybe even temperature monitoring as kids enter and exit the school. In addition 1-1 digital devices will be the rule not the exception, teacher planning will include ways to deliver content remotely, School systems may even employee remote learning specialists that provide instruction to small groups of kids that are sick or cannot come to school for some other reason. Smaller class sizes with kids learning social distancing early, staggered school hours to accommodate small class sizing and all the other things. These are things that I can think of off the top of my head without us actually going through this... but expect some things will take quite an adjustment while some will be just small changes. I would suggest that we keep an open mind and understand that there will starts and stops and a bumpy road ahead. The sooner we work towards our new normal and stop fighting for they way things used to be, the better outcome will be for everyone.

+1 This seems about right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it will be different in different states, like Wuhan and Hong Kong, HK recovered faster.

I say April. But I’m in Florida.

Florida is not taking this very seriously according to the family and friends I've heard from in the state. They say that people are all going out and about like everything is normal. Weather is great and restaurants are hopping. That is not going to stop a pandemic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised by the responses. I think MCPS will open in two weeks, take some of spring break away and move on as normal.

Maryland closed schools for 2 weeks when there were 50ish cases in the area? How will they justify reopening when there will be so many more cases? If it wasn’t safe to be open with less than 100 cases it won’t be safe with hundreds or thousands of cases. They’ve backed themselves into a corner by closing.

Don’t you mean that they did the right thing by closing?