schools closed for end of academic year

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Anonymous wrote:I was watching the press conference but had to drop - there was a report the Superintendent was waving around. Does that contain the information about school not coming back until MD reaches Stage 3? Anyone know where we can find that report?

Did she actually say anything about phase 3? Phase 3 is all undefined anyway. Just like the rest of it. I’m guessing they start rushing the phases as people get tired of this. They’re already starting to.

The report hasn't been posted yet. Hopefully in the next day or two. Hogan is following Hopkins' 3 phase guidance (https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/MD_Strong.pdf) which states that schools can start to open during Phase II but with physical distancing limitations.

Phase III is outlined in this document as looking forward to a time when a vaccine is available. WTF?! Did they really say phase 3 in the press conference?

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200417-reopening-guidance-governors.pdf

PP advice again - this doc on page 10 outlines in more detail: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/National-Coronavirus-Response-a-Road-Map-to-Recovering-2.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:I was watching the press conference but had to drop - there was a report the Superintendent was waving around. Does that contain the information about school not coming back until MD reaches Stage 3? Anyone know where we can find that report?

Did she actually say anything about phase 3? Phase 3 is all undefined anyway. Just like the rest of it. I’m guessing they start rushing the phases as people get tired of this. They’re already starting to.

The report hasn't been posted yet. Hopefully in the next day or two. Hogan is following Hopkins' 3 phase guidance (https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/MD_Strong.pdf) which states that schools can start to open during Phase II but with physical distancing limitations.

Phase III is outlined in this document as looking forward to a time when a vaccine is available. WTF?! Did they really say phase 3 in the press conference?

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200417-reopening-guidance-governors.pdf

PP advice again - this doc on page 10 outlines in more detail: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/National-Coronavirus-Response-a-Road-Map-to-Recovering-2.pdf

That was meant to say PP above not advice. Can anyone clarify exactly what they said about phase III? I missed the press conference.

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And not coming back fully until Maryland reaches Stage 3. That's not going to be by the fall.

Sorry Mrs. A they'll be back in the fall. Start preparing those lesson plans.

+1. Watch how magically we will reach Stage 3, just in time for school to start.

There is no other choice. This country cannot be the single developed country in the world to keep our kids out of school for almost a year. You people are completely out of touch. Don't be such ninnies and start accepting reality.

Agree, unless things go completely crazy this summer, kids will be back at school in the fall.

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look how far we have already come, in half the time that we have until school starts in the fall. They'll be open. Maybe with lunch in classrooms and without assembly, but they'll be open.

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THEY ARE NOT WAITING FOR A VACCINE TO OPEN SCHOOLS.

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And not coming back fully until Maryland reaches Stage 3. That's not going to be by the fall.

Kids will not go back until after Winter Break next year.

I predict January 2021. Get used to online learning.

Agreed. I think early Aug will see an announcement that MCPS is online for Fall 2020, except for students with IEPs that require small group instruction/self-contained classrooms 80% to 100% of the day. Traditionally in MCPS, those are students with profound emotional or intellectual disabilities. Everyone else is in inclusion classes all or most of the day. So, the sophomore with ODD or the non-verbal preschooler, not the fifth grader with a high IQ, but dyslexia or the seventh grader with executive functioning challenges.

That gives them four months to see how things go with the second wave. They could always decide to do 2nd semester online as well.

Oh, and will most businesses in Maryland remain closed through the fall, too?

Here's Ocean City saying COME BE TOURISTS!!!!! (which I think is nuts, nobody is going to go), and that's fine, but letting kids go to school is not?

Hotels in Ocean City are still closed. The idea was that beaches would be open to locals for exercise.

Which is what today's announcement also does for beaches and parks in the rest of the state: allows local jurisdictions open recreation areas as they deem appropriate.

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Anonymous wrote:Was anything said about camps? I didn’t see anything in MD’s Recovery Roadmap

In the White House plan, which the MD plan largely follows as best I can see, day camps can open in Stage 2 with very strict safety protocols. Probably too strict for a lot of them to manage, unless they have a large campus and enough staff and materials to adjust their usual procedures accordingly.

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Anonymous wrote:THEY ARE NOT WAITING FOR A VACCINE TO OPEN SCHOOLS.

Does all caps make you feel better?

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Anonymous wrote:I was watching the press conference but had to drop - there was a report the Superintendent was waving around. Does that contain the information about school not coming back until MD reaches Stage 3? Anyone know where we can find that report?

Did she actually say anything about phase 3? Phase 3 is all undefined anyway. Just like the rest of it. I’m guessing they start rushing the phases as people get tired of this. They’re already starting to.

The report hasn't been posted yet. Hopefully in the next day or two. Hogan is following Hopkins' 3 phase guidance (https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/MD_Strong.pdf) which states that schools can start to open during Phase II but with physical distancing limitations.

Phase III is outlined in this document as looking forward to a time when a vaccine is available. WTF?! Did they really say phase 3 in the press conference?

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200417-reopening-guidance-governors.pdf

PP advice again - this doc on page 10 outlines in more detail: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/National-Coronavirus-Response-a-Road-Map-to-Recovering-2.pdf

Has this American Enterprise Institute document been adopted as official policy? Or is it just their own recommendations?

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Anonymous wrote:THEY ARE NOT WAITING FOR A VACCINE TO OPEN SCHOOLS.

Ok, so did they say phase III or not?

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Anonymous wrote:I was watching the press conference but had to drop - there was a report the Superintendent was waving around. Does that contain the information about school not coming back until MD reaches Stage 3? Anyone know where we can find that report?

Did she actually say anything about phase 3? Phase 3 is all undefined anyway. Just like the rest of it. I’m guessing they start rushing the phases as people get tired of this. They’re already starting to.

The report hasn't been posted yet. Hopefully in the next day or two. Hogan is following Hopkins' 3 phase guidance (https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/MD_Strong.pdf) which states that schools can start to open during Phase II but with physical distancing limitations.

Phase III is outlined in this document as looking forward to a time when a vaccine is available. WTF?! Did they really say phase 3 in the press conference?

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200417-reopening-guidance-governors.pdf

PP advice again - this doc on page 10 outlines in more detail: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/National-Coronavirus-Response-a-Road-Map-to-Recovering-2.pdf

Has this American Enterprise Institute document been adopted as official policy? Or is it just their own recommendations?

If you follow the links from the governors page that’s where it takes you. So yes, I assume.

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Anonymous wrote:I was watching the press conference but had to drop - there was a report the Superintendent was waving around. Does that contain the information about school not coming back until MD reaches Stage 3? Anyone know where we can find that report?

Did she actually say anything about phase 3? Phase 3 is all undefined anyway. Just like the rest of it. I’m guessing they start rushing the phases as people get tired of this. They’re already starting to.

The report hasn't been posted yet. Hopefully in the next day or two. Hogan is following Hopkins' 3 phase guidance (https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/MD_Strong.pdf) which states that schools can start to open during Phase II but with physical distancing limitations.

Phase III is outlined in this document as looking forward to a time when a vaccine is available. WTF?! Did they really say phase 3 in the press conference?

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200417-reopening-guidance-governors.pdf

PP advice again - this doc on page 10 outlines in more detail: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/National-Coronavirus-Response-a-Road-Map-to-Recovering-2.pdf

Has this American Enterprise Institute document been adopted as official policy? Or is it just their own recommendations?

If you follow the links from the governors page that’s where it takes you. So yes, I assume.

By page I mean the pdf linked in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:just announced

And not coming back fully until Maryland reaches Stage 3. That's not going to be by the fall.

Sorry Mrs. A they'll be back in the fall. Start preparing those lesson plans.

+1. Watch how magically we will reach Stage 3, just in time for school to start.

There is no other choice. This country cannot be the single developed country in the world to keep our kids out of school for almost a year. You people are completely out of touch. Don't be such ninnies and start accepting reality.

Agree, unless things go completely crazy this summer, kids will be back at school in the fall.

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look how far we have already come, in half the time that we have until school starts in the fall. They'll be open. Maybe with lunch in classrooms and without assembly, but they'll be open.

Who will monitor lunch in all of those classrooms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was watching the press conference but had to drop - there was a report the Superintendent was waving around. Does that contain the information about school not coming back until MD reaches Stage 3? Anyone know where we can find that report?

Did she actually say anything about phase 3? Phase 3 is all undefined anyway. Just like the rest of it. I’m guessing they start rushing the phases as people get tired of this. They’re already starting to.

The report hasn't been posted yet. Hopefully in the next day or two. Hogan is following Hopkins' 3 phase guidance (https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/MD_Strong.pdf) which states that schools can start to open during Phase II but with physical distancing limitations.

Phase III is outlined in this document as looking forward to a time when a vaccine is available. WTF?! Did they really say phase 3 in the press conference?

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200417-reopening-guidance-governors.pdf

PP advice again - this doc on page 10 outlines in more detail: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/National-Coronavirus-Response-a-Road-Map-to-Recovering-2.pdf

That was meant to say PP above not advice. Can anyone clarify exactly what they said about phase III? I missed the press conference.

I re-listened to the press conference. She said that schools will not reopen fully, e.g., resume normal operations, until Phase III. The report that she mentioned gives guidelines for alternative schedules, online delivery, only certain students returning, etc. that would happen in Phase II.

Regarding specifics for Phase III, all published reports/guidance for governors assume this is when a vaccine is available.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was watching the press conference but had to drop - there was a report the Superintendent was waving around. Does that contain the information about school not coming back until MD reaches Stage 3? Anyone know where we can find that report?

Did she actually say anything about phase 3? Phase 3 is all undefined anyway. Just like the rest of it. I’m guessing they start rushing the phases as people get tired of this. They’re already starting to.

The report hasn't been posted yet. Hopefully in the next day or two. Hogan is following Hopkins' 3 phase guidance (https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/MD_Strong.pdf) which states that schools can start to open during Phase II but with physical distancing limitations.

Phase III is outlined in this document as looking forward to a time when a vaccine is available. WTF?! Did they really say phase 3 in the press conference?

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200417-reopening-guidance-governors.pdf

PP advice again - this doc on page 10 outlines in more detail: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/National-Coronavirus-Response-a-Road-Map-to-Recovering-2.pdf

Has this American Enterprise Institute document been adopted as official policy? Or is it just their own recommendations?

If you follow the links from the governors page that’s where it takes you. So yes, I assume.

I read the entire report and yes, Hogan is using AEI, Hopkins and White House as guidelines for re-opening the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:just announced

And not coming back fully until Maryland reaches Stage 3. That's not going to be by the fall.

Sorry Mrs. A they'll be back in the fall. Start preparing those lesson plans.

+1. Watch how magically we will reach Stage 3, just in time for school to start.

There is no other choice. This country cannot be the single developed country in the world to keep our kids out of school for almost a year. You people are completely out of touch. Don't be such ninnies and start accepting reality.

Agree, unless things go completely crazy this summer, kids will be back at school in the fall.

+1
look how far we have already come, in half the time that we have until school starts in the fall. They'll be open. Maybe with lunch in classrooms and without assembly, but they'll be open.

Who will monitor lunch in all of those classrooms?

Seriously, they do this for recess all the time when there is significant snow or rain outside. There are paid recess monitors who can cover several classrooms. The other classrooms are covered by paraprofessionals. Schools make do. It's also possible that the real teachers can monitor lunch and receive a break at another time. (Classes can be combined to watch a video to give one teacher a break. Not ideal, but it happens).