Here is why we should close schools now.

[Anonymous]

DP. Even if those close schools now, there will be no summer school. Have you ever met a teacher? It isn’t in their contract.

[Anonymous]

Legit reasons why closing schools isn’t always the best answer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/03/09/is-it-really-good-idea-close-schools-fight-coronavirus/

[Anonymous]

Read the Post article.

1/3 of American nurses have kids under 18. I'm one of them. If my kids can no longer go to school/aftercare who is going to take care of them so i can work? I can think of dozens of colleagues in the DC area who will be in their same position. We cover summers with camp. but there won't be camps run in place of school. I honestly i can't afford to pay anyone to take care of then 40 hours a week in my salary of $40/hour. So very quickly I'll quit as will dozens of nurses i know.

[Anonymous]

DD says she found it almost impossible to get soap out of the soap dispenser. She told an adult about it, who said that the school is running out of soap.

[Anonymous]

How about provide an online learning options?

Everything will be fine except lives.


Look at what is happening in Italy. Two weeks ago it was a total different story.


Sign the petition to urge MCPS do something before it is too late.

http://chng.it/hXcTqjp5WV

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about provide an online learning options?

Everything will be fine except lives.


Look at what is happening in Italy. Two weeks ago it was a total different story.


Sign the petition to urge MCPS do something before it is too late.

http://chng.it/hXcTqjp5WV

Thanks!

Pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about provide an online learning options?

Everything will be fine except lives.


Look at what is happening in Italy. Two weeks ago it was a total different story.


Sign the petition to urge MCPS do something before it is too late.

http://chng.it/hXcTqjp5WV

Thanks!

So all the people insisting they still must travel for spring break can infect everyone when school goes back? Makes no sense if we aren’t stopping travel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read the Post article.

1/3 of American nurses have kids under 18. I'm one of them. If my kids can no longer go to school/aftercare who is going to take care of them so i can work? I can think of dozens of colleagues in the DC area who will be in their same position. We cover summers with camp. but there won't be camps run in place of school. I honestly i can't afford to pay anyone to take care of then 40 hours a week in my salary of $40/hour. So very quickly I'll quit as will dozens of nurses i know.

There will be other nurses without kids who will pick up your shifts, including school nurses and those who are dailies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about provide an online learning options?

Everything will be fine except lives.


Look at what is happening in Italy. Two weeks ago it was a total different story.


Sign the petition to urge MCPS do something before it is too late.

http://chng.it/hXcTqjp5WV

Thanks!

Not every parent can work from home or take time off.
Not every family has the resources to engage their kids in online learning.

[Anonymous]

Ok, so here’s an honest question, and it would be great if someone with some expertise could respond.

I am a retired person, and I am taking to heart the call to stay at home as much as possible. Plan to leave house to run errands say, three times a week. Like that.

My DH works, but his large company is testing telework for one day this week, so he may be working from home pretty soon.

Our DC is a middle schooler. Not DCPS. Today, as it happened, DC didn’t have school. Instead of spending it with me at home, reading stories, and playing games, safely cultivating social distance...DC was out and about with a group of friends all afternoon.

I think it may make sense to close schools. But I have two questions:

1. if schools close, would it be my job to make sure DC stays at home all the time?

2. If school closes, but DC does decide to go out gallivantiing from time to time, might that in any case be better than having DC go to school, where s/he would be exposed to 300 or so other kids, plus teachers, plus admin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read the Post article.

1/3 of American nurses have kids under 18. I'm one of them. If my kids can no longer go to school/aftercare who is going to take care of them so i can work? I can think of dozens of colleagues in the DC area who will be in their same position. We cover summers with camp. but there won't be camps run in place of school. I honestly i can't afford to pay anyone to take care of then 40 hours a week in my salary of $40/hour. So very quickly I'll quit as will dozens of nurses i know.

There will be other nurses without kids who will pick up your shifts, including school nurses and those who are dailies.

Not the OP but if it’s one thing this whole COVID mess has taught me is how utterly clueless people are about how nursing in hospitals work. It’s like the fool who said nurses would be ok because we run on adrenaline. Most hospitals are already short nurses. Childless nurses aren’t going to just pick up our shifts. You people live in such a bubble. School nurses don’t know crap about acute care nursing. Nursing is pretty specialized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read the Post article.

1/3 of American nurses have kids under 18. I'm one of them. If my kids can no longer go to school/aftercare who is going to take care of them so i can work? I can think of dozens of colleagues in the DC area who will be in their same position. We cover summers with camp. but there won't be camps run in place of school. I honestly i can't afford to pay anyone to take care of then 40 hours a week in my salary of $40/hour. So very quickly I'll quit as will dozens of nurses i know.

There will be other nurses without kids who will pick up your shifts, including school nurses and those who are dailies.

What other magical, imaginary nurses are those? From where do you hope to conjure non-existent nurses?

The real answer, of course, is that you don't really care because so long as you can hunker down in your mansion, you don't care what happens outside your house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read the Post article.

1/3 of American nurses have kids under 18. I'm one of them. If my kids can no longer go to school/aftercare who is going to take care of them so i can work? I can think of dozens of colleagues in the DC area who will be in their same position. We cover summers with camp. but there won't be camps run in place of school. I honestly i can't afford to pay anyone to take care of then 40 hours a week in my salary of $40/hour. So very quickly I'll quit as will dozens of nurses i know.

There will be other nurses without kids who will pick up your shifts, including school nurses and those who are dailies.

Not the OP but if it’s one thing this whole COVID mess has taught me is how utterly clueless people are about how nursing in hospitals work. It’s like the fool who said nurses would be ok because we run on adrenaline. Most hospitals are already short nurses. Childless nurses aren’t going to just pick up our shifts. You people live in such a bubble. School nurses don’t know crap about acute care nursing. Nursing is pretty specialized.

The pro-full-closure posters on this thread are so privilege-blind that it's shocking. Let them eat cake, indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read the Post article.

1/3 of American nurses have kids under 18. I'm one of them. If my kids can no longer go to school/aftercare who is going to take care of them so i can work? I can think of dozens of colleagues in the DC area who will be in their same position. We cover summers with camp. but there won't be camps run in place of school. I honestly i can't afford to pay anyone to take care of then 40 hours a week in my salary of $40/hour. So very quickly I'll quit as will dozens of nurses i know.

Schools will close anyhow in about three weeks into an outbreak. So what will you do with your kids at that point?

You don't seriously believe the US will be any different from any other country that's experienced this so far? ALL of them have closed their schools once it became clear that ICUs were being overwhelmed and that they were running out of PPE for their healthcare workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about provide an online learning options?

Everything will be fine except lives.


Look at what is happening in Italy. Two weeks ago it was a total different story.


Sign the petition to urge MCPS do something before it is too late.

http://chng.it/hXcTqjp5WV

Thanks!

Not every parent can work from home or take time off.
Not every family has the resources to engage their kids in online learning.

These folks do not care about kids without resources, or nursing staff, or really anyone else.