Can Lafayette with 1,000 kids re-open in the Fall?

[Anonymous]

What a great way to start off teacher appreciation week, but completely ignoring the risks that teachers are going to face EVERY DAY if schools reopen in the fall. Teachers are elderly, have pre existing conditions, live with roommates or family. They would still be exposed to all 25-30 kids A WEEK.

The only way schools are going to reopen safely is when there is a vaccine. Kids will and should have to have it and then get their temperature taken before they enter the building. This is why rapid testing is so important.

[Anonymous]

Instead of having kids switch teachers for Math and ELA 3rd, 4th and 5th should have all core subjects with their one teacher. That way those kids and teachers aren’t exposed other germs. So your “exposure” is a class of 25 not a group of 50.

Hopefully they split the classes in half and have them go on different days so the actual time in class will be if 12 and not 25. Of course If the school isn’t cleaned well each night it goes back up to the germs of 25 but that is much better than 50.

Teachers too will be limiting their interactions to 25 and not 50.

[Anonymous]

They could also have half the kids come one week and half the other and keep they up

[Anonymous]

class sizes are over 25 in many grades

[Anonymous]

We, as a society, are going to just live with the risk. That is the plan. Some people, including older teachers with pre-existing conditions and some kids, will die. Everyone will wring their hands and say it’s a tragedy. But life will go on, because society gave up on test, trace, isolate; masks are unamerican; and because the cure can’t be worse than the disease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a great way to start off teacher appreciation week, but completely ignoring the risks that teachers are going to face EVERY DAY if schools reopen in the fall. Teachers are elderly, have pre existing conditions, live with roommates or family. They would still be exposed to all 25-30 kids A WEEK.

The only way schools are going to reopen safely is when there is a vaccine. Kids will and should have to have it and then get their temperature taken before they enter the building. This is why rapid testing is so important.

Don’t be ridiculous. There may never be a vaccine. What just no more school forever? Teachers who don’t want to take the risk — mitigated to the greatest extent possible while still having actual in-person classes — can switch jobs. I favor robust disability and unemployment benefits for teachers who have to take this root or choose to, respectively, but it can’t be that nurses, supermarket checkers, policemen, firemen, doctors, janitors, etc all have to go to work just like they have been throughout and we hold all kids’ education hostage indefinitely because teachers might be at risk. At some point, we’re just going to have to get back to a sustainable new normal.

[Anonymous]

I think each school is going to have to figure this our based on space in building and staff hours available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a great way to start off teacher appreciation week, but completely ignoring the risks that teachers are going to face EVERY DAY if schools reopen in the fall. Teachers are elderly, have pre existing conditions, live with roommates or family. They would still be exposed to all 25-30 kids A WEEK.

The only way schools are going to reopen safely is when there is a vaccine. Kids will and should have to have it and then get their temperature taken before they enter the building. This is why rapid testing is so important.

Don’t be ridiculous. There may never be a vaccine. What just no more school forever? Teachers who don’t want to take the risk — mitigated to the greatest extent possible while still having actual in-person classes — can switch jobs. I favor robust disability and unemployment benefits for teachers who have to take this root or choose to, respectively, but it can’t be that nurses, supermarket checkers, policemen, firemen, doctors, janitors, etc all have to go to work just like they have been throughout and we hold all kids’ education hostage indefinitely because teachers might be at risk. At some point, we’re just going to have to get back to a sustainable new normal.

+1. We have no idea what this is going to look like (various statins etc).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a great way to start off teacher appreciation week, but completely ignoring the risks that teachers are going to face EVERY DAY if schools reopen in the fall. Teachers are elderly, have pre existing conditions, live with roommates or family. They would still be exposed to all 25-30 kids A WEEK.

The only way schools are going to reopen safely is when there is a vaccine. Kids will and should have to have it and then get their temperature taken before they enter the building. This is why rapid testing is so important.

Don’t be ridiculous. There may never be a vaccine. What just no more school forever? Teachers who don’t want to take the risk — mitigated to the greatest extent possible while still having actual in-person classes — can switch jobs. I favor robust disability and unemployment benefits for teachers who have to take this root or choose to, respectively, but it can’t be that nurses, supermarket checkers, policemen, firemen, doctors, janitors, etc all have to go to work just like they have been throughout and we hold all kids’ education hostage indefinitely because teachers might be at risk. At some point, we’re just going to have to get back to a sustainable new normal.

+1. We have no idea what this is going to look like (various statins etc).

I think the point is there was supposed to be a test/track/isolate thing. We haven’t done that. Now people are thinking they’d like to telework forever, because there is no test/track/isolate (you know, the thing that was supposed to make it at least seem safe to reopen).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think each school is going to have to figure this our based on space in building and staff hours available.

Nope. Equity forbids it.

[Anonymous]

I will say NIH is working hard to get a vaccine by the Fall. I believe when it’s available on hand, schools will open normally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will say NIH is working hard to get a vaccine by the Fall. I believe when it’s available on hand, schools will open normally.

Creating one, mass producing one, and administering one to millions are three different issues. I don't see any way that things will just go back to normal in three months.

[Anonymous]

There is zero chance a vaccine will be widely distributed in the fall.

[Anonymous]

I'm torn - really want my kids to go back in some form, but thinking about how the flu tore through my second grader's class this year is a bit of a preview to how Covid will spread (out of nearly 30 kids, I think 2/3 got it) and headlice - that's probably a good proxy for Covid since kids can be 'asymptomatic' for a while, get it, and it comes back, round and round now that the pesticide shampoo doesn't work.

We don't yet know if people can be re-infected once they've had Covid (like the flu) of if there will be some lasting immunity once one has had it.

[Anonymous]

The answer is no,
Unless you want dozens of teachers, parents and grandparent dead.