SSMA covid-related closure

[Anonymous]

I think we all need to get comfortable with the fact that we are going to have closures here and there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to get COVID. And you know what? They're going to be totally fine. I'd be surprised if my kids didnt already have it, and we never knew it.

45 kids died of Covid in the past 2 weeks.

Source?

https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20and%20CHA%20-%20Children%20and%20COVID-19%20State%20Data%20Report%208.26%20FINAL-update.pdf

See, the number of states reporting changed from 43 to 45 in the past two week (8/12 to 8/26), ergo that increase isn't necessarily an increase.

These numbers show the death rate among children has plummeted.

At the beginning of the pandemic, 0.06 percent of kids who had COVID died.

As of last week, 0.01 percent of kids with COVID died.

That's an 83 percent decline.

I suck at math so honest question - doesn’t that mean that 1 in 100 kids with covid die???

No.

1 in 100 = 1 percent

1 in 10,000 = 0.01 percent

But even that, that’s assuming every kid that has COVID has been diagnosed.

[Anonymous]

Update: school is re-opening Friday.
They never should have closed in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Update: school is re-opening Friday.
They never should have closed in the first place.

I wonder how ballistic the parent community went?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we all need to get comfortable with the fact that we are going to have closures here and there.

This goes well beyond the idea of an occasional closure and you know it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Update: school is re-opening Friday.
They never should have closed in the first place.

Are they going to provide virtual learning? Regardless of whether you think this is enough to justify a closure, it isn't responsible to have such a hair trigger cancellation without a plan for how the children will learn.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to get COVID. And you know what? They're going to be totally fine. I'd be surprised if my kids didnt already have it, and we never knew it.

45 kids died of Covid in the past 2 weeks.

Source?

https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20and%20CHA%20-%20Children%20and%20COVID-19%20State%20Data%20Report%208.26%20FINAL-update.pdf

See, the number of states reporting changed from 43 to 45 in the past two week (8/12 to 8/26), ergo that increase isn't necessarily an increase.

These numbers show the death rate among children has plummeted.

At the beginning of the pandemic, 0.06 percent of kids who had COVID died.

As of last week, 0.01 percent of kids with COVID died.

That's an 83 percent decline.

I suck at math so honest question - doesn’t that mean that 1 in 100 kids with covid die???

No.

1 in 100 = 1 percent

1 in 10,000 = 0.01 percent

But even that, that’s assuming every kid that has COVID has been diagnosed.

Right, which is why the UK numbers are probably more useful (maybe?); that estimate is 1/2,000,000 of a kid dying from covid. Like it's just (covid deaths) / (number of kids).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Update: school is re-opening Friday.
They never should have closed in the first place.

Are they going to provide virtual learning? Regardless of whether you think this is enough to justify a closure, it isn't responsible to have such a hair trigger cancellation without a plan for how the children will learn.

The OP said no, either here or in a different thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think we all need to get comfortable with the fact that we are going to have closures here and there.

This goes well beyond the idea of an occasional closure and you know it.

+1

This is like "the parent might have looked sideways at a guy with a cough so let's close the ENTIRE SCHOOL for nearly a week."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Update: school is re-opening Friday.
They never should have closed in the first place.

Are they going to provide virtual learning? Regardless of whether you think this is enough to justify a closure, it isn't responsible to have such a hair trigger cancellation without a plan for how the children will learn.

The OP said no, either here or in a different thread.

Cripes. How could they possibly think they didn't need a plan to go virtual if they are going to close so easily? How will the kids get their mandated learning time and IEPs be met?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think we all need to get comfortable with the fact that we are going to have closures here and there.

This goes well beyond the idea of an occasional closure and you know it.

+1

What we need to get comfortable with is that there will be cases at and around schools, yet kids need to be in school.

[Anonymous]

I'm not personally familiar with SSMA and it sounds like there are some organizational issues, which might be the culprit.

But it really seems like there is more to the story. Someone, somewhere along the chain, had an overreaction to the reported exposure (which is attenuated) and that led to the closure. Whether it was the parent reporting the exposure, or another parent in that class freaking out, or the teacher freaking out, or an administrator freaking out, someone had a knee jerk reaction, did not follow the preset protocol, and threw the lives of every single family at the school into tumult.

That shouldn't happen. I know it's scary, but that's why you figure out these procedures ahead of time and make them crystal clear to all involved, so that when something goes wrong (as it inevitably will) you can simply follow the plan and not just give in to one or more people having a panic attack. I'm sympathetic to people who are having BIG feelings about all this (I'm sending my unvaccinated kid to school too, I get it -- I am not rational every day), but we need to try to keep feelings out of it as much as possible.

If I were an SSMA parent, I'd want a full accounting of what led to the closure. I don't even think the "who" is as important as the "why". The "why" is how you figure out how to keep it from happening again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we all need to get comfortable with the fact that we are going to have closures here and there.

This goes well beyond the idea of an occasional closure and you know it.

+1

What we need to get comfortable with is that there will be cases at and around schools, yet kids need to be in school.

Occasional my foot! This school is closed for 60% of the time so far this year! 80% if you didn't start on Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not personally familiar with SSMA and it sounds like there are some organizational issues, which might be the culprit.

But it really seems like there is more to the story. Someone, somewhere along the chain, had an overreaction to the reported exposure (which is attenuated) and that led to the closure. Whether it was the parent reporting the exposure, or another parent in that class freaking out, or the teacher freaking out, or an administrator freaking out, someone had a knee jerk reaction, did not follow the preset protocol, and threw the lives of every single family at the school into tumult.

That shouldn't happen. I know it's scary, but that's why you figure out these procedures ahead of time and make them crystal clear to all involved, so that when something goes wrong (as it inevitably will) you can simply follow the plan and not just give in to one or more people having a panic attack. I'm sympathetic to people who are having BIG feelings about all this (I'm sending my unvaccinated kid to school too, I get it -- I am not rational every day), but we need to try to keep feelings out of it as much as possible.

If I were an SSMA parent, I'd want a full accounting of what led to the closure. I don't even think the "who" is as important as the "why". The "why" is how you figure out how to keep it from happening again.

This is the problem with the SSMA leadership. You'll never ever get a full accounting of what led to the closure. It simply will not happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Update: school is re-opening Friday.
They never should have closed in the first place.

I wonder how ballistic the parent community went?

I mean, I flipped my shit, reported them to OSSE, and updated my post-lotto application to go to Bunker Hill. So.....