schools closed for end of academic year

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This sucks! I knew kids won’t get to go back to finish off the school year but it makes me so sad!☹️
On top of that the uncertainty of having school in the fall is just too much.. I feel bad for my kids in elementary school. They can’t learn on zoom, especially Kindergarten kids

I have a kindergartener. It's not ideal but okay overall. I always felt like older kids had it worse because stakes are not as high for the K kids.

Let’s just remove that uncertainty and say we won’t be opening schools until Jan 2021 at the earliest and started really cultivating online learning.

Zoom classes are kind of lame, but one on one with zoom could be pretty good, and since teachers don’t have to do a lot of the administrative and discipline for the class, and can focus on just instruction, maybe that could work out to individual instruction time 2-4 times a week with EACH student. On top of group lessons/lectures to give broad introductions.

Online learning could be much better than what it is. But you will not see much support to improve it. Thousands of children could be taught very effectively from the same online learning module with only a small support staff for personalized learning reinforcement. Imagine the teachers union supporting making 90% of teachers obsolete?
And the kicker is a well thought out computerized model would be able to ensure individual students were truly learning and getting individualized feedback vs the cattle chute of learning the students gonthroughbin public schools.

Clearly you have never taught elementary school students.

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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.

Yes, please!

Increasingly information is coming out that kids aren’t very much affected by COVID and may in fact not be little vectors of COVID as well. Hopefully by late summer more will be known.

Can you provide some links to support your assertion? I've read that the latest studies support the opposite conclusion: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/health/coronavirus-children-transmission-school.html

This is one that gives some evidence towards that conclusion:
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/2/21241636/coronavirus-children-kids-spread-transmit-switzerland

[Anonymous]

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My child with an IEP is doing much better with distance learning.

In fact, all my kids from elementary to high school are happy at home and more productive.






Please don’t generalize.

Dont use your anecdotes as useful data points for larger policies

Exactly. You're welcome to home school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Yes, please!

Increasingly information is coming out that kids aren’t very much affected by COVID and may in fact not be little vectors of COVID as well. Hopefully by late summer more will be known.

Can you provide some links to support your assertion? I've read that the latest studies support the opposite conclusion: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/health/coronavirus-children-transmission-school.html

This is one that gives some evidence towards that conclusion:
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/2/21241636/coronavirus-children-kids-spread-transmit-switzerland

Thanks, I saw this article already and checked out the studies. Still falls under mixed results/conclusions. I have access to peer-reviewed journals behind paywalls and can't find any studies that are conclusive regarding kids status as vectors. There are two new studies that have found limited evidence that they potentially are. The question is if we should lean towards caution or risk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This sucks! I knew kids won’t get to go back to finish off the school year but it makes me so sad!☹️
On top of that the uncertainty of having school in the fall is just too much.. I feel bad for my kids in elementary school. They can’t learn on zoom, especially Kindergarten kids

Who are you people who actually thought there was a possibility of schools opening up? Have you been watching the news and paying attention to other school districts?

I do think you need to come to terms with the situation for yourself and for your kids.

Schools are not going to open until January 2021, at the earliest. Be prepared to adjust to that reality.

So what are teachers gonna do, stay at home and get paid? Will the furlough some? what about aides and bus drivers clearly not needed? Will they be paid the same salary, are they gonna be hiring?

They shouldn’t be paying bus drivers.

Teachers are still teaching. Teachers will get paid.

Let those bus drivers eat cake right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

It actually is happening.

[Anonymous]

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.

+1
All these nutjob parents in their McMansions thinking that we can just close school for a year without any huge economic repercussions. There is zero chance that will happen.

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Thanks, I saw this article already and checked out the studies. Still falls under mixed results/conclusions. I have access to peer-reviewed journals behind paywalls and can't find any studies that are conclusive regarding kids status as vectors. There are two new studies that have found limited evidence that they potentially are. The question is if we should lean towards caution or risk.

Kids will already have missed 1/4 of a year of school. If they can allow other things to be open, they can darn well allow schools to be open.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

It actually is happening.

While you were drooling over Hogan closing school did you also hear the remainder of the press conference where he talked about how good the statistics are and how things are starting to open tomorrow at 7am?

We will be out living life. See you on the flipside.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

It actually is happening.

While you were drooling over Hogan closing school did you also hear the remainder of the press conference where he talked about how good the statistics are and how things are starting to open tomorrow at 7am?

We will be out living life. See you on the flipside.

You mean, the part about how, after almost 2 months of people staying at home (or supposed to be staying at home), the hospitalization rate in Maryland still hasn't declined?

Have fun at the golf course and dentist's office!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sucks! I knew kids won’t get to go back to finish off the school year but it makes me so sad!☹️
On top of that the uncertainty of having school in the fall is just too much.. I feel bad for my kids in elementary school. They can’t learn on zoom, especially Kindergarten kids

Who are you people who actually thought there was a possibility of schools opening up? Have you been watching the news and paying attention to other school districts?

I do think you need to come to terms with the situation for yourself and for your kids.

Schools are not going to open until January 2021, at the earliest. Be prepared to adjust to that reality.

+1

It’s not worth even trying to reason with these people. They don’t get it and won’t until it happens.

Good. More time for other families to prepare.

Listen. There is no way schools will remain closed that long. It's just not going to happen. We can't shut down life for this. You all are acting like people are dropping like flies from this virus. The death rate from this for people who aren't already sick with a bunch of other stuff is extremely low. People are staying sick for like 5-10 days. Yes it's more serious than the flu but give me a break. It's not worth stopping our lives for close to a year. This virus is not a death sentence. I feel like all you people screaming that we stay closed forever are acting like it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

It actually is happening.

While you were drooling over Hogan closing school did you also hear the remainder of the press conference where he talked about how good the statistics are and how things are starting to open tomorrow at 7am?

We will be out living life. See you on the flipside.

You mean, the part about how, after almost 2 months of people staying at home (or supposed to be staying at home), the hospitalization rate in Maryland still hasn't declined?

Have fun at the golf course and dentist's office!

Can you imagine living life seeing things this negatively? I hope you people that think like this don’t have children that you’re projecting this horrific mentality onto. How depressing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sucks! I knew kids won’t get to go back to finish off the school year but it makes me so sad!☹️
On top of that the uncertainty of having school in the fall is just too much.. I feel bad for my kids in elementary school. They can’t learn on zoom, especially Kindergarten kids

Who are you people who actually thought there was a possibility of schools opening up? Have you been watching the news and paying attention to other school districts?

I do think you need to come to terms with the situation for yourself and for your kids.

Schools are not going to open until January 2021, at the earliest. Be prepared to adjust to that reality.

+1

It’s not worth even trying to reason with these people. They don’t get it and won’t until it happens.

Good. More time for other families to prepare.

Listen. There is no way schools will remain closed that long. It's just not going to happen. We can't shut down life for this. You all are acting like people are dropping like flies from this virus. The death rate from this for people who aren't already sick with a bunch of other stuff is extremely low. People are staying sick for like 5-10 days. Yes it's more serious than the flu but give me a break. It's not worth stopping our lives for close to a year. This virus is not a death sentence. I feel like all you people screaming that we stay closed forever are acting like it is.

Of course you’re totally right. The tragedy vultures will never listen. They would prefer people drop dead in the streets to good news. It’s so crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, fall is not likely. The whole country is opening too soon. People cannot follow basic mask protocol or distancing. We are gonna have a huge, overwhelming surge in cases in June that we won't be able to manage because all the kids who couldn't do group work in high school became adults who can't do group work. When they try to shut back down with the surge, people will rebel because we are a nation of teenagers and it will be longer and more drawn out than it ever needed to be, add in the flu and it is really gonna be a mess.

As much as you hope for overwhelming craziness and deaths, there is no indication that that will happen.

It actually is happening.

While you were drooling over Hogan closing school did you also hear the remainder of the press conference where he talked about how good the statistics are and how things are starting to open tomorrow at 7am?

We will be out living life. See you on the flipside.

You mean, the part about how, after almost 2 months of people staying at home (or supposed to be staying at home), the hospitalization rate in Maryland still hasn't declined?

Have fun at the golf course and dentist's office!

Can you imagine living life seeing things this negatively? I hope you people that think like this don’t have children that you’re projecting this horrific mentality onto. How depressing.

Eh. The facts are what they are. But seriously, I hope you have fun at the golf course. Please remember to drive at or below the speed limit on your way there.