The prospect of kids not going back to school until 2021

[Anonymous]

Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close.

[Anonymous]

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The devil is in the details. My friend in NoVa told me last week that her ES kid will most likely go in person 2 times per week and the other 3 days will be DL.

How will this work for families where parents have paid employment?

1. the kids will stay home alone
2. the kids will go to work with their parents
3. a parent (probably the mother) will quit their job

Yes, read the VA schools board. Parents are outraged, but the school board says childcare is not their problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

The virus is the virus. It doesn't care. But it's people who are managing our response, and they do care - or ought to.

Covid is a public health problem. Kids out of school is also a public health problem. Families in precarious financial conditions are also a public health problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close.

You’re wrong. 465,000 people are dead. 9/11 killed less than 3,000. It is an unparalleled tragedy. You are alone if you think that’s just business as usual.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close.

You’re wrong. 465,000 people are dead. 9/11 killed less than 3,000. It is an unparalleled tragedy. You are alone if you think that’s just business as usual.

Huh? No it's not. It might be a paralleled tragedy, but it sure isn't an unparalleled one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close.

You’re wrong. 465,000 people are dead. 9/11 killed less than 3,000. It is an unparalleled tragedy. You are alone if you think that’s just business as usual.

Huh? No it's not. It might be a paralleled tragedy, but it sure isn't an unparalleled one.

Yeah, it’s awful, but unparalleled tragedy? No. Frankly, our administration’s handling of it is the bigger tragedy. They’re responsible for many needless deaths.

I’ve said it before on here and I’ll say it again: COVID-19 is not the only public health problem right now. Also: kids not going to school for potentially several years is a significant public health problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close.

You’re wrong. 465,000 people are dead. 9/11 killed less than 3,000. It is an unparalleled tragedy. You are alone if you think that’s just business as usual.

Huh? No it's not. It might be a paralleled tragedy, but it sure isn't an unparalleled one.

Yeah, it’s awful, but unparalleled tragedy? No. Frankly, our administration’s handling of it is the bigger tragedy. They’re responsible for many needless deaths.

I’ve said it before on here and I’ll say it again: COVID-19 is not the only public health problem right now. Also: kids not going to school for potentially several years is a significant public health problem.

How is distance learning a significant public health problem? Please, enlighten us.

[Anonymous]

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2019-2020/coronavirus-update-20200621.html

Announcement just sent out. Initial plan on 7/14 including presentation to Board of Ed. Final plan to state of MD by 8/14.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close.

You’re wrong. 465,000 people are dead. 9/11 killed less than 3,000. It is an unparalleled tragedy. You are alone if you think that’s just business as usual.

Huh? No it's not. It might be a paralleled tragedy, but it sure isn't an unparalleled one.

Yeah, it’s awful, but unparalleled tragedy? No. Frankly, our administration’s handling of it is the bigger tragedy. They’re responsible for many needless deaths.

I’ve said it before on here and I’ll say it again: COVID-19 is not the only public health problem right now. Also: kids not going to school for potentially several years is a significant public health problem.

How is distance learning a significant public health problem? Please, enlighten us.

DP. Things that come to mind without much thinking: Mental health of kids due to isolation, child abuse, physical and mental stress related to financial problems.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close.

You’re wrong. 465,000 people are dead. 9/11 killed less than 3,000. It is an unparalleled tragedy. You are alone if you think that’s just business as usual.

Huh? No it's not. It might be a paralleled tragedy, but it sure isn't an unparalleled one.

Yeah, it’s awful, but unparalleled tragedy? No. Frankly, our administration’s handling of it is the bigger tragedy. They’re responsible for many needless deaths.

I’ve said it before on here and I’ll say it again: COVID-19 is not the only public health problem right now. Also: kids not going to school for potentially several years is a significant public health problem.

How is distance learning a significant public health problem? Please, enlighten us.

DP. Things that come to mind without much thinking: Mental health of kids due to isolation, child abuse, physical and mental stress related to financial problems.

I’d also add not learning much of anything for extended periods of time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close.

You’re wrong. 465,000 people are dead. 9/11 killed less than 3,000. It is an unparalleled tragedy. You are alone if you think that’s just business as usual.

The Spanish flu killed at least 50 million. And mostly young people, contrary to Covid. This pandemic tragic, but nothing compared to the one of 1918.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close.

You’re wrong. 465,000 people are dead. 9/11 killed less than 3,000. It is an unparalleled tragedy. You are alone if you think that’s just business as usual.

Huh? No it's not. It might be a paralleled tragedy, but it sure isn't an unparalleled one.

Yeah, it’s awful, but unparalleled tragedy? No. Frankly, our administration’s handling of it is the bigger tragedy. They’re responsible for many needless deaths.

I’ve said it before on here and I’ll say it again: COVID-19 is not the only public health problem right now. Also: kids not going to school for potentially several years is a significant public health problem.

This. I will never understand why people are so cavalier about that. And I don't even need childcare. But I do believe that my kids and most others need in-person school. To think that we should shut down schools because of a virus with an overall fatality rate of less than 1% and a median fatality age of over 70 is just mind-boggling. We as a society clearly care neither about kids nor about education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close.

You’re wrong. 465,000 people are dead. 9/11 killed less than 3,000. It is an unparalleled tragedy. You are alone if you think that’s just business as usual.

Huh? No it's not. It might be a paralleled tragedy, but it sure isn't an unparalleled one.

Yeah, it’s awful, but unparalleled tragedy? No. Frankly, our administration’s handling of it is the bigger tragedy. They’re responsible for many needless deaths.

I’ve said it before on here and I’ll say it again: COVID-19 is not the only public health problem right now. Also: kids not going to school for potentially several years is a significant public health problem.

How is distance learning a significant public health problem? Please, enlighten us.

DP. Things that come to mind without much thinking: Mental health of kids due to isolation, child abuse, physical and mental stress related to financial problems.

I don’t see any reasonable statistician who believes that children will suffer dire mental health consequences of distance learning. Child abuse has not and can not be prevented by attending school for seven hours a day, five days a week, ten months out of the year. Stop trying to blame school systems for abusive parents-that is a case of harm being directly inflicted on a child by their own family. The school doesn’t shoulder that blame.
None of those issues would cause anywhere near half a million deaths in a few months, as COVID already has-I’m sorry, but mitigation of the virus is more important than any of those i things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close.

You’re wrong. 465,000 people are dead. 9/11 killed less than 3,000. It is an unparalleled tragedy. You are alone if you think that’s just business as usual.

The Spanish flu killed at least 50 million. And mostly young people, contrary to Covid. This pandemic tragic, but nothing compared to the one of 1918.

In total, over the span of several years-we’ve lost half a million in four months. Our health care system is a lot more sophisticated now so you would think we’d be in a much better position to address this.