Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is exactly what most people are saying....

I have two college freshman - one already on campus and one about to go next week.....

If either of my kids gets sick - meaning tests positive for Covid AND has symptoms - I would 100% bring them home.

But kids going to quarantine may have tested positive but have no symptoms or they were in contact with someone who tested positive. That being said...here's my two cents...

If your kid tests positive....he/she must quarantine for 14 days AT HOME if within 3-4 hrs drive. All others must quarantine on campus, hotel, etc.

If your kid has Covid symptoms and tests positive...he/she MUST GO HOME for treatment at home.

I think ALL students should be directed to get tested on their own/parents dime.

Also all students caught violating Covid protocol should be suspended and sent home! Violating COVID protocol should be treated same as violating the honor code/cheating on test.

Is this perfect? No....but this way...the students who test negative and follow protocol get to stay on campus.

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Anonymous wrote:You could drive 8 hours to get your kid. That is pretty safe.

No it is not. Because then the parent would get Covid. And the parent is more at risk for complications than the kid is. If parents can’t deal with having their kid test positive for Covid and stay on campus in the quarantine dorm, then parents shouldn’t support their kids going to college on campus. Don’t send your kid with the plan that you will come pick him or her up if he or she tests positive for Covid. That will contribute to community spread. The kid who goes off to college, gets Covid, and then expects his parents to come pick them up is the height of selfishness.

Anonymous wrote:Who are pps that are suggesting this?

Anonymous wrote:Talked with a friend yesterday whose child, and all their roommates, tested positive at a well-known southern university.

All were symptomatic. They kept them in town (they have an apartent) and let them quarantine for 10-14 days.

At this point, a lot of college students have a "let me get it and get it over with" mentality. I think this is the right move, rather than sending them home.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is exactly what most people are saying....

I have two college freshman - one already on campus and one about to go next week.....

If either of my kids gets sick - meaning tests positive for Covid AND has symptoms - I would 100% bring them home.

But kids going to quarantine may have tested positive but have no symptoms or they were in contact with someone who tested positive. That being said...here's my two cents...

If your kid tests positive....he/she must quarantine for 14 days AT HOME if within 3-4 hrs drive. All others must quarantine on campus, hotel, etc.

If your kid has Covid symptoms and tests positive...he/she MUST GO HOME for treatment at home.

I think ALL students should be directed to get tested on their own/parents dime.

Also all students caught violating Covid protocol should be suspended and sent home! Violating COVID protocol should be treated same as violating the honor code/cheating on test.

Is this perfect? No....but this way...the students who test negative and follow protocol get to stay on campus.

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Anonymous wrote:If I didn’t believe in my child’s ability to make good decisions and in my child’s SLAC’s plan for prevention, testing, mitigation, quarantine, etc., I would not have sent my child back. Full stop. I would never send my kid to UNC, NC State, Alabama, UGA in a pandemic. But I believe my child’s SLAC can make it work, and that they have a good plan to prevent community spread, and a good plan to care for positive students. And so I sent a pulse ox monitor, will trust that the public health nurse will, in fact, do an in person check on my kid twice a day, and that my kid will ask for help if needed. And FaceTime several times a day.

The fact is that my kid is 8 hours away. There is no safe way to get him home. I can’t put a positive kid on a plane or train. And if a parent picks him up, that parent will be infected after 8 hours in the car.



Also, I take COVID very seriously. But for a healthy 18 year old, it really is no more dangerous than the flu. Last time I checked, their were zero deaths of teens in Fairfax County. So the pick up bodies at night thing seems hysterical.

Did people who sent their kids to school not play out all of the scenarios? I don’t get these parents who are now balking at the plan they agreed to.

Yeah. I don’t either. Certainly you look at the college’s plan, weigh how realistic the plan is giving the housing situation and social scene, look at the plan for classes (why cram into a dorm for 100% remote?), look at how you child will be cared for— or if they will be cared for— if the are exposed, positive but asymptomatic or symptomatic, and do a gut check on whether you really believe your kid will wear the mask, avoid parties, and generally be responsible— and really think and talk to your spouse and kid before writing the tuition check, right? Right?

I mean, not if your an Alabama or UNC parent apparently. But I would hope everyone else got real with themselves and their kid about what it would look like if the kid tested positive and was or was not symptomatic. Both in terms of classes and in terms of how the child would be cared for without endangering the general public or more vulnerable members of the family.

But apparently it is just now dawning on some parents their kids could get COVID. Trumpkins waiting for it to magically disappear, maybe?

Please stop it with the ragging on Alabama. I'm not an Alabama fan, but that story has been so twisted. The case number cited by the NYT that ranks UAB as highest in covid cases includes all covid cases since January at the University of Alabama Birmingham teaching hospital, which is huge regional medical center. There have been 10 cases of covid diagnosed among UAB students since August 18.

https://www.uab.edu/news/campus/item/11515-new-york-times-reports-misleading-data-of-high-covid-19-cases-at-uab-in-story-about-colleges-universities

UAB’s clinical enterprise – which includes UAB Medicine, more than 17,500 employees and one of the nation’s largest hospitals, and welcomes more than 1.6 million patient visits a year – has provided vital healthcare services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes our healthcare providers on the frontlines who have cared for more than 1,100 hospitalized COVID-positive patients, as well as additional COVID-positive patients cared for in out-patient, ambulatory settings. This year, 733 faculty and staff in the clinical enterprise (4.1% of 17,500 total clinical enterprise employee population) have tested positive for COVID-19. 679 clinical enterprise employees have completed COVID-19 protocols and cleared to return to work.

These data include positive COVID-19 cases on- and off-campus throughout 2020, and contact tracing identified the vast majority of these cases (more than 80%) were acquired in the community, not at UAB. UAB is Alabama’s largest single employer, and like many businesses, our employees have not been immune to the spread of COVID-19 throughout the communities in which we live.

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Anonymous wrote:If I didn’t believe in my child’s ability to make good decisions and in my child’s SLAC’s plan for prevention, testing, mitigation, quarantine, etc., I would not have sent my child back. Full stop. I would never send my kid to UNC, NC State, Alabama, UGA in a pandemic. But I believe my child’s SLAC can make it work, and that they have a good plan to prevent community spread, and a good plan to care for positive students. And so I sent a pulse ox monitor, will trust that the public health nurse will, in fact, do an in person check on my kid twice a day, and that my kid will ask for help if needed. And FaceTime several times a day.

The fact is that my kid is 8 hours away. There is no safe way to get him home. I can’t put a positive kid on a plane or train. And if a parent picks him up, that parent will be infected after 8 hours in the car.



Also, I take COVID very seriously. But for a healthy 18 year old, it really is no more dangerous than the flu. Last time I checked, their were zero deaths of teens in Fairfax County. So the pick up bodies at night thing seems hysterical.

Did people who sent their kids to school not play out all of the scenarios? I don’t get these parents who are now balking at the plan they agreed to.

Yeah. I don’t either. Certainly you look at the college’s plan, weigh how realistic the plan is giving the housing situation and social scene, look at the plan for classes (why cram into a dorm for 100% remote?), look at how you child will be cared for— or if they will be cared for— if the are exposed, positive but asymptomatic or symptomatic, and do a gut check on whether you really believe your kid will wear the mask, avoid parties, and generally be responsible— and really think and talk to your spouse and kid before writing the tuition check, right? Right?

I mean, not if your an Alabama or UNC parent apparently. But I would hope everyone else got real with themselves and their kid about what it would look like if the kid tested positive and was or was not symptomatic. Both in terms of classes and in terms of how the child would be cared for without endangering the general public or more vulnerable members of the family.

But apparently it is just now dawning on some parents their kids could get COVID. Trumpkins waiting for it to magically disappear, maybe?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I didn’t believe in my child’s ability to make good decisions and in my child’s SLAC’s plan for prevention, testing, mitigation, quarantine, etc., I would not have sent my child back. Full stop. I would never send my kid to UNC, NC State, Alabama, UGA in a pandemic. But I believe my child’s SLAC can make it work, and that they have a good plan to prevent community spread, and a good plan to care for positive students. And so I sent a pulse ox monitor, will trust that the public health nurse will, in fact, do an in person check on my kid twice a day, and that my kid will ask for help if needed. And FaceTime several times a day.

The fact is that my kid is 8 hours away. There is no safe way to get him home. I can’t put a positive kid on a plane or train. And if a parent picks him up, that parent will be infected after 8 hours in the car.



Also, I take COVID very seriously. But for a healthy 18 year old, it really is no more dangerous than the flu. Last time I checked, their were zero deaths of teens in Fairfax County. So the pick up bodies at night thing seems hysterical.

Did people who sent their kids to school not play out all of the scenarios? I don’t get these parents who are now balking at the plan they agreed to.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is exactly what most people are saying....

I have two college freshman - one already on campus and one about to go next week.....

If either of my kids gets sick - meaning tests positive for Covid AND has symptoms - I would 100% bring them home.

But kids going to quarantine may have tested positive but have no symptoms or they were in contact with someone who tested positive. That being said...here's my two cents...

If your kid tests positive....he/she must quarantine for 14 days AT HOME if within 3-4 hrs drive. All others must quarantine on campus, hotel, etc.

If your kid has Covid symptoms and tests positive...he/she MUST GO HOME for treatment at home.

I think ALL students should be directed to get tested on their own/parents dime.

Also all students caught violating Covid protocol should be suspended and sent home! Violating COVID protocol should be treated same as violating the honor code/cheating on test.

Is this perfect? No....but this way...the students who test negative and follow protocol get to stay on campus.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could drive 8 hours to get your kid. That is pretty safe.

No it is not. Because then the parent would get Covid. And the parent is more at risk for complications than the kid is. If parents can’t deal with having their kid test positive for Covid and stay on campus in the quarantine dorm, then parents shouldn’t support their kids going to college on campus. Don’t send your kid with the plan that you will come pick him or her up if he or she tests positive for Covid. That will contribute to community spread. The kid who goes off to college, gets Covid, and then expects his parents to come pick them up is the height of selfishness.