Anonymous wrote:But NYC public schools are opening

Amazing that the MoCo teachers union apparently has more power than the NYC teachers union . . .

New York City teachers are currently discussing suing and striking to prevent this from happening. School doesn't start until after Labor Day. You're wrong if you think that NYC public school teachers are on board with this.

But NYC public schools are opening

Amazing that the MoCo teachers union apparently has more power than the NYC teachers union . . .

Add Fauquier County to the growing list.

Yes, OP is clearly right. We are going to look like fools for planning from the start for virtual learning so that students will be able to start school and know what their school day is going to look like and that teachers can plan a curriculum that they'll actually be able to teach on-line in the way that they plan instead of having to plan in person, start and a few days later adapt it to hybrid on the fly, then adapt it to remote on they fly a few days after that. I'm sure that won't be at all disruptive as they change back and forth between in person and virtual mid-week, often with no advance warning.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/schools-colleges-covid-reopen/2020/08/09/44a78044-d826-11ea-930e-d88518c57dcc_story.html

It’s going to be screen time all the time for kindergartners and graduate students alike. Teachers are threatening strikes. And students are already coming home with covid-19, the disease that has upended American education.

The 2020-2021 school year has dawned and it’s more chaotic than any before.

Plans are changing so fast that students and parents can hardly keep up. Districts that spent all summer planning hybrid systems, in which children would be in school part of the week, ditched them as coronavirus cases surged.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the HS in GA that was in the news last week is now going online.

https://www.ajc.com/education/9-cases-of-covid-19-reported-at-north-paulding-high-school/OWH6MN7DZ5A2XDQMXX337AQEWI/

Just watch the districts fall like dominoes.

They are going online for 2 days, drama queen.

Not when they get more positive cases they aren’t. How many people will get their kids tested in that school now that they hear of this news? Even if they do go back, it can’t be like they did last week. It makes me sad that adults are so stupid when it comes to the health of students.

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the HS in GA that was in the news last week is now going online.

https://www.ajc.com/education/9-cases-of-covid-19-reported-at-north-paulding-high-school/OWH6MN7DZ5A2XDQMXX337AQEWI/

Just watch the districts fall like dominoes.

They are going online for 2 days, drama queen.

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Anonymous wrote:I think what I find so frustrating is the leadership vacuum. Look at the state of NY- they provided specific guidance and then individual districts had to submit their plans to the state for approval. My teacher friends in upstate NY are cautiously optimistic about returning to the classroom. Meanwhile in MD all the districts were left to their own devices until MoCo issues a directive on the private schools that Hogan didn’t like. Just a lot of political infighting vs. an honest conversation about what is best for kids.

NY is in a much better situation than MD. They have less than 25% the number of cases per capita.

Yet most MD counties would have met the metric that NY set for opening.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but this was ridiculously premature. Most districts nationwide have been planning for months and staying the course. Just like daycares, the schools will be opening up and will be fine.

I have friends in FL, CA, and several other states whose schools have announced closings. Who do you consider "the rest of the country"?

Schools are open lots of places already. Just read about a Michigan school that opened a week ago.
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Looks like the HS in GA that was in the news last week is now going online.

https://www.ajc.com/education/9-cases-of-covid-19-reported-at-north-paulding-high-school/OWH6MN7DZ5A2XDQMXX337AQEWI/

Just watch the districts fall like dominoes.

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Anonymous wrote:“I WANT MY KIDS TO BE F2F EDUCATED, DEAD OR ALIVE!”

This what these people sound like.

No, more like "I CaNt StAnD To BE Al1OnE wItH MyKId aT HoMe AnYm0re!1"

I especially love the ones who think it is detrimental to their children's mental health to spend time with them.

What's detrimental to my child's mental health is having to spend 8-9 hours a day alone while his parents work. I would love to just be able to spend all day with him but... mama has a job.

But the world is experiencing a pandemic. Maybe you haven't heard.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but this was ridiculously premature. Most districts nationwide have been planning for months and staying the course. Just like daycares, the schools will be opening up and will be fine.

Better a live and breathing "fool" than a dead person who was "right."

Anyway, I think we'll look like geniuses when the schools down south close down in a few weeks and the pandemic is raging out of control down there because they were so anxious to re-open again against the advice of any credible expert.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“I WANT MY KIDS TO BE F2F EDUCATED, DEAD OR ALIVE!”

This what these people sound like.

No, more like "I CaNt StAnD To BE Al1OnE wItH MyKId aT HoMe AnYm0re!1"

I especially love the ones who think it is detrimental to their children's mental health to spend time with them.

What's detrimental to my child's mental health is having to spend 8-9 hours a day alone while his parents work. I would love to just be able to spend all day with him but... mama has a job.

What's even more detrimental is for them to grow up an orphan....

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“I WANT MY KIDS TO BE F2F EDUCATED, DEAD OR ALIVE!”

This what these people sound like.

No, more like "I CaNt StAnD To BE Al1OnE wItH MyKId aT HoMe AnYm0re!1"

I especially love the ones who think it is detrimental to their children's mental health to spend time with them.

What's detrimental to my child's mental health is having to spend 8-9 hours a day alone while his parents work. I would love to just be able to spend all day with him but... mama has a job.

Anonymous wrote:We already look like fools!

OMG OMG OMG What will our fellow MAGA Trumpublicans think!