Anonymous wrote:For everyone who says that schools are not experiencing outbreaks or closures, here is a database:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQSD9mm5HTXhxAiHabZA6BPUByWBlP5HZ2jfOPEeGZkMB0ZFsmFBL5orqjIq22mjFNZ7n-11ObCylGn/pubhtml?fbclid=IwAR2tJ8yDVehGpxoP97Cco5HYAxoN014opwwm6uYt4s3E2xDr_8u9KF_LlgI&_ga=2.134010894.1896452270.1598377751-430072279.1598377751#
Seems like you are misinformed.

Anonymous wrote:I thought this was a KPop thread.

Anonymous wrote:When I saw your title I thought you were talking about the Korean pop group "BTS", and was wondering if you are annoyed because you see their pictures all over the place for some reason.

Anonymous wrote:For everyone who says that schools are not experiencing outbreaks or closures, here is a database:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQSD9mm5HTXhxAiHabZA6BPUByWBlP5HZ2jfOPEeGZkMB0ZFsmFBL5orqjIq22mjFNZ7n-11ObCylGn/pubhtml?fbclid=IwAR2tJ8yDVehGpxoP97Cco5HYAxoN014opwwm6uYt4s3E2xDr_8u9KF_LlgI&_ga=2.134010894.1896452270.1598377751-430072279.1598377751#
Seems like you are misinformed.

Anonymous wrote:I'm an RN married to an MD and work with Covid patients. I get the risk. My husband had a long-standing patient in his 50's (no pre-existing conditions) die of the virus this week. It's not a joke.

BUT my Facebook and Instagram is littered with pictures from across the country of kids going back to school: Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Colorado, South Carolina, North Carolina, Utah.
I have dozens of friends whose kids are back in school.
Public and private.

It's maddening that we have between 25-50% of their rates of infection here in DC and our kids are home interminably. I have no read hope that anyone will go back in 20-21.

I'm so torn. I get the risk. I am jealous beyond belief that much of the rest of the country is just sending their kids in 9-3pm each day.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I've seen FB friends with kids going back to school in TX and Fla, which seems insane to me. I MIGHT consider sending my kids back in the DMV, if the option existed, but no chance in those states.

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Anonymous wrote:And many of those schools are already having outbreaks and having to revert back to remote learning, a week or two weeks into the school year. This looks like success to you? That's pretty sad.

No, they’re not. At all.

You need to break out of your liberal, blue state bubble. This is what we get for living in an area that is driven by elitist politics first, humans second. I absolutely have always hated it, but now there are real consequences. And the price is our children's education and future. I hope everybody starts really understanding the dangerous game your politicians are playing.

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The pressure to reopen schools will build very quickly as cases and deaths continue to fall across the country. The evidence is piling up that this virus is getting less deadly, and that schools can reopen safely. At the same time kids are falling further and further behind, academically and psychologically. Right now, the "lockdown forever" crew is still hanging on to the narrative, but people do see schools opening safely, and whole countries in normal states (Sweden, the bane of pro-lockdown people). The narrative won't hold for much longer. It'll happen--give it a few weeks.

I hope so... and I am (was?) relatively pro-closure. But I agree that the vast majority of schools in, let's say, "average" states (I.e. neither FL on the one hand, nor VT on the other), are probably going to be OK. For whatever reasons, political or legitimate, teachers (and to some extent) parents here are reluctant to return. I'm not sure that anything short of a couple months of functioning schools in other jurisdictions will be proof enough that in-person is possible. (And I agree with the PP that said the actual school decision--all virtual--was less concerning than the utter lack of uniform standards or metrics for reopening. The only standard for in-person appears to be "feels safe"--so I can only hope that we get "evidence" of this from elsewhere...)

Agree with this. I have heard anecdotes of districts in “good” areas (MA, NY) that were initially planning on hybrid but reversed course and are going virtual. I hope we have enough examples of schools that are opening successfully and that someone is tracking the data.

Anonymous wrote:My kid is an elementary school teacher in the Midwest, and school is in session. So glad she did not return to the DMV after graduation.

Anonymous wrote:

The pressure to reopen schools will build very quickly as cases and deaths continue to fall across the country. The evidence is piling up that this virus is getting less deadly, and that schools can reopen safely. At the same time kids are falling further and further behind, academically and psychologically. Right now, the "lockdown forever" crew is still hanging on to the narrative, but people do see schools opening safely, and whole countries in normal states (Sweden, the bane of pro-lockdown people). The narrative won't hold for much longer. It'll happen--give it a few weeks.

I hope so... and I am (was?) relatively pro-closure. But I agree that the vast majority of schools in, let's say, "average" states (I.e. neither FL on the one hand, nor VT on the other), are probably going to be OK. For whatever reasons, political or legitimate, teachers (and to some extent) parents here are reluctant to return. I'm not sure that anything short of a couple months of functioning schools in other jurisdictions will be proof enough that in-person is possible. (And I agree with the PP that said the actual school decision--all virtual--was less concerning than the utter lack of uniform standards or metrics for reopening. The only standard for in-person appears to be "feels safe"--so I can only hope that we get "evidence" of this from elsewhere...)

Anonymous wrote:And many of those schools are already having outbreaks and having to revert back to remote learning, a week or two weeks into the school year. This looks like success to you? That's pretty sad.

Anonymous wrote:I'm an RN married to an MD and work with Covid patients. I get the risk. My husband had a long-standing patient in his 50's (no pre-existing conditions) die of the virus this week. It's not a joke.

BUT my Facebook and Instagram is littered with pictures from across the country of kids going back to school: Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Colorado, South Carolina, North Carolina, Utah.
I have dozens of friends whose kids are back in school.
Public and private.

It's maddening that we have between 25-50% of their rates of infection here in DC and our kids are home interminably. I have no read hope that anyone will go back in 20-21.

I'm so torn. I get the risk. I am jealous beyond belief that much of the rest of the country is just sending their kids in 9-3pm each day.

The pressure to reopen schools will build very quickly as cases and deaths continue to fall across the country. The evidence is piling up that this virus is getting less deadly, and that schools can reopen safely. At the same time kids are falling further and further behind, academically and psychologically. Right now, the "lockdown forever" crew is still hanging on to the narrative, but people do see schools opening safely, and whole countries in normal states (Sweden, the bane of pro-lockdown people). The narrative won't hold for much longer. It'll happen--give it a few weeks.