Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 22:26     Subject: Here is why we should close schools now.
I am in NYC and a public school teacher and they need to close the damn schools
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 22:25     Subject: Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:To the PPs above that report keeping your kids at home already - are they immunocompromised or are you concerned about them in particular?
Just curious what factors go into each individual decision.


I’m not worried about my kids but the spread. My child reported that her teacher told the class that his children had a direct and close exposure to someone with the dx. The principal says that all he has to do is take his temperature 2x per day. That is an insufficient response for a classroom teacher. We are asking employees who have been exposed to stay home for 14 days but the teachers are going to keep interacting with hundreds of kids per day. I am
Keeping my kids at home.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 22:20     Subject: Re:Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In 53 pages of arguing, have any of you PPs personally pulled your kids out of school? Maybe school districts will act if parents are making the decision to keep kids out.


I started to keep my kids home.


I have kept my kids home since Monday and plan to continue to for at lest another week.


Not long enough. You’ll need at least three more weeks.


Hoping school takes responsibility for leading in a PANDEMIC when a President who a week ago said this is a "hoax" just too the unprecendented step of stopping travel from our close ally Europe!
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 22:09     Subject: Here is why we should close schools now.
To the PPs above that report keeping your kids at home already - are they immunocompromised or are you concerned about them in particular?
Just curious what factors go into each individual decision.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 22:06     Subject: Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.


I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.


What’s disgusting and self centered is being ok with people dying. DYING. The kids wind die by staying gone for a while. Shane on you.


Oh, can it. Karen screeching on DCUM from her isolated mansion (while undoubtedly refusing to pay her housekeeper) saves literally no lives.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 21:49     Subject: Re:Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In 53 pages of arguing, have any of you PPs personally pulled your kids out of school? Maybe school districts will act if parents are making the decision to keep kids out.


I started to keep my kids home.

NP... I pulled my kids out this week. The schools should've closed by now, so I'm not waiting.


Yup I’m calling in tomorrow. I Just hope I didnt wait too long.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 21:48     Subject: Re:Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In 53 pages of arguing, have any of you PPs personally pulled your kids out of school? Maybe school districts will act if parents are making the decision to keep kids out.


I started to keep my kids home.


I have kept my kids home since Monday and plan to continue to for at lest another week.


Not long enough. You’ll need at least three more weeks.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 21:48     Subject: Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.


I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.


What’s disgusting and self centered is being ok with people dying. DYING. The kids wind die by staying gone for a while. Shane on you.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 21:47     Subject: Re:Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In 53 pages of arguing, have any of you PPs personally pulled your kids out of school? Maybe school districts will act if parents are making the decision to keep kids out.


I started to keep my kids home.

NP... I pulled my kids out this week. The schools should've closed by now, so I'm not waiting.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 21:44     Subject: Re:Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In 53 pages of arguing, have any of you PPs personally pulled your kids out of school? Maybe school districts will act if parents are making the decision to keep kids out.


I started to keep my kids home.


I have kept my kids home since Monday and plan to continue to for at lest another week.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 21:36     Subject: Re:Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In 53 pages of arguing, have any of you PPs personally pulled your kids out of school? Maybe school districts will act if parents are making the decision to keep kids out.


I've pulled one of my kids from daycare and will pull the other from FCPS if they don't close next week.


+1. My kids are in ES and I will pull them from school next week if schools aren't closed. I work at a school and there are already parents doing this--before anyone asks, the school is 30+% FRM and it's happening across all SES lines. My general impression is that schools aren't trying to encourage people to keep their kids home right now, but they certainly aren't discouraging it the way they typically do, either.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 21:36     Subject: Re:Here is why we should close schools now.
I’ve been keeping children home since Monday.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 21:36     Subject: Re:Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In 53 pages of arguing, have any of you PPs personally pulled your kids out of school? Maybe school districts will act if parents are making the decision to keep kids out.


Yes to this. All of you arguing that schools should close, please don't send your kids, and that will reduce the spread. South Korea and Japan are providing emergency child care services to kids whose parents need to work. So schools are closed, but there are still kids at the school. I don't see how this would work where I live.


This is why telework and flexible work options need to happen along with school closures. I know not everyone can telework, but many can. In the case of South Korea, they set up classrooms for emergency childcare and capped it at something like 10 kids per room. I read that many rooms didn’t even reach the cap because everyone treated the situation very seriously... not like we are in this country.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 21:34     Subject: Re:Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In 53 pages of arguing, have any of you PPs personally pulled your kids out of school? Maybe school districts will act if parents are making the decision to keep kids out.


I started to keep my kids home.

I kept mine home today and they are home through Monday's FCPS closure.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2020 21:33     Subject: Re:Here is why we should close schools now.
Anonymous wrote:In 53 pages of arguing, have any of you PPs personally pulled your kids out of school? Maybe school districts will act if parents are making the decision to keep kids out.


I started to keep my kids home.