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The Chief Medical Officer said this morning that no, there have not been.
All people arriving in the country are quarantined for fourteen days at government expense in hotels. So hopefully there should be no cases imported and not identified.
Parents are actually allowed to continue to keep their children home if they wish for the rest of the term.
My main gripe? They still assign art projects...sometimes that very day. They live out in the sticks with no dollar store within ten miles. How am I supposed to go out and get glue, glitter, and construction paper?
Have you looked at the internet for stores that may carry these items? Amazon, Staples.com, etc?
Ask the teacher to provide a list of required items in advance so you can order them online and have them in time. That's the only reasonable solution, IMO.
Allocate your band width. As we did 20 yrs ago on dial-up, homescooling our kids.
We live in rural America, 16 miles from a metro area of 2.5m people. All we (still) have available is dial-up... pay-per-byte.
It really stinks, and is 'dog slow' (when it works at all).
No cable, no dsl, no fiber, no dishes (satellite) allowed, (federal restrictions in our location). Hot spot works occasionally on overcast days.
Just have each of you use internet 20 minutes / hour (for bandwidth extensive applications.). Get your required info, then get off-line.
.Need to Get Kids Setup For Remote Learning , set them free to be creative with their practical encounters with life. Whatever it may be. Nature, extended family, neighbors, community worked for hundreds of years before the USA School system took over.
Fortunately, there are still hundreds of alternatives!
No one is allowed to see anyone now so I don't know why you are suggesting family and neighborhood!
The last few days experts have been telling congress we need to keep all schools, elementary, high, college, and universities closed through next year and do it on line. They expect it to be ordered.
I firmly believe that some form of school needs to open next year. I don't know what that form of school is going to look like but if this goes on for the entire 2020-2021 school year then I believe that we are sentencing some kids to a lifetime of poverty. There are a lot of kids out there who come from homes where technology is not really a thing and their parents are not equipped to support learning at home because they don't understand the material themselves.
Some kids can certainly get through this but there are others kids that won't be so lucky. In my county, we had a 90% participation rate so that was really good when compared against our peers. I've seen reports of some counties being in the 30% range. It's just shocking.
We got the best news about an hour ago. All public schools in our state of NSW are to take back all kids five days a week from next Monday. Many of the private schools are already back and the rest will fall into line. It is such a relief for all the families struggling with combining working from home with remote learning, such as our own.
The PM had to almost bribe the private systems to get them back and I suspect the state Premier has won over the teacher’s union as most teachers have hated remote teaching.
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