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Sorry but if it isn't safe for the MLB to play baseball, it isn't safe to reopen the schools. Unlike other sport leagues which start in the next week or so, MLB is not using the bubble system. Already the Marlins has 12 players, 2 staff positive and were in contact with the Philadelphia Phillies in Philly. The Philly-Yankee game and the Orioles-Marlins game are canceled.
I understand the need to reopen but I refuse to dignify the belief school is childcare. I look more at the educational goals and security a predictable schedule brings. I recognize the kids i work with need structure that online school cannot bring. They need one-on-one interaction with staff that online school cannot bring. That said, is that worth them having a new teacher and new staff when they get severely sick? Is that worth them being put into the foster system because community spread through the school got to their parents and they died?
Don't be sorry.
But I do have to ask if you've ever had a job, a real job, outside of a school.
You have a college degree, 65% of people don't. You, historically, would be "management".
You can refuse to dignify the belief of school as child care all you want but that doesn't make it go away. If it wasn't child care you wouldn't have before and after school care or breakfast, lunch and, in some school systems, weekend meals programs.
The push will eventually come to open up the schools and the elected school boards will fall into line or they'll be replaced by candidates who will.
And all of us teachers (I'll include myself even though I'm retired) can talk until we're blue in the face about how parents are their kids' first teachers and it won't matter because of the number of parents who don't know their head from a hole in the ground. The next few years, once things get back to normal, are going to be playing catch up.
My former system, which is going online for students until January, has disseminated to the schools an updated grief counseling model for the inevitable loss of staff and students.
Have you taken any Principal classes? If not here's the new paradigm, meaning what has become aucourant over the last twenty years: the Principal doesn't need to know the names of students, they're merely product. The Principal doesn't even need to know their staff's names when it comes right down to it, they're interchangeable cogs. It doesn't even matter what they teach if you can plug them into a hole in the schedule.
That's what the Broad and Gates Foundations are teaching Superintendents.
The classroom / seating distances are no longer clear.
Was 6 feet. Described as 6 feet / 3 feet radius (same thing)
Which "slipped" to "6 to 3 feet."
Which means some schools are trying to do 3 feet distancing.
Looking hinky.
Yeah reopening especially under the vague CDC guidelines sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Especially on already razor thin school budgets.
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Don't be sorry.
But I do have to ask if you've ever had a job, a real job, outside of a school.
You have a college degree, 65% of people don't. You, historically, would be "management".
You can refuse to dignify the belief of school as child care all you want but that doesn't make it go away. If it wasn't child care you wouldn't have before and after school care or breakfast, lunch and, in some school systems, weekend meals programs.
The push will eventually come to open up the schools and the elected school boards will fall into line or they'll be replaced by candidates who will.
And all of us teachers (I'll include myself even though I'm retired) can talk until we're blue in the face about how parents are their kids' first teachers and it won't matter because of the number of parents who don't know their head from a hole in the ground. The next few years, once things get back to normal, are going to be playing catch up.
My former system, which is going online for students until January, has disseminated to the schools an updated grief counseling model for the inevitable loss of staff and students.
Have you taken any Principal classes? If not here's the new paradigm, meaning what has become aucourant over the last twenty years: the Principal doesn't need to know the names of students, they're merely product. The Principal doesn't even need to know their staff's names when it comes right down to it, they're interchangeable cogs. It doesn't even matter what they teach if you can plug them into a hole in the schedule.
That's what the Broad and Gates Foundations are teaching Superintendents.
I hold three jobs. One is as an educator. I work with students who have behavior issues. Another is still as an educator as I do work summer camps and break camps in child care. I work as event security. I previously worked Cub Scout camps both as a den chief and as kitchen staff. I have also worked retail a few times. I have worked as a resident assistant in college too.
From my years in child care, I know that while parents treat school in particularly elementary school as childcare. That said, it isn't really. Camps are however. Camps are somewhat educational but more social though. School's purpose is more for education. Are there education components in camps, yes. Are there social interactions in school, yes. Largely though 5 and a half hours are about education depending on the special for the day. I'm not debating the parents treating it as childcare but it isn't a good argument.
I haven't taken principal classes. I know from the elementary principal I work with that she does know the students in our school. We are a smaller school though. I know other schools especially high schools in district are huge with up to 2,000 students. I can understand in larger schools not knowing the kids by name and interests. You don't always interact with every student, even in a small school.
As for student as product, that is a new age way to look at school. Basically that parents are the customer. I don't agree at all with that. I mean I try to use customer service at school but I don't treat school as that.
I think the CDC was pressured to make that recommendation. You can't take politics out of the question whether it is the federal government or your local school board. I don't think all school board members are lousy. Most have good intentions. Depending on your state, they have to approve a lot of trivial details such as the hiring of a part-time cleaning person or cafeteria worker, or the school calendar. Some get caught up other details like athletic coaches when they should be focusing on bigger picture items.
Our elected school board members have to deal with a $3 billion budget and 189,000 students. It is not a position I would have wanted even before Covid-19.
Our elected school board members have to deal with a $3 billion budget and 189,000 students. It is not a position I would have wanted even before Covid-19.
I hope your school board members don't have to deal with the trivial details that districts in PA have to handle. OTOH, some of the districts in my county have less than 900 students and a $22M budget. Maybe they do have time to deal with approving the hiring of a part-time cafeteria worker.
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New math....
Distance = divide by 2
Funding = multiply by 2
Still listening for solutions for returning students and teachers to the classroom. Pretty quiet out there. (In USA). Quite interesting to see the creative solutions other countries are implementing.
Many re-opened in May, some in mid April. While in USA, the land of opportunity and innovation.....(?)
Still listening for solutions for returning students and teachers to the classroom. Pretty quiet out there. (In USA). Quite interesting to see the creative solutions other countries are implementing.
Many re-opened in May, some in mid April. While in USA, the land of opportunity and innovation.....(?)
More and more school districts are keeping students home going into the end of their first quarter (October/November, depending on when they start the year.) My district announced this now after not hearing any plans from the governor and state secretary of education.
Ha; the CDC. I wouldn't trust them as far as I can throw them with MY child. The schools can open all they want but I am waiting a minimum of 3 weeks to see if related outbreaks occur. If they aren't closed again & if rates are down then I will reconsider.
Hopefully he will be able to attend in time for federal count day but that won't be the priority driving my decision.
I agree. Don't trust the CDC. My understanding is the original CDC guidelines were modified (watered down) by the Trump administration to be less restrictive.
Fine, but these anecdotes about lousy school board candidates are not a reason to keep schools closed when the CDC is recommending that they be opened.
To me, it's simply a matter of: If you have a hot spot, close the schools to help flatten the curve. If you have relatively few cases in your area, open the schools and continue the normal precautions you take when you shop and work at WalMart or the post office.
'Flattening the curve' and your risk of catching it and potentially ending up on a ventilator and dying are not the same thing. In some cases, the curve may be flattening, but your chances of catching it are higher than ever.
Today, a Houston doctor gave a speech on the steps of the United States Supreme Court about Covid-19. The doctor says there is a cure for covid-19. I think it sounds great and I think it is true, but if it is not true, I would like to know that. https://legacy-systems.biz/longview2...ourt_covid.php
OK so they are promoting HCQ/Zithromax as a treatment, and it's all over the news this morning that Big Tech has deleted this video. But this thread is about opening schools, not You-Know-Who's favorite treatment and the need for the "Anti-Orange Media" to poo-poo it.
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