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Parents, think back wistfully to when you were in high school with 40-student classrooms, passing notes to your friends, heckling the hell out of teachers, lunches with your besties, laughing and joking up close and personal, kissing in the hallways with your BF/GF, close contact sports, showers, locker rooms, and all the things that made high school the most fun and the most important time of your life.
Now kiss all that goodbye for your own kids who, for the foreseeable future are going to miss out on all of this because legislation will be forced to mandate them having to stay at home to keep Coronavirus from spreading like wildfire among them. Even if a vaccine comes along, it will still be the reinfection possibilities that will likely move school boards to move from classroom education to long-distance education at home via computers. For families without high-speed Internet education will become an impossibility. I cannot begin to describe the logistical nightmares such as testing, grading, attendance, college preparation, and a myriad other factors that will doom education in this country.
Quite simply the US is totally unprepared to switch from live education in classrooms to home based classrooms using tele-teaching. Putting such a system in place would take years if not decades for the 51 million students in elementary through grade 12. Even if by a miracle the school system did open again, it would take only a handful of unvaccinated asymptomatic students to quickly reinfect the entire school population and we'd be right back at square one shutting everything down for God knows how many months. Coronavirus is more than a modern-day plague. It is a society destroyer. Optimists think this is all doom and gloom but that is because they haven't stopped to work out the logistics of what this virus can do to a nationwide education system composed of 51 million 5-18 year olds whose hormones are in full gear and who, when they get together with their friends throw caution to the wind and engage in behavior that will infect them and then they will carry it home and infect their parents, aunts, uncles and on and on. This is more than an American nightmare.
This is one step closer to the end of America as we knew it. Governor Newsom used a phrase this morning that we should all get used to because we will be hearing from now on: "the NEW normal".
Parents, think back wistfully to when you were in high school with 40-student classrooms, passing notes to your friends, heckling the hell out of teachers, lunches with your besties, laughing and joking up close and personal, kissing in the hallways with your BF/GF, close contact sports, showers, locker rooms, and all the things that made high school the most fun and the most important time of your life.
Now kiss all that goodbye for your own kids who, for the foreseeable future are going to miss out on all of this because legislation will be forced to mandate them having to stay at home to keep Coronavirus from spreading like wildfire among them. Even if a vaccine comes along, it will still be the reinfection possibilities that will likely move school boards to move from classroom education to long-distance education at home via computers. For families without high-speed Internet education will become an impossibility. I cannot begin to describe the logistical nightmares such as testing, grading, attendance, college preparation, and a myriad other factors that will doom education in this country.
Quite simply the US is totally unprepared to switch from live education in classrooms to home based classrooms using tele-teaching. Putting such a system in place would take years if not decades for the 51 million students in elementary through grade 12. Even if by a miracle the school system did open again, it would take only a handful of unvaccinated asymptomatic students to quickly reinfect the entire school population and we'd be right back at square one shutting everything down for God knows how many months. Coronavirus is more than a modern-day plague. It is a society destroyer. Optimists think this is all doom and gloom but that is because they haven't stopped to work out the logistics of what this virus can do to a nationwide education system composed of 51 million 5-18 year olds whose hormones are in full gear and who, when they get together with their friends throw caution to the wind and engage in behavior that will infect them and then they will carry it home and infect their parents, aunts, uncles and on and on. This is more than an American nightmare.
This is one step closer to the end of America as we knew it. Governor Newsom used a phrase this morning that we should all get used to because we will be hearing from now on: "the NEW normal".
Hmm...not one mention of actual learning. You made a great point without even knowing it.
I don't comprehend how they can 300 person plus lecture halls in colleges with 50,000 people on a small campus and 45 student classrooms and high schools with as many 8,000 students until they have a vaccine.
I question if they can even start in the fall and if they do if there is 2nd wave in October and November without a vaccine which doesn't seem likely they will have one.
Until there is a vaccine or herd immunity, how can schools operate and not become petri-dishes of COVID-19 spreaders?
The college students and high school students usually in most caes don't become very ill but they spread it throughout the community and many cites with three generations under one roof living in crowded apartments in crowded apartment complexes filled with other households of three generations under one roof.
Some things are worth the small risk of infection and with it the slight risk of death.
So I will maintain social distancing unless I get a chance to shake Trump's hand. I would like to shake his hand, and would be willing to take the risk.
Well, also, if Gal Gadot wanted to make out that would be OK, too..........
Parents, think back wistfully to when you were in high school with 40-student classrooms, passing notes to your friends, heckling the hell out of teachers, lunches with your besties, laughing and joking up close and personal, kissing in the hallways with your BF/GF, close contact sports, showers, locker rooms, and all the things that made high school the most fun and the most important time of your life.
Now kiss all that goodbye for your own kids who, for the foreseeable future are going to miss out on all of this because legislation will be forced to mandate them having to stay at home to keep Coronavirus from spreading like wildfire among them. Even if a vaccine comes along, it will still be the reinfection possibilities that will likely move school boards to move from classroom education to long-distance education at home via computers. For families without high-speed Internet education will become an impossibility. I cannot begin to describe the logistical nightmares such as testing, grading, attendance, college preparation, and a myriad other factors that will doom education in this country.
Quite simply the US is totally unprepared to switch from live education in classrooms to home based classrooms using tele-teaching. Putting such a system in place would take years if not decades for the 51 million students in elementary through grade 12. Even if by a miracle the school system did open again, it would take only a handful of unvaccinated asymptomatic students to quickly reinfect the entire school population and we'd be right back at square one shutting everything down for God knows how many months. Coronavirus is more than a modern-day plague. It is a society destroyer. Optimists think this is all doom and gloom but that is because they haven't stopped to work out the logistics of what this virus can do to a nationwide education system composed of 51 million 5-18 year olds whose hormones are in full gear and who, when they get together with their friends throw caution to the wind and engage in behavior that will infect them and then they will carry it home and infect their parents, aunts, uncles and on and on. This is more than an American nightmare.
This is one step closer to the end of America as we knew it. Governor Newsom used a phrase this morning that we should all get used to because we will be hearing from now on: "the NEW normal".
...just another despair merchant...disregard him and carry on...
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