Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Study funded by Audi, BMW and Mercedes.

 

Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster That Wiped Out Lockdown Gains

 

I will admit, I haven't read the details there, but WTF? Are they hiring twice the teachers, because kids schedules aside, that's a 14-plus hour day for a classroom teacher not to mention it doesn't solve them being less exposed.

 

The entire point of two shifts is to make sure only half of the students are in the building at a time, which does help cut down exposure. I don't know about the teachers. That doesn't seem like they could do it without doubling their teaching staff.

 

Dave Grohl for Secretary of Education!

In Defense of Our Teachers

 

I get it. But you aren't going to have teachers and staff go for that. Looking at that closer, that looks like a virtual plan, which is even worse.

These schools are thinking about it too damn much. Go to a hybrid schedule to start -- half in, half out -- and adjust from there. Things are going well, add days and numbers. Outbreaks happen, cut back. Maybe that's too simple but it has to be better than what these school districts are screwing around with. I get the pressure they are under but it's like they have done no planning over the past six months.

Ours still hasn't even released a plan. They have made an online only option that if you opt in you can't opt out, which is also ridiculous because everything is fluid.

 

I think you copied your own post when you meant to copy mine.

I agree that we should be starting with a hybrid schedule and adjusting from there. I think there are some places that it isn't even safe to do that much right now given the surge in COVID cases, but I'd like to see districts try wherever possible. I do think there are some places that haven't planned enough. I don't know why anybody would wait for direction from the state to at least start making plans, but it seems to be happening.

Yours isn't the only district I've heard of telling parents they have to make a call between in-person and virtual now and stick with it all year. I get that there are complications in switching students among the two, but at least make it a quarterly option.

 

Of course, the Feds have not appropriated any money to hire those extra teachers, assuming they can be found. How long is it until school is supposed to start?

 

The numbers of Covid cases ain’t real! They are fake news!

 

Well, if there are that many more cases then the death rate is even lower than they say. Fake news!