gwynne
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I'm wishing your sweet granddaughters a good and safe school year.So my granddaughters started school today. I really hope and pray that all goes well for them. I'm sure it'll be an interesting day.
I'm wishing your sweet granddaughters a good and safe school year.So my granddaughters started school today. I really hope and pray that all goes well for them. I'm sure it'll be an interesting day.
We have started the virtual option when her private school started 2 weeks ago, and at first I was worried about if she would fall behind in 2nd grade by doing virtual. We have the weekly schedule for the class (same course work for inperson and virtual) as well as the daily schedule the inperson kids go by. She has a live meeting with the inperson class for an hour in the morning and then we also have recorded lessons. We can get all our work done for the day in a morning pretty easily (and my kid is academically above average but is not some gifted genius). The teacher has to spend so much time correcting kids, getting them organized and keeping on task, transitioning them from one activity to another, and now having to tell kids to wash hands, pull mask up, put on face shield, etc. They have 20 minute allotted for bathroom, washing hands, plus 1 1/2 hrs for lunch and recess. We are so much more efficient at home!
We may return sometime this semester but I wanted to give a couple weeks of her school being in session. The public county schools start next week, so I also want to see how that goes and if a large spike in child cases occurs. Unfortunately, we have no published metrics as to what will lead to closures. Out county has about 125 cases per day for a 450,000 population. Out positivity rate has been about 8% though and we have had 45 of our 49 deaths in the last 6 weeks.
Here comes all of the articles of kids not wearing masks and social distancing. I expect to see a lot of these over the next couple of weeks. The outbreak articles should start hitting in Sept.
Typical. What a year!And...now we have a Cox Internet outage in our area until almost 4:00 today. There went the school day.
And...now we have a Cox Internet outage in our area until almost 4:00 today. There went the school day.
Neither COX nor Comcast are reliable during the day.
Neither COX nor Comcast are reliable during the day.
UNC Chapel Hill is going online only and encouraging students to return home after outbreaks of COVID19 on campus. I think students were there for a week or so. Now the students will take CoVid19 back to their communities and continue the spread!
What's happening here is that the parents with more ability to keep their kids home, whether because they have a SAH (or laid off) parent in the household or a parent that is working from home or can arrange/afford a "pod" style arrangement or in-home caregiver, are keeping their kids home. Parents who are struggling, who have to go into work every day, who don't have support systems to lean on, who can't get home internet, are opting for in-person. But that's how our district wanted it to work out, because the parents who opt for distance learning are allowing better distancing and protective measures for those students who will be attending in person by reducing the number of students in the classroom. Our state didn't mandate social distancing in classrooms because it is impossible within the physical and economic constrains most schools operate under, but by given parents the option of distance learning, public schools are finding they can reduce their in-classroom populations by anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2, which then does allow for wider spacing between desks, better divisions at meal time, etc.
8 days. I read they had to make the call because they were down to only 4 available beds in the quarantine dorm.Will parents get their dorm money refunded? That experiment didn’t last long.
OP, it's almost time to change your thread title.
naah. the way things are going every month some district will be opening/reopening/re-re opening......it's going to be fascinating to see how many months (calendar years?) this thread continues to be active.
The school district here claimed that with kids choosing virtual, they could space out classes.Our administration did a series of virtual town hall meetings and a parent asked the high school principal if they were hoping that parents who could easily keep their kids home would in order to free up space for those families who can't be as flexible and the principal said "no, not really, we have enough room for everybody." No, you don't. Not with any sort of social distancing you don't.
The district says 20-25% of students chose the virtual option. I have no idea if that is consistent across buildings or varies with different age groups.