Just weeks before fall classes are scheduled to begin, school districts across the country are racing to implement new measures meant to protect teachers, students and parents from the coronavirus.
But as they prepare for socially distanced lunch hours, constant hand-washing and possibly even staggered attendance to minimize the number of students in the building at one time, education officials are watching with concern as schools in other nations become epicenters of new flare-ups.
Nearly 100 schools in Israel shut down in early June, after students or teachers tested positive in the weeks after the nation reopened its education facilities. A week after France reopened about a third of its schools, dozens of students tested positive and some institutions shut down once again. And in South Korea, hundreds of schools were open for just a few days before the Ministry of Education ordered them closed.
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No they don't the death rate and hospitalization rate are miniscule. This is all political. Let the kids go back and get on with life
ReplyDeleteHot for teachers !!! NO way kids can go back / Home school Now !!!
ReplyDeleteBecause they have been sitting on their ASSES. Never taking any measures or actions to open back up. Always waiting to be told what to do. That's the school board and teacher's Union for you. Always playing catch up. No wonder our kids are dumb as Rock's.
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DeleteYour kids may be dumb
Our kids are not
I'd say you're all DUMB to think you kids are getting an education here. Then the go to SU?? REAL EINSTEIN.
DeleteIs anyone asking if our local schools are "indoctrinating" our kids with all of this commie and progressive nonsense? Should I look upon teachers with respect or horror? Do we continue to give the school system $ after $ every year? The increases are never questioned as it is "for the children". Obviously, it isn't. It is for the communist takeover of America.
ReplyDeleteIf the President gets re-elected, it is time to drive out the communist presence in the schools, it is time to break up Comcast, AT&T,Verizon and Disney. These are Anti-American companies and should not have control over so much of the MSM.
Just do what they do and did in the DC school district and give out diploma's anyway. Some of those recipients had only attended school 5 days in the year and still received one.
ReplyDeleteAmericas public schools are a joke anyway, our kids test lower on everything against other countries!
2 words....HOME SCHOOLING!!!
ReplyDeleteHow about this: we let the informed adults make these decisions and agree the rest of you should just sit down and shut up.
ReplyDeleteThis goes specifically for the uninformed buffoon at 933.
- Trump's on press secretary just presented on the national stage a case mortality rate of %5. Hardly anything to sneeze at. I guess you don't mind if your spouse is 1 out of the 20 that die.
- Disease survival in the US has everything to do with access to care. If the hospitals are too packed, you can't get care and people end of dying. The measures put into place are what saved alot of lives by reducing the number of people flooding the hospital.
- mortality aside, there is plenty of evidence showing that those who end up getting severe symptoms may live, but they are walking away with permanent lung damage. Yeah, go have fun with that.
I can keep going but it's clear that for many of you facts don't matter. If you are in that group along with 933, please reference my first statement.
9:48 So the teachers have a different hospitalization and death rate?? It is a shame what the Government has done to the people of this country. Look at the facts
ReplyDeleteThere is an entire generation of young lives between the ages of 10-18 that are going to be lost. Lost to the fact that they simply won’t care about school and learning anymore. List to the fact that their parent(s) have lost all patience with trying to be teacher, mentor and provider with little knowledge and experience juggling all three. I know many teachers in Wicomico County, public and private, who tell me that they haven’t heard anything from more than 50% of their students and fewer than 10% complete all their assignments. Oh well???
ReplyDeleteAnd yet they are constantly getting pay increases.
ReplyDeleteWhen teachers catch the virus and are absent for a couple of weeks, the school system will need lots of substitutes. I think Wicomico has a total of 25 substitutes for the whole county. Maybe citizens will sign up for training and background checks soon so they will be ready when needed.
ReplyDelete11:24 for those less than 60yrs old the death rate is less than 1% if you wish to call people names and remain hidden in your basement have at it. Facts are that we have had viruses for years and have not had to shut down the world to survive. This is pure politics. Uptick in reported positives is because we have been hiding for so long that the virus has not had the ability to run its course. my kids are old so this does not affect me, but last time I checked this was supposed to be a free country so don't tell me what I can and can't do.
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