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Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Schools face tough road to fall opening

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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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Get over it already, if you die then you die who cares... The world won't stop moving because you or I are dead!!!!

Anonymous said...

Everyone will test positive that is the point, that means the test are fake or everyone has this long before they claim it was a pandemic... Maybe when they started to spray chem-trails???? Maybe???? hmmmm???? They called it smart dust!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Everyone just drop your kids off at the school and leave.They'll have to take them in or suffer the political backlash.

Anonymous said...

US passed 3 million coronavirus cases today. MAGA

Anonymous said...

Take feelings out of the equation.

There is no "normal" for the time being.

Time to adjust the calendar to provide more time for preparation. There is A LOT of preparation needed - indeed.

National guidance to shoot for a January start, run it through the Summer. Students have been off since March.

Then adjust accordingly. Also consider year round school as an alternative

Could be a win/win for all.

Could be....

Anonymous said...

REPEAT AFTER ME. ITS NOT ABOUT HEALTH ITS ABOUT CONTROL.

Anonymous said...

Wow! You must be a genius! Please tell me you don’t have any children..actually I bet you do, and well..your comment says the rest!