Iowa City School District
- Thread starter Hawk_82
- Start date
Tell us why because less than 10% of those polled said they were uncomfortable the decision should be made to go online? 30% unsure. 58% were comfortable with in person.
Does anyone know what the viable options are for kids in the ICCSD?
1) Public online
2) Private school (Regina, Heritage Christian, etc)
3) Open enrollment to neighboring district
4) Are there any private online schools/academies?
I assume it's too late to open enroll to a neighboring district and it may be too late to get into Regina.
My thinking is if my kid is taking classes online, I should at least review option four - Take classes from someone who has experience teaching online.
1) Public online
2) Private school (Regina, Heritage Christian, etc)
3) Open enrollment to neighboring district
4) Are there any private online schools/academies?
I assume it's too late to open enroll to a neighboring district and it may be too late to get into Regina.
My thinking is if my kid is taking classes online, I should at least review option four - Take classes from someone who has experience teaching online.
58% comfortable was only part of their decision making equation. As has been mentioned numerous times in this thread alone, schools are thought of as daycares in our country. Of course most parents want schools to open in-person. Thankfully they also listened to medical experts and looked at the logistics of what that actually means. Iowa City won’t be the last school to go this route and I predict a lot of other schools will follow suit when they fail their opening guidelines a couple weeks into the year. I’m happy they made this decision now to give people plenty of time to plan.
20 mins from Iowa City, 35 from Cedar Rapids.
Unfortunately for your uneducated and blind, hate filled opinion, I was working. Every day. The only ones who were hiding were students and parents. *shrugging emoji*
Do you consider the American Academy of Pediatrics to be experts? CDC? Both said kids should be back in school.
I wonder where they might be able to find young teenagers to watch younger kids with online learning???
Gov Kim pushed personal responsibility and decision making during the roll-out of her reopening and that "Iowans had to make their own choices", are you saying she is going to reverse course on that now and finally wants to start making decisions?
LOL...he is in full confirmation bias mode. You could hit him over the head all day with stories like these and he won't care, he only sees what he wants to see.
Do you think 14,000 more kids will commit suicide if they have to do online learning? How many will commit suicide if they find out they brought the virus home and it killed one or both of their parents?
Correct but now we have mass community spread throughout many areas of the country AND we have a large segment of our society (many refer to these people as the MAGAs) that believes required mask wearing is infringing on their constitutional rights. These people are ruining any chance of a somewhat normal return this fall for kids and athletics.
Around 65% of Americans are likely pre-diabetic, they just don't know it.
WOW but sadly it doesn't surprise me. hell my guess is this represents 30%+ of our society.
137k dead in America, likely will more than double by years end and this is the response you give...wow.
My wife, HS counselor of large school district, worked harder and more hours during the shutdown than she did through the other parts of the school year. Some teachers certainly slacked off but others got very creative and did a wonderful job considering the lack of tools they had available to them to be effective in that sort of setting.
I gotta stop getting pissed off at the level of willful ignorance. I still struggle with believing MAGAs will stick with Trump no matter what and never go against what he says. At some point they have to say, "Yeah, that's a bad idea." It's bananas.
These people don't care, they don't care about anyone other than themselves and they can't think past their wallet. Don't give me your job sob story either, bootstraps my Trumper friends...get pulling those bootstraps.
No, I think most people just want them to not kill innocent people. Doesn't seem that hard.
Not to mention most schools give around 10 sick days per year to their staff so now they will have to use those due to C19 exposure and then the second time they are exposed they will be unpaid. If I am a teacher and in the teachers union there are three/four maybe 5 things I go after hard in order to return to the classroom in this environment.
1. $1mm life insurance policy paid for by the district added to the benefits plan with a $500k spouse rider (if you take this bug home to your spouse and they pass away bc of it that will hurt financial thus the ask).
2. Guarenteed 100% paid leave for days missed do to C19 exposure that forces them out of the classroom (sick or not sick).
3. Zero medical deductibles for any medical costs that are bc of C19.
4. Mandatory the county where your school district resides is in the original Phase 3 of reopening that was presented in late April by the CDC/White House.
5. Weekly C19 testing for teachers and twice per month testing for students. (may not be feasible as it sounds like tests are in short supply once again bc of our now 2-3 week spike in cases throughout the country.
They could cut a couple of admins jobs throughout the district to get most of this paid for.
It's not too late to get into Regina. It has been great for our family. Great academics, athletics and community support.
Technically FFCRA will cover the first 80 hours (10 days) out. Then current sick days, then accrued sick days, then sick bank (assuming the school has one), then unpaid days.
But, yes there are many young teachers who will run out of sick days.
How many of these useless parents (in your not so humble opinion) received a property tax rebate for essentially becoming substitute teachers?
How many of them were already busy dealing with the heavy hand of the state destroying their livelihoods while also trying to juggle their newfound occupation of daycare provider/teacher?
How many of them lost their jobs so arrogantly and ignorantly deemed ‘inessential’ by the governor?
The schools should be open for business next month and Reynolds should withhold aid from any district that refuses: might go a long way towards redeeming her prior screwups.
The relevant medical experts said more harm will be done by NOT having in person school. But because that isn’t what the panic stricken want to hear, those experts are ignored.
You are lying. That is EXACTLY what they said. You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
That’s not true. Go read their update/clarification after morons interpreted their original recommendation the same way you did.
Jesus. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. This has to be what Trump’s advisors feel like.
If you are taking crazy pills, they are working.
You are stupid.
It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person. It’s impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.
btw, the NYT, NPR, and virtually everyone in the Fn country interpreted their statement in the very clear way it was written- that schools should open. Morons all, right?
Last edited:
Lets make a deal. After you read their latest statement and it proves that I’m correct. You agree that you heard the interpretation of their recommendation on Fox News or at the local Caseys and don’t post in a thread about covid again. Deal?
I saw the headline in the NYT the read the whole damn statement, you dipshit. Always go to the source material.
I then posted a link to the statement on HROT.
That they have somewhat walked it back is 100% due to political backlash.
Lol. They have “somewhat walked it back”. No you moron, they had to type slower so idiots like yourself would understand. Run along now. It’s almost time to brush your teeth and get ready for bed.
