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Kids, Covid, School, why is the concept so hard for some republicans

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Maybe because the experts on pediatrics and adolescent health and well being universally say kids should be in school?

Listen to the experts. Remember??
They also said if it can be safely done. Which they had no clue about.
 
Maybe because the experts on pediatrics and adolescent health and well being universally say kids should be in school?

Listen to the experts. Remember??

I agree your analogy is dumb. Isn't comparable at all. To the situation at hand.
And - as indicated elsewhere - "safely" is going to carry it's own issues for the kids that his "experts" do not even begin to examine.
 
Maybe because the experts on pediatrics and adolescent health and well being universally say kids should be in school?

Listen to the experts. Remember??

Where it is safe, don’t forget about that.
 
Having school like normal is just asking for a lot of grief from everyone involved, children can and will get sick from covid, some will die and its guaranteed to be passed onto the parents who will die at a much higher rate than the children will.

So if school must be held in person then how school is held needs to be rethought:

1) Go back to the Elementary school/Japanese model, aka you stay in one classroom the entire day, only the teachers move from class to class to teach their classes. This should allow much better isolation and contact tracing methods when someone comes down with covid.
2) Gym most likely will need to be cancelled for the foreseeable future because I can't see a way to do it safely.
3) Use the A , B, C day model that high schools already use to move students to the rooms that require specialized equipment like biology or chemistry for the day.
4) Lunch will tricky but I could see potentially having students order their meals in the morning and having it delivered to the classroom for lunch. The most likely variation would be to use extra desks marked 6ft apart while also having the gym setup for lunch too. Lunch would most likely be extended for safety reason so classes would most likely be shorter.

There will be issues still to iron out but just doing these steps would be much safer than holding school like normal.
 
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Having school like normal is just asking for a lot of grief from everyone involved, children can and will get sick from covid, some will die and its guaranteed to be passed onto the parents who will die at a much higher rate than the children will.

So if school must be held in person then how school is held needs to be rethought:

1) Go back to the Elementary school/Japanese model, aka you stay in one classroom the entire day, only the teachers move from class to class to teach their classes. This should allow much better isolation and contact tracing methods when someone comes down with covid.
2) Gym most likely will need to be cancelled for the foreseeable future because I can't see a way to do it safely.
3) Use the A , B, C day model that high schools already use to move students to the rooms that require specialized equipment like biology or chemistry for the day.
4) Lunch will tricky but I could see potentially having students order their meals in the morning and having it delivered to the classroom for lunch. The most likely variation would be to use extra desks marked 6ft apart while also having the gym setup for lunch too. Lunch would most likely be extended for safety reason so classes would most likely be shorter.

There will be issues still to iron out but just doing these steps would be much safer than holding school like normal.
Solid post. Students getting to and from school will also be an issue. Very difficult to "socially distance" and enforce masks on a bus.
 
Here's how we do this safely. Instruction stays remote. Open schools and other large, unused venues up for in-person remote learning. We could put 100 kids in our cafeteria with social distancing, the hardware they needed, and access to the internet as well as provide lunch and cover the whole thing with 2-3 people (plus cafeteria staff). Another 50 easily in the auditorium with one person to cover. Another 40 in the library with one adult. They'd access the same lessons as their peers, have help if they needed it, and parents would have that time covered just as if the kids were at regular school. These kinds of venues could exist all over town wherever there were spaces large enough to hold 40-50 kids safely. Parents who needed to work could sign up so bus routes could be established and it could even be made available on an as-needed basis as long as the parent provided transport and there was available space. Recruit volunteers to come in and provide entertainment to break up the day - music, demos, whatever. Solves a bunch of problems and doesn't create many.
 
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