COVID19-thread (Title change, Thread for serious info only).

[Crotch]

Absolutely, but that’s gonna be a zoo too. No easy answers, except to acknowledge who you’re dealing with and act realistically and within reason.

Totally agree pop. Everyone just needs to try and do their part to make things as safe as possible. There is no exact science here. And being where I am where there is relatively no issues is different than NY or NJ. So its very possible a universal one size fits all approach won't be the answer here.

 

[spoony]

BTW That's the same expression I get when she wants me to buy her something and grandpa attempts to say no.

Grandpa says no?

Oh I see, he attempts to say no. Grandma and grandkids join forces whenever this grandpa attempts to say no. It's not a pretty sight!



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[Crotch]

Virtual learning is on and my three are about to revolt. They’re killing em. The state is mandating a full seven hours of learning everyday to get funded. Teachers and kids both are freaking out. How do you expect kids to sit still for seven hours staring at online learning? Teachers are spending all their time tracking who is logged on and present to prove to the state they’re doing their job. This is gonna crash and burn.

There’s two at home. This one goes in to school with her mom. This is the expression 3 hours in, 4 to go.
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Maybe, just maybe, kids will spend so much time in front of the CPU all day that they won't want to be on their phones, iPads, etc. on off hours.

 

[Pop1655]

Grandpa says no?

Oh I see, he attempts to say no. Grandma and grandkids join forces whenever this grandpa attempts to say no. It's not a pretty sight!



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Easier and faster to just fold like a cheap tent

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

Maybe, just maybe, kids will spend so much time in front of the CPU all day that they won't want to be on their phones, iPads, etc. on off hours.

oh no,... they do both. or all at once.

 

[Roxy13]

I'm not sure how my former school district is doing the online learning, but I was teaching pre-calculus there, and had for more than a decade. I think that would be tough for them to learn online unless it's interactive somehow. Chemistry and physics have to be a problem too.

 

[SteveC]

There is talk here of having labs open for limited capacity... that would be good, if managed safely.

 

[Pop1655]

Shame he couldn’t spell. I like the way he thinks

 

[rxbandit]

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Shame he couldn’t spell. I like the way he thinks

If he/she could spell they probably wouldn't be trying so hard to avoid class

 

[Scooter2112]

In my humble opinion, not getting these kids back in school (not online), will have more a more catastrophic impact than going. Short term, and long term. Not only on the students, but on their parents.

Teachers. It’s been 6 months of quarantining at home. Go back to work. We’ve all had to do it.

If not...find new teachers willing to go back.

 

[LtDave32]

@Street Lethal

Don't troll in here.

We don't allow it in the other thread, and we don't allow it in here.

 

[rxbandit]

Teachers. It’s been 6 months of quarantining at home. Go back to work. We’ve all had to do it.

If not...find new teachers willing to go back.

My significant other is a teacher, you have no idea the shitshow they've been going through trying to prepare for going back to school. Stress levels through the roof... She's been working harder than ever with the lowest level of administration support/leadership. At the beginning of Covid teachers were appreciated and highly regarded... for about a month, tops. The level of disrespect I've seen the past month or two has been pretty insane.

"find new teachers" ... do you realize there was already a teacher shortage going into 2020 and Covid made it much, much worse?

 

[Scooter2112]

My significant other is a teacher, you have no idea the shitshow they've been going through trying to prepare for going back to school. Stress levels through the roof... She's been working harder than ever with the lowest level of administration support/leadership. At the beginning of Covid teachers were appreciated and highly regarded... for about a month, tops. The level of disrespect I've seen the past month or two has been pretty insane.

"find new teachers" ... do you realize there was already a teacher shortage going into 2020 and Covid made it much, much worse?

Semantics. Go back to work.
My daughter is a teacher of special needs kids. It’s all hands on. Teach or don’t teach. Let kids get back on track. Enough already.

I know a principal who sent a survey out to parents. Distance learning or classroom?
88% want to get back in the Classroom. The other 12% can do school from home. The demand is there. Get back to work.

 

[lancpudn]

The race is on again this weekend for Brit holidaymakers in Croatia, Austria, Trinidad & Tobago to get back to Blighty before 0:400 on Saturday morning otherwise they will need to self isolate for 14 days.
There are currently 20000 Brit holidaymakers in Croatia alone

 

[SteveC]

Semantics. Go back to work.
My daughter is a teacher of special needs kids. It’s all hands on. Teach or don’t teach. Let kids get back on track. Enough already.

I know a principal who sent a survey out to parents. Distance learning or classroom?
88% want to get back in the Classroom. The other 12% can do school from home. The demand is there. Get back to work.

I bet that I could find a survey from a school district that is skewed exactly opposite.

In the end, I think that all of us want our children back in the classroom. I think that everyone understands the repercussions, up and down the line, of not having classroom learning.

But... and it's a big but - It's not anywhere near as cut & dry as - "go back to work".

What you might not understand is that the overwhelming majority of parents should, and do care more about the health and safety of their kids. Many parents are not convinced, rightfully so, that we have a plan in place to make that happen. Moreover, many school districts do not have the money to make that happen.

These parents, teachers and school districts are not going to play a biology experiment game with their kids. One might applaud that sacrifice. Because it's a really fucking big sacrifice. By parents, teachers and children.

 

[Roxy13]

I think we all want things under control and our normal lives back. Especially for kids and school. Everyone I know who is still teaching wants that, too. But, they don't want to see peoples' lives at risk or for anyone to die or suffer bad condsequences either.

There isn't a lot sadder than one of your students dying for any reason. Whether it's an illness or car accident or any other reason. One of mine was even murdered at the fast food restaurant she worked it by someone who robbed it. It always hit me really hard to see the loss of a young person's life and I still think about them all.

 

[KSG_Standard]

I'm married to a dedicated teacher, I'm allegedly high risk for Covid. I don't want my wife to get sick. I don't want to get sick. I don't want her students to get sick or any of her peers either. That being said, the teachers reluctance to go back to school, in many areas is being driven more by political concerns than science. Look what the teacher's union demanded before they go back into the classroom. Medicare for all/single payer healthcare and a lot of things that have nothing to do with the issue at hand. Many, if not most of their demands simply cannot be met and hopefully will never be implemented.

Some parents reluctance to send their kids back to school is also politically motivated and/or driven by irrational fears fanned by the asshats in the MSM. This is a problem caused by our new view of what truth is and the purveyors of lies and fear.

Private schools here in my city, across my state and in many other states are open for business. Public schools that won't open up for face to face teaching are, in many places still opening their schools too be used as daycare and storage facilities for kids who's parents have to work. Grocery stores remain open with minimum wage workers showing up to work every day. Police, firemen, paramedics and millions of other people are back to work, or never stopped working. If we can do it, teachers can do it.

As I've mentioned before, title one schools, like the one my wife teaches in, have student populations with no high speed internet access, no computers, no parents to assist in remote learning and other problems like kids who's only meals come from the school.

What we're doing as a nation is silly, stupid, not based on science and very damaging to millions and millions of kids and the repercussions will last for years.

 

[Pop1655]

^^^^Yep^^^^
I was trying to say that earlier. It’s great for all these parents and kids who have options. They can mull over mom teaching, hiring a tutor, whatever. Most don’t have that option, including my daughter. She’s an administrator and has to be present. The only way that works is if her three are in class. No demands from her. She’s going to work like always.

 

[BKS]

Covid is back..... But different. I guess most older people are already dead and gone so the age group is now mainly those between 20 and 40.
They just don't die and that is the problem....




Really it is as that age group think the are invincible... But they forget they can infect others that can get realy sick (and die)

 

[SteveC]

I find it hysterical (depressing, actually) that those who support the "fuck it - send them back to school" mentality are standing there, with a straight face no less, and saying, "it's being driven by political concerns and not the science." That is equally as funny as when they accuse people of "purveying lies." Holy shit. Seriously?

JFC, we wouldn't be so deep in this fucking mess right now if certain people were not pathological liars, afraid of science, and didn't put their political future ahead of the lives of the American public.

How about when we send the kids back to school, we substitute a nice refreshing disinfectant beverage for their fruit punch, too? Or maybe hand out hydroxi-gummie-bears for recess snacks.

Wow. Just fucking wow.