No, schools will be able to teach once they reopen. Our district has a clear plan on what to do if someone is Covid positive, and it doesn't involve shutting the entire school down. Keeping kids in class pods throughout the school day helps to contact trace and isolate/quarantine those who came into close contact with a positive case, so the whole school won't get shut down.
Are you sending your kids to school next month?
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just curious-how is your district handling transportation?
i hear of all these plans for podding/cohorting kids into groups but i think to how my kids rode a bus with other kids in a variety of different grades/classes that attended on their campus so even if they had been broken into pods in their individual class they would have exposed/been exposed to all the individual members of other pods going/coming from school on a daily basis.
This idea might work in a state/community with a very small amount of viral spread. And the idea might work for K-6 where many children need parental permission to visit with friends...etc. But it's not going to work for grades 8-12. Some kids will obey the rules and do their best to wear masks and keep interactions with friends outside. But the longer this drags on, we're already seeing that there are going to be outbreaks when teens get together, which they will inevitably do.
And you can't rule out that parents are going to have to set up childcare arrangement with other parents for the younger children...etc. The idea that the "cohorts/pods" in schools will keep everyone safe, is a fantasy. It will be almost impossible to keep everyone safe inside the schools. Outside of school, all bets are off.
SaintsManiac
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Our district wants to put 1 kid per seat on the bus. Soooo we already had a bus driver shortage and I have NO idea how they will manage this. Also, what about parents with multiple kids in one school? People don't even know if their kids can go together right now. It's a mess.
No, no. You misunderstood. I am not saying it should be that way. Only that it will. I pray smarter people than me figure it out. I have a friend who teaches a bunch of at risk first graders. I am helping her but books. But... the virus will prevent so much normalcy that these kids need. I don't see how it will work. It will take an adult having one on one time with them, which unfortunately most don't have. I am not saying we shouldn't try to do something. Just saying it is what will realistically happen unfortunately
SaintsManiac
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Your district sounds more organized. How are they doing pods in high school????
Teachers rotate to them among a limited pool of students for each set of teachers.
They're encouraging parents' driving and high school students self-driving as much as possible, plus about 50% of students plan to do virtual learning, anyway. So buses will be much less crowded than usual.
There is no airtight solution in terms of a virus, but there are a lot of ways to make the situation manageable. Just like going to the grocery store isn't airtight, but it can be made manageable. It won't be perfect, but students will be able to learn in person.
I would have to see how this would work. There are infinite amount of schedules. Some are freshman in Spanish I. Some are juniors. Everyone in 9th grade doesn't take the same science. Some are in fine arts. Some in go tech. Their schedules vary greatly.
Electives are mostly going to be online, even after in-person classes start. The pods will be grouped with students' core class needs in mind.
How? There are a zillion different classes, there is no such thing as a pod, plus classes require prerequisites. Dd17 is taking AP BC calculus, ds17 AP stat (Dd took it sophomore year), ds17 AP Spanish (Dd had it last year). They are taking all of one of the same class. It’s all jumbled. Dd is taking AP macroeconomics go test out if having to take it in college, saving thousands. It’s not like there is a senior english, senior math, senior history, senior science...
There aren't going to be as many classes this year. As I said, electives will be online. As I said, nothing will be airtight but neither is going to the grocery store or the doctor. Students who need it will be able to learn in person. That is extremely important and accommodations will be made to make that as safe as possible.
Also, the students most in need of in-person tend to be in elementary, as it tends to be harder for them to learn on their own and many of the kids with the most critical socialization needs are that age, and making pods there is much easier. It isn't just about high school.
boy howdy, i see this as the out our district has been dreaming of to eliminate electives almost entirely for the most part. over the years since my oldest graduated ('13) our district has tweaked and re-tweaked it's offerings and graduation requirements such that everyone is taking largely the identical classes for their 4 years of high school with few exceptions-choice of a couple of foreign languages, choice of 2 different business classes, choice of art or music for fine arts requirement. everyone is on the identical college prep. track with only 4 electives over entire 4 years (and those electives are just the foreign language, business, art or music class you didn't opt for to meet your existing requirements).
Well, nothing is being eliminated permanently. It's being streamlined to make the school year possible. Electives will have the same teachers, just online.
This is a competetive district that normally prides itself on outstanding academics & elective programs. Students in normal years are grouped into academies based on elective interests to help promote their growth in those areas & encourage specialization & career interests.
This coming year is about the basics of getting all kids educated properly despite a pandemic. No one at the district wants this to become a new normal.
our district decided it wanted everyone to graduate under the same college ready track (meeting or exceeding the recommended courses for 'highly selective colleges and universities') for those that want to be further challenged they encourage them to do 'running start' in their junior and senior years b/c the general ed classes they are teaching at the high school for those years already mirror the freshman/sophomore equivalents at the state colleges and universities so the kids can take them at those institutions or remotely and get the college credits at no cost.
i think it's short sighted and dis-serves those either unsuited to or uninterested in college. i'm waiting to see their drop out rate increase.
Here’s what I still don’t understand. Can you get covid only from droplets, or also from people’s breath lingering in the air, with whatever pieces of virus are in that? I’m not saying it the right way, hopefully someone knows what I mean. I have read many articles and studies and it seems like even the scientists don’t know for sure. But here is what I picture. My youngest daughter’s school plans to keep the entire class of 24 students in the same room the entire day, even for lunch. They will wear masks and separate the desks as much as possible, and have even indicated maybe they could put up some plastic partitions. But after 7 hours together, breathing the same air in that room, if someone has a virus will that air have viral particles in it that can transit to others, or won’t it? Or can you only get sick if a larger respiratory droplet lands on or near you and gets into your eyes, nose, and mouth? They have air conditioning at their school, but my high schooler does not have a/c at their school, and they have basically the same plan. I can’t even imagine that kind of heat in August when the school opens up and they are wearing masks. Not sure if they would have a better chance of avoiding covid or not, with at least some fresh air coming from windows. Anyway, it’s for these reasons and more that I’m going to homeschool them at least for this year to see how things go. I’m
very wary of how 24 kids could breathe the same air all day and not spread any viruses. I suppose it would be totally fine as long as none of the kids on that room ever get covid. But there is no way of knowing that, and I know several of the parents have said on Facebook they think covid is greatly exaggerated and not that dangerous, and are pretty much living their lives as usual, so I feel it’s probably just a matter of time before a case pops up in the school
very wary of how 24 kids could breathe the same air all day and not spread any viruses. I suppose it would be totally fine as long as none of the kids on that room ever get covid. But there is no way of knowing that, and I know several of the parents have said on Facebook they think covid is greatly exaggerated and not that dangerous, and are pretty much living their lives as usual, so I feel it’s probably just a matter of time before a case pops up in the school
roomthreeseventeen
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24 kids is too many people unless the room is large.
If your child is 10 or older, they can transmit the virus as easily as adults.
If they are staying in the room for lunch, and taking off their masks to eat, the school may confine the virus to that class and not the whole school, but it will easily go around the class.
If your child is 10 or older, they can transmit the virus as easily as adults.
If they are staying in the room for lunch, and taking off their masks to eat, the school may confine the virus to that class and not the whole school, but it will easily go around the class.
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Well, until the kids cross paths with someone in the hallway, walk out of the building at dismissal, go home on the bus, etc.
I’m eager to get back to our classrooms (and my library). I just think it will be for no more than a few weeks before we’re back doing remote again. And instead of focusing on making remote the best it an be, resources (most importantly, time, which is very limited at this point), are almost exclusively being used to prepare for something that willl likely be extremely short-lived.
roomthreeseventeen
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Most transmission of the virus is from exposure more than 15 minutes. So passing someone in the hallway isn't a huge deal. The bus ride might be.
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