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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Feb 24, 2021 15:26:59 GMT -5
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Post by purplehaze on Feb 24, 2021 17:25:36 GMT -5
So sad that so many public school teachers have stayed away - do they want to acknowledge these stories of successfully teaching kids 'in person' ? - my wife teaches at a private school and has been in the classroom five days a week since September - of course, there have been some scattered cases, but there's also been scattered cases of students who haven't been in the classroom - ok, I'll keep politics out of this but my heart breaks for the minority students who are falling behind - we can all agree on that.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Feb 24, 2021 18:22:48 GMT -5
Louisville Catholic schools have done in-person teaching almost all year
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Post by hcpride on Feb 24, 2021 18:34:05 GMT -5
Lots of schools followed the science and have opened - no shocker they’re not significant sources of viral transmission. And the kids don’t do the wild and repetitive asymptomatic tests.
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Post by HC92 on Feb 25, 2021 7:35:10 GMT -5
Schools in my town in CT have been open all year. Scattered cases which result in an immediate two week quarantine of all close contacts who them learn from home. I haven’t heard of a single case where someone in a school quarantine group subsequently tested positive themselves. No significant outbreaks of groups of cases.
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Post by hcpride on Feb 25, 2021 8:57:58 GMT -5
At the risk of stating the obvious, if the science doesn’t support banning classroom instruction k-12 (and it certainly does not), what on earth is going on with the banning of college in-person instruction at certain undergraduate schools? In any case, k-12 closures, and motives therein, is getting attention: www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/opinion/covid-school-closures-children.html
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Post by alum on Feb 25, 2021 9:10:34 GMT -5
Lots of schools followed the science and have opened - no shocker they’re not significant sources of viral transmission. And the kids don’t do the wild and repetitive asymptomatic tests. I know you have told us you are a high school teacher, but I don't know if that is in a private or public school. How has this been handled where you teach?
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Post by hcpride on Feb 25, 2021 9:17:24 GMT -5
Lots of schools followed the science and have opened - no shocker they’re not significant sources of viral transmission. And the kids don’t do the wild and repetitive asymptomatic tests. I know you have told us you are a high school teacher, but I don't know if that is in a private or public school. How has this been handled where you teach? Public School. We opened at the start of the high school year (end of August) with busses to school as usual but kids in masks and desk shields on a hybrid schedule. (Half the class in each day, the rest on line watching a live feed ...essentially alternate-day in-person attendance...classes about 12-15 in-person kids). We have gradually brought back everyone in the high school to full time in-person. K-8 in the district has been full time in-person all year. No covid spread within the schools in my district (of course kids and staff got Covid given the respiratory virus at play, but no transmission in the schools). No asymptomatic testing (actually, no testing at all by the district). Last year (March-June or thereabouts) when we went all-online the district saw that kids (and their education) really suffered...and there was no science supporting continued closure.
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Post by alum on Feb 25, 2021 10:37:42 GMT -5
Interesting. Do you still offer the online option for the kids or teachers who are sick or have been exposed to the virus? Have any families asked to keep their kids fully remote?
From what I have read, most of the resistance to opening schools has come from teachers not parents. Have any of your colleagues pushed back on this?
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Post by hcpride on Feb 25, 2021 11:24:09 GMT -5
Good question. We keep the camera rolling for each lesson and kids who are absent (for any reason) can tune in and watch. We have a handful of declared all-remote kids who tune in each day (most classes have about 25 kids now and most have no full time remotes) and we attempt to work with them regarding tests.
Teachers don’t teach from home in my district (that ended last June) - some have been sick/quarantined.
Our social workers, counselors, and school psychologist are extraordinarily busy.
Teachers are in masks and a couple are still gloved w/face shields - we didn’t have that sort of pushback in our faculty. The science and the fact that kids were hurt so much last year (academically and otherwise) meant the teachers knew it was time to return (even if some were initially more nervous than others.)
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 25, 2021 11:41:18 GMT -5
hcpride, Your last statement describes pretty much what is going on in New Jersey. My granddaughter has been in class (with plexiglass shields between students at their desks and masks moving throughout the school) since September. Students who test positive have remote learning available. Interscholastic sports are going on. Her school is a parochial high school. Public schools, for the most part, are doing similar things. Our younger granddaughter kin kindergarten has had both in-person class - with social distancing - and remote learning. There has been little problem with concerned teachers. Most are now getting vaccine and all are being tested regularly. We are muddling through. Some have political concerns (such as wondering why priority was given to smokers and prisoners ahead of teachers with getting vaccinations, for one example) but that has not kept the great majority out of the classroom. They know the students will do better with face to face (or mask to mask) learning.
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 25, 2021 16:50:56 GMT -5
Kids seem to take to mask wearing like ducks to water.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 27, 2021 19:08:00 GMT -5
I know you have told us you are a high school teacher, but I don't know if that is in a private or public school. How has this been handled where you teach? Public School. We opened at the start of the high school year (end of August) with busses to school as usual but kids in masks and desk shields on a hybrid schedule. (Half the class in each day, the rest on line watching a live feed ...essentially alternate-day in-person attendance...classes about 12-15 in-person kids). We have gradually brought back everyone in the high school to full time in-person. K-8 in the district has been full time in-person all year. No covid spread within the schools in my district (of course kids and staff got Covid given the respiratory virus at play, but no transmission in the schools). No asymptomatic testing (actually, no testing at all by the district). Last year (March-June or thereabouts) when we went all-online the district saw that kids (and their education) really suffered...and there was no science supporting continued closure.Fauci has on several occasions stressed the importance of students getting back to classrooms.
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