I FEEL THREATENED!!! I FEEL THREATENED!!!!
CoVID-19
Just keep your web doors closed and those nasty trollbears won't be able to get you ok.
any other parents super nervous about what the school year is going to look like? my son will be starting kindergarten (ours are half day) and my daughter is enrolled in preschool (2 mornings a week). the preschool follows a different school district schedule than my son, and based on their guidelines will be opening (at least that's the plan for now). my son's school district has not yet announced, but we're meeting to go over his IEP next week or the week after, and have heard that on site attendance may not be mandatory.
Almost every parent I know with young children seem to get sick with something when school starts in the fall. What could go wrong?
i'm less concerned about my kids and the teachers than i am the kids of parents who have been running around like nothing's happening. that, plus the current lack of solid understanding of the long term effects and damage, which based on the info out so far are pretty bad. i'm not too keen on gambling with my kids' lives.
Any of you who suspect having had this virus feeling some level of chronic fatigue?
This. Our state (NC) is having record numbers and lots of people act like nothing is happening. When you need to go into a store, some of the employees are not even wearing masks. When you get a few hundred kids together, some of which have parents who refuse to comply in any way because this is "political" or some other ridiculous crap, I fear the spread will be far and wide.
i haven't personally but i have read that people diagnosed do experience it.
i've heard rumors of school districts doing A / B groups; A group week 1, B group week 2, etc, with deep disinfecting on the weekends. i'm operating under the assumption this would include online learning on the "off" weeks. i'm still not convinced this would reduce transmission risk significantly enough to justify it.
I believe the A/B groups are the current plan here. I'm right there with you though. I'm far from an expert but I question its effectiveness. In theory my daughter would only be around half as many kids. However, when I see how many people are not taking precautions, I have to wonder if they have a kid in my daughter's school. I certainly don't have the answers but to say I'm concerned is an understatement.
one of the things i'm concerned about is the lack of social interaction, which at my kids' ages (3 and 5) is still crucial for their development. in the big scheme of things, i certainly don't think that outweighs the potential health risks, and it's not like they're the only ones facing this. there's gonna a whole generation of kids that this is gonna impact.
the other implication is that we'd essentially be home schooling them, which for me means i'd have to alter my working hours to accommodate teaching. i'm WFH for the foreseeable future (ie into next year) and i have the flexibility to do so. i get that not many parents have that option, unfortunately.
I'm right there with you again. My daughter is 13 and has for the most part, she has been staying home altogether. We can definitely can see a difference in her behavior due to the lack of social interaction. It's not "bad", but she's starved to do the things that 13 year old kids do. Due to this, she's just not herself and what I would consider to be distracted a good amount of the time. Does that justify sending her off to a middle-school petri dish? I don't think so but I don't know what to do either. The current plan is to wait until we get closer to the first day of school and then make some hard decisions.
My wife and I are both working from home but our schedules can't be adjusted to accommodate home schooling, so that's out...
right now there's really no good options unfortunately, especially considering the failures of the federal gov't to properly address this.
This looks to be the most likely plan for Haley's school. 2 days in, 3 days remote. Our county has one of the lowest average age, highest income, and most homogeneous Caucasian populations in the state, which are three factors that can drive down infection rates. With that being said, my city which makes up the largest part of the county population and is the most liberal (shocker it's the closest to Denver and has the most kids) has pushed back very hard against the rest of the county with regards to bringing school back to normal.
Trump said he would defund any schools that weren't 100% open on schedule.
my county is the 3 largest in the state (by population) and has the second highest case count. we're still at over 300 new cases a week, and that number is starting to creep back up.
A) fuck himTrump said he would defund any schools that weren't 100% open on schedule.
B) he better be sending his fucking shit kids/grandkids/whatever to open schools as well.
We have a tight neighborhood with kids Haley's age. As a group we've agreed to somewhat isolate interaction to the the 5 families with limited exposure to other groups of kids. We have a nanny that the kids will all go out with 1 day per week to do things, but it's all stuff with population limitations or outside. They also go to a camp 2 days per week but it's the same structure - they won't let more that 2 kids be together, require masks to be worn properly and changed mid-day, and the activities are very much non-physical (limit heavy breathing). They are so bored with it that we might have to find something else to do with them for the rest of the summer - possibly having one parent take a day each week to chaperone them of some activity out of the neighborhood.
State funding. He can eat a dick.Trump said he would defund any schools that weren't 100% open on schedule.
has your wife considered putting in a ///Pool?
well, this would also require betsy devos to actually do something, and with competency. so we're probably safe.
Do you have a link to the defunding part? I haven't found it but this leaves me speechless:Trump said he would defund any schools that weren't 100% open on schedule.
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Trump pushes state, local leaders to reopen schools in fall
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is assailing plans by some local districts to offer in-person instruction only a few days a week.
www.local10.com
Haley begs for it regularly but we are right on the open space so we don't have the depth in our backyard and then there is the concern of animals. One of the other families has one but their kids are a lot younger(3/5) vs. the main group (7-10), so it's a hard integration. There are a lot of trampolines around now though.
there are things called above ground pools, but your HOA probably would rule against it for not being monocle enough.
This isn't a half bad idea.
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Do you have a link to the defunding part? I haven't found it but this leaves me speechless:
Trump pushes state, local leaders to reopen schools in fall
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is assailing plans by some local districts to offer in-person instruction only a few days a week.
hot tub? way cheaper than a pool.
*many other counties with a functioning government that took the pandemic seriously.
i really hope that buffoon drops out.
Yet trampolines are okay.
Lolz.
I'm not putting in a cement pad and plumbing into a non-permanent location. Once the girls are old enough the playground will be getting ripped out and an outdoor kitchen/patio/hot tub area built.
Who the fuck knows. But unless a proper deck is built around them, above ground pools do look pretty shitty.
This jackass is such a dangerous embarrassment. Unbelievable.
hot tubs don't require external connected plumbing.
Trump said he would defund any schools that weren't 100% open on schedule.
agreed.
we just got a trampoline. it's still in a box in the garage. wife randomly stopped at bj's or costco, they happened to have gotten a shipment that morning (after being sold out for months), it was on sale and the last one. i think it wound up being under $300
will you look at that, the US has hit 3 million cases.