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Our District's face to face plan is a joke. There are so many 'where feasible' statements and so many things not addressed. And I question how they can enact some of the stuff in their plan from a financial and staffing perspective. It remains to be seen if they start with any in person classes but my kids will be starting out with a virtual option.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
This is along the same lines as my thought process. Some of the more gung-ho about face to face posters have said that as long as there is a plan in place, kids should go back. It's not that simple, the plan has to be both effective and feasible. Now granted I'm not going around analyzing every plan that I can get my hands on, but I have yet to see one that has what I would consider adequate procedures regarding the protocols for what students will do when one or multiple teachers tests positive.
Our districts plan is to isolate, quarantine that individual for 14 days and then contact trace.What else can really be done?
Now granted I'm not going around analyzing every plan that I can get my hands on, but I have yet to see one that has what I would consider adequate procedures regarding the protocols for what students will do when one or multiple teachers tests positive.
Our Catholic grade school has said that teachers that test positive will be given the opportunity virtually teach from home (if they're asymptomatic and up to the task). We're close with a number of teachers at the school and it is remarkable how determined the teachers are to get back in the building and make this work. A tremendous amount of positive energy matched with an incredible amount of precaution and risk mitigation.
Does this also apply if a student tests positive and the teacher was potentially exposed?If so, it would potentially mitigate the teacher shortage at your school. However, it could also cause a lot of switching back and forth between in-person and online learning - essentially flip-flopping back and forth whenever the teacher or a student in the class tests positive. As much as teachers might be motivated to do that, I wonder if it might be more disruptive to education than just continuous online learning. Not claiming it would be, but I have to wonder.
In that case they are initially saying they will work with our local health department to determine via exposure level if the student's cohort or entire class needs to be put into Q, at which point some or all will be taught virtually. Each classroom is being set up with a stream for virtual learning for kids who are out. This may all fall apart after a few weeks but the school admin, teachers and parents have worked together to do everything possible to get back in person safely. Masks, distance, regular hand sanitizing, no changing classrooms etc. are all being done.
Same here in my public school. Starting out face to face with options to teach virtually and learn virtually if sick or uncomfortable with being face to face. Must commit to virtual learning for a quarter though. also changing the schedules at the HS to go to blocks to reduce the amount of time in crowded spaces.Hopefully the school installed the lights that kill viruses over the summer
The general rule is you have to come in close contact with someone with Covid (within six feet for 15 minutes) for someone to need to quarantine.
If a student tests positive and they are with the same teacher for an entire school day, it would seem quite likely that the teacher (and many of the other students) would meet those criteria every time. In fact, it would be hard to believe they wouldn't.
It depends. If they are a teacher that is standing in front of the class (more likley a high school teacher), and everyone else is masked and distanced properly, then no, they wouldn't need to quarantine.
I think you are being a little linear. I know the guidance is 6 ft, etc, but from what i read it will greatly depends on airflow, size of room and a variety of other factors and isnt really foolproof. I think schools will have to figure this out, but getting out the measuring tape probably isn't going to cut it.Personally, I would pursue the cheap/lower sensitivity daily rapid test. It would cut down complexity and would eliminate ambiguity.
Do you really think local school districts are going to measure the airflow of each classroom and pay for daily testing? I have been working on these types of issues for weeks now on our campus. I am definitely NOT saying that everyone else is the classroom is safe, but just that you shouldn't have to automatically quarantine a teacher because one student in the class tests positive. No college or school district is going to operate by that standard because it would quickly become impossible.Look, every school district and college campus is going to have positives. It is impossible to completely keep it out. The issue is how do we properly balance risk factors and mitigate spread.
If a teacher is just standing in the front of the class lecturing, it hardly seems worth the risk of sending kids back to school. After all, isn't the lack of direct interaction one of the biggest objections to the quality of online classes? Is seeing a person at a distance really all that much better than watching the same person on a screen?ETA: And what about younger kids? It is hardly realistic to expect elementary and maybe even middle school kids to sit in place while a teacher lectures at a distance. In those cases, if there is any real learning happening at all, it would seem to require closer interaction...and perhaps a rebuttable presumption that everyone was within 6 feet of the infected person.
I don't recall my teachers in middle or high school doing much more than standing in the front of the class. They certainly weren't regularly less than six feet from me. And I do think that is still a better learning environment than virtual.Elementary is different I grant you that.
But if younger kids require closer contact while older kids can learn in-school from teachers at a distance, are those school districts (and many others) getting it backwards?