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What is the infection rate/transmission rate amongst school aged children?? Also, what is your plan for parents that would now need to stay home with their kids because they aren't in school, and they can't go to work?? Thanks, I will hang up and listen.
In the high school, antibody testing showed that 38% of pupils, 43% of teachers, and 59% of nonteaching staff had been infected. (By then, several people associated with the school had been hospitalized with COVID-19 complications.) In six elementary schools, they found a total of three children who had caught the virus, likely from family members, and then attended school while infected. But, as far as the researchers could tell, those younger children didn’t pass the virus on to any close contacts.
Other outbreaks also suggest that elementary school pupils pose a smaller threat than older students. Among the worst schoolwide outbreaks was at Gymnasium Rehavia, a middle and high school in Jerusalem, where 153 students and 25 staff were infected in late May and early June. An outbreak at a New Zealand high school before that country’s shutdown infected 96 people, including students, teachers, staff, and parents. In contrast, a neighboring elementary school saw few cases.
Another Israeli outbreak was in an elementary school in Jaffa, with 33 students and five staff members affected. Across the globe, an elementary school classroom in Trois-Rivières, Canada, had nine of 11 students infected after one contracted the virus in the community.Other data come from day care centers: In many countries, they stayed open for children of essential workers, and outbreaks appeared rare. Two flares in Canadian day cares—one in Toronto, and one outside of Montreal—led to temporary closures. In Texas, where overall cases have skyrocketed, at least 894 preschool staff and 441 children across 883 facilities have tested positive, according to news reports. That’s up from 210 total cases just a few weeks ago.
Ask your school district for the following inevitable issues:1. What is the protocol when 1, 5, 10, or 25 students test positive?2. What is the protocol when 1, 5, 10, or 25 teachers test positive?If they don't have solid answers to those questions, they aren't ready.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882316641/what-parents-can-learn-from-child-care-centers-that-stayed-open-during-lockdowns?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
This is good stuff. And it reinforces the thought that the problems will likely be more with older children in school and not preschool or elementary age.
Yeah, family and friends who work as grade school teachers say they're far less concerned about the younger kids sticking with masks and social distancing than the middle schoolers.
Nearly 300 Florida high school graduates told to quarantine after attending an outdoor graduation 300 Florida high school graduates told to quarantine after attending an outdoor graduationhttps://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/us/florida-high-school-graduation-coronavirus-trnd/index.htmlBayside High School in Palm Bay, Florida, held an outdoor graduation ceremony for seniors last Saturday, an event that appeared to mostly adhere to coronavirus safety guidelines.However, someone who attended the event tested positive for the coronavirus shortly after the ceremony, said Anita Stremmel, assistant director of the Florida Department of Health in Brevard County. The school district informed the health department, which confirmed the result in a lab test.
Bayside High School
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/bill-gates-says-schools-should-reopen-despite-covid-19Mr Gates is a yes vote for killing teachers. What a jerk
What? Can you read? Or is your reading limited to headlines."if you can protect the teachers as well"“As you get up to age, like, 13 and higher, then you’ll have to look at your locale to decide what you’ll do with high schools,” Gates said. “And if they’re not in, then you have to put massive effort into trying to get there to be continued learning online.”
My argument from the beginning is that it should be a community by community decision with input from all parties taken into account.