Covid and your kids

[riser4]

As of today..we are full time in person to the kids who return to school.....and we are live-streaming to the kids who choose to stay at home.....I guess I better get used to being “on camera”.

Assuming the parents/kids at home have to pick up the “work” for the week so they can do the same work as the other kids in school are....who knows?

*Right now we have about 25% of the kids at my school choosing to stay at home and do the live streaming.

Don't pick your nose or scratch your ass.

[yeahman]

Our district has a 40-page plan they've been working on all summer. Seems to cover all possible outcomes. School is supposed to start in person after Labor Day. I have to tip my hat to our superintendent. He is very good.

[Mazderati]

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. - Mike Tyson

[Adolf Allerbush]

Our district has a 40-page plan they've been working on all summer. Seems to cover all possible outcomes. School is supposed to start in person after Labor Day. I have to tip my hat to our superintendent. He is very good.

Got a link? I'd be interested in seeing what your district is doing to reduce spread.

[yeahman]

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. - Mike Tyson

Truth. But if we get punched in the mouth I guess instruction just shifts to part time or full time online, depending on the situation. Going to be interesting.

But I was mostly commenting in contrast to those who were saying their district seems to have no plan. We got a plan. How well it's going to actually work is anybody's guess.

[Mazderati]

I gotcha. It just seems like a quote for the times.

[yeahman]

Got a link? I'd be interested in seeing what your district is doing to reduce spread.

https://helenaschools.org/2020/08/07...date-8-7-2020/

Edit to add: They have not officially announced what phase they are opening under, but all indications are they are starting with full time instruction in person, with a full time digital option for those who wish.

[BobMc]

Our 8yo is going online only. Our district is going to a four day week with Fridays virtual, or online only. I work with a person that would probably die if he caught it, I’m not being responsible for that. Socially distancing at a shop isn’t possible, some things take multiple people. Not gonna send the kid into the school stew to bring it home

[BC.]

Don't pick your nose or scratch your ass.

I’m worried about the hookers and blow....

[MontuckyFried]

No worries, kid are practically completely immune to the China flu. I heard it from a reliable source, who just happens to be orange.

You DO realize that out of the hundreds of thousands of reported cases in young children, that there's only been like 19 deaths, right? So yeah. Kids are proving to be pretty resilient with this thing.

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[DBdude]

with long term health risks - I find it hard to be believe you are this uneducated on this by now. - wait troll

damn - I always forget

[MontuckyFried]

with long term health risks - I find it hard to be believe you are this uneducated on this by now. - wait troll

damn - I always forget

Not trolling. It's obviously waaaaay too early to say if kids will have any long term effects, but sure. Act like you know. The kids will be alright but that's my guess. You have yours. We'll see who's right 20 years from now. Btw, it's too late to stop this thing in case you haven't noticed. We're all gonna get it. They're all gonna get it. Meh. What can ya do besides suck it up and deal. Not locking up my kids for the next two decades while we wait for a "cure" that will likely never come. See: another coronavirus, the common cold.

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[bodywhomper]

https://helenaschools.org/2020/08/07...date-8-7-2020/

Edit to add: They have not officially announced what phase they are opening under, but all indications are they are starting with full time instruction in person, with a full time digital option for those who wish.

I didn’t read the whole document. Having close understanding of what it’s like to work with children with special needs (know some, personally, and my wife works with the population, professionally), this is lip-service. Therapists and therapy teams are likely vectors. They have potential to expose and be exposed to many different children, parents, aides, and teachers in many different classrooms and sometimes different schools.

“Special Education Overview:
Including students with disabilities and other vulnerable students
When our students return to school, their needs may be very different. To facilitate a successful school start, HSD has created guidance for school-based teams in order to be proactive in considering, planning, and implementing both procedural and substantive aspects of a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) for students with disabilities and other vulnerable student groups. Ongoing guidance for school-based teams will focus on several noted priorities including safety, health, and the welfare of all students; provision of FAPE; identification of the need for and provision of compensatory services; consistent and detailed documentation of services and supports; and consistent communication with families regarding the Individualized Education Program (IEP).
HSD has aligned the priorities, supports, and services of special education with general education. These priorities focus on academic as well as auxiliary supports needed to close achievement and opportunity gaps that existed before and may have changed since last school year. The needs of our students receiving special education services and other vulnerable students will be aligned to individualized supports and resources. These students and their families/caretakers will be at the forefront of team planning when creating district and/or school-level plans.
Our planning response includes professional development, technical assistance, and/or training opportunities which includes educators/specialists who play a vital role in the provision of services to students with disabilities and vulnerable student populations. This includes but is not limited to teachers, special education staff, bus drivers, general education staff, paraprofessionals, and administrators.”

[doebedoe]

Not trolling. It's obviously waaaaay too early to say if kids will have any long term effects, but sure. Act like you know. The kids will be alright but that's my guess. You have yours. We'll see who's right 20 years from now. Btw, it's too late to stop this thing in case you haven't noticed. We're all gonna get it. They're all gonna get it. Meh. What can ya do besides suck it up and deal. Not locking up my kids for the next two decades while we wait for a "cure" that will likely never come. See: another coronavirus, the common cold.

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And that’s why you’re a bozo posting on a ski forum and not a virologist or epidemiologist.

If you were either of those things you’d realize producing a vaccine for COVID-19 is nothing like trying to cure the common cold. One is a particular strain we are solving for with the largest infusion of research dollars ever, the other is hundreds of strains (of mostly rhino viruses) that change yearly and there is little research money going to.

[bodywhomper]

Montuckey, 13 dead kids in TX per aug 6 nationwide report
https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AA...20%20FINAL.pdf

[Danno]

with long term health risks - I find it hard to be believe you are this uneducated on this by now. - wait troll

damn - I always forget

He's not a troll, he's just not that bright.

[concretejungle]

He's not a troll, he's just not that bright.

He knows a guy who is bright though.

[Harry]

He knows a guy who is bright though.

Yeah, he knows me


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[wooley12]

@Montucky Ever known a family that lost a kid? Tell us about it.

[claresdad]

Ours is interesting. When it starts next week, daycare for the kindergarten kiddos at our local public school is available but she would come home for online distance learning for two hours. Then go back for the balance of the day.

[schuss]

Yeah, not a ton of risk - you first. I'm not taking chances with my kids lives that I don't have to.

[jackstraw]

https://helenaschools.org/2020/08/07...date-8-7-2020/

Edit to add: They have not officially announced what phase they are opening under, but all indications are they are starting with full time instruction in person, with a full time digital option for those who wish.

It's a plan! What I don't get about my wife's school admins is they can just search the web and 'steal' a plan like this and revise a few items to their needs since they cannot seem to do it on their own.

Ideally, the feds would have had multiple basic outlines laid out for schools across the country to follow as a basic guideline.

[Ottime]

Ideally the dead would not be a bunch of buffoons.

We started distance learning today in all of our three schools today. So far so good. My kid has got an awesome teacher. Pretty stoked on that.

Oops. Edit. Dead = Fed. Auto correct

[MontuckyFried]

Montuckey, 13 dead kids in TX per aug 6 nationwide report
https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AA...20%20FINAL.pdf

According to that report, the rate is only 500 cases per 100,000 children. And that's simply "cases." Out of a cumulative 139,685 deaths ACROSS ALL AGES, children only accounted for 90 of those. That's a rate of barely 0.06% of the deaths. Again, all per your link.

So 13 kid's deaths out of a state with a population with 29,000,000 people is not really news worthy if you're going to be objective about it. Every year, many, many more children die of a variety of other reasons whether natural or otherwise. How many have died this year due to nefarious reasons that haven't made national news? Locally we had a mother/father who recently killed themselves and their four children via running car in their closed garage. Multiple other stories like that this year and while I know stuff like that happens every year, I can't help but feel that COVID has pushed many people over the edge. Hell, I KNOW it has. See:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...drug-overdose/
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/08/05/...ightens-worry/
The ramifications from COVID unfortunately goes far beyond the illness itself.

If being objective, let's face it. Keeping schools closed is NOT about protecting the kids since BY THE DATA, they're going to be fine by and large. Rather, it's about protecting the adults that they go home to. Plain and simple. We've always known schools were macro-petri dishes of disease. COVID's ultimately going to be part of that concoction as well. Like it or not, that's the hard truth about it.

[Trashcan]

My daughter starts virtual learning tomorrow at 8 AM(HS sophmore}. The teachers blasted all the info for the requirements,Zoom links, etc. and what they need at 3PM today. She still cannot access her schedule for class times. What a shit show!