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| Back to School? |
| 2020-07-09 |
| FEE via Instapundit Next month marks the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic year in several US states, and pressure is mounting to reopen schools even as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Florida, for example, is now considered the nation’s No. 1 hot spot for the virus; yet on Monday, the state’s education commissioner issued an executive order mandating that all Florida schools open in August with in-person learning and their full suite of student services. Many parents are balking at back-to-school, choosing instead to homeschool their children this fall. ...For some parents, fear of the virus itself is a primary consideration in delaying a child’s return to school, especially if the child has direct contact with individuals who are most vulnerable to COVID-19’s worst effects. But for many parents, it’s not the virus they are avoiding by keeping their children home—it’s the response to the virus. In May, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued school reopening guidelines that called for:
All-day mask wearing for most students and teachers Staggered attendance Daily health checks No gym or cafetaria use Restricted playground access and limited toy-sharing, and Tight controls on visitors to school buildings, including parents. ...According to a recent USA Today/Ipsos poll, 60 percent of parents surveyed said they will likely choose at-home learning this fall rather than send their children to school even if the schools reopen for in-person learning. Thirty percent of parents surveyed said they were "very likely" to keep their children home. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #14 😁 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-09 18:14 |
| #13 You see how obsessed I am with it? *yawn* |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-09 18:10 |
| #12 Freudian projection, Frank? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-09 18:09 |
| #11 Corona M@sturbation |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-09 18:03 |
| #10 ^????? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-09 18:01 |
| #9 Must get hard to type so much with one hand? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-09 17:57 |
| #8 Coronavirus: 1,668 students and education staff sick, 28,816 in isolation |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-09 17:00 |
| #7 Why open up when they can take in the same amount of money but not have the expenses of busing, cooking, maintenance, security, sexual assault lawsuits, athletics insurance, so forth. Why, with the right PR Teachers are Struggling campaign, they can get a raise for doing less, then later claim re-opening is too expensive. Wife comes from a different direction; that the students are going to spend so much time doing the safety dance, they won't have time to do anything else; wasted day. The whole thing is a farce anyways because that one kid from the family which always seems to get head lice will wreck the procedure from the git-go. Done. Kahn Academy you say? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-07-09 16:01 |
| #6 No problem, the Ivys will just get faculty, staff and alumni to adopt the incoming foreign students. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-07-09 12:14 |
| #5 Harvard University announced that it will not require standardized test scores for the class of 2025. Students are instead encouraged to submit information about their community involvement and high school accomplishments Maybe not the right time to abolish H1B visas? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-09 10:36 |
| #4 Kids who want to learn will find a way even if you try to stop them. The notion that they need brick and mortar schools to learn is anachronistic and dishonest. Kids who are indifferent or antagonistic to learning anything except how to get by on the street don't belong in classrooms at all, as all they do is disrupt those trying to learn and cause a waste of resources. Inner city schools have been promoting and graduating truants for years. It's no mystery that their budgets are based on headcounts, not outcomes. Universities now admit according to a diversity schedule whether it's legally countenanced or not, to the disadvantage of students with superior grades but not enough or the wrong "intersectionality" boxes checked. Lots of corporations have to teach their new hires stuff that wasn't taught or absorbed effectively in the high priced diploma mills. It's time for education to become a fee for use commodity delivered however the customer wants and subject to all market forces. Stop tossing old people out of their homes because they can't carry the "public education establishment" on their retired backs anymore. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-07-09 09:44 |
| #3 ...Democrat funding base will demand full payment. FIFY |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-07-09 09:34 |
| #2 Yet the teachers and schools will demand full payment |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-09 09:26 |
| #1 60 percent of parents surveyed said they will likely choose at-home learning They write that as though its not part of the plan. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-07-09 08:44 |