No, but if businesses are shutting down and employees are sent home the percentage of nurses watching kids could be lowered. Maybe that was already factored into that 18-20%, I don't know.
My crystal ball comment was why they have school this week. There are no cases in our county yet but do they think it will be here next week? They are getting crushed on social media for staying open this week. They hit the panic button then asked everyone to not worry for a week. Their logic was they need the kids in school this week so they can figure out how to teach them at home after that. Then they send a follow up that if you want to keep your kids home you should. My guess is they close this week by the end of today.I agree. I think a lot of schools and principals just have no idea what to do. Two or 3 weeks buys then some time. This thing isn't just going to go away in 2 weeks when I go back. And it certainly isn't long enough to wait for a vaccine. Not really sure what it does? But I ain't complaining!
Agreed, some things should be unified and not dependent on the R or D beside their name. Of course if working together it's hard to blame the other side for mistakes... which seems to the current blueprint for politics. And you do have real partisan issues such as how to fund situations such as this. When you look at the whole of the country it makes since to work together, when you look at the career politician it makes sinse to stay on your side.
I'm guessing it would be logistics and a financial nightmare. Families would pull kids for vacations, administrators do a lot of legal work and continuing education work in the summer, grounds crews and building upkeep happens in the summer, a lot of teachers have summer jobs or their own businesses to tend to, etc. I'm not justifying it, just giving reasons it probably won't happen.
I was never much of a student. I can’t even imagine what kind of student I would have been from home. LOL. I think forgetting the home stuff and just extending the year would be better. I’d imagine there would be huge pushback on that from the unions and parents though.
We don’t have the plan yet but it sounds like they are definitely setting up home schooling. Teachers will post assignments and the kids will do them at home. My kids are straight A nerds so they will be fine, but kids like me aren’t going to learn a thing other than how to time and kill the squirrel on one of his bird feeder runs.
Lots of kids will open another tab and spend the majority of their time on youtube or social media. I wonder how many adults do the same thing (hint hint... this site run pretty well during the weekday)? ;) Most kids are a little less disciplined than adults when doing something they don't want to do but I feel the work would get done for the most part.
They have a plan for that. They are going to rent or lend tablets to those that don’t have them. The internet access didn’t make sense to me. They were going to set up pod times where they could come in and access the internet? I don’t see how that differs from going to school other than it is probably a low number of kids that will be in that category.
