good point, but these are still highly localized decisions, and being made in every school district in the country. New York City is still struggling with the decision even as Yonkers today went all-virtual and De Blasio continues to push for live instruction https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loc...ike-threats-calls-to-oust-chancellor/2576597/
It also doesn't help when you have jerks like this tweeting *jokingly* about it. (Tweet later removed) Conservative think tank leader says schools should reopen since most Texans dying from COVID-19 are elderly or Hispanic https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/28/vance-ginn-texas-coronavirus/
Trump making teachers the essential personnel they deserve to be puts me squarely back in his corner -- I do fear what Biden might do knowing he forced his wife to stop teaching and become a doctor.
Lamar CISD students, staff test positive for coronavirus as district plans to reopen schools Jonathan Martinez, Anchor/Reporter Published: August 20, 2020, 11:25 pmUpdated: August 20, 2020, 11:42 pm https://www.click2houston.com/news/...onavirus-as-district-plans-to-reopen-schools/
Teachers can teach virtually. Essential workers who can't are firemen, urgent care workers, ER doctors, surgeons, police, etc.. If you can spare lives then do it.
Not only our facts America First but also America Only Do you have the data on local school infections? No? Then what's the harm in trying in the name of progess?...
This is good news. Texas will start posting coronavirus case data from public schools, education commissioner says https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/20/texas-schools-coronavirus-cases/
According to the Miami Herald, Miami-Dade County Public Schools has almost 600 employees who have tested positive for COVID-19. This number is about 600% larger than the figure that Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s chief of staff at Miami-Dade Schools gave the press in July.
Since July 18th 7,924 Texans have died of Covid-19, and 1,485 of them in Harris County. It seems like we have this under control, right? I'd rather see lower numbers than that before we throw a few million students, teachers, and school personnel into colleges and schools around the state.
It’s idiotic, and any school or school district that allows a teacher that has tested positive for COVID-19 to continue to teach a classroom of children in person can all go to hell. School should be conducted virtually until local communities meet certain benchmarks showing the spread of COVID-19 is contained. This isn’t hard to understand. I’m a parent, and reading stuff like this pisses me off. **** Donald Trump, his enablers within his administration, and any school or school district that follows this “guidance.”
Yet again, Lina Hidalgo is trying her best to do the right thing in Harris County by putting public health first during a pandemic. Every superintendent in Harris County should be working with her office to develop reasonable benchmarks that must be met to reopen schools for in-person instruction.
"national guidance" has very little to do with these decisions, which are made on an institution-by-institution basis.
Florida judge blocks state order for schools to reopen https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/24/florida-judge-blocks-state-order-schools-reopen/
it COULD if it wanted to and in fact, cdc does have guidance but aren’t being pushed by choice I agree this is largely each institution decision without a push one way or the other
