All that blather and not a single thing to back up your claim kids will be forced to go to school.
Opening the schools does not mean a single child from a single family that is at risk or a single child who is at risk will be forced to attend.
Every state will be provided all the help the fed’s can muster to give them the best info to operate with but the decisions will remain at the state and local levels as to how to implement it.
This is what the fear-mongers want us to panic over.
You chose to ignore the question. What’s the magic number? 10? 100? 1,000? How many dead children throw the brakes on this plan to reopen schools? We see what the plan to reopen the economy has caused. We have barreled past 150,000 deaths and are on our way to over 250,000 deaths by the end of the year thanks to this reopening strategy prior to us flattening the curve. Now, we are doing the same with school re-openings and our children’s lives are the ones being gambled with.
You’ve had your answer repeatedly, there is no magic answer or number.
We’re going to lose more kids due to other causes hat would never have died than we’ll lose to this virus by opening the schools.
Life is not risk free, the best we can hope for is to reduce overall deaths of school age kids from all causes.
Parents are being given the impossible decision here on what to do though. With millions of them out of work. Millions more struggling financially to keep working. The government turning their backs on them at the most devastating time, threatening to obliterate their UEI.
How many parents are in the hospitality field in FL that are furloughed? And now they have to make a decision on whether to send their kids to school and risk death for the child or themselves due to exposure, or figure a way out financially to keep the kids at home and fulfill the schooling requirements?
It may not seem like a forced choice, but make no mistake, for millions and millions of families, this is exactly what it is.
You’ve chosen to refuse to answer the question. I get it. It is uncomfortable to quantify the number of dead children that are acceptable losses in exchange for Trump having a slightly improved shot at re-election.
No, the simple fact is that there is no magical or hard number. It is by definition an unknowable or intangible quantity.
We’re losing more kids in the streets every month right now than have died due to the virus since the outbreak began. That is a tangible number.
So you can put a hard number on things as to when they become unacceptable losses and require addressing. Weird.
There is no quantifiable number that is acceptable. Do we pick the same number that is acceptable for motor vehicle deaths of children? How about the same number a year that die of school shootings? We don’t shut down schools and force distanced learning for either one of those but year after year some parents are forced to take their kids to school knowing that over 12000 children a year die from automotive accidents.
The schools need to take every viable step possible to protect the students and then open schools, adjust what happen on the fly. If there is a huge spike in the student population or that it can shown that students are spreading Covid-19 to at risk people then we can go back to distanced learning.
When something is a known we can.
Is the goal to keep the virus as the center of fear and division till election day or reduce the number of overall deaths to kids?
Virtually every pediatric specialist in the country says kids are more at risk right now to other causes out of school than they will be to the virus by going back.
They don’t have to send their children to school. The students can distance learn. Education cannot shut down because of this, it would be too detrimental to society as a whole.
What’s your opinion on this, the 20,001 'Rona study to be catalogued into MIT?
The opening line.
The research does not prove that infected children are contagious,…
There is little to no evidence kids are contagious and a great deal to suggest they are not.
I think there is still quite a bit to be learned. In any case, it is my opinion that In-person schooling is going to be a debacle. It’s already starting to occur. Interesting that Barron Trump’s school will not be in-person until at least October.
I don’t find it interesting at all, being a private school they have tremendous liability particularly considering their clientele.
We’re more than six months into this outbreak and there’s still little to no evidence to suggest kids can be spreaders and a great deal showing they are not.
The decision was made by the county. Based on science.
There is no science supporting keeping the schools closed and a great deal suggesting kids are at much greater risk with them closed.
Like I said. It’s going to be a debacle.
I will go with what I said earlier. Each individual school district should make their own choice as they see prudent.
In my county in North Carolina (Surry) there are three school districts.
Mount Airy City Schools is reopening for in person or home schooling for all grades.
Elkin City Schools is only reopening in person schooling for pre-K through 3rd grade. 4th Grade and above will be home schooling only and younger kids may home school as well.
Surry County Schools is reopening for home schooling only.
One county, three school districts, three approaches.
Now, obviously, most of the urban school districts in the State, such as Charlotte-Mecklenburg, are reopening for home schooling only.
The decision should be up to each school district and the Federal Government and State Governments should butt out.
