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Posted by: Zyngaru
« on: August 07, 2020, 03:12:09 pm »

As of right now.  School starts here on Monday.  They delayed it a week to get things set.

The classes are half size.  That way desks can be spread out.  Bag breakfast and lunches.  Breakfast and Lunch are eaten in the classroom, so no using the cafeteria.  Each child is escorted into the school one at a time and taken to their classroom.  They have to wear masks.  They have to have two extra masks at school.  No using the water fountains.  Each child is to bring a personal water bottle for using when thirsty.  A drink bottle for eating lunch. 

I'm sure there are many other rules also, that's just the ones I know of.
Posted by: afinch
« on: August 06, 2020, 07:36:46 pm »

Yes, I totally understand that.   I also understand better than most people, I think, that children as well as their adult caretakers--parents, grandparents, and teachers--will die as a result of desperation and denial.   And those denying and demanding the loudest will be the very first to seek out a class action attorney when this goes horribly wrong, as we are already seeing happen.
Posted by: Kat
« on: August 06, 2020, 04:19:26 pm »

Quote from: Jack on August 03, 2020, 08:09:38 am
Of course, I'm sure you understand the political pressure from the science-deniers who just want schools to be day care so parents can get back to work.

Jack's point is valid. One can understand the desperation of parents, but we're seeing science denial from politicians as a justification to open schools. For instance, yesterday, Facebook removed a Trump post for the first time. The reason? He falsely claimed that children are immune to covid-19.

Kat
Posted by: afinch
« on: August 04, 2020, 05:37:35 pm »

Years ago, I was working in the ER.  A notoriously bad and stupid EMT brought in a patient who'd been in a motorcycle accident.  The patient had an open fracture of his elbow.  He had not had his neck immobilized at the scene, but said EMT had applied a tourniquet for the open fracture--which wasn't indicated, and which was inappropriately applied, since the patient had a pulse in his wrist.

I politely asked her about it (which was difficult, because I just wanted to scream).  "I was just trying to save his arm".  "Fat lot of good that'll do him if he's paralyzed from a broken neck".  She complained to her supervisors, and I got written up for "being mean" to the clueless moron.  BTW, she became a paramedic after being fired from the police department--after cuffing her partner instead of the burglar he'd tackled, as said burglar ran away laughing....

"You don't need to be a science denier to find it a serious logistical difficulty if you need to go to work and you have no one to leave the kids with..." reminds me of that argument.  And 45's reaction to Fauci and Birx remind me of administration's response to me.

https://99promocode.com/products/rugrats-chuckie-were-doomed-t-shirt    We were then.  It's only gotten worse.
Posted by: Jack
« on: August 04, 2020, 05:03:53 pm »

Quote from: db105 on August 03, 2020, 04:56:29 pm
Well, to be fair, you don't need to be a science denier to find it a serious logistical difficulty if you need to go to work and you have no one to leave the kids with...

True.  However, it's not the science supporters who rushed the country into reopening while we were still in the midst of the first wave of the virus,and now are setting new records for hospitalizations and deaths as we head towards 200,000 deaths without having achieved the goal of the lockdown in the first place.  But, if there were any questions, we already have some schools opening and some summer camps, where we've already seen mass infection and how bad it can spread.
Posted by: db105
« on: August 03, 2020, 04:56:29 pm »

Well, to be fair, you don't need to be a science denier to find it a serious logistical difficulty if you need to go to work and you have no one to leave the kids with...
Posted by: kalico
« on: August 03, 2020, 04:52:17 pm »

Our s hook are looking into the same as your and I'm ok with that for now. Good luck to you grads and the job search



Hugs kal
Posted by: Jack
« on: August 03, 2020, 08:09:38 am »

And Zyngaru's comment is pretty much why I delayed responding to this.

All my college boys will be going back, though that is a greatly reduced number after the mass graduations of last spring.  They are all following similar programs with more classes spread over more time and almost all classes will be 'hybrid' meaning a lot of the material like lectures will no be available online.

BISD and BCA have currently delayed school openings until after Labor Day.

Social distancing is simply not possible, because the schools aren't built with that kind of space in mind.  The best answer I've seen is running school four days a week, but with half the students being Monday/Wednesday and half being Tuesday/Thursday, using Friday as an 'office day' for students who need help, and keeping half the students home on any given day.  Of course, I'm sure you understand the political pressure from the science-deniers who just want schools to be day care so parents can get back to work.

At this point, I personally need to not be home schooling, but I will if the return to school doesn't look safe to me. 

And since I'm updating; I'll say that my adult kids who just graduated are currently living in some of my apartment buildings.  They are looking for jobs, but some fields are more responsive than others right now, so they're all working for me - I have enough going on to keep them busy and justify paying them enough to live on at least.
Posted by: Zyngaru
« on: July 31, 2020, 07:29:46 pm »

I don't know about Bransom, but here, things change every other day, so there really isn't a final decision on anything yet.
Posted by: David M. Katz
« on: July 30, 2020, 02:45:05 pm »

Have BCS, BSSD, and the various colleges your gang attends made any sort of plans about opening for the 2020-21 school year?  I know this will impact many of your boys as well as you.  Is doing it all on-line an option? If BCA opens will you still agree to be present in person?

These are indeed trying and confusing times.