Posted on Dec 7, 2020
Everyone Wants Public Schools to Reopen, except the People Who Run Them | National Review
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I'm sure the majority of parents agree. And as the article mentions, the poor are being harmed the most.
Everyone Wants Public Schools to Reopen, except the People Who Run Them | National Review
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Saw an article that alluded to an entire "generation" of challenged students. Due to access to tech. Really? One mentions re-norming GPAs. Our parents cut wood and did chores, then walked 3 miles to school through snow, uphill both ways. They survived.
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Teachers and staff have also died since reopening due to the ongoing pandemic and lack of support for safety precautions
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/education/tulsa-public-schools-confirms-deaths-of-two-employees-who-tested-positive-for-covid-19/article_f397a188-3663-11eb-8960-1b1e8fc299af.html
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/education/tulsa-public-schools-confirms-deaths-of-two-employees-who-tested-positive-for-covid-19/article_f397a188-3663-11eb-8960-1b1e8fc299af.html
Tulsa Public Schools confirms deaths of two employees who tested positive for COVID-19
The district emphasized that it does not yet have official confirmation on the cause of death for either team member: a support professional and a bus driver. COVID-19: Record 482
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Col Joseph Lenertz
Yes, unfortunately, people from every career field have died. Firemen, hairdressers, waiters, police, truck drivers, and back-hoe operators all have died from COVID. Individual cases are tragic, and sadden us all. But that does not mean it is sound policy to keep all schools closed, or that there is no way to make in-person school attendance reasonably safe.
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SSG Robert Webster
LTC Eugene Chu And your point would be? The article that you linked is not relevant to your statement about lack of support for safety precautions, in the one case exactly the opposite, where they did a full contact tracing.
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Where I live, it's the exact opposite. The administrators want to keep them open, but the community wants them shut down. The only reason they did eventually shut down was because of too many teachers catching Covid, and then running out of backup teachers, substitutes, and volunteers.
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Col Joseph Lenertz
I live in Virginia, so the article resonates with me and is accurate here. What state do you live in, where the teacher's union wants them to open?
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Col Joseph Lenertz
LTC Kevin B. - Thanks! Looks like Pennsylvania is in relatively good condition for reopening schools, but the PA Association of School Administrators is worried they are being set up for failure upon reopening. It does not appear that school administrators are fighting to keep them open, at least at the state-wide school administrator level. https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-pennsylvania-schools-reopen-dirocco-20200808-umxnbmozyndqnkp3btn6k5p7gu-story.html
https://www.pennlive.com/reopeningpa/2020/09/pa-one-of-the-safest-states-for-schools-to-reopen-study-says.html
There also seems to be no indication that the majority of parents want their kids to stay at home.
https://www.pennlive.com/reopeningpa/2020/09/pa-one-of-the-safest-states-for-schools-to-reopen-study-says.html
There also seems to be no indication that the majority of parents want their kids to stay at home.
Your View by PA Association of School Administrators: How schools are set up for reopening...
Op-ed: School leaders question why decisions about public health have been placed in the hands of educators.
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LTC Kevin B.
Col Joseph Lenertz - I don't try to speak for all of PA. I only speak for our community and what we're experiencing with our schools. Maybe we're an outlier, but then again, maybe we're representative of many other communities.
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