Please chime in here about your schools covid reports.

[bluestarone]

Here in North Dakota it's a complete mystery as to how many students are positive or what they are doing about it if anything!! Also seems like the local news sources are NOT alt all interested as to reporting anything pertaining to the school positive cases! grr: : If i were a parent of students in school i would be ENRAGED!! What the hell is going on?

[NightWatcher]

1. My county Duval (Jax FL) has a dashboard that reports staff and students.

It also shows what schools the cases came from. Half the kids have stayed home to this point, but High school and Middle will be starting to come back full time in the next few weeks.

My kid's elementary school feels pretty safe right now. We are tight with the principal and they've told us that when the first case hits, they'll reassess.

I am cautiously optimistic that maybe my kid can go until the end of the year or at least November. Once Nov hits, all bets are off. Holidays, and travel will make things a lot more complex, I'm guessing.

[bluestarone]

4. TY! Sounds pretty good for you.

I hear things through the grapevine here but i know of NO WAY to check things out! We get our total new numbers every day BUT not anything about school numbers!

[Gothmog]

2. The elementary school that my kids attended is one of the school with COVID

Link to tweet

[bluestarone]

5. TY just curious what do they do if positive?

Are the classes closed down and quarantine?

[LakeArenal]

3. UW Madison closing dorms and closing fraternities.

[bluestarone]

6. Good they are closing them down!

[LakeArenal]

7. Little too late. Covid closed them. Not precaution.

[bluestarone]

9. Yea i hear ya!

So SAD! I really worry about the younger kids in school!

[genxlib]

12. Source?

I don't think this is what is happening. According to the website, they have shifted to all online classes for 2 weeks but all the students are still on campus. they have isolated two dorms but the students are still in them

https://news.wisc.edu/university-shifts-to-two-weeks-remote-instruction/

Specifically it says

Students are NOT being asked to move out of the residence halls or leave town. We have significant additional quarantine space available if necessary.

[onecaliberal]

8. We're distance learning in K-12. Thanks to the governor, the crazy here would be sending kids in

Person. We’re still purple which is the worst bracket in California. You have to be in the red bracket for 3 weeks to open school. Considering flu season is coming. I dint see school opening here this year.
The UC System announced a few days ago they’ll be online through the Spring Semester.

[bluestarone]

10. I really wish all schools were distance learning.

In EVERY state!

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Mixed Bag In Illinois

Smaller districts in which I sub have parental opt out. Across districts, it's a pretty consistent 22-25% opting for stay at home learning. The other 75-78% are attending, but some are doing hybrids of A/B days, or 4 hours there, 2 hours from home.
The 3 big districts where I sub all decided the requirements for tracing & isolation were not possible to do properly, so they went 100% on-line.
I track cases by zip code in those districts, on the IDPH website. In only one of those districts is the case rate per capita increasing by a statistically significantly greater degree than the districts 100% online. And it was barely significant.
I was not expecting to find that, but I did.

[onecaliberal]

19. If we had a real president with a real national response we could

maybe all be back to school in person by now because we would have actually done something besides watch a fucking murderous clown get on tv and lie while 200,000 people die.

I know how horrendous 9/11 was but in the face of the number of people killed by trumps criminal negligence I don’t understand why we have allowed republicans to do all of this and get away with it. Sorry to go so far off the rail, but I’m so fucking over all of this stupid bullshit and the deaths.

On edit: the fastest growing rate of infected is children.

[Stallion]

11. I Believe the New York Times is Tracking Covid at All Universities

[bluestarone]

13. That's good

I'm more concerned really about the grade school students. Also why the local news media are NOT concerned enough to request more information regarding grade schools positive numbers?

[genxlib]

14. Your post is not specific to K-12 or college

But I will speak to college. My daughter's school has been very forthright and publishes a dashboard that gets updated every few days

https://safeandhealthy.osu.edu/dashboard

I have taken some grief around here as one of those parents that has sent my kid off to college. I feel like my daughter's school is taking it very seriously and has some very good protocols in place. Of course that relies on compliance by a notoriously unreliable cohort of young adults. But they have cracked down and expelled a bunch of people for not abiding by the rules. While they do have some spread going on on campus, they are starting to bring the numbers down after an initial flair up. I don't know whether they will be able to finish the semester but I am satisfied with my decision to have her there.

For me, I think the difference between college and K12 is enormous for a number of reasons. While college kids are unreliable in many ways, at least they are of an age where you can place expectations on them and have consequences. I don't know how you do that with younger children.

The major difference for me is financial consideration. There is much cynicism about the colleges using financial considerations above health and safety to decide on the style of teaching. I don't think this is entirely fair. The financial considerations are certainly a factor but it is providing incentive to invest in ways to make it work. Ohio State has cut their dormitory capacity to a fraction of typical capacity and has even hired hotels to assist in quarantine/isolation. They tested every person coming to campus and continue to test them twice a week. They are spending money to fulfill their mission. It may not work but I am grateful that my daughter has the opportunity to participate.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I am concerned about K12 because I don't see anyone making the significant investments it would take to make it work. Are any of them doing screening tests? Are any of them expanding class capacity in classes that were already overcrowded? Is anyone hiring extra teachers to thin class size?

I think your initial question is important (ie transparency of test results) but I think it matters a great deal who they are testing. The colleges are getting grief but they are finding people that are asymptomatic because they are doing thorough testing of everyone constantly. If the K12s are only testing people with symptoms, then no amount of transparency will actually help us know the degree of the problem they have. They could have dozens of cases of asymptomatic spreaders for every one case that sickens and tests.

I know I might be an outlier here.

[dsc]

16. I work at a school in a district which has gone back in a hybrid model

which was as open as we were permitted under our state's rules. So far several of our schools have had Covid cases, but ours hasn't. We aren't notified as to numbers. We are doing cleaning, my class sizes are low due to using cohorts and many virtual. About 50/50 in terms of in person vs virtual and the in person are divided into three groups. We just finished our first week of hybrid. I feel safe from Covid but the work load is high.

[Cal Carpenter]

17. University of Michigan is FUCKED UP and there are 3 labor groups on strike in protest

They're barely testing, they're not being transparent, they're not following their own so-called safe re-opening plans.

The Grad Employees union is on strike.

The Resident Assistants are on strike.

Dining Hall workers are doing a work stoppage. They aren't even being provided with free testing.

More than 500 faculty have signed a letter supporting the GEO strike, and apparently the faculty senate is considering a "no confidence" vote against the administration.
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/09/university-of-michigan-graduate-students-residential-staff-march-in-solidarity-with-dining-workers.html

The Board of Regents is under immense pressure.

They should have told students to stay home but it's all about $$$$.

For such an esteemed university filled with such brilliant minds (the president of the U is an epidemiologist for fucks sake) they have really shit the bed on this one.

And now the rest of us who just need to live and work in this community are at higher risk.

Hubby overheard the following yesterday, between 2 young men, no masks, standing at most 2 feet apart:
Dude 1: Heard you had a COVID scare
Dude 2: Yeah, my roommate

Then why the fuck are you out in public? Why aren't you quarantined?

WHAT THE FUCK?!!


As for our public school systems, the state is NOT being transparent - they'll announce the number of outbreaks but won't say WHERE they are (although some school systems are being more transparent of their own accord). What the fuck is this? And Michigan is considered by most to be doing a good job with the pandemic. I beg to fucking differ.

/rant

Sorry, I'm losing it over here, lol...

[DFW]

18. I haven't heard a peep from any of them

I went to high school in three places, have heard nothing from any of them. Two--Washington, DC and Andover, MA--, I don't really care anyway, as I was not happy at either one, and Spain hasn't been in touch, yet. I haven't been back down there yet since I got back to Europe in August. I was down in Paris Thursday, and the place, while not completely deserted, was scarily empty.

I went to college in Philadelphia, and I haven't really gotten any details from there, either.

But--I am in-between generations, so to speak. My brother's children, as well as ours are now all out of college, and the grandchildren here in Germany are too young (3 months and 2 years) to be in school.