Most schools plan to partially reopen in the fall, what will happen next?

[BADecker]

Statistics show that about 87% of Coronavirus deaths are among those over 65. Kids of school age (under 20) have almost no deaths at all. Kids 0 to 1 year have had a decrease in deaths.

[TitanGEL]

Statistics show that about 87% of Coronavirus deaths are among those over 65. Kids of school age (under 20) have almost no deaths at all. Kids 0 to 1 year have had a decrease in deaths.

It is because of the immune system but are you sure that the covid deaths related in teenager and kids will not change if there is no academic freeze? The physical class should not be reopen because there is still threat because of the covid19. The good thing is our president says that there will be no physical class as long as there is still no vaccine that been invented. It is good to prevent which is not opem the schools than to regret later.

[GeorgeJohn]

I suggest that anything about academic career or calender should be suspended for now to avoid transmission of illnesse to another,know body knows who has be affected by difference virus couple with corona virus,even lecturer's can be the transmitter of the virus.
I just suggest that lectures should "kick off" through online and class room lectures should be suspended till proper eradication of corona virus and introduction of a specific vaccines for treatment of students and others are introduced to avoid increment of death again in society.

[squatz1]

Little update on this thread. Governor Cuomo of New York has announced that all regions in the state can open for in person classes if they want to, most districts though are going to open within some sort of hybrid schedule. Meaning that superintendents and school boards throughout the state are going to make the call on what plan they want to go forward with. They can pick fully remote, hybrid, or fully in person.

New Jersey didn't give the option to their superintendents to go fully remote if they wanted to - but after some arguments with teachers, superintendents, and principles unions they've reversed that decision. Article here -
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/511664-nj-governor-reverses-course-will-allow-schools-to-open-all-remote

Nothing crazy new.

[akram143]

In my country, schools and colleges has no chance to reopen at the end of December so this is like one year summer vacation for the whole academic activities.But I am worried about how people will adapt to the new normal things, is online class going to e part of future study oth they get back into old traditional schooling methods.

[squatz1]

Little update on this thread:

Many schools are still planning a reopening -- though a reopening is going to look a LOT different then it did last year -- there is going to mask mandates, only allowing take out food on campus, no visitors from outside of the campus (and sometimes even outside of your building), mostly online classes, and so on and so forth.

A few big name schools have come out and said that they're going to be closing down their campus. UNC, and Michigan State University have both announced that they're going to be fully online and Notre Dame has said that they're suspending in person classes for 3 weeks. One notable school I saw recentley was Ithaca College out of NY (a small school) has gone fully online due to them thinking that they're going to be sending kids back soon.

I think all of this is just going to end with colleges and schools closing up again for the semester / half year.

[Spendulus]

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I think all of this is just going to end with colleges and schools closing up again for the semester / half year.

Since the covid didn't stop with the heat of summer, there is little reason to expect a winter resurge. (eg it's physically resistant to the temperature sensitivity shown by virus that emerges in the winter "flu season."

[suchmoon]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/unc-chapel-hill-move-undergraduate-classes-fully-remote/story?id=72426531
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michigan-state-university-suspends-in-person-classes-after-outbreaks-on-campuses/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/8-days-semester-notre-dame-halts-person-classes-146-students-n1237195

If only someone could have predicted that. But who cares, let's test it live on students, that's what they pay us for. Actually, let's not test the students, just let them mingle and see what happens.

Someone gets sick. The school gets closed, everybody gets sent home, the rest of semester is completed online.

Lawsuits in 3, 2, 1...

[squatz1]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/unc-chapel-hill-move-undergraduate-classes-fully-remote/story?id=72426531
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michigan-state-university-suspends-in-person-classes-after-outbreaks-on-campuses/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/8-days-semester-notre-dame-halts-person-classes-146-students-n1237195

If only someone could have predicted that. But who cares, let's test it live on students, that's what they pay us for. Actually, let's not test the students, just let them mingle and see what happens.

Someone gets sick. The school gets closed, everybody gets sent home, the rest of semester is completed online.

Lawsuits in 3, 2, 1...

.... Such horrible plans that are being repeated all across the US right now by many schools. They've literally just started a ticking time bomb when they've brought students back and the're praying that it doesn't blow up. Hey shit head, YOU LIT THE BOMB, IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE SOON.

I support schools that are really trying to reopen and are taking all of the protective meausres. I also support schools that are coming out and saying, it's just not worth it for the students to come in and then most likely leave at some point -- so we're just staying online for x amount of time. I don't support using kids, teachers, parents, and so on as guinea pigs.

[Vilagra]

There will be another wave of Covid-19 for sure

I don't understand why they speak about waves. Did the virus stop spreading since the lock down? No, acc to the statistics in my country, it's like the second wave is now!
The second wae is the political concept, not medicine-based.

[squatz1]

Been keeping an eye on schools in NY, because they seemed like the only area in the US where a partially successful reopen would be able to be achieved.

Though it seems like certain groups (teachers unions) aren't onboard with the way NYC school district is planning to reopen, and has pretty much forced the mayors office to push the opening back another two weeks. I think what they're doing is fair, given the fact that MAYOR DEBLASIOS plan was horrible and that's to be expected with the way he operates. For reference, NYC Schools were supposed to start on the 12th and they've been pushed back to opening on the 24th? (approximate dates, not fully sure)

Outside of K12 though, it seems like most colleges in NY are doing a good job (minus SUNY ONEOTNA) at testing students and trying to enforce the precautions that they've set forth.

For anyone that hasn't already heard, SUNY ONEONTA is a state school in NY and just today announced that they're shutting down because they have too many cases. Pretty sure they have like 350 cases already, which is partially from the school not testing people before moving in. We'll see if this trend continues in the state and in other states schools that reopening now. Crazy shit to say the least.


https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/09/suny-oneonta-reports-nearly-400-coronavirus-cases.html

https://twitter.com/WNYT/status/1301577594542882822?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[Spendulus]

There will be another wave of Covid-19 for sure

I don't understand why they speak about waves. Did the virus stop spreading since the lock down? No, acc to the statistics in my country, it's like the second wave is now!
The second wae is the political concept, not medicine-based.

The first wave did not stop, which indicates a different skin on this virus than expected. It survived and continued thriving into the summer.

The 'second wave' concept presumed the virus would fade as summer came, and then reappear with the winter flu season.

[Salauddin1994]

No decision has been taken yet to open school colleges in our country everything is closed and students continue to study through online classes. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post the second wave will be more terrible in case of a slight decrease in the heat but may increase further in the winter. Schools and colleges are closed for the health and safety of the students and if necessary auto-pass arrangements will be made if they are not under control.

[aiguy]

There are making a plan to reopen school, colleges and universities but in a very different way like each section dividing into two-part, one part for one day and second for other days. Through this way, in week there will be 2 or 3 class for each section.