Re-opening Schools in the era of COVID

gwb-trading said:
Were private schools in the Tampa area picking up 7000 students & holding on-premise classes, or did parents just home-school these kids?
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The county is doing their best to try to figure out where these 7000~ kids went. They do not have the breakdown.

If I had to guess, I'd say some went private, some went to home school (Florida has a big home school push) and the preponderance went virtual.
 
Tsing Tao said:
The county is doing their best to try to figure out where these 7000~ kids went. They do not have the breakdown.

If I had to guess, I'd say some went private, some went to home school (Florida has a big home school push) and the preponderance went virtual.
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Similar to some of our large school systems such as Wake County in North Carolina.

Private schools only have a limited number of seats and cannot add capacity quickly (build new buildings) so they do not have the capacity to support the intake of thousands of students. A good number of parents switched their children from public school to private school since the private schools were starting with classes on premise with 100% capacity rather than virtual.

It only took a few weeks for just about all of these private schools to be overrun with COVID and have to close and go virtual -- including the school visited by Pence and DeVos. At this point the parents were stuck -- they did not want to pay the high private school fees for virtual classes but cannot switch back to public schools in N.C. until August of 2021 once they had given up their seat for the year.

A larger number of parents in N.C. took to homeschooling their children as an option to public schools this year. Sometimes several families gathered in a homeschooling "pod" where the children attended at one house where someone had teaching experience.

The public school enrollment dropped in all the major N.C. counties this school year. The numbers are not exact yet since the official count is arrived at only when the children are back in school on-premise for 10 school days -- which is also the count which sets ("finalizes") the state funding of a school system for a year which currently is in flux & not finalized.
 
gwb-trading said:
Similar to some of our large school systems such as Wake County in North Carolina.

Private schools only have a limited number of seats and cannot add capacity quickly (build new buildings) so they do not have the capacity to support the intake of thousands of students. A good number of parents switched their children from public school to private school since the private schools were starting with classes on premise with 100% capacity rather than virtual.

It only took a few weeks for just about all of these private schools to be overrun with COVID and have to close and go virtual -- including the school visited by Pence and DeVos. At this point the parents were stuck -- they did not want to pay the high private school fees for virtual classes but cannot switch back to public schools in N.C. until August of 2021 once they had given up their seat for the year.

A larger number of parents in N.C. took to homeschooling their children as an option to public schools this year. Sometimes several families gathered in a homeschooling "pod" where the children attended at one house where someone had teaching experience.

The public school enrollment dropped in all the major N.C. counties this school year. The numbers are not exact yet since the official count is arrived at only when the children are back in school on-premise for 10 school days -- which is also the count which sets ("finalizes") the state funding of a school system for a year which currently is in flux & not finalized.
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Very different here. Neither private nor public schools are closing.

Again, this evening I got a call from the school my son goes to. COVID positive. They said if I hadn't gotten a direct call, my child wasn't directly exposed, but they wanted to make sure everything was transparent. I'm sure parents appreciate that. I could care less as I know my son, myself and my wife aren't at any risk outside of the normal viruses we might catch this time of year.

This was the third such call, and I suspect there will be more. Yet life goes on, as it should.
 
Looks like the decision to open schools was a good one. CFR .000145

Anyone know what the Flu is in this demographic? :)

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Tsing Tao said:
Looks like the decision to open schools was a good one. CFR .000145

Anyone know what the Flu is in this demographic? :)

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So more then 1% of kids who got Covid actually spent time in hospital. I thought some of you were suggesting that number would be basically zero. Of course, I come from the perspective of never having been hospitalized in 56 years. That number is actually higher then I expected; the main point about kids was how easily they could catch the disease in schools and then spread it throughout the community.
 
Nine_Ender said:
So more then 1% of kids who got Covid actually spent time in hospital. I thought some of you were suggesting that number would be basically zero. Of course, I come from the perspective of never having been hospitalized in 56 years. That number is actually higher then I expected; the main point about kids was how easily they could catch the disease in schools and then spread it throughout the community.
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And how many kids are hospitalized by the flu each and every year? What about in bad flu years?

This is an honest question.
 
Nine_Ender said:
Canada's situation even on the worst days is significantly better then Florida has been for 4 months. It's a tribute to how well we flattened the curve all summer.
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This is not a correct statement, as the worst day is clearly over 3k in Canada (above chart) and Florida has been consistently below 3k a day for the last month.

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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/

Additionally, the curve does not appear flattened when the data for Canada in this second wave is considerably worse than the first wave. All that means is you locked down to stem the virus and once you opened, here came the virus right back.

Incidentally, I am not comparing the two places for response or "who wins". you've been doing that all along so I saw it fitting to show you its not all unicorns and rainbows north of the border like you make it out to be. Its hard to compare a country with 38mm people over almost 4 million square miles (sparse) that is federally mobilized to a state with 22mm people over 66 thousand square miles (not sparse).

Lets see what happens in a month. Two.
 
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