And explained by the data — the spread from children to adults is a significant problem. Leading to significant community spread.
Re-opening Schools in the era of COVID
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And explained by the data — the spread from children to adults is a significant problem. Leading to significant community spread.
"If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not very big at all."
Dr. Fauci
You’re in rare form this morning? Turn off the coffee pot.
As an opening note I will mention that Wake County Schools, our largest school system in North Carolina with 160,000 students, is going remote in the new year. The problem is staffing shortage; they have so many staff members out with COVID that they cannot find replacement subs for the classes. Most subs are unwilling to step into a school with COVID being pervasive. Most of the classes needing a sub currently are using an "internal sub" -- meaning a Teaching Assistant is moved to teach the class as a teacher which is not an optimal situation.
Wake Board of Education to vote Tuesday on return of all students to remote learning
https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/wa...-of-all-students-to-remote-learning/19424196/
Wake Board of Education to vote Tuesday on return of all students to remote learning
https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/wa...-of-all-students-to-remote-learning/19424196/
See, this is something you should have been arguing all along. I can't find fault with this as an effect of COVID. IF there isn't enough staffing, schools don't really have much of a choice.
But closing schools to protect students is pretty freaking dumb.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. And I don't drink coffee
Lol, you were attacking the boards with a fury earlier. Thought you might of had too many cups..... light hearted humor.
Excellent article from the NYT saying things some of us have been saying all along. But it's true now because Biden.
Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen
(The Narratives, they are a-changin'...NYT style)
Firmly linking teen suicides to school closings is difficult, but rising mental health emergencies and suicide rates point to the toll the pandemic lockdown is taking.
The reminders of pandemic-driven suffering among students in Clark County, Nev., have come in droves.
Since schools shut their doors in March, an early-warning system that monitors students’ mental health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, raising alarms about suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm or cries for care. By December, 18 students had taken their own lives.
The spate of student suicides in and around Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County district, the nation’s fifth largest, toward bringing students back as quickly as possible. This month, the school board gave the green light to phase in the return of some elementary school grades and groups of struggling students even as greater Las Vegas continues to post huge numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths.
Superintendents across the nation are weighing the benefit of in-person education against the cost of public health, watching teachers and staff become sick and, in some cases, die, but also seeing the psychological and academic toll that school closings are having on children nearly a year in. The risk of student suicides has quietly stirred many district leaders, leading some, like the state superintendent in Arizona, to cite that fear in public pleas to help mitigate the virus’s spread.
In Clark County, it forced the superintendent’s hand.
“When we started to see the uptick in children taking their lives, we knew it wasn’t just the Covid numbers we need to look at anymore,” said Jesus Jara, the Clark County superintendent. “We have to find a way to put our hands on our kids, to see them, to look at them. They’ve got to start seeing some movement, some hope.”
(More after the jump)
Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen
(The Narratives, they are a-changin'...NYT style)
Firmly linking teen suicides to school closings is difficult, but rising mental health emergencies and suicide rates point to the toll the pandemic lockdown is taking.
The reminders of pandemic-driven suffering among students in Clark County, Nev., have come in droves.
Since schools shut their doors in March, an early-warning system that monitors students’ mental health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, raising alarms about suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm or cries for care. By December, 18 students had taken their own lives.
The spate of student suicides in and around Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County district, the nation’s fifth largest, toward bringing students back as quickly as possible. This month, the school board gave the green light to phase in the return of some elementary school grades and groups of struggling students even as greater Las Vegas continues to post huge numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths.
Superintendents across the nation are weighing the benefit of in-person education against the cost of public health, watching teachers and staff become sick and, in some cases, die, but also seeing the psychological and academic toll that school closings are having on children nearly a year in. The risk of student suicides has quietly stirred many district leaders, leading some, like the state superintendent in Arizona, to cite that fear in public pleas to help mitigate the virus’s spread.
In Clark County, it forced the superintendent’s hand.
“When we started to see the uptick in children taking their lives, we knew it wasn’t just the Covid numbers we need to look at anymore,” said Jesus Jara, the Clark County superintendent. “We have to find a way to put our hands on our kids, to see them, to look at them. They’ve got to start seeing some movement, some hope.”
(More after the jump)