Re-opening Schools in the era of COVID

Chicago public school are closed. These schools are 11% white
Private/religious schools are open. These schools are 11% black

The word of 2021 is Equity
Equity will have to begun in the classroom

This is the unions , the President, Democrats not allowing Equity to proceed
it is destroying minority communities, just like defunding the police has(money and policy)

This is why Democrat principles are the problem
 
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Tsing Tao said:
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Welcome to COVID Central High...

All four Okaloosa County high schools rank among state's top 6 highest for COVID-19
https://www.nwfdailynews.com/story/...-schools-state-top-10-covid-cases/4141542001/

Fort Walton Beach High School still tops the state in the number of COVID-19 cases among students and staff, but now Niceville High School and Crestview High School have joined it in the top five for all Florida schools.
 
Gov. Newsom says schools may not reopen if COVID-19 vaccination for all teachers, staff required
https://abc7.com/education/newsom-v...-staff-could-halt-reopening-schools/10130861/

Gov. Gavin Newsom says if vaccines for all teachers and staff are a condition for reopening schools then schools might not reopen at all this academic year.

According to Politico, the governor said on Thursday "If everybody has to be vaccinated, we might as well just tell people the truth, there will be no in-person instruction in the state of California."

The governor wants students in transitional kindergarten through second grade to return to campus in a couple weeks and some schools are on schedule to go back then.

But there has been major pushback from some districts and teachers unions.

Newsom has prioritized teachers in his vaccination rollout, but because of supply and distribution issues, teachers below the age of 65 haven't had the opportunity to get the vaccine. Vaccinations are a demand made by the California Teachers Association for teachers to return to the classroom this school year.

"I want to put Gov. Newsom on the spot and I also want to put our county officials on the spot as well. Make it safe," said Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing LAUSD teachers.

LAUSD school board member Nick Melvoin says LAUSD is not a public health department, so it's not the district's decision when to reopen, even though the numbers are headed in the right direction.

"It's incredibly frustrating. When the county has guidance that says schools can bring back up to 25% of high-need students, but the public health director is saying publicly as recently as early last week, 'I don't think any students should be back on campus,' parents are asking what is it?" Melvoin said.

Another issue frustrating UTLA and LAUSD is California and L.A. County's decision to reopen businesses, but not schools.

"We are yet again reopening restaurants, gyms, card rooms - whatever those are - before schools, when we know that has prevented places like L.A. from turning the corner," Melvoin said. "It's really ludicrous."

But some school districts like Newhall Unified in the Santa Clarita Valley have obtained a waiver and plan to reopen four grades of elementary school students for in-person instruction on Feb. 8.

If the Newhall plan of operating transitional kindergarten through second grade works, they hope to open school for third through sixth grades this year.
 
gwb-trading said:
Gov. Newsom says schools may not reopen if COVID-19 vaccination for all teachers, staff required
https://abc7.com/education/newsom-v...-staff-could-halt-reopening-schools/10130861/

Gov. Gavin Newsom says if vaccines for all teachers and staff are a condition for reopening schools then schools might not reopen at all this academic year.

According to Politico, the governor said on Thursday "If everybody has to be vaccinated, we might as well just tell people the truth, there will be no in-person instruction in the state of California."

The governor wants students in transitional kindergarten through second grade to return to campus in a couple weeks and some schools are on schedule to go back then.

But there has been major pushback from some districts and teachers unions.

Newsom has prioritized teachers in his vaccination rollout, but because of supply and distribution issues, teachers below the age of 65 haven't had the opportunity to get the vaccine. Vaccinations are a demand made by the California Teachers Association for teachers to return to the classroom this school year.

"I want to put Gov. Newsom on the spot and I also want to put our county officials on the spot as well. Make it safe," said Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing LAUSD teachers.

LAUSD school board member Nick Melvoin says LAUSD is not a public health department, so it's not the district's decision when to reopen, even though the numbers are headed in the right direction.

"It's incredibly frustrating. When the county has guidance that says schools can bring back up to 25% of high-need students, but the public health director is saying publicly as recently as early last week, 'I don't think any students should be back on campus,' parents are asking what is it?" Melvoin said.

Another issue frustrating UTLA and LAUSD is California and L.A. County's decision to reopen businesses, but not schools.

"We are yet again reopening restaurants, gyms, card rooms - whatever those are - before schools, when we know that has prevented places like L.A. from turning the corner," Melvoin said. "It's really ludicrous."

But some school districts like Newhall Unified in the Santa Clarita Valley have obtained a waiver and plan to reopen four grades of elementary school students for in-person instruction on Feb. 8.

If the Newhall plan of operating transitional kindergarten through second grade works, they hope to open school for third through sixth grades this year.
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StolenValor, why dont you believe in science?
 
gwb-trading said:
As a starting point let's see what the CDC says...

Full Reopening of Schools Would Be ‘Highest Risk’ For Spreading Coronavirus
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/r...ld-be-highest-risk-for-spreading-coronavirus/

As President Donald Trump aims to have students back in school by Fall, internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) documents warn that fully reopening schools would be “highest risk” for spreading the coronavirus, according to the New York Times.

The 69-page report labeled “For Internal Use Only” was compiled to assist federal public health response teams in dealing with coronavirus hot spots. The document includes reopening plans and proposals in line with CDC guidelines, for state and district schools along with universities.

Most of the document is made up of already publicly available CDC documents, according to the Times. Schools and universities are set to reopen in approximately another month, with some announcing all class instruction with be done online.

Vice President Mike Pence announced during a White House briefing on Wednesday that the CDC would release their guidelines for reopening schools next week adding, “we just don’t want the guidance to be too tough,” according to CNN.

Trump voiced his own criticisms of the agency on Wednesday in a tweet, “I disagree with @CDCgov on their very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools. While they want them open, they are asking schools to do very impractical things. I will be meeting with them!!!

“I can tell you that those guidance that we put out are out, and they stand,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told CNN host Anderson Cooper. “But at the end of the day, these guidances are just that — they’re guidances, which the local schools and districts need to then incorporate into a practical, real plan that they can operationalize to begin to get these young people back to school safely.”

It has not been confirmed if the president has been briefed on the CDC’s report.
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The before Biden was President above and the after Biden became President below.

According to this study, the exact opposite of the above article is true.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/c...-spread-of-coronavirus-in-schools/ar-BB1d7hsi

CDC finds scant spread of coronavirus in schools with precautions in place

Schools operating in person have seen scant transmission of the coronavirus, particularly when masks and distancing are employed, but some indoor athletics have led to infections and should be curtailed if schools want to operate safely, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded in papers published Tuesday.

The CDC team reviewed data from studies in the United States and abroad and found the experience in schools differed from nursing homes and high-density work sites where rapid spread has occurred.

“The preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring,” wrote three CDC researchers in a viewpoint piece published online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “There has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.”

The review, which echoes the conclusions of other researchers, comes as many school districts continue to wrestle with whether and how to reopen schools and as President Biden makes a return to in-person learning one of his top pandemic-related priorities.

A new CDC study, also published Tuesday, looked at 17 rural K-12 schools in Wisconsin and found just seven out of 191 coronavirus cases resulted from in-school transmission. Researchers noted that students and staff in these schools wore masks almost all the time.

“The conclusion here is with proper prevention efforts . . . we can keep transmission in schools and educational settings quite low,” said Margaret A. Honein, the lead author of the JAMA report. “We didn’t know that at the beginning of the year but the data has really accumulated.”
 
WeToddDid2 said:
The before Biden was President above and the after Biden became President below.\

Link to study.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/c...-spread-of-coronavirus-in-schools/ar-BB1d7hsi

CDC finds scant spread of coronavirus in schools with precautions in place

Schools operating in person have seen scant transmission of the coronavirus, particularly when masks and distancing are employed, but some indoor athletics have led to infections and should be curtailed if schools want to operate safely, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded in papers published Tuesday.

The CDC team reviewed data from studies in the United States and abroad and found the experience in schools differed from nursing homes and high-density work sites where rapid spread has occurred.

“The preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring,” wrote three CDC researchers in a viewpoint piece published online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “There has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.”

The review, which echoes the conclusions of other researchers, comes as many school districts continue to wrestle with whether and how to reopen schools and as President Biden makes a return to in-person learning one of his top pandemic-related priorities.

A new CDC study, also published Tuesday, looked at 17 rural K-12 schools in Wisconsin and found just seven out of 191 coronavirus cases resulted from in-school transmission. Researchers noted that students and staff in these schools wore masks almost all the time.

“The conclusion here is with proper prevention efforts . . . we can keep transmission in schools and educational settings quite low,” said Margaret A. Honein, the lead author of the JAMA report. “We didn’t know that at the beginning of the year but the data has really accumulated.”
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So one CDC study taking place at 17 rural schools in an area of Wisconsin that had low COVID prevalence at the time --- should somehow represent a meaningful sample.

Let's take a look at the the largest study of schools in the U.S. with statistics and data from more than 6000 school districts for the fall semester which came to the conclusion that schools should not be open.

Should Schools Stay Open? Not So Fast.
Data on coronavirus cases in U.S. schools suggests in-person classes contribute to the virus’ spread.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-...why-schools-might-not-be-safe-during-covid-19
 
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