they're on their own! And DAMMIT! - if their parents are brown they'll be in cages!!!!

And a lot of people like me are older adults who are going to night school looking to transfer to a 4 year university. So imagine the position we're in!

While figuring out what might be safe to do.

We can’t do it while it’s running amok like this, though.

isn't that what should have happened in January?

I'm wondering how the 140,000+ people who are no longer with us would think about that?

asswipe said it would be too expensive to . . . . ………

help sanitize the schools across the country. Think about that. Money is more important than our children, teachers and staff.

That situation is now. Trump is really crossing a line and putting people in serious danger. He cannot be trusted.

Probably the best overview I've read about schools that have opened and steps taken (or not).

everyone else. Maybe I missed it.

Its sad that we don't have serious leaders and these assholes want to play politics with children's lives. What is the protocol if a child tests positive?

This is what they say in regards to if a person is positive for Covid 19

Immediately notify local health officials. These officials will help administrators determine a course of action for their child care programs or schools.


You will likely dismiss students and most staff for 2-5 days. This initial short-term dismissal allows time for the local health officials to gain a better understanding of the COVID-19 situation impacting the school and for custodial staff to clean and disinfect the affected facilities.

But what about all the other children that may have been exposed? Try as you may to keep them apart, not to share things, you just never know. Teachers are not going to be able to watch 6 yr olds all the time to know that they were not appropriately distanced at all times. Do you quarantine the other kids in the classroom? Will parents be notified that a child in the classroom tested positive? I think I would want to know that.

If Republicans force schools to re-open everywhere (don't think they can, but if they could) in August and September, there's an increasing likelihood of a true "second wave" (as opposed to what we're seeing now) developing within a few weeks of children heading back to class. That means that a new tsunami of cases and deaths, one which will be hitting predominantly families of school-age children, will be the story for the final month or so of the election campaign - not to mention Trump's role in forcing this to happen.

Something tells me the Trump and the Republicans didn't think this through carefully.

They never think things through, which is why we got so fucked by this virus.

The kids pass the disease to their parents and grandparents and the economy crashes beyond recognition. In addition, that is, to overwhelming the healthcare, food and financial systems and God only knows what else. And how many deaths will result? Putin's puppet may kill America as a going proposition

What's WRONG with this picture?

It wasn't like that while many of us were growing up and getting our degrees. Yep I'm a boomer, matriculated from 1969 to 1973. Then went back from '75 to '78.

Why are universities so driven for that sports income - to the point that they're making very bad decisions for everyone involved? I'm thinking it's time to re-examine the educational priorities in this country. College sports (and TV money) should not be a factor in managing our higher education system. I'm sure that's all Chump cares about, but he'll be gone in a few months.

We are all on our own. Our government has opted out.

is horseshit, too. Normal temp doesn't mean you are not infected.

concerned, health-wise. I teach in a Title 1 High School, half our kids do not own a computer, many do not have internet or it has been cut off for non-payment. Our System just changed Learning Platform to Canvas with no training for the faculty (I'm a dinosaur and not good tech wise so it's really challenging for me)....Anyway, new platform, no local training, just watch these videos, and send in your email questions for tech help/support.....Half our kids completed the second semester of Distance Learning by using their phones this past spring....And it looks like our school will be used by 6-9th graders (more room available that in the middle schools for social distancing....10-12 will be doing online education....at least that's the proposal for now. And trumpster/devos demand we open our schools.....

And we’re at the point that about 1% of our population has tested positive. The hospitals in some southern major cities are already reaching capacity.

We’ve got a long and painful way to go