As schools across the country grapple with bringing kids back into the classroom, parents — and teachers — are worried about safety. We asked pediatricians, infectious disease specialists and education experts for help evaluating school district plans.
If your family is relatively healthy, and local numbers look good, here's how to weigh the key elements of a school reopening plan.Look for: Limited capacity and physical distancing. Plus masks!Buses combine several risk factors for spread: Kids are in a closed space, for an extended period of time, often with poor ventilation.Dr. Tina Tan
Our experts agree: Plans should drive home the message that staff and kids must stay home if they have any"As a society we are going to have to learn that if we're sick, we stay home — always," says, an epidemiologist at Ohio State University. It's a big cultural shift, he says, because many of us are used to"powering through illness and sometimes we expect the same of our children.
The CDC currently does not recommend schools conduct widespread symptom screenings. It suggests parents check their children at home before coming to school.
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I'd rather live in a hobo encampment than send my child to school.
children will die...alone
Pretty sure there would be zero risks if we didn't open schools
Can we just call schools in 2020 Death Camps?
Not feasible, too risky
If it's not 100% 'safe' to go to school then we MUST postpone the 2020 election. We need to protect the most vulnerable.
Closing down NPR would stop the spread of leftism, taxpayer-funded leftism.
Our district just decided to hold off on in-classroom learning until October and Pritzker might change it further. Really though anyone complaining about no school this fall needs to look in the mirror and ask themselves if they did everything they could to flatten the curve.
Nope, Nope, Nope...
FactCheck TRUE 'no underlying health conditions' 7-year-old has died of Covid-19 in Georgia.
thank you for providing a REAL, pragmatic take on such a lightning rod issue. I enjoyed the straight talk. Courageous keep doing this type of work 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
Teachers union must be deleted!
Bottom line. Sending kids back to school will cause a Firestorm of CV-19 outbreaks. Thinking otherwise is just stupid.
We need a plan to safe guards homes when they come home from school
All life is a risk, one is always weighing options. Which is what I tried to convey to a talking head on Twitter the other day.
The missing ingredient is common sense. DON'T 👏🏾 OPEN 👏🏾 SCHOOLS 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
What happened to school for half of the kids on M-Th of week 1, then those kids/teachers stay at home for the next 10 days. The other half goes M-Th week 2, then quarantine. Everyone gets 4 days of in-person instruction every two weeks, and the chain of transmission is broken.
School would work better with everyone in face shields rather than masks. They're more protective and less restrictive...
You gloss over the most important thing: low community presence of the virus. This means that, in the community, you have lots of testing, random testing of healthy people, and a low percentage positive. You also need continuing random testing in the school and tracing of cases.
Why don't we just look at the plans, readily available online, that are in place and working already all over Europe? They all cover more points than this pathetic article.
thank you for this. Such a hard time of year this is for families.
All of this madness will end on November 4th.
Trump n Abbott want schools to open, but they r not going to their in person convention for safety reason. They r willing to sacrifice our children, teachers, parents, staff lives to open up the economy. They should go in person to their convention, lead by example.
Part of my district’s plan is that middle school students will be expected to properly disinfect their desks after each class - cuz ya know, 12 year olds are amazing at cleaning properly 😒
Lack of federal funding is always the biggest stumbling block for schools.
Sweden kept schools open. The children didn't wear masks. NPRKarens are not experts. They want parents to be terrified of a virus, but not if roving bands of lunatics attacking court houses & residential neighborhoods.
Short answer, it isn’t safe and you are sending your child to their death.
It is amazing that most Public Health Experts do not find opening schools, at this time, as SAFE! We do not have sufficient resources but more importantly we have a failure of a unified, national Risk Management Scale for Covid-19, which is signed off on by Dr. Fauci etc.
I am not sure how safe our schools are, can we send your kids and find out?
A plan is needed. Just got a text from a friend whose son just started HS this week: “_ had a one day workshop. He felt very uncomfortable because half the kids didn’t wear a mask and neither did the teacher. Now one of the students tested positive so they all have to quarantine”
Is it bad if the bathroom sinks are already clogged by my classroom and noone can wash their hands?
There needs to be set guidelines from public health officials. What is a safe positivity rate for schools to re-open? Safe number of active cases? District officials need this information to determine if they should offer on campus instruction. Parents need this info as well.
If city hall is closed, my kid is staying home.
I’m only looking for a vaccine.
I’ve known many parents that have sent their children to school when they we’re knowingly ill. They do it because they can’t afford to take time off of work. I understand that this virus isn’t the flu, or coxsackie, but...
I’m also still waiting for my school to decide how to handle “fake illness”. If you work in a school or if you’re a parent who calls your child in with fake illnesses all the time, you know what I mean. Tell them they can’t return until they provide neg test result?
Agreed
Realistic....every....single...day.
No matter the precautions we put in place, schools are never going to be as sanitary as hospitals. Kids will get sick and die. Can’t teach dead kids. And dead teachers can’t teach
Wear a dirty diaper on your face, that will keep you safe from a virus (that kills almost no kids). — NPR
The bottom line: There's no such thing as zero risk, but certain practices can lower the risk of an outbreak at school and keep kids, teachers and families safer.
I look at schools the same as cruise ships. PETRI DISHES
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