Do a search of Franklin Veaux, when you click on his "welcome to franklinveaux.com" be ready to be offended. There is home schooling for those that feel safer away from public or private schools. We live in a dangerous world, get over it or hide under your bed at home.
HEARTLESS wrote: Do a search of Franklin Veaux, when you click on his "welcome to franklinveaux.com" be ready to be offended. There is home schooling for those that feel safer away from public or private schools. We live in a dangerous world, get over it or hide under your bed at home.
HERE'S the precise problem.....as we journey down the educational path of this virus,we have MORE
DATA,MORE UNDERSTANDING....and can make better decisions.....DR. F. has been crucified for
incorrect info, when in reality NO ONE KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT OR HOW TO MITIGATE...we are just now discovering data that changes the equation....
• If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 is s/he required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is her/his sick leave covered, paid?
• If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?
• Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that?
• What if someone who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine? Is that time off covered? Paid?
• Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly infected students for substitute pay?
• Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now have to quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that?
• What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around need to quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year long?
• What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term effects of consistently being stressed out?
• How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid?
• How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer?
30% of the teachers in the US are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the US are people between the ages of 45-65.
We are choosing to put our teachers in danger. We're not paying them more. Should they get hazard pay?
The hazard pay went to the HAPPY PALS of the king....$$$ that meant for just this kind if thing,LANDED IN
THE LAPS OF THE WEALTHY....look it up....NOT bs
homeagain wrote: The hazard pay went to the HAPPY PALS of the king....$$$ that meant for just this kind if thing,LANDED IN
THE LAPS OF THE WEALTHY....look it up....NOT bs
It has already been proven that remote learning isn't working for many of the kids. But let's keep them at home, pretend they are learning, give them the new ultimate in participation trophies, a high school or college diploma. Graduate illiterates into the real world. And what happens when the kids who were still learning find out everyone gets promoted anyway? They will start slacking off too.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
FredHayek wrote: It has already been proven that remote learning isn't working for many of the kids. But let's keep them at home, pretend they are learning, give them the new ultimate in participation trophies, a high school or college diploma. Graduate illiterates into the real world. And what happens when the kids who were still learning find out everyone gets promoted anyway? They will start slacking off too.
What should we tell the parents of those children that die from the Covid virus, or the spouses of teachers that have contracted the virus?
A person can catch up on their education, but only if they are alive.
Come on, Fred, give me some of that Yankee American "Can Do" spirit that says "We can figure out a way to get around this! We can make remote learning work better than it has!" Other countries can do it, why can't we figure it out?
