The doctors were speaking about the overall health of the child, both mentally and physically. The teachers are understandably speaking from their own self interest, not the children’s health.they do not, or should not, really worry about kids dying from this, given the data.
FSU reverts back to policy (in August) stating employees can not care for children at home while working remotely. What a mess.
https://news.fsu.edu/news/2020/06/26/additional-campus-repopulation-guidance/
Wow on the FSU policy. That’s awful.
You know I was also and thinking ok. The warm weather states are being hit with round 1A. Not the second wave yet since they opened up early. In the Midwest we are doing fairly well. Then in Chicago we entered Phase 4. Crap… We are going to be there in like another 3 weeks or so. Hopefully it will die down again once the kids go back to school late August. But guess this is why most schools that will be on campus will be a hybrid.
I hope schools and day cares open up f2f for them.
I’m feeling more and more like school as we know it is coming to a screeching halt. At this rate, D21 had better start planning what she’s doing for her gap year starting fall 2021.
Meanwhile, we’ve got conservative plans like the CSUs and Bowdoin and then Clemson is going back practically full force but just in masks. Each school seems to have its own unique set of priorities and it’s getting easier every day to see what those are.
@knowstuff S19 got a job at a fancy restaurant one town over. (We are in Chicago suburbs.) He was going to bus tables. Some kids there rake in $200 a night with tips. We thought seating would be outside and then 25% capacity inside but we read that incorrectly. For this phase, it’s 25% capacity in the bar area but dining is full capacity just six feet apart. He was exposed to 100+ people who were dining that night. Of course, all of the restaurant team wore masks but patrons don’t. He quit the next day. All of this is to say - good luck Chicago and Illinois.
Curious to see where we are in three weeks. Colleges are at the mercy of how their state is doing.
I think you can count on the most affluent finding a way to continue their children’s education, whether that is at a Hampton’s branch of a day school or top boarding schools worldwide. The same may be largely true at colleges, as wealthy parents expand their searches for schools.
Our state’s #’s (FL) are so bad (and only going to worsen) that I will be surprised if schools are able to open as expected in 6 weeks (Aug 10).
It’s all rather depressing. Our state is just a hot mess. I feel for the students and teachers greatly and I just don’t see any positives here right now.
I just wanted to add to @msdynamite85 ’s list: domestic violence, abuse, and neglect. Some kids live in awful home situations, and many times teachers, administrators, and others at schools provide a vital check against some of this. Such as: don’t want to hit Johnnie too hard because maybe his gym teacher will know something is going on. Or, at my D’s preschool there was one little girl who was always dressed seasonally inappropriately and came to school hungry. The school provided different clothes for her during the day, gave her breakfast, lunch and sent her home with a snack, and brought a counselor in to talk with her. Schools do SO much more than teach.
@homerdog - What!?!?! We ate out on Friday and indoors was at 25% capacity with tables blocked off.
Not a chance that I will be going out to eat at a restaurant any time again soon if they are going to be that crowded :(. Seems like it’s going to be inevitable to see another spike.
I tried to edit my post but was too late. I want to add that the unsung heroes at my public high school are the hall monitors. These women, who make not much more than minimum wage, truly care about the kids, and notice what’s going on in their lives. They’ve helped decades worth of kids.
Maybe I am not interpeting thing correctly but… https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-phase-4-restaurant-guidelines-indoor-dining-to-return-with-restrictions/2293570/
I will just put this here for us Illinois people. This is the ruling…
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-phase-4-restaurant-guidelines-indoor-dining-to-return-with-restrictions/2293570/
Maybe either this place didn’t get the memo or your son’s interpretation of it. Don’t think a known eatery is going to risk their license?
But good for your son if he wasn’t comfortable in that situation. We have eaten out a few times in the burbs and seemed like everyone was following the rules. We actually go a bit later so once we sit down it seems like the place is actually clearing. We are going out on Chicago on Tuesday and reserved the rooftop with limited seating options.
@homerdog wrote:
…or, the states where they recruit. Wesleyan only enrolls about 9% of its first-year class from in-state Connecticut which has endured three onths of bending the curve all the way down to where it was in March. Conversely, California (11%), and Texas (3%) are among the top ten most popular out-of-state residences.
Well, LACs don’t have a tradition of housing a lot of students off-campus. That shouldn’t be surprising. What I think is happening is that a lot of them have been caught flat-footed in a philosophical debate around the advisability of single rooms versus having a roommate. Recent construction represents a huge swing from what the thinking was in the 1960s and 70s when single rooms were at their most popular. Bowdoin, Wellesley, (and, very likely Amherst) all had trouble finding places for students displaced from doubles.
Hamilton has apparently decided that doubles are just fine.
This is strange, how would they even know? What constitutes “caring for children” anyways?
Why does it care whether a working at home employee may attend to a child some of the time if the employee can still do the job effectively?
Yes this ^^^^. In Chicago many kids rely on their breakfast and lunch coming from their schools. Many still come and pick up the food they need daily and for some it’s dropped off at their homes. Please. All of us. Think about this for a second.
“Tables must be spaced 6 feet apart in seated areas and standing areas can be at no more than 25% of capacity, Pritzker’s office said.”
This is the rule.
This restaurant is well known. The owner has competed on the Food Channel. I’m sure they are already booked up for weeks.
Housing is one thing but it’s the in-person classes that’s a little crazy. 75 percent of them in-person at Clemson. Many other big schools not planning that!
Also, in my yahoo feed today is an article about how one HS Senior in Scarsdale NY went to a party after her in-car graduation ceremony. Evidently she had just come back from FL, where she picked up Covid, she wasn’t symptomatic so she went to the party, and now she has transmitted Covid to 4 others (I assume kids at the party?). NY appears to be taking this Very seriously, and it’s things like this that have resulted in NY/NJ/CT imposing a 14 day quarantine on people who travel from certain states.
I know college is big business and big money. But if NY is putting so much emphasis on this one case, what are they going to do in August when Thousands of kids come streaming into the state all at once? And the N.Y./NJ/CT colleges better have a plan for how they are going to support these kids during their quarantine. That’s going to be a big test, right out of the gate.