The crisis kids face at this point is not the virus, but the cost of many years of disrupted school. The overriding goal should be to maximize time in the classroom and make school look and feel much like it did before the pandemic started
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"They should never have closed and should never close again." So much for those hundreds of dead teachers.
Rural school districts in Texas are switching to four-day weeks this fall due to lack of staff. Florida is asking veterans with no teaching background to enter classrooms.
The teacher shortage in America has hit crisis levels.
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I don’t agree with everything here, but I appreciate it.
It’s time the US align itself with Europe on the issue of schools. We’ve done so much damage already.
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"maximize time in the classroom"
Government-run schools in the US are little prisons, where students learn to hate "learning" and teachers are paid like babysitters.
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COVID is the leading cause of death from disease in children
Pediatric COVID deaths and hospitalizations are surging
Every SARS2 infection in a child carries with it the risk of a severe disabling disease
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I love people that still scream about this. As the private school sector went back fall off 2020 and had none of this. No testing, no vaccine mandates, masks lifted. Guess what happened? Nothing. Kids were happy. Kids went to school. Kids socialized and smiled. I went, I know.
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Now doc- let's talk about how masks have impeded speech development, nonverbal cues, social connections.
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“Many years of disruptions” … um, schools were closed for 1, some 1&1/2 (not many); and failed policies caused disruption from there on. Don’t mitigate? Expect it to actually become “many”
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The virus disrupts school! And of course causes lots of serious illness. How do you not realize that after 2 1/2 years? "Back to normal" cannot happen without major steps to reduce infection rates, such as vastly improved ventilation, & masking until community transmission is low
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Agree with most of it. It just pains me to see the suggestion that kids should be masked at all. If you say they work because masks help adults ‘feel’ better, that I can see.
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You can’t really rely on vaccines, some uptake is abysmal. Not vaccine induced immunity either since it is fleeting, and both are subject to the next variant that comes along. Also the effect on parents and grandparents has been devastating:
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There should be ZERO mitigations or covid anything in schools. Open the doors, no masks, no quarantines and no distancing. 2019 NOW
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I can't believe we closed schools for in person learning... blows my mind.
The Precautionary Principle (PP) and K-12 Education
Some use PP suggesting virtual education since no definitive answer on contribution of schools to
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I use PP to suggest in-person education until link is proven since we don't know the harms of virtual education.
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not to disagree with the sentiment, but to point out that most schools have poor performance with increasing focus on non-academics which can be very harmful (radical cse, sel, crt, libraries full of p*rn)
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