I think what is becoming a matter of policy in some schools in the country is the idea "children are not competent in maintaining masks on their face."
The reality of "childhood" becomes starkly clear when thinking about a classroom of compliant children wearing face masks in any elementary school in the USA. That isn't going to happen.
Kindergarteners are getting used to school, their cubbies, and leaving the family for a period of time to buckle down and learn. 5-year-olds are busy singing and taking playground breaks. Most teachers are delighted with young students that take their lessons seriously as well as homework. There is just no way any rational adult not interested in an election result will expect young children to wear masks or comply with any other treatment regime, such as testing regularly.
How much is the USA willing to scar their young children in order to pretend there is no real virus that can attack?
When putting the pieces back together in the USA, there is no reason to pretend. This is a horrible situation the country finds itself. So, the idea behind making REALISTIC decisions for the education of American children is that students are not necessarily adults in their behavior, priorities, and willingness to be mature enough to comprehend the danger of SARS-CoV-2.
All the classrooms HAVE TO WEAR MASKS, otherwise, the safety behind this measure can be lost. Young children will never be that compliant. It is questionable that Junior High School students will also be compliant. And then when it comes to High School, ie: Spring Break. There are High School students now stating this is nothing to worry about and DO NOT WANT TO BE BOTHERED by MORE RULES to protect their health.
Adults, school board members, parents, and teachers can make all kinds of decisions. They can make all kinds of elaborate plans. Good plans. Plans out of love for the children and older students, but, I guarantee you those plans will not hold up for grades less than ninth grade. And without sincere behavioral penalties the grades 9 through 12 will not be bothered by such a paradigm within their learning environment.
SARS-CoV-2 will interfere in the high school classroom and during the first grading period, don't expect the best grades from students. There will be behavioral problems and family will be called in to deal with that behavior. So, the transition of a High School that is SARS-CoV-2 proof will require education of the family as well as the students BEFORE school begins.
I don't expect much different from the 1st year/Freshman year of college. I would expect those Freshmen to be at risk for contracting the virus. They may be living off-campus and the school has no control over that environment. Then there are fraternities and sororities with risky behavior in their new member induction. What does anyone do about that?
The country had a primarily successful Spring semester throughout the country by sheltering at home. The idea that children will be "at-risk" as parents return to work isn't going to change if they are in classes during the day. As a matter of fact, if children are home for the virtual classroom, the parents will still feel the virus's presence and be more cautious than if the home has returned to more normalcy than not.
When decision-makers are planning for classrooms reopening, they have to consider behaviors that are REALISTIC for students and how danger could enter into the classroom because of NORMAL behavior. I don't care what grade it is or what year in college the students are engaged, the behavior of students could compromise the safety in the classroom and/or campus.
Teachers are people, too. They need as safe an environment as the children. They are not referees to insist on compliant behavior that is unrealistic. The demographics of the teacher pool must be assessed and older teachers should be allowed to retire early if their are schools reopening this fall.
Tuesday, July 07, 2020
Dan Forest the biggest lobbyist for the construction lobby in NC wants to be governor to spend more money.
I didn't think there was any place left to build in North Carolina.
March 20, 2014
By Carolinas Associated General Contractors
Faced with a potential (click here) $6 billion price tag to repair and renovate existing state buildings and community colleges, North Carolina may need to consider a bond referendum to fix those buildings and help jump-start the state's economy, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said recently at a meeting of Carolinas AGC and AIA North Carolina.
"A study is underway to look at all existing state facilities and their repair and renovation needs," Forest said. "We are looking at ways to drive efficiencies through facilities but there are numerous updates needed. It will be difficult to fund all necessary repairs through savings in the short term, so a bond referendum may be needed if it can be done without raising taxes."
Forest's comments were made at a March 15 meeting in Pinehurst of the AIA NC/CAGC Joint Committee (American Institute of Architects/Carolinas Associated General Contractors). About 35 architect and contractor representatives attended the meeting....
Sounds like a good idea.
July 6, 2020
By Jessie Pounds
Greensboro - North Carolina (click here) has approved Guilford County Schools’ application to create two new virtual schools, a district administrator said Monday.
The schools would be the Guilford eLearning Virtual Academy for grades K-5 and Guilford eLearning University Prep Academy for grades 6-12. Eboni Chillis, the district’s interim chief innovation officer, is taking the lead on the virtual schools project....
By Jessie Pounds
Greensboro - North Carolina (click here) has approved Guilford County Schools’ application to create two new virtual schools, a district administrator said Monday.
The schools would be the Guilford eLearning Virtual Academy for grades K-5 and Guilford eLearning University Prep Academy for grades 6-12. Eboni Chillis, the district’s interim chief innovation officer, is taking the lead on the virtual schools project....
When is China going to deal with it's FILTH?
One of the reasons China came to the USA and purchased entire processing plants for pork and shipment to the homeland is because USA animals are not sick or carrying disease. The USA requires all kinds of vaccinations for animals in contact with people. The USA wildlife never carries the kind of diseases seen in China because there are wildlife managers that keep watch for any indication of disease. This is ridiculous from a country that wants to be a world leader and equal to First World nations.
...Vaccines contain antigens (click here) from viruses, bacteria, bacterial toxins, or parasites. They are given to pigs, usually by injection, to stimulate an immune response which will protect the pigs against later natural infection with the organism from which the vaccine was derived. Most stimulate both a humoral response and a cell-mediated response.
Vaccines can be live, containing living organisms which will multiply in the pig, or inactivated, containing only killed organisms which will not multiply in the pig.
In live vaccines the organisms has usually been attenuated (i.e. its virulence has been reduced) so that although it will multiply in the pig it will not normally cause any cause disease. Examples are the PRRS vaccine (although some may cause mild reactions), aujeszky's disease (pseudorabies) vaccines and classical swine fever vaccines....
The avian flu (click here) is still alive and well BUT there is also a vaccine for it. So why are areas still effected by the avian flu using the vaccine? There should be no culling necessary anymore now that there is a vaccine for avian flu.
Causes of Bubonic Plague. The Plague is the same organism as the Bubonic Plague or the Black Death. I didn't name it the Black Death, the Victorian ear did. Needless to say, the name has been changed.
Plague (click here) is a serious bacterial infection that's transmitted primarily by fleas. The organism that causes plague, Yersinia pestis, lives in small rodents found most commonly in rural and semirural areas of Africa, Asia and the United States. The organism is transmitted to humans who are bitten by fleas that have fed on infected rodents or by humans handling infected animals....
The plague bacteria, (click here) Yersinia pestis, is transmitted to humans through the bites of fleas that have previously fed on infected animals, such as:
- Rats
- Mice
- Squirrels
- Rabbits
- Prairie dogs
- Chipmunks
- Voles
The bacteria can also enter your body if a break in your skin comes into contact with an infected animal's blood. Domestic cats and dogs can become infected with plague from flea bites or from eating infected rodents.
Pneumonic plague, which affects the lungs, is spread by inhaling infectious droplets coughed into the air by a sick animal or person....
July 7, 2020
By Rachel Rettner
A case of plague (click here) has been confirmed in China's Inner Mongolia region, leading authorities to issue an alert about the age-old disease, according to news reports.
On Sunday (July 5), a herdsman in Bayannur city, in western Inner Mongolia, was diagnosed with bubonic plague, according to The New York Times. Health authorities said in a statement that the patient is being isolated and is in stable condition at a local hospital....
...Vaccines contain antigens (click here) from viruses, bacteria, bacterial toxins, or parasites. They are given to pigs, usually by injection, to stimulate an immune response which will protect the pigs against later natural infection with the organism from which the vaccine was derived. Most stimulate both a humoral response and a cell-mediated response.
Vaccines can be live, containing living organisms which will multiply in the pig, or inactivated, containing only killed organisms which will not multiply in the pig.
In live vaccines the organisms has usually been attenuated (i.e. its virulence has been reduced) so that although it will multiply in the pig it will not normally cause any cause disease. Examples are the PRRS vaccine (although some may cause mild reactions), aujeszky's disease (pseudorabies) vaccines and classical swine fever vaccines....
The avian flu (click here) is still alive and well BUT there is also a vaccine for it. So why are areas still effected by the avian flu using the vaccine? There should be no culling necessary anymore now that there is a vaccine for avian flu.
Causes of Bubonic Plague. The Plague is the same organism as the Bubonic Plague or the Black Death. I didn't name it the Black Death, the Victorian ear did. Needless to say, the name has been changed.
Plague (click here) is a serious bacterial infection that's transmitted primarily by fleas. The organism that causes plague, Yersinia pestis, lives in small rodents found most commonly in rural and semirural areas of Africa, Asia and the United States. The organism is transmitted to humans who are bitten by fleas that have fed on infected rodents or by humans handling infected animals....
The plague bacteria, (click here) Yersinia pestis, is transmitted to humans through the bites of fleas that have previously fed on infected animals, such as:
- Rats
- Mice
- Squirrels
- Rabbits
- Prairie dogs
- Chipmunks
- Voles
The bacteria can also enter your body if a break in your skin comes into contact with an infected animal's blood. Domestic cats and dogs can become infected with plague from flea bites or from eating infected rodents.
Pneumonic plague, which affects the lungs, is spread by inhaling infectious droplets coughed into the air by a sick animal or person....
July 7, 2020
By Rachel Rettner
A case of plague (click here) has been confirmed in China's Inner Mongolia region, leading authorities to issue an alert about the age-old disease, according to news reports.
On Sunday (July 5), a herdsman in Bayannur city, in western Inner Mongolia, was diagnosed with bubonic plague, according to The New York Times. Health authorities said in a statement that the patient is being isolated and is in stable condition at a local hospital....
Substitute Teacher demographics needs to be assessed.
Personally, I think it is going to be difficult to return children to a school building without a vaccine. My assessment of most rolls of substitute teachers is that they are retired and over the age of 65. There are going to be exceptions to that, but, a large number of substitute teachers would not be able to work without guarantees the schools are VIRUS FREE. The school systems, no matter private or public, have no right to demand substitute teachers to work regardless of any chance of infection.
I realize there are children "at risk" for other reasons then COVID-19, but, the virus is too dangerous to open schools without a guarantee of virus free environments. If children need remediation when they finally return to school, then that is the reality we all face. I don't know why an attempt to mitigate these issues are not being pursued. WHERE IS THE RESEARCH FROM OUR TEACHER MASTERS AND PhDS.
Perhaps school days need to be shifted to outdoor venues IN THE SUMMER MONTHS.
July 6, 2020
By John Wisely
Michigan educators (click here) have a lengthy to-do list before reopening classrooms this fall amid a global pandemic.
Included on the list: Beef up the pool of substitute teachers.
"Without a question, that's going to be a challenge for us," said Randy Liepa, superintendent of the Wayne County Regional Educational Services Agency, which supports schools across Wayne County. "Remember, schools are vying for the same substitute teachers. If there is a need for additional substitute teachers, there are only so many that are out there."...
I realize there are children "at risk" for other reasons then COVID-19, but, the virus is too dangerous to open schools without a guarantee of virus free environments. If children need remediation when they finally return to school, then that is the reality we all face. I don't know why an attempt to mitigate these issues are not being pursued. WHERE IS THE RESEARCH FROM OUR TEACHER MASTERS AND PhDS.
Perhaps school days need to be shifted to outdoor venues IN THE SUMMER MONTHS.
By John Wisely
Michigan educators (click here) have a lengthy to-do list before reopening classrooms this fall amid a global pandemic.
Included on the list: Beef up the pool of substitute teachers.
"Without a question, that's going to be a challenge for us," said Randy Liepa, superintendent of the Wayne County Regional Educational Services Agency, which supports schools across Wayne County. "Remember, schools are vying for the same substitute teachers. If there is a need for additional substitute teachers, there are only so many that are out there."...
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