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Hi, I'm not in the USA and I'm home schooling (since longer than the pandemic though) so I'm not aware of the situation for forced home schoolers, aside from im

Hi, I'm not in the USA and I'm home schooling (since longer than the pandemic though) so I'm not aware of the situation for forced home schoolers, aside from imagining that it's probably quite unpleasant and hard to organize, and I don't know what the health threats are. I'm quite curious though so if you may clarify the health threat for your children?

mensetmanusman 6y ago
There is no home schooling if both parents are working. Big picture, neglect and associated psychological harms. It’s interesting that data show the flu to be about 100x worse for young children than COVID. But, as is usual through history, the value of children pale in comparison to the value of adults.
- agravier 6y ago
  Thanks, I understand, both parents working and no one to take care of the children at home must be the most common case in the US.
- vvanders 6y ago
  Have a source for that data? Just because it might be lower risk to children still means that they bring it back home which gives you a near ideal vector to reinfect a large portion of the population.
  - ahupp 6y ago
    Current evidence says that children very rarely transmit to adults: "Almost 6 months into the pandemic, accumulating evidence and collective experience argue that children, particularly school-aged children, are far less important drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission than adults. Therefore, serious consideration should be paid toward strategies that allow schools to remain open, even during periods of COVID-19 spread. In doing so, we could minimize the potentially profound adverse social, developmental, and health costs that our children will continue to suffer until an effective treatment or vaccine can be developed and distributed or, failing that, until we reach herd immunity." https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/07/08/peds.2020-004879 https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/07...
jgalt212 6y ago
The health threat that I've experience and those that many of my peers have experienced has been of a behavioral nature. Again. from experience, somewhat mitigating factors seem to be easy access to open spaces, the presence of siblings, and a child by nature being an indoor child.

mensetmanusman 6y ago

There is no home schooling if both parents are working. Big picture, neglect and associated psychological harms. It’s interesting that data show the flu to be about 100x worse for young children than COVID. But, as is usual through history, the value of children pale in comparison to the value of adults.

agravier 6y ago
Thanks, I understand, both parents working and no one to take care of the children at home must be the most common case in the US.
vvanders 6y ago
Have a source for that data? Just because it might be lower risk to children still means that they bring it back home which gives you a near ideal vector to reinfect a large portion of the population.
- ahupp 6y ago
  Current evidence says that children very rarely transmit to adults: "Almost 6 months into the pandemic, accumulating evidence and collective experience argue that children, particularly school-aged children, are far less important drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission than adults. Therefore, serious consideration should be paid toward strategies that allow schools to remain open, even during periods of COVID-19 spread. In doing so, we could minimize the potentially profound adverse social, developmental, and health costs that our children will continue to suffer until an effective treatment or vaccine can be developed and distributed or, failing that, until we reach herd immunity." https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/07/08/peds.2020-004879 https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/07...

jgalt212 6y ago

The health threat that I've experience and those that many of my peers have experienced has been of a behavioral nature. Again. from experience, somewhat mitigating factors seem to be easy access to open spaces, the presence of siblings, and a child by nature being an indoor child.