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Keeping schools closed is horrific for my children. That said all of these brave warriors demanding schools reopen from behind the keyboards of their socially d

Keeping schools closed is horrific for my children. That said all of these brave warriors demanding schools reopen from behind the keyboards of their socially distanced houses should have to spend a day to two a week working in the schools and expose themselves as adults to that environment. Our teachers and other educational workers are not disposable. Moreover our school is facing a 20 percent budget cut while being tasked with converting to hospital grade PPE/distancing. Utterly unrealistic.

mercer 6y ago
That's a good point. Over here (NL) things have been slowly opening up, to the point where to many of us it feels like things are 'back to normal'. Nonetheless, when it comes to schools reopening, as I understand it, one of the big problems is that many teachers aren't quite as comfortable going 'back to normal'.
- jshaqaw 6y ago
  I'm writing from NYC. My wife is the Principal of a school here. Schools are being given almost no support or guidance at any level from local to federal. Educational administrators are being told to open schools ensuring student and staff safety without a shred of fiscal support or health science guidance. The physical infrastructure of the schools can't possibly handle the distancing requirements being imposed. My wife is being presented with a Kobayashi Maru here but with the real lives of children, staff, and extended families on the line. I am 110% sympathetic to the importance of getting kids back in school. My kids are suffering from social and educational withdrawal. When schools even partially reopen I'll be solo with the kids on their home days as my wife is back running her school. Not exactly an environment conducive to productive work or my kids' mental health. But the idea that we can just ram through re-openings prematurely is insane. It is double insane that at this time the Federal government is bailing out every private sector millionaire in creation via PPP while schools are being forced to cut budgets by catastrophic amounts.

mercer 6y ago

That's a good point. Over here (NL) things have been slowly opening up, to the point where to many of us it feels like things are 'back to normal'. Nonetheless, when it comes to schools reopening, as I understand it, one of the big problems is that many teachers aren't quite as comfortable going 'back to normal'.

jshaqaw 6y ago
I'm writing from NYC. My wife is the Principal of a school here. Schools are being given almost no support or guidance at any level from local to federal. Educational administrators are being told to open schools ensuring student and staff safety without a shred of fiscal support or health science guidance. The physical infrastructure of the schools can't possibly handle the distancing requirements being imposed. My wife is being presented with a Kobayashi Maru here but with the real lives of children, staff, and extended families on the line. I am 110% sympathetic to the importance of getting kids back in school. My kids are suffering from social and educational withdrawal. When schools even partially reopen I'll be solo with the kids on their home days as my wife is back running her school. Not exactly an environment conducive to productive work or my kids' mental health. But the idea that we can just ram through re-openings prematurely is insane. It is double insane that at this time the Federal government is bailing out every private sector millionaire in creation via PPP while schools are being forced to cut budgets by catastrophic amounts.