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    Fingers Crossed for High School Sports

    Looks like high school sports are still being strongly considered especially in the North East. (MA is the only state up here still considering waiting until Jan which is crazy as that is height of flu season.)
    We should know by Aug 1. The governors up here all know that these kids need and deserve sports. The plans as of now being weighed are either switching baseball with football and leaving all other sports as is or plan 2 is to push back the season to start later Sept. The school year should also be pushed back starting Sept 30 and ending June 30 but that’s another debate.

    Glad they haven’t shut the door on sports our kids need them.

    #2
    Not going to happen,Teachers Unions do not want old chubby teachers to return due to health risks .

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      #3
      Plan all you want and hope for the best. Also know the worst could also happen. One of my of my children's colleges said 3 weeks ago they would be hybrid in the fall (partial in person, partial on line) now it's all on line. Sigh....not a fun senior year for them.

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        #4
        Questions for School Openings:
        30% of the teachers in the US are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the US are people between the ages of 45-65.
        • If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid?
        • If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?
        • Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that?
        • What if someone who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine? Is that time off covered? Paid?
        • Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly infected students for substitute pay?
        • Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now have to quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that?
        • What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year?
        • What about bussing? Do we quadruple the number of busses to achieve proper social distance? Each bus will be disinfected between each group of students, right?
        • What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term effects of consistently being stressed out?
        • How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid?
        • How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer?

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Looks like high school sports are still being strongly considered especially in the North East. (MA is the only state up here still considering waiting until Jan which is crazy as that is height of flu season.)
          We should know by Aug 1. The governors up here all know that these kids need and deserve sports. The plans as of now being weighed are either switching baseball with football and leaving all other sports as is or plan 2 is to push back the season to start later Sept. The school year should also be pushed back starting Sept 30 and ending June 30 but that’s another debate.

          Glad they haven’t shut the door on sports our kids need them.

          Not against it...but...how do kids "deserve" sports? Are you saying that every kid is deserving to play a HS sport? Must be some pretty large rosters in your town....

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            #6
            You people are nuts. Sports are canceled.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              Questions for School Openings:
              30% of the teachers in the US are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the US are people between the ages of 45-65.
              • If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid?
              • If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?
              • Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that?
              • What if someone who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine? Is that time off covered? Paid?
              • Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly infected students for substitute pay?
              • Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now have to quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that?
              • What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year?
              • What about bussing? Do we quadruple the number of busses to achieve proper social distance? Each bus will be disinfected between each group of students, right?
              • What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term effects of consistently being stressed out?
              • How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid?
              • How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer?
              These are all good questions, but the wrong focus. Bottom line, there is risk with covid-19. There is risk in everything we do. drive a car, walk down the street, etc. If a teacher does not want to work, do not work, hire a substitute. If a bus driver does not want to work, do not work, hire a replacement or find another way to school. If a parent is not comfortable sending their kid to school do not send them. But that is no reason to shut down everything for everyone. For those people that want to, let them get on with their lives. Sign a waiver, whatever. This country will crumble if we think we can just shut the doors while they search for a vaccine. THIS IS THE MAJOR POINT. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LIVE WITH THIS UNCERTAINTY FOR A LONG TIME. Get used to it. If you want to hide away for years until a vaccine, that is your prerogative, but you will not make it unless you are very wealthy. Many prefer to do the best we can and get on with our lives.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                Questions for School Openings:
                30% of the teachers in the US are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the US are people between the ages of 45-65.
                • If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid?
                • If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?
                • Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that?
                • What if someone who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine? Is that time off covered? Paid?
                • Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly infected students for substitute pay?
                • Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now have to quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that?
                • What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year?
                • What about bussing? Do we quadruple the number of busses to achieve proper social distance? Each bus will be disinfected between each group of students, right?
                • What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term effects of consistently being stressed out?
                • How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid?
                • How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer?
                If the meat packers, farmers, grocers, manufacturers, deliverers etc can take risks than so can teachers. And this is extremely small risk per data. Scared people can stay home, that is fine. Time to step up

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                  #9
                  There will be fall soccer.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    Not against it...but...how do kids "deserve" sports? Are you saying that every kid is deserving to play a HS sport? Must be some pretty large rosters in your town....
                    Kids in high school deserve sport because they have been working hard for years for this moment. We shouldn’t just take it away.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Kids in high school deserve sport because they have been working hard for years for this moment. We shouldn’t just take it away.
                      And 2020 grads deserved their graduation ceremony. Sports don't matter.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        Kids in high school deserve sport because they have been working hard for years for this moment. We shouldn’t just take it away.
                        Sorry, but nobody "deserves" to play a sport. Life sucks sometimes.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          Questions for School Openings:
                          30% of the teachers in the US are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the US are people between the ages of 45-65.
                          • If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid?
                          • If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?
                          • Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that?
                          • What if someone who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine? Is that time off covered? Paid?
                          • Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly infected students for substitute pay?
                          • Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now have to quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that?
                          • What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year?
                          • What about bussing? Do we quadruple the number of busses to achieve proper social distance? Each bus will be disinfected between each group of students, right?
                          • What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term effects of consistently being stressed out?
                          • How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid?
                          • How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer?
                          Kids can not waste another year pretending to learn on google classroom and zoom. My kids lost half a year last year. If attendance is not important, give them all As and lay off the entire staff and lower our taxes. If they go back online, no more 30 minute check-in for teachers, assign worksheets and reading and go back to the golf course or pool in FL for martinis. Have online video lectures like corporations meet. Same exact class schedules and length of classes. Teachers cant keep pretending that this was all new, difficult and that they really worked hard (and that it was the same experience as in-person school). Don't like it, find another job or retire.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Sorry, but nobody "deserves" to play a sport. Life sucks sometimes.
                            Nobody deserves the taxes we pay either but we do it anyway .... for the taxes we pay in all of our towns in the northeast, you better cut us something back or the cuts will be coming hard. If the teachers union keeps getting their way with work at home and salary/benefits negotiations, we need to push back hard. Not for nothing, many of the public schools do not work well .... if it was the corporate world, most of the noncompetitive systems would have gone out of business long ago .... make all schools, schools of choice and lets see which ones have kids remaining in their classrooms.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              Not going to happen,Teachers Unions do not want old chubby teachers to return due to health risks .
                              Then you should get off your fat ass and go teach in the classroom this fall.

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