CIAC will pause all fall sports activities until Aug 24

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Dude, parents already do that. They give their kids some Tylenol and send them to school. They should be held accountable but there isn't much a school can do other than send the kid home. In most towns people find these things out pretty quickly. Who wants to be "that parent" responsible for an outbreak? But, perhaps now there will be stricter rules about it but for sure there will be societal pressure to be smart so that everyone can remain in school

Forehead check thermometers were never available/used in schools the way they will be now. I think they'll scan kids upon entering. Parents better have their phones on and ready for a call to come pick them up.

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Dude, parents already do that. They give their kids some Tylenol and send them to school. They should be held accountable but there isn't much a school can do other than send the kid home. In most towns people find these things out pretty quickly. Who wants to be "that parent" responsible for an outbreak? But, perhaps now there will be stricter rules about it but for sure there will be societal pressure to be smart so that everyone can remain in school

Agree with you and point is, school administrators and the folks making decision about all this know the deal as well. That's why I think at the end of the day they will decide it's not worth it to try and have fall sports. Hope we can have a spring season but without a vaccine.... It sux but it is what it is.

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Alot of this chaos would be limited if temperature checks were taken upon entry of the school and maybe before practices. There are quite a few doctors offices doing this now.

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What if the sun grew wings and soared around our galaxy toasting each and every planet?! Jesus H. Christ! If you're afraid, you deal with you. As much as you would like, you can not control everyone for your benefit or amusement. Control what you can control and stop whining!

No true, you can easily control this by canceling fall sports. Problem solved.

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Forehead check thermometers were never available/used in schools the way they will be now. I think they'll scan kids upon entering. Parents better have their phones on and ready for a call to come pick them up.

Give them a fever reducer and no fever. As the poster said parents used to do it all the time. Hopefully now they'll think twice about it. Not everyone positive runs a fever either so that's only going to catch so many.

If you've had a kid whose classroom had lice, everyone knows who brought it into the room :)

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No true, you can easily control this by canceling fall sports. Problem solved.

That will not stop cases from breaking out and the risk is not worse than having kids in school part of the time. A summer or sports has shown that.

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Alot of this chaos would be limited if temperature checks were taken upon entry of the school and maybe before practices. There are quite a few doctors offices doing this now.

Temperature checks will not catch asymptomtic people. Rapid saliva tests might work but they need to be available and free. We just don't have the technology yet.

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That will not stop cases from breaking out and the risk is not worse than having kids in school part of the time. A summer or sports has shown that.

You cannot equate summer sports with fall sports.
Aside from that, having kids adhere to wearing masks all day and then taking them off after school so they can bump and grind, tackle etc. is never going to work. Can't you see that?
As soon as a player get sick, it's game over. I N E V I T A B L E!!!!!

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Give them a fever reducer and no fever. As the poster said parents used to do it all the time. Hopefully now they'll think twice about it. Not everyone positive runs a fever either so that's only going to catch so many.

If you've had a kid whose classroom had lice, everyone knows who brought it into the room :)

not everyone who has a low grade fever has Covid

*** happened to Americans- we used to find ways to do impossible things, great things

"you will never do anything you dont believe you CAN do"
now its
it wont work, it cant work
everyone go hide under your bed
DONT DO ANYTHING!!!!!!!! the world is ending

pathetic attitudes

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You cannot equate summer sports with fall sports.
Aside from that, having kids adhere to wearing masks all day and then taking them off after school so they can bump and grind, tackle etc. is never going to work. Can't you see that?
As soon as a player get sick, it's game over. I N E V I T A B L E!!!!!

why cant you equate summer sports with fall sports? the rules dont change because of the change in season
summer ball is played with kids from all over the state against kids from all over this state or some other state ( exposure is exposure)

my kids team had kids from New Canaan to west hartford and played teams from NJ,,Mass, NH, NY and all of ct

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The CIAC group is too old to handle the 24 hour phone calls the entire season.

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That will not stop cases from breaking out and the risk is not worse than having kids in school part of the time. A summer or sports has shown that.

A summer of sports, training, many parties, a few games or a tourney here and there and the state stats are still good. Probably most very active parents and kids aren't getting tested often if at all, especially if no symptoms.

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Thank you for the clarification - hard to keep up when it changes all the time. But that still doesn't explain why football gets a head start. They also don't have all their games jammed into a shorter season like soccer does. Wusses :) .

For many years, the CIAC start date for fall sports has been the 3rd Thursday in August, excluding football. They were allowed to start Monday of the preceding week. I believe there are normally restrictions to the type of work they do that first week. I also believe there is a provision in the normal CIAC rules for football that allow programs that didn't have spring football to start even earlier than those programs that did have spring football.

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The Logical Voice

football has always started earlier its not for conditioning its for reps
do you know how many times a football team runs one play over the course of a season
its hundreds and some teams run 80 plays in their playbook- never mind specials,2 min,4 min, situational etc...
unlike soccer- football runs in 6 second intervals- you need to get 11 people to do their job at the exact same time in those 6 seconds- its choreography
soccer is fluid- soccer players need conditioning more but the game isnt scripted like football
its more read and react. soccer is a much more fluid game and a lot of it can be coached on the fly

Football is a coach's game.

Soccer is a player's game.

It's where the decisions are getting made that makes the difference. In football, most are being made on the side. In soccer, most are being made on the pitch.

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The CIAC will cancel the season for sure.