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Who the hell said that? Anyone, ANYONE that has read my posts over even just the last few weeks knows what I'm saying.

But arch makes a good point. See, people pay their property taxes whether school is in session or not. There's not actually a financial gain or loss whether they have butts in their seats or not.

With universities, their bottom line is greatly impacted by such factors. They have a monetary incentive to be open.

It's not about safety. It's about the bottom line. And in some cases political pressure.

Collegefactual says the U. of Toledo has 3500 students that live on campus. I was under the impression it was more like 5500.

But, use the 3500 number. Room and board, $11,000 a year, per student. Almost $39 million. Per 'typical' college year.

Yeah, they're gonna do everything they can to get heads in beds, even if they send the students home after a week, or a month.

Down here in Florida they are just stupid, I know not saying much for Florida, but they gave kids 3 options, full in person, full e-learning, and half and half. There was a deadline of last week to tell them which. At the time the rule was all kids 3-12 will be required to wear masks, k-2 best effort. Fine and dandy, my son decided he wanted to do full in person, which with the mask, I was ok with. Then a few days after deadline, they gave into whiny ass parents who were complaining about the mask requirement and now say they aren't required...well I wanted to change his enrollment to virtual but passed the deadline.. So now you can't change. Its silly how many people have issues wearing a mask. I don't find it fun and I don't know if it really helps or not, but its literally the least you can do and in no way do i feel as liberties are being taken away. Is this going on in ohio?

yep

j/c

US records deadliest COVID-19 day of summer with over 1,500 deaths

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/51...ver-1500-deaths

Maybe someone should get this virus under better control before they push to open schools? Nah...

j/c...

Trump is hoping all the suburban housewives support him like

He must have missed the news that suburban housewives now come in all colors, work and have children they're worried about sending back to school. And that some of them even have a heart. I'm sure those concepts escape him.

OUCH! stole that.

j/c...

Geoff Redick
@GeoffWSYX6
#BREAKING: expect high school sports guidelines next week.

@GovMikeDeWine
: "We're going to have an announcement on Tuesday...about high school sports. We've been working with @OHSAASports
to get it right, to provide guidelines to make it as safe as possible."

Geoff Redick
@GeoffWSYX6
MORE from @GovMikeDeWine
: "A little preview: this is a decision that's going to be made by parents, by schools. We are going to restrict the number of fans.

We want young people to have a season...but want to do it as safely as possible. This will be disruptive for some people."

https://twitter.com/GeoffWSYX6/status/1293986030975168514

It's a no-brainer, folks. Remember, if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem...

Florida governor compares schools reopening to killing bin Laden

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-governor-compares-schools-reopening-142043255.html

at first i had an issue with this...but then i remembered that florida has cowards for cops who let kids get shot up in schools, so maybe some SEAL training would do these kids some good.

j/c...

A dedicated educator's local project, initiated out of anticipation of the upcoming academic year, has grown into a national database that tracks coronavirus-related school closings, quarantines, cases and deaths.

Alisha Morris, who teaches theater in Kansas’ Olathe School District, was scouring the internet for news reports about COVID-19 issues surrounding K-12 school reopenings across the country when she became overwhelmed with information.



https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/ne...d-d/5591124002/

There is a link to a google doc spreadsheet in the link below by state. This is a work in progress and I am sure in another couple of months this will be a rather large document.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e...xDr_8u9KF_LlgI#

What did I tell you would happen? Daughter's first day of classes was today. I would guess in a week, outside chance 3 weeks, U of Toledo will do pretty much the same.

I know we don't agree on much, but I damn sure hope she stays safe and doesn't bring covid home. Good luck.

I'm seeing all my grandkids this week because when they start school they will not be allowed to visit.

We probably don't agree on anything.

And, if the list of symptoms of covid are accurate, aside from a fever (we don't have a thermometer so we never checked that), she and I have had every symptom. Her in December, me in January. Her stuff lasted well over 3 weeks. Mine, over 4 weeks.

Well like I've said before, I don't hate you arch, I just don't like your politics. Other than that, I wish you no ill and hope you and yours can stay safe. With your wife being down, I assume she is still on the mend, and some of the things we are hearing, I just want everyone to come through this intact.

No doubt. Universities rely on the room and board money.

We have a few friends that teach at the K-12 level and they have said one of the reasons school districts, as a whole, want to get kids back in school is more or less to check on the well-being of the kids. Most fully expect to shut back down after a few weeks.

Wife was supposed to be off work 3 months. She went back part time after 2 months. Full time after 2 1/2 months.

She's tough as nails when it comes to working/doing stuff/energy - to the extent that often times I need to tell her her intentions are great, but "Hon, thatching the yard in July, when we've had no rain, is NOT the thing to do."

Her work ethic, be it at home, or at her job, would leave most people gasping. Her twin is the same. Shoot, the CEO of her company (some 2400 employees) knows her.

The H.R. department, when she called them to see if they'd let her go back to work early, said "What? You want to come back early? You were approved for 3 months off. We've never had anyone ask to come back early."

This was the cover of the UNC Chapel Hill Newspaper.. only it wasn't redacted.

Mississippi quarantines more than 2,000 students and 500 teachers as hundreds tested positive for coronavirus, but the governor says, 'It doesn't mean they caught it there'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mississippi-quarantines-more-2-000-224528239.html

And America continues to be a laughing stock around the world.

smfh

I just checked the website. UNC is going to remote learning for all undergraduates, and they want all students who can to get their stuff out of the dorms and cancel housing contracts by the 25th.
The schools positivity rate went from 2.8 to 13.6 percent in a week.
They have 177 in isolation and 349 in quarantine and used up all but 4 quarantine dorm rooms in the first week

Horrible. Who thought this was going to be a good idea? smh

Don't look at me. I am waiting for the same thing to happen in the High Schools that are opening up in Ohio

j/c:

This morning, I was texting w/one of teachers I used to work with and she told me that she had a million questions for how they were going to deal the students return to school. Ste told me that they were told to "teach on the fly" and that this is "triage education."

Another thing that is interesting is that teachers had to apply to opt out of the classroom and teach virtually. They were also told they would lose their position at their particular school if they opted out of the classroom. Then, a ton of kids chose the online option and the district was short of online teachers, so they changed the rules, but still wanted teachers in the classroom to teach children virtually.

It's a cluster....

Notre Dame, Michigan State suspend in-person instruction

“If these steps are not successful, we will have to send students home as we did last spring,” said Notre Dame President John I. Jenkins.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/18...onavirus-398043

We are told the virus is everywhere, and it will never stop until either herd immunity comes about, OR if a vaccine is found/made.


And then this, from the article:


A 2 week 'temporary' is to contain the spread? So, in 2 weeks, it will be fine?







Follow the money folks. The longer colleges keep students on campus, the less they refund.

No it won't be fine. Many of these cases came about due to kids showing up to campus with it. It spread from there. And yes, it's all about the money.

Uh...........that's kind of my point?

That was kind of me agreeing with you.

j/c

Coronavirus cases among students at University of Alabama climbs to more than 1,000

The dean of the College of Community Health Sciences said there is "no evidence of virus transmission due to in-person class instruction."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cor...sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

Roll Tide!

The SEC's "dance minstrel, dance" attitude towards student athlete safety during the pandemic is such an atrocity.

Cancel NCAA sports.

Jc
Only copied and pasted the pertinent part of the link. There are multiple topics covered


2 young teachers die from COVID-19 complications

A third-grade teacher at Windsor Elementary School in Columbia, S.C., died on Monday, days after her COVID-19 diagnosis. Music lover Demetria Bannister, 28, was known as “Windsor’s Songbird,” principal Denise Quickel said in a press release sent to Yahoo Life. Bannister last visited campus on Aug. 28 and began teaching remotely on Aug. 31. On Friday, Richland School District Two, of which Windsor Elementary School is a part, learned of her test results and began contact tracing and disinfecting procedures.

Also, according to the Washington Post, a 34-year-old teacher in Missouri named AshLee DeMarinis died from COVID-19 complications on Sunday, after spending three weeks in the hospital. “She taught special education, and it was just her calling,” her sister Jennifer Heissenbuttel told the Post. “Her students loved her, and her colleagues loved her.”

A spokesperson from the American Federation of Teachers tells Yahoo Life that 210 union members have died from COVID-19 during the pandemic.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/school-r...-195843333.html

How long have schools been open? A month or so? Have we seen the explosion in Covid cases and deaths that so many of you said were a given?

Um, yes. Google is your friend.

No, not really.

It was a redundant question. LOL

People were freaking out. Just read the thread.