What is happening with in-class vs online learning for K-12 ??

[deckeda]

OK, so let them play sports and compel them to attend non-distancing, full day classes? Are you sure about your understanding here?

At least if she were at home during that day she would not be spreading or getting the virus around school.

I don’t really think they should have basketball, either, but we’re in this no man’s land of feeling like she’ll miss out. It’s painful.

[Sarcany]

bazookaman wrote: I asked my girl how she would feel if she went back to school and one of her teachers caught it and died. Or one of her friends. Is one ok? Two? How many can we sacrifice so that we can move on with pretending like this virus doesn't exist?

From what I can tell, Betsy DeVos' answer to that is simply that any children not enrolled in private schools with endowments from many multi-millionaire parents must attend school and die if necessary to keep their parents slaving to fill the coffers of the elite. That's her "promise to American families."

[Sam3]

I'm surprised at the view that we can't look at the data from other countries and use that to shape what we do and try. This is illogical thinking which is below this forum. It seems that K-6 kids are fairing quite well, they neither get the virus, nor transmit the virus. That starts to change, it seems with puberty. There was a Washington Post article this weekend that looked at other countries school plans, some of the data comes from countries who had school open during the late spring and summer.

Washington Post wrote: Public health officials and researchers say they have not detected much coronavirus transmission among students or significant spikes in community spread as a result of schools being in session — at least for students under 12.
Virologists warn there may be additional spread that hasn’t been recognized, since testing asymptomatic people, particularly children, remains uncommon. But in many cases, young children who test positive have gotten it from someone in their family and do not appear to have infected others in school. Dig into reports of two or three elementary students with the virus, and often it turns out they’re siblings.

Washington Post wrote: In Finland, when public health researchers combed through test results of children under 16, they found no evidence of school spread and no change in the rate of infection for that age cohort after schools closed in March or reopened in May. In fact, Finland’s infection rate among children was similar to Sweden’s, even though Sweden never closed its schools, according to a report published Tuesday by researchers from the two countries.
In Sweden, researchers also found that staff members at day cares and primary schools were no more likely than people working in other professions to contract the virus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eur...story.html