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Do you think it's time for kids to go back to school?

Grim17

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From what I understand, Covid 19 is a minimal threat to children in both contracting the virus, as well dying from it. I looked up some stats at the CDC website that I thought were interesting:

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Pacific Oceans Pediatrics founder Dr. Robert Hamilton said that kids 18 and younger only comprise about 1.7% of Covid cases, and most of them are asymptomatic. As the chart above from the CDC indicates, kids 15 and younger have only accounted for 0.02% of total Covid deaths in the United States. The Guardian just ran an article on Monday titled "Schools reopening has not triggered rise in Covid-19 cases, EU ministers told", and Sweden never shut down their schools and I haven't heard anything negative thus far about children dying at an exponential rate.

Anyway, after hearing that Cambridge University is canceling classes until the summer of 2021, and seeing all the failed predictions of gloom and doom about Liberty University being open, I though it was a subject worth exploring.

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Grim17 said:
From what I understand, Covid 19 is a minimal threat to children in both contracting the virus, as well dying from it. I looked up some stats at the CDC website that I thought were interesting:


Pacific Oceans Pediatrics founder Dr. Robert Hamilton said that kids 18 and younger only comprise about 1.7% of Covid cases, and most of them are asymptomatic. As the chart above from the CDC indicates, kids 15 and younger have only accounted for 0.02% of total Covid deaths in the United States. The Guardian just ran an article on Monday titled "Schools reopening has not triggered rise in Covid-19 cases, EU ministers told", and Sweden never shut down their schools and I haven't heard anything negative thus far about children dying at an exponential rate.

Anyway, after hearing that Cambridge University is canceling classes until the summer of 2021, and seeing all the failed predictions of gloom and doom about Liberty University being open, I though it was a subject worth exploring.

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I don't support human sacrifice, especially child sacrifice, so no.

In case neither of those things bother you, remember that infected kids can bring the disease home with them.
 
Grim17 said:
From what I understand, Covid 19 is a minimal threat to children in both contracting the virus, as well dying from it. I looked up some stats at the CDC website that I thought were interesting:


Pacific Oceans Pediatrics founder Dr. Robert Hamilton said that kids 18 and younger only comprise about 1.7% of Covid cases, and most of them are asymptomatic. As the chart above from the CDC indicates, kids 15 and younger have only accounted for 0.02% of total Covid deaths in the United States. The Guardian just ran an article on Monday titled "Schools reopening has not triggered rise in Covid-19 cases, EU ministers told", and Sweden never shut down their schools and I haven't heard anything negative thus far about children dying at an exponential rate.

Anyway, after hearing that Cambridge University is canceling classes until the summer of 2021, and seeing all the failed predictions of gloom and doom about Liberty University being open, I though it was a subject worth exploring.

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There's no point in sending kids back to school this school year. Most districts have either already ended for the year or will within the next 2-3 weeks. Trying to re-start everything at this point would be a waste of everyone's time and effort.

Kids absolutely need to be back in classrooms this fall though. Distance learning has been a total failure from pretty much every perspective I'm aware of. Parents hate it, kids hate it, teachers hate it, administration hates it. And a lot of parents base their childcare plans on schools being in session. Students at home means parents can't work.
 
Problem is kids can't social distancing so infections would be rampant, especially in the really big schools.

That in turn would infect parents, which ain't good.

Then of course there are the adult employees of schools from teachers to armed guards (US only) to lunch ladies who all would be at risk.

What I am most worried about is the rising numbers being hit by a Kawasaki type disease that is linked to Covid-19. Kids might to get symptoms of Covid-19 and be asymptomatic spreaders which is bad enough, but hundreds have been hit by this Covid-19 side effect.

And let's be a bit realistic. It is the 20th of May. Schools go on summer break in late June. To get schools up and running again would take a week maybe so at best the kids would get a month's school. Not really worth it imo.

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Grim17 said:
From what I understand, Covid 19 is a minimal threat to children in both contracting the virus, as well dying from it. I looked up some stats at the CDC website that I thought were interesting:


Pacific Oceans Pediatrics founder Dr. Robert Hamilton said that kids 18 and younger only comprise about 1.7% of Covid cases, and most of them are asymptomatic. As the chart above from the CDC indicates, kids 15 and younger have only accounted for 0.02% of total Covid deaths in the United States. The Guardian just ran an article on Monday titled "Schools reopening has not triggered rise in Covid-19 cases, EU ministers told", and Sweden never shut down their schools and I haven't heard anything negative thus far about children dying at an exponential rate.

Anyway, after hearing that Cambridge University is canceling classes until the summer of 2021, and seeing all the failed predictions of gloom and doom about Liberty University being open, I though it was a subject worth exploring.

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Not until they figure out this:

PMIS: Rare Inflammatory Syndrome Affecting Kids May Be Related to COVID-19 > Stories at Yale Medicine

Rare Inflammatory Syndrome Affecting Kids May Be Related to COVID-19
 
Schools will remain closed for at least a year. Look to fall 2021 for full reopen, if not later.
 
It was never time for them to leave.
 
Not until there is a vaccine. Schools.have always been germ factories. They bring the stuff.home. Of.course if Trump has his way it will be damn the torpedoes full speed ahead.
 
rickc said:
Not until there is a vaccine. Schools.have always been germ factories. They bring the stuff.home. Of.course if Trump has his way it will be damn the torpedoes full speed ahead.
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...Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

You know, if meat processing plants can figure out a way to process meat safely, you'd think educators might be able to come up with a way to educate safely.
 
Great... another thread from "conservatives" who are quite literally saying not enough kids are dying in their opinion to keep them home.
 
Yes, they should return to school yesterday

-VySky
 
Grim17 said:
From what I understand, Covid 19 is a minimal threat to children in both contracting the virus, as well dying from it. I looked up some stats at the CDC website that I thought were interesting:


Pacific Oceans Pediatrics founder Dr. Robert Hamilton said that kids 18 and younger only comprise about 1.7% of Covid cases, and most of them are asymptomatic. As the chart above from the CDC indicates, kids 15 and younger have only accounted for 0.02% of total Covid deaths in the United States. The Guardian just ran an article on Monday titled "Schools reopening has not triggered rise in Covid-19 cases, EU ministers told", and Sweden never shut down their schools and I haven't heard anything negative thus far about children dying at an exponential rate.

Anyway, after hearing that Cambridge University is canceling classes until the summer of 2021, and seeing all the failed predictions of gloom and doom about Liberty University being open, I though it was a subject worth exploring.

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Right decision...wrong decision...it's almost June. This year is a loss.

Let's wait and see how it's going in August and go on from there.
 
Mycroft said:
Right decision...wrong decision...it's almost June. This year is a loss.

Let's wait and see how it's going in August and go on from there.
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I agree.

We are kind of testing the waters with reopening so let's see how that goes. I don't want to risk kids but at home learning is not working. I think my school district isn't planning on opening in the fall because they just approved tens of millions to give all students Ipads and unlimited data.
 
OrphanSlug said:
Great... another thread from "conservatives" who are quite literally saying not enough kids are dying in their opinion to keep them home.
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Look at the chart and you'll notice that that there are more than 9 times the number of deaths due to the flu, than there are from covid 19... We don't close our schools because of the flu do we? This just strikes me as odd.

I understood closing schools in the initial response to covid, but the data seems to suggest that as far as children are concerned, it's not even close to as dangerous as feared. There have been many experts who have talked about the harm that's being done to children with this lock down, and I just think it's time to consider what's best over all for our kids.

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Metric Mouse said:
Schools will remain closed for at least a year. Look to fall 2021 for full reopen, if not later.
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I don't see how this is even remotely possible.

But if this is the case and public school classrooms are closed in the fall, I plan to pull my daughter out of school and find a private school that's open. I'm not willing to sacrifice another full year of her education to further reduce the already low chance of her getting seriously ill from COVID.
 
The longer public schools remain closed the more people will see what a waste of time and money they are.
 
Do you think it's time for kids to go back to school?
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not until we test more people.
 
Children can be asymptomatic vectors just like everyone else.
 
molten_dragon said:
I don't see how this is even remotely possible.

But if this is the case and public school classrooms are closed in the fall, I plan to pull my daughter out of school and find a private school that's open. I'm not willing to sacrifice another full year of her education to further reduce the already low chance of her getting seriously ill from COVID.
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If the goal is wait for a vaccine or eradication of Covid 19, that's the timeline we are looking at.
 
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