UNC and NC State have both shut down/sent students home (1 Viewer)

[CaughtInThe]

That's North Carolina. Two major universities. Online classes only.

North Carolina State student housing coronavirus clusters


There were only 21 COVID clusters at NC State. UNC students moved in, then moved back out after two weeks of school. Shocker I tell you.

 

[MaryP]

That's North Carolina. Two major universities. Online classes only.

North Carolina State student housing coronavirus clusters


There were only 21 COVID clusters at NC State. UNC students moved in, then moved back out after two weeks of school. Shocker I tell you.

I have a totally off topic question I've been wondering about for weeks: Why do they start school so early in the South? It's got to be hotter than hades. In the north, we start around Labor Day.

 

[CaughtInThe]

I have a totally off topic question I've been wondering about for weeks: Why do they start school so early in the South? It's got to be hotter than hades. In the north, we start around Labor Day.

i don't know. but Google says...


"Because the south had an earlier start to the season, the southern students would get out sooner (May) to help on the farm than northern students, who typically get out of school in June. Because of this, the southerners would go back to school in August, while the northerners would go back to school in September."

 

[MaryP]

i don't know. but Google says...


"Because the south had an earlier start to the season, the southern students would get out sooner (May) to help on the farm than northern students, who typically get out of school in June. Because of this, the southerners would go back to school in August, while the northerners would go back to school in September."

Thank you!

 

[bongsaway]

Color me shocked too.

What trump and the republicans who support him opening schools are doing is the definition of insanity. Let's open schools in the middle of a pandemic. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[CaughtInThe]

Thank you!

i didn't know either. very interesting and now that i see it, logical.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Color me shocked too.

What trump and the republicans who support him opening schools are doing is the definition of insanity. Let's open schools in the middle of a pandemic. What could possibly go wrong?

they literally pushed American children/kids into COVID incubation pods.

AND GUESS WHERE THOSE STUDENTS ARE NOW GOING???? HOME!!!!

 

[MaryP]

Thank you!

Our local university is opening as usual (with social distancing and precautions in place), but students will be moving out at Thanksgiving Break and finishing the semester and finals remotely from home. This is to avoid students from returning from "hotspots " after break. The majority of classes will be as usual, but due to size limitations, or professors who choose not to face student germs, a few will be conducted remotely. This is move-in week. I'm guessing they have all been tested. Sure hope this works out, because the college is a major economic driver in our community, and it has been like a ghost town since March.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Our local university is opening as usual (with social distancing and precautions in place), but students will be moving out at Thanksgiving Break and finishing the semester and finals remotely from home. This is to avoid students from returning from "hotspots " after break. The majority of classes will be as usual, but due to size limitations, or professors who choose not to face student germs, a few will be conducted remotely. This is move-in week. I'm guessing they have all been tested. Sure hope this works out, because the college is a major economic driver in our community, and it has been like a ghost town since March.

northeast?

 

[MaryP]

northeast?

Maine.

Our county has had only 15 cases total since this began, zero deaths and only two active cases presently in a county larger than Rhode Island. Despite out of state visitors since July 1, we still have the lowest case per 10,000 in the state, and they say our state is the safest in the country. You'd better believe I'm knocking wood saying that--anything could happen tomorrow. But for the moment, with stringent precautions still in place statewide, we seem able to try this. We all grumble about the precautions, but like our Maine CDC Director said, we hit the curve with a hammer, early, and it allowed us to keep the numbers low enough to keep after it and keep it under control. Our governor closed schools less than a week after our first case, and a lockdown followed in less than a week. I was furious, but now I'm grateful.

 

[ElChupacabra]

northeast?

We haven't seen surges like other states in NY either. Some infected people in Columbia, NYU, and some of the CUNY schools but nothing even remotely close to other places.

 

[snakestretcher]

I have a totally off topic question I've been wondering about for weeks: Why do they start school so early in the South? It's got to be hotter than hades. In the north, we start around Labor Day.

Totally off-topic but Spanish schools in some areas close for three months during the hottest time of the year-especially in the Canaries, just off the coast of Africa where summer heat can be horrific. Three months 'lockdown' there doesn't seem to bring on the same sort of hysteria we hear from our conservative friends in the US.

 

[MaryP]

Totally off-topic but Spanish schools in some areas close for three months during the hottest time of the year-especially in the Canaries, just off the coast of Africa where summer heat can be horrific. Three months 'lockdown' there doesn't seem to bring on the same sort of hysteria we hear from our conservative friends in the US.

We've always had our two month summer break, and for some working parents it IS a problem because daycare is so unaffordable for many families. This lockdown extended that hell to five months and counting! So many schools are starting digitally or on a schedule where the kids are only in school two or three days a week that families who don't have the good luck of older children who can watch the younger ones are in a bind. One of those parents will need to stay home if they can't make alternate arrangements.

If the government had put that unemployment subsidy (or a good part of it) into daycare subsidies for working class families (not just those below the poverty line which is ridiculously low) I think everyone, including the economy, would be better off.