There's a further problem here: The effectiveness of school closures is based on the premise that kids stay home with their families and limit other contacts. Ajelli points out that if parents"regroup" children to meet child care needs or if teens congregate freely outside school, the closure won't be as effective.
In Miami, Carvalho says, students will continue to eat — even if school is canceled. Food will be distributed at schools, similar to summer meal programs, or, if need be, the food can be taken out into the community. In Baltimore, Santelises says her schools often send kids home on the weekend with a supplementary backpack full of food. She says the district could do something similar in the event of a coronavirus school closure, though"that only typically gets a family through a weekend. So we have other ideas, we're just trying to see whether they will work in the current context."who are housing-insecure, and in some cases, they provide medical care, dental care and even laundry services.
"Those are paramount questions for our schools," Reykdal says."And if they can't deliver that when they choose to jump to an online model, it's unlikely they're providing a legal basis for an equitable education."
NYCMayor and NYGovCuomo want to kill people for some reason. All major cities with low numbers of deaths around the world (like Hong Kong) closed their schools before closing everything else. The data is there. Why won’t they save people’s lives here in NYC?
Headline not good. Research suggests that closing schools early reduces spread of virus. Best time might be never though unless things are actually done to address: kids who depend on school for survival, parents needing to work for survival, etc.
Reminder that closing schools results in some children not getting enough food to eat every day. The government NEEDS to extend SNAP benefits for at least a month.
research states that it will just DELAY the peak of the virus, not stop it. And what happens after we 'return to normal'? Covid19 will still be out there just like the flu, people will still get sick and it will still spread. What's the long term goal?
yesterday
Imagine how much better it would be if this Administration wasn't deluding itself and we met crises head-on without bullshit
StephanieValle7 Stephanie, please report to employers to keep employees who have traveled abroad home. Employers need to be responsible when they know an employee is compromised.
GovInslee - FYI
Immediately
Can someone who might be listened to please share this with the “leaders” in Louisiana? Waiting for everyone to get sick is a horrifying plan. NOLAPSchools mayorcantrell JPschools archdioceseofno jonbeledwards nolasupt
Then let's just abolish public schools. That closing them early enough for you?
Ohio has closed the schools for 3 weeks.
JVanderBrug Yes, be preventive, not reactive!
US report slams religion-based violence in India The US state department's 'Country Reports on Human Rights' noted 703 incidents of religious violence between 2016-17.
CUSD200
Why don't they close the schools when it's flu season? After all, Wuhan Coronavirus is just another flu variant.
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NYCMayor
Idk what they are waiting for! Close those schools now!
cityofpaloalto SCCgov
Close the schools and what do all parents that are nurses gonna do? Stay home and raise their kids or go to work and heal the ill?
What about home family day cares?
Now!
Duh!
See thats why Alabama's governor Kay ivey will not close the schools the test kit they got from the cdc was incomplete so my state has no confirmed cases of coronavirus
Look at Japan. They should be at high risk but have relatively few cases.
GovStitt Research on closing schools before confirmed cases in a community.
Oregon just shut down all K-12. Bravo, OregonGovBrown.
Over here in Belgium schools are closing on Monday. So are bars, restaurants, movie theatres, clubs , etc ...
In my home country Italy the Public Healthcare System, one of the best in the world, has been put under a very high pressure. The WHO has praised the government because of the lockdown which is essential to slow at least the spread of the virus.
Americans need to break their obsession with productivity. If we force our way ahead without taking proper steps, we will lose far more 'productivity' when people start dying.
MiamiSup MiamiDadeCounty MDCPS
Things to consider: ● Many nurses have children ○ Children need food and care ● Daycare is not free, not available everywhere ○ If healthcare workers get overwhelmed, hospitals will need to prioritize/triage ● We need to plan for the reopening of public institutions as well
The governor of Oregon just ordered all public schools closed from this coming Monday until April 1st.
It's obviously time to start talking about postponing the November elections a year.
Lots of excuses for us not to do what's necessary.
FanshaweCollege
It’s already spring break in many places. There’s been practically zero snow days. Just close down for a couple weeks and it will help the spread immensely.
Anyone that doesnt take this serious; why dont you think this is serious? &&Just anyone that wants to reply. . . should I be freaking out? I feel very ambivalent right now. Part of me wants to go out &'party' but i also feel im developing agoraphobia.
Close the schools. A teacher at a local elementary school here came into contact with someone who tested positive, but since that teacher hadn’t been to school since that contact they decided that cleaning is enough. It’s not enough.
ABCSupt
Yesterday!
Can’t fail
Last week probably
Now. Now would be the answer.
Naw, let's trust the administration and see how a few dead starter kids play out.
Omaha Nebraska public schools are closed as well as Bellevue Public Schools
marionginopolis
lmfao this is freaking insane. They say limit gathering of 100 people yet they won’t close our damn schools when we have over 500 kids under one roof.
lagrange_102
BASISTucsNorth any considerations or plans?
Close all the schools. I've been told it will kill many of us, so all extreme measures need taken. They need to close borders, deny all amnesty, etc. Close all immigration/release back across border. All resources belong prioritized to US citizens. We need to start mass deporting
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Our High School won't allow my daughter to school from home right now, even though other schools in Illinois have been closed. They said it will be considered an unexcused absence. Can our President require the schools to allow remote learning at this time?
The Vashon Island School District, in Washington State, will close beginning Friday, March 13, for six weeks, according to a message sent to families this evening by superintendent Slade McSheehy. The closure is planned to last until Friday, April 24.
But we can't close schools because of homelessness. In NYC, 100,000+ kids would have nowhere to go. Nice.
What about all the doctors and nurses with kids in school? Who will care for their children while the are caring for the sick. I agree with school closing now but those doctors and nurses are more important than ever right now.
mims cps_cchs please note.
School leadership is struggling. Leadership is waiting for the government to tell them what to do instead of using common sense.
FrancoOrdonez SpringfieldK12 we have to do our part. Massachusetts has community spread in Berkshire county. We must ClosetheSchools to StoptheSpread and FlattenTheCurve.Time to take a wholistic PublicHealth approach!! Let’s step up!
We don't have the safety nets to do this. How will kids eat? Who will watch them? We don't have paid leave, & stimus is going mostly to corps. I'm an NYC public school teacher, and I understand the risks, but schools provide more than just classes.
APuthoff Are you going to be the most popular Principal in the history of StH?
Shut it all down. 2 weeks.
Schools should close now. Helps stop the spreading of the virus before its too late.
Thank you for posting this article. It really shows the complexity in the decision making process. No easy answers.
LBMS65
America too poor to close schools or to help the citizens. They lost their jobs helping people for the people. Government failed
Good call then MetroSchools
Now
14 days.
APSVirginia I think it’s time. I have asthma & I’m a single mom. Please.
Ahem NYCMayor NYCSchools nycHealthy MarkTreyger718
But if the teachers & staff get sick because someone carried it in from outside of the school, the school will eventually not be able to 'field a team' - have enough staff to remain open. This will happen whether they have all their other ducks in a row or not.
What provisions for parents who need to go to work & can't leave kids home alone? Sending them to daycare isn't any safer from virus than school. Let alone the cost & lack of available places.
OakGroveSD you need to close the schools now, as a preventive measure!
Close them all NOW!!!
I agree... you can never be to early but when your to late - you can not undo the damage.
Just close the statist indoctrination day cares and camps already. They are worse than coronavirus with an infection that can last a lifetime
DiscoPriest If school have to be closed so does everything else or it is a waste of time
If schools close my employer doesn't have a type of leave to care for my kids that also would help pay my bills like mortgage, food and gas
Last week.
hudsonohschools
CobbSchools, please mitigate the impact of COVID19 by shutting down the schools for two weeks. Treat it like a early spring break and add a week onto the school year to make up for the second week. The sooner the better. Thank you.
Fucking duh
nprAudie Uh, now?
Wow, the best time to take precautions is prior to the incident? Amazing advice right here, folks.
Why be reactive? Be proactive and save lives! OregonGovBrown oregonlive
MY wife just said they are having a meeting Friday to discuss teaching from home for her elementary school. I think this will last until the summer.
Is the Corona virus dangerous to kids? 🤔
While I agree, I worry about the children who are fed at school and those who don’t have internet access to be able to study from home.
By the time they get a positive test, it’s already been brought home.
That’s why we won’t stop the spread.
CPS_Chelsea
takes 100 hrs to learn to read , can get a degree on line , 18 months , no 70,000 student loan debt ......
charterarts ChArtsPrincipal follow the science.
We haven't been following best practices this whole time. Why start now?
Well, DUH!!
With an incubation period of up to 14 days it’s probably already too late. Most schools offer online supplemental learning in some way or another and it should be utilized
NOW
Challenging to close schools in the US when people don't get paid time off.
tacomaschools
lahne They have to. Get it done. NOW.
ZERO DEATHS in Russia
I’m no expert but looking at Italy I say now to nip it in the looks like it takes weeks to erupt and can be extremely deadly to anyone. It is not the flu.
Have any children been tested in US? How many? 1?
HCPSS mjmsuper
So all the children can go to the malls go On Spring break go to the movies visit relatives. That’s going to help to close schools....give me a break
Not a single child, teen, young adult has contracted. This seems dramatic and puts parents in a really bad spot for what? Hysteria?! Come on. 1,000 Americans TOTAL have the virus.
Yes! Now!
Unfortunately in many (most) school districts school finances are directly linked to attendance, and many low income families rely on the child being at school for a period of the day in order for them to work.
DUH
no shit
Now!