Parents and their children stand in line waiting to get inside Stengaard School north of Copenhagen, Denmark.Olafur Steinar Gestsson/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
But there are still many more unknowns than guarantees. Among the biggest, says Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, is this:"Is it safe and healthy for my kids to pack them into that classroom?" Ideally, he says, this is accomplished by widespread and frequent testing for the coronavirus. But Mulgrew also points to the safety measures being taken right now at the city's 100"regional enrichment centers" that provide child care for front-line workers. These include wearing masks, temperature checks, hand-washing, frequent sanitization and social distancing rules enforced even for very small children.Denmark reopened schools, for lower grades onlyafter a four-week shutdown.
Based on the typical size of a classroom in New York City, 12 would be the most children you could accommodate while maintaining social distancing, says the UFT's Mulgrew. At the International School in Denmark, they are grouping kids in classes of 10.
How are you going to get more teachers ? Class sizes of 12 is a joke .
Have school in summer...in buildings with out AC where rooms can get over 90 deg in Sept when normal back to school. Sounds smart. Not to mention the financial crush school are going to feel from all of this but sure they'll be able to double or triple staff for smaller classes
The AF has airman in tech school attending classes on three different shifts 8-4, 4-12, and midnight to 8 to ensure social distancing .
my first thought : Where are they going to find all these extra teachers & how are they going to pay them?
Not going to happen. School districts can’t afford that. And we all know the bottom lineis the bottom line.
Lolz good luck with the class size of 12
This is hilarious because the USA doesn't give a ^&*% about public schools. Funding for this Never. Happen.
Yes, one teacher equals 20 students. One week 10 students on, second week the other 10 on. Every students goes to school every other week so everyone wins. Substitutes would have to be trained as well.
New York City is boned
This is laughable considering the amount of money put into the school system. As if people havent wanted smaller class sizes for years, yet teachers are still paid nothing and the budgets are slashed even more. More so, where will poorer communities get the funding for this?
Class sizes of 12 kids or smaller? Maybe in a perfect world. Kids shouldn’t be crammed into 30 desk classrooms as it is.
Nice opinion bro
Also need upfront rules re: school shutdown. In Taiwan, if 1 kid tests positive, their entire class* stays home for 2 weeks. 2 kids, the whole school. * In cohort-based schools, a class is a group of kids who study in the same classroom all day. No mingling with other groups.
“Frequent testing for the coronavirus”. We can’t even test the general population!
Start part time online learning for high schoolers.
Great ideas here. Given reduced face-to-face instructional time, there would also need to be a deep dive look at a curriculum that has increasingly sacrificed depth for breadth even while under-representing marginalized groups, and the variety of methods used to learn it.
As a retired teacher, I have mixed feelings. It’s an enormous task...sterilizing, testing, parents fearful. If I were in charge I’d go full on for the fall. Stay safe.🙏🏾🙏🏼🙏🏽
Lockdown for 30 days to flatten the curve, done. This is politics now. Let the kids go to school and live their lives. If all states agree to ballot harvesting this would end in days. FireFauci
Have you ever seen a Publix school?
How many deaths have been traced to schools? How many deaths have been traced to nursing homes?
Classrooms half the size of what they are now? So I guess we can look forward to Republicans trying to cut teachers' salaries in half as well. God forbid public schools get adequate funding and teachers be paid what they're worth.
Reduced classroom sizes and staggered attendance might work conceptually, but how would you maintain distancing during lunch in grade schools? Private schools may be able to acquire masks for students and faculty, while public schools struggle with funding for up-to-date books.
Guess we’re going back to staggered, year-round school. There are simply not enough classrooms to hold all the students if you cut each class in half.
Sounds like neighborhood schools rather than the megaschools might be healthier, but then throw desegregation out the window. Do you think DeVos DOE will jump on that? edutopia NAACP
Sounds like a great way to fall even further behind the rest of the world. But what else would one expect from another government department overwhelmingly run by progressives.
Inner city schools and many rural schools do not receive equal funding. If the disparities are not patched up, more children will die.
Until we have Global vaccine, my son will never step foot back into school. You have to be quake head to even risk that with kids.
Until we have Global vaccine, my son will never step foot back into school. You have to be square head to even risk that with kids.
Can we ship the kids off to China?
why? kids aren't getting sick. Where's your measures for influenza? Fake.
Class size of 12 or fewer? Where is that going to happen and how?
Kids basically don’t get it. Let them get herd immunity, just keep them away from grandma
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Class size should be decreased even without the coronavirus. A classroom is not a warehouse. My best teaching experience was the year I only had 16 fourth graders. It was wonderful!
so places like nyc are SOL.
Kids need to stay home and keep learning that way. I am sure they would learn better at home than in school
My kids won't go back to this.