The Orange County Health Care Agency has announced that state waivers have been approved for in-person classes to begin at about 24 private elementary schools and one public school district serving kindergarten through sixth grade.
The reopening waivers — which must be approved by county and state public health authorities — apply only to elementary schools, and robust safety plans must be presented. State public health officials and educators offered the waivers acknowledging that online learning for small children is particularly difficult. Also, young children are generally“Do I have fear and anxiety? Of course I do.
Orange County officials believe they may be removed from the watch list on Saturday, which could begin the 14-day countdown for school reopenings., the county’s chief medical officer, said this week that elementary schools could soon be able to apply for waivers if county COVID-19 cases decline. On Thursday cases stood at 217 per 100,000, 17 above the threshold for waiver approval.
If the LA School District starts testing everyone they will not reopen until the end of time.... Even though everyone will be asymptomatic the hysteria is so great it will be like 'oh no' 4 people tested positive we must shutdown again and again and again
Good for them. As an aside, this statement by the OC official cited in the article is absurd. It’s not home education that’s the problem. It’s online education for children, uncoupled for real human interaction for children, and is always going to be, subpar.
The issue shouldn't be based around test results, but rather hospitilations and death. So what if someone had a mild case, as that seems to be the majority of cases.
I wouldn't send my kid to school in this pandemic. Let's defeat the virus. Until then we cant go back to normal.
They’re gonna spike in 10 days. You heard it here first!