San Francisco Sues Its Own School District, Board Over Reopening (nbcnews.com) 152
Several readers have shared this report: In what could be the nation's first such case, the city of San Francisco filed suit Wednesday against its own school district, demanding the restart of in-person instruction for more than 52,000 students. City Attorney Dennis Herrera named the San Francisco Board of Education, the San Francisco Unified School District and Superintendent Vincent Matthews as defendants in what the city says is an unprecedented legal fight between overlapping government agencies over how to reopen classes during the pandemic. Herrera said the board has had more than 10 months to develop a plan to get students back into classrooms and so far "they have earned an F." Students in districts just outside San Francisco and those enrolled in San Francisco private schools have all seen the inside of classrooms since the pandemic struck, unlike SFUSD pupils, the plaintiffs said. "Having a plan to make a plan doesn't cut it," the city attorney added.
While some major metropolitan areas operate public schools from City Hall, virtually all California K-12 campuses come under the authority of local districts that are autonomous from city and county governments. San Francisco City Hall and the San Francisco Unified School District, and its school board, operate independently of each other. "This is not the path we would have chosen, but nothing matters more right now than getting our kids back in school," Mayor London Breed said. "The city has offered resources and staff to get our school facilities ready and to support testing for our educators." Representatives for the National School Boards Association, an advocacy group for public schools and local boards of education, said they believe San Francisco's lawsuit is the first civil action filed by a city against a district over Covid-19 closings. "Reopening decisions are very, very difficult, but they call for collaboration, not litigation," association CEO Anna Maria Chavez said in a statement. "Everyone wants students back in schools as soon as it is safe, but it must be a community decision based on local data that involves all of the key players from teachers and administrators to parents and local health officials." Further reading: San Francisco Vs San Francisco School Board: A Push To Get Students Back In School.
While some major metropolitan areas operate public schools from City Hall, virtually all California K-12 campuses come under the authority of local districts that are autonomous from city and county governments. San Francisco City Hall and the San Francisco Unified School District, and its school board, operate independently of each other. "This is not the path we would have chosen, but nothing matters more right now than getting our kids back in school," Mayor London Breed said. "The city has offered resources and staff to get our school facilities ready and to support testing for our educators." Representatives for the National School Boards Association, an advocacy group for public schools and local boards of education, said they believe San Francisco's lawsuit is the first civil action filed by a city against a district over Covid-19 closings. "Reopening decisions are very, very difficult, but they call for collaboration, not litigation," association CEO Anna Maria Chavez said in a statement. "Everyone wants students back in schools as soon as it is safe, but it must be a community decision based on local data that involves all of the key players from teachers and administrators to parents and local health officials." Further reading: San Francisco Vs San Francisco School Board: A Push To Get Students Back In School.
Cue Flamewar (Score:4, Insightful)
I take a broad stance on "news for nerds", but this isn't it.
Go Science! (Score:2)
It's good news for nerds when somebody is fighting for science.
The smart money is on power and self interest, but that's just the unfortunate way of the world.
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It's good news for nerds when somebody is fighting for science.
Both sides in the dispute claim to have science on their side. So from this sentence, I honestly have no idea which side you are on.
The smart money is on power and self interest, but that's just the unfortunate way of the world.
Both sides in the dispute claim that power and self-interest are on the other side. So I still have no idea who you feel "the good guys" are.
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"Science", as opposed to science, is another item in the rhetorical toolbox of politicians to argue for detailed control over your lives.
I feel like Matthew Broderick talking to W.O.P.R., "Learn, damn you! Learn!"
It's Stuff That Matters (Score:2, Troll)
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Actually, the evidence is that schools spread COVID-19 very little. [umn.edu] Apparently the young's resistance to COVID-19 extends to not passing the virus along.
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It's a good thing schools only have children in them. If they had a bunch of adults doing something like teaching those children, then that may kinda change the outcome.
Also, there's some really big problems with that study. Probably the biggest one is it's comparing the infection rate of kids to the infection rate of the entire county while the schools were shut down. This ignores that the kids were not likely to be exposed to anyone outside their household when the schools were shut down - they were st
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Also, there's some really big problems with that study. Probably the biggest one is it's comparing the infection rate of kids to the infection rate of the entire county while the schools were shut down.
Incorrect. Re-read the article and the study it references. [cdc.gov]
It compares infection rates of children and teachers to infection rates of the general population while schools were open.
Both students and teachers had significantly lower COVID incidence than those in the surrounding community. If I lived in that area of WI and was looking to reduce my risk from COVID, I'd consider sheltering in a schoolhouse.
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I take a broad stance on "news for nerds", but this isn't it.
What kind of nerd are you? Some crappy gamer? I'm a politics nerd. This is news for nerd. I'm also an English nerd so I'll just come out ahead and point out that you thought of using the "no true nerd-man" fallacy.
They don't have time to plan a reopening (Score:4, Interesting)
They're too busy removing Washington's and Lincoln's names from their schools [theatlantic.com].
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And banning the use of acronyms [sfgate.com] because "acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture". No kidding.
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And banning the use of acronyms [sfgate.com] because "acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture". No kidding.
I'm waiting for these dumbshits to start addressing people as "they" because "he" and "she" are apparently sexist. Oh, wait, they've already done so. https://www.grammarly.com/blog... [grammarly.com]
Follow the links (Score:2, Interesting)
This is similar to how they found using words like "saucer" hurt poor kids in standardized testing because the
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paper written by author Tema Okun titled "White Supremacy Culture." Okun told me that, "Our culture perpetuates racism when things continue to be written down in a certain way."
That's needlessly inflammatory.
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People use acronyms for many reasons, but not because they want to perpetuate white supremacy.
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Only to people who are triggered by the word racism, which is a reaction designed to suppress discussion and legitimate issues.
It's similar to telling people to calm down or stop being violent. It's designed to avoid addressing the issue by changing the subject from the problem to the alleged behaviour of the speaker, not to help.
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Many people use acronyms. If you imply people are racist because they use acronyms, you are not only being inflammatory, you are also lying.
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They are not talking about people, they are talking about systemic problems.
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It's really sad that you are being modded troll just for reporting the facts, simply because the title of the research it was based on triggered some people.
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Quote from your link:
The district's arts department has decided to change its name, "VAPA" (visual and performing arts) to "SFUSD Arts Department" because they say "acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture,"
Apparently the actual problem is that immigrants have trouble figuring out acronyms, which seems reasonable, but they sure chose an inflammatory and silly way to describe it.
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"SFUSD"
Stoking Fear Uncertainty & Systemic Dread... seems a reasonably provocative acronym.
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Quote from your link:
The district's arts department has decided to change its name, "VAPA" (visual and performing arts) to "SFUSD Arts Department" because they say "acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture,"
Apparently the actual problem is that immigrants have trouble figuring out acronyms, which seems reasonable, but they sure chose an inflammatory and silly way to describe it.
Well... that's SAD, isn't it? :)
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Apparently the actual problem is that immigrants have trouble figuring out acronyms, which seems reasonable, but they sure chose an inflammatory and silly way to describe it.
People on the left justifiably get worked up when someone like Trump makes his point using needlessly inflammatory language to play to his hard-right-wing base - but it happens at the other end of the spectrum as well. I suspect it's as much an indicator of political ambition on the part of the speaker as it is anything else.
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People on the left justifiably get worked up when someone like Trump makes his point using needlessly inflammatory language
It's not really justifiable. Chill.
Re:They don't have time to plan a reopening (Score:5, Funny)
Excellent! Progress is made!
- card carrying member of the NMAAA (No More Acronyms Association of America)
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They're too busy removing Washington's and Lincoln's names from their schools [theatlantic.com].
What does one have to do with the other? If you think maintenance workers are responsible for teaching your kids then you have bigger problems. If you want to talk about something completely off topic and irrelevant, why not post a story to Slashdot.
You can't do it safely (Score:2)
The bottom line is you can't safely have 30 children in an enclosed space with an infectious virus running rampant. I'm not a huge fan of unions but this is a perfect example of them protecting workers from an unsafe environment.
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It would be great if that tabloid could link to the actual study.
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It would be great if that tabloid could link to the actual study.
Agreed [brown.edu]
You need to look more closely (Score:2)
They test constantly, do massive contact tracing, social distance to the point where they kids might as well be home (except then no baby sitters), shut down the class and quarantine everyone at the slightest whiff of COVID, constantly sanitize everything, and if they pass a certain threshold the whole school gets closed down. On top of all that some teachers just refused to come to class so they put the kids in the room with a resource officer while the teacher's on TV
Re:You need to look more closely (Score:4, Informative)
1. Wear masks
2. No lunch. This is the most extreme change. School is from 9am to 1pm. Children are expected to eat lunch at school.
3. More buses, with fewer children on each bus.
4. Children do not line up in groups before entering school. They get to school, and go directly to the classroom.
5. Dismissal is staggered by class so there aren't a large group of children in the hall. As a parent, I hardly notice. Although they may leave the classroom later, the pick up process is less chaotic, and therefore more efficient.
6. Specials (PE, Art, Music) are virtual. The teacher may drop off materials, or occasionally teach a lesson in person, but the bulk of the work is done at home.
That's it. There is no massive testing regimen. The school hasn't been shut down due to an outbreak, because there hasn't been one.
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2. No lunch. This is the most extreme change. School is from 9am to 1pm. Children are expected to eat lunch at school.
Found a typo. Children are expected to eat lunch at home.
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+1. I expect that in far too many schools the headline would be digested, and all of the rather expensive steps that are actually necessary would be poorly followed. I'd like to know what percentage of parents are actually going to send their kids in if given the choice? I suspect a vocal minority who are struggling with childcare and the anti-vaxxer tiger moms are the ones pushing hard to reopen.
We are being given the option to send our kid back soon, and have declined. Our kid will stay on "Zoom schoo
This is important (Score:2)
We asked about this specifically. We were told that it's against the law for them to check the temperature of every student.
Yeah, also not true here. I know several parents who are actively spreading "COVID is a hoax!" "Bill Gates Microchips!" wargharbl on a daily basis, who's kids are going to be in my daughter's class
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Yep, I've seen that study cited plenty of times. It does look favorable but I'm not quite convinced. I don't want to say it's wrong, and I really hate feeling that I'm on the opposite side for once...being the moron that doesn't want to listen to the science. But several things do make me question the conclusions.
First, I know how contact tracing is done, and it's not precise. Just because they were able to identify a source from which you might have acquired it does not mean that's where you got it. It can
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Actually science is on their side. Not having lower spread does not mean it's a good idea to declare those populations should be in closer proximity unless that community is closed off completely. Then and only then do your rules not affect the wider world.
do they have an union like CTU as well to deal wit (Score:2)
do they have an union like CTU as well to deal with?
And yet, check it out: SF City Hall (Score:2)
Contact Us | City Hall - City and County of San Francisco ...
https://sfgov.org/cityhall/con... [sfgov.org]
City Hall Hours - Open by appointment only but closed to the public due to COVID-19.
Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Closed Saturday, Sunday and Legal
If they are independent, then why the suit? (Score:2)
that are autonomous from city and county governments. San Francisco City Hall and the San Francisco Unified School District, and its school board, operate independently of each other.
Doesn't autonomy mean that the city does Not have any authority to demand from them that they reopen yet? If the board has so far decided that they aren't ready yet to reopen or put out the plan for reopening, then is it not within their power to do so... what possible grounds would a city have for such a suit?
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On the grounds of "This gets me time in front of a TV camera".
City of SF Believes School Board Wasting Time (Score:3)
Board members on Tuesday rolled out a proposal to drop academic considerations for enrollment at their nationally acclaimed high school.
And last week, the board voted to strip names from dozens of schools now bearing titles in honor of historical figures like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Junipero Serra and even current U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California.
Or to quote [sfmayor.org] Mayor Breed last week:
What I cannot understand is why the School Board is advancing a plan to have all these schools renamed by April, when there isn’t a plan to have our kids back in the classroom by then. Our students are suffering, and we should be talking about getting them in classrooms, getting them mental health support, and getting them the resources they need in this challenging time. Our families are frustrated about a lack of a plan, and they are especially frustrated with the fact that the discussion of these plans weren’t even on the agenda for last night’s School Board meeting.
Mayor Breed has been shouting this point over and over for months now, not just last week.
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Unfortunately, in California, the teacher's union is one of, if not the, most powerful political lobbying groups, and they are very fond of getting paid to do as little as possible. Some - through probably not even a majority any more - of the teachers are undoubtedly still in a state of blind, stupid panic, but the union will fight this tooth and nail, with the backing of their bought and paid for legislature and the sock puppet in the governor's mansion, simply to demonstrate that they will not tolerate a
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That actually seems like a perfectly reasonably stance to me. Let's get it done.
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"Teachers unions in many large school districts, including San Francisco, say they wonâ(TM)t go back to classrooms until they are vaccinated."
How do you vaccinate a classroom? Is that like a bug bomb?
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Sounds simple, and tried elsewhere, only what do you do when the teachers are at the front of the line for vaccinations and refuse to return to the workplace until all of the students are also vaccinated? https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]
Let's just ignore the whole bit that none of the vaccines at last checked are approved for people under 16, making it an impossible demand at present.
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what do you do when the teachers are at the front of the line for vaccinations and refuse to return to the workplace until all of the students are also vaccinated?
How about providing the teachers priority AND making it a criminal offense for any Teacher to refuse or fail to report to a workplace for the 4 months immediately after they use their teacher priority to get vaccinated? They'll have to explicitly agree that after taking vaccine Not reporting is no longer an option for the next 4 months, And
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How about providing the teachers priority AND making it a criminal offense for any Teacher to refuse or fail to report to a workplace for the 4 months immediately after they use their teacher priority to get vaccinated?
They don't have immunity immediately after getting vaccinated
if they get the Moderna vaccine, they develop immunity two weeks after the second shot, which is four weeks after the first: that is six weeks later.
So, what you meant to say is, the teachers have to agree to report to work six weeks after getting vaccinated.
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just make it a criminal offense for any teacher not to be at school at all times.
There's a problem with that.. No reasonable person would accede to that agreement that they be at school at all times without receiving commensurate compensation: making it an unconscionable / unenforceable agreement.
but we could pay them a few bucks a day so they could feed themselves from the vending machines.
It's still slavery, even if you "pay them a few bucks a day", that is not a lawful agreement - It is slavery i
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Let's get it done.
Oh, you have a bunch of doses of vaccines lying around to vaccinated all the teachers? Great! When can we pick them up from your house?
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The Union also has the need to protect teachers from administrative abuse. One of the best examples, in a no pass no play culture, is protect teachers certification when they are forced to falsify grades so an athlete can remain eligible. Without the Union most teachers would have no power to follow the law and protect their certification. The pressure on schoo
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Start with mask mandates...
Where have you been for the last year?
closing inside access to non-essential businesses (such as restaurants, bars, bowling alleys, hair salons, etc.)
Again where have you been for the last year? This was all done for a while and had little effect on rising cases. Irrelevant to opening of schools.
providing more physical space so the students in the schools can spread out
...by means of splitting students to half-time so you only have half as many students together as you normally would. Already planned.
All of these things have been done/planned, yet the city is STILL having to sue the district.
I say have the city stop paying any teacher that refuses to teach kids in person. If you don't
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I say have the city stop paying any teacher that refuses to teach kids in person.
Wow. "Go work in an abnormally dangerous condition putting yourlife at risk or we stop paying you" is something I expect to hear in Russia, China, or forced labour camps. Seriously fuck you for even proposing this in the west.
Meanwhile in the rest of the countries where rules were not only made but (this may come to a complete shock to you) followed as well there has been a very *big* effect on the virus spread.
Or maybe you've discovered some global conspiracy where the majority of countries concurrently sc
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Wow. "Go work in an abnormally dangerous condition putting yourlife at risk or we stop paying you" is something I expect to hear in Russia, China, or forced labour camps.
Nobody is telling teachers to go to work in abnormally dangerous conditions. With simple precautions, schools are relatively low risk environments.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/new... [umn.edu]
https://www.who.int/docs/defau... [who.int]
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volum... [cdc.gov]
This study [cdc.gov] showed that schools actually have lower COVID case rates than the surrounding community. This study [medrxiv.org] showed the same.
San Francisco's COVID numbers have been rapidly dropping, [cdc.gov] with a positivity rate of 3% and falling, and has been below the W
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Nobody is telling teachers to go to work in abnormally dangerous conditions. With simple precautions, schools are relatively low risk environments.
Yep the right wing back to workers, reopen the economy nutjobs have been pushing that agenda for a while now. Funny enough the unions representing the very people who you think will be perfectly safe actually prefer the *more difficult* approach of teaching from home. I guess teachers are secretly masochists.
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Yep the right wing back to workers, reopen the economy nutjobs have been pushing that agenda for a while now.
This isn't about reopening the economy, it's about reopening schools.
In this specific instance, it's about reopening schools in San Francisco, where the evil RWNJ mayor, [wikipedia.org] city attorney, [wikipedia.org] and board of supervisors [wikipedia.org] at San Francisco city hall are suing their own school district.
Oh wait...those "back to workers" are all liberal Democrats. Every single one of them. Huh. That kinda makes your left/right political spin on the story problematic, don't you think?
Funny enough the unions representing the very people who you think will be perfectly safe actually prefer the *more difficult* approach of teaching from home. I guess teachers are secretly masochists.
I didn't say nor do I think teachers will be perfect
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For example, if I went skydiving, scuba diving, and sat and watched a movie all in one day, I can't say my risk for harm was lower than someone who only went skydiving because the risk of death when watching
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This study [cdc.gov] showed that schools actually have lower COVID case rates than the surrounding community.
The interpretation of the results you propose: "schools actually have lower COVID case rates than the surrounding community" is nonsense. The children are all in the community, so their rates of COVID are already counted in the "community rate." The opening of school led to seven known additional cases transmitted in the school, which should be interpreted as the schools being opened increased the number of COVID cases in the community.
Another major issue with your interpretation is that you are comparin
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This study [cdc.gov] showed that schools actually have lower COVID case rates than the surrounding community.
Here's what Amy Falk, MD; Alison Benda; Peter Falk, OD; Sarah Steffen, MMP; Zachary Wallace; Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD said:
COVID-19 case rates among students and staff members were lower (191 cases among 5,530 persons, or 3,453 cases per 100,000) than were those in the county overall (5,466 per 100,000).
So you see, it isn't my interpretation, it's the interpretation of actual researchers in the field. If you don't like it, why don't you drop them a line and tell them they don't know what they're talking about. While you're at it, tell the CDC that the paper they published on their website is faulty and they should take it down
As for me, I'm gonna go
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No, we've put strict limits on supermarkets here. Stores have a limit on about 10% of the people in them, and I get my stuff online. The delivery person leaves it at the door and steps back.
Quite different and more essential that in person classrooms which we've shown for a full year is easily worked around with effective alternate means. Please learn the difference.
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Stores have a limit on about 10% of the people in them
Where is this? I've never heard of such a low limit, and the stores I go to are nearly as full as before.
is easily worked around with effective alternate means
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Online education has been so bad for kids that my district just lowered high school graduation requirements to the bare legal minimum because so many kids were failing and wouldn't get a diploma. Thousands of kids in districts are just... disappearing. They don't bother to login, and there isn't much anybody can do about it. This is 100% NOT an
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So shut down everything in the city BUT the schools? Lol. Besides, "non-essential" businesses have been closed for months now.
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Err, the science has shown that a proper lockdown does work, look at Australia.
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"Real socialism has never been tried."
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Sure it has, unluckily the Stalinists often show up. Currently it is working well in parts of Spain and Northern Italy and even I use socialist stuff like my credit union and co-op.
The problem is that socialism needs a free market to shine and minimal government, so of course it doesn't work very well in America, where the government is owned and ran by the rich.
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You are joking right. Obviously in America, the people serve the government, which learned how to command people back in the early 1860's, which also showed how an armed population can be beat.
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Have you got kids? (Score:2, Insightful)
And even with that they've shut down multiple schools.
All that requires a lot of time, money, staff and foresight. It's very likely that all those are in short supply. And that is very likely why the teachers are dragging their feet.
Just because a scientist says "It's safe if we do X" doesn't mean we can get people to re
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If you only listen to science when it suits your point of view, it's not science you're listening to, it's propaganda.
Sadly, in today's world, we call this "the news media."
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Being that the Covid-19 has a lot of Nasty problems.
1. Being infectious without showing symptoms.
2. Being infectious after showing symptoms.
3. Can be spread air born
4. Can be spread on surfaces
5. A much higher risk of death when catching the virus.
As anyone who has kids, or worked with people with kids, they love to spread viruses around. And while your child may be statistically safe, the parents the grand parents, or co workers of such may not. So schools can be a high risk environment, in which Closing
See the public school graduate above (Score:3)
As you can see from the above, public schools in the US are far below standard when it comes to many things, including English composition.
Science (Score:2, Informative)
Most health experts, and the WHO, think that opening schools poses little risk to increasing the spread of the virus, and most schools should be reopened.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazet... [harvard.edu]
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so they can replace dead teachers more easily.
OK, can you point me to even one COVID death among private school teachers?
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Clearly teachers are not immune to covid, and they have the same risk factors as the rest of us -- age, obesity, etc.
I think the bigger question isn't whether teachers have died, it's whether they have caught it at school, and how many of them have done so. Then, how much would some focused risk mitigation based on what we know reduce that -- like having old or obese teachers transition to virtual schooling (which at least some parents want anyway) while younger and healthier teachers go back to the classro
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Communications director Chris Carr said the women contracted the virus while on Thanksgiving break and did not return to campus following the break. He said there was no exposure to anyone else related to the school.
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Re: Kill all the teachers (Score:3)
I remember my fourth grade (I think) teacher talking about how steam power was "cleaner" than internal combustion engines. Look, idiot, you still have to burn something to make the heat, and it's a lot less efficient.
Your teacher isn't really wrong. There's nothing that says you have to burn something to make heat for a steam engine. Concentrated solar power will work nicely, for example. Of course, hear from nuclear decay or reactions works too, but is not so clean. And something like a Sterling engine is generally more efficient than a generic Otto cycle engine.
During the war, the Swiss were cut off from fuel supplies and from major engineering firms and could neither replace their old coal-fired steam locomotives nor
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Sense. People who can't spell arguing about public (or private) schooling. Too funny.
What does a bad 4th grade teacher (Score:2)
And yeah, they're going to simplify things in 4th grade. You kind of have to, you're teaching 4th graders. No, the text book authors weren't making things up, they were writing to a specific audience.
Again, I know we're not supposed to complain about the mods, but who the **** modded this up +3? This is literally a rant that education sucks. No discussion of any solutions. Nothing on topic even. Just pointless rage adding nothing a
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I remember my fourth grade (I think) teacher talking about how steam power was "cleaner" than internal combustion engines. Look, idiot, you still have to burn something to make the heat, and it's a lot less efficient.
Both engines work by turning heat into motion.
And your teacher was right: Steam turbines are more efficient at turning heat into motion than ICEs. Which means they burn less "something" to get the same output.
What? What chemicals, dumbass?
Yes, all children automatically know every chemical in existence. You wouldn't use a phrase like that to introduce something like "hormones".
like a dumb dog that ingests a bunch of meat-soaked paper towels and starts shitting the roll out in an endless stream whole. (And yes, I had such a dumb ass dog as a child until we got rid of it.)
You were literally dumb enough to 1) soak a roll of paper towels in "meat", and 2) put it where the dog would find it, and 3) expect the dog to do nothing.
Pleas
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Re:California children getting ripped off (Score:5, Insightful)
Your qualifications means you probably know biology well (at least, human biology).
But teaching is not only about what you know. You can be a good doctor/engineer/whatever and still be a bad teacher. And it works the other way around too.
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There's a great saying, "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." What it means is that when someone is ready to be a student, they can learn from just about anyone. At higher levels like universities or prep schools, the teachers/professors are much more likely to be specialized in the field they teach, rather than have a teaching degree. And it works fantastically well. Works perfectly well in apprenticeship programs too.
The challenge is reaching kids who aren't ready to be students either bec
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I agree we should continue teaching, and I'm glad it does where I live. Although I am worried about the quality of that learning too. The last thing we should do is to lower standards and let everyone pass.
Still, I think trained teachers are the most competent persons to teach to kids. Being a PHD and even Nobel price winner in chemistry doesn't automatically qualifies you as as good science teacher. Kids need to learn the basics, not a very narrow field of research.
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I think my M.D. and pediatric residency qualifies me more than enough
Interesting. Your post makes you come across as a stuck up wanker with a superiority complex. Regardless of your actual qualifications be that MD or a teaching degree I think we can all already conclude you'd actually make a horrible teacher.
bizarreness of licensing (Score:2)
When my oldest was about to start high school, we came home immediately so that neither she nor her sister would have to change schools during high school.
We came home blind, with no employment plans.
As I'd never done a volunteer year, I called the local high school district about teaching for them for a year or two.
While I'm also a lawyer, I had spent the last six years as a college professor, with a Ph.D. in Economics and Statistics.
Their response was that there was a year long class I had to take first,
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I keep hearing/reading from The Powers That Be that there's no science reason not to re-open schools. Let's Follow The Fucking Science and re-open schools already!
"The Fucking Science" isn't nearly that settled.
The studies that show low risk have some flaws. For example, they measure the rate of infection in kids after schools open, and compare that to the rate of infection of everyone before the schools opened. That's not going to paint an accurate picture.
Before schools open, the kids are likely stuck at home. They have very limited exposure to people outside their household and thus not very likely to get COVID-19. Meanwhile, the population at-large includes a
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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/new... [umn.edu]
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we all get vaccinated (and the anti-vaxxers can bite me).
I can't wait.
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The US isnt out of line with most of the EU on a cases per 100K basis.
Only if you count "double" as not out of line.
https://www.cnn.com/interactiv... [cnn.com]
When are you just going to fucking admit your WRONG.
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Sometimes, it is not possible to create a workable plan.
For example, the various heath departments have come up with guidelines like limiting class size. If you don't have enough physical space to do that, you can't open.
At least, not without a massive boost in your budget to temporarily acquire more space, which isn't going to be cheap in San Francisco.