Posted on Aug 11, 2020
Are you going to send your kids back to school or are you going to homeschool them this fall?
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"Though data about the virus in children is limited, the CDC says children are believed to be less likely to get COVID-19 than adults, and when they do get it they generally have less serious illness. But children are not immune. According to the CDC, as of July 21, 6.6 percent of reported COVID-19 cases — but less than 0.1 percent of COVID-19-related deaths — in the U.S. were among children and adolescents younger than 18. "
https://www.yahoo.com/news/should-you-send-your-child-back-to-school-heres-how-to-weigh-the-coronavirus-risks-155918104.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/should-you-send-your-child-back-to-school-heres-how-to-weigh-the-coronavirus-risks-155918104.html
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As a teacher, we were mandated to return to face to face classroom teaching. Some were able to do online learning, but only in limited numbers. Many took leaves of absence or early retirement. I do not know what will happen. I am high risk, but what alternatives do I have? I can't retire until I am 62 or until I have 25 years in, which coincidentally is two years for both. I was looking at an old newspaper yesterday from June 22, and it said that the number of cases in Florida was 97,000. Now we are at over a half a million and rank second in the country in total cases. Children may not get as sick, but they can give it to others. My friend got COVID 19, and it took her two weeks to get her results. She inadvertently gave it to her mother who subsequently died. From
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I appreciate your thoughts on this. I do suspect much of the concern about opening the schools is really about the staff. My wife and I are both in healthcare and live with the risks of our professions. I think we are redefining "essential workers" as this pandemic unfolds. There are huge second and third order effects of having kids out of class. I suspect there is no right answer and where you live will play a huge role in helping parents decide.
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Have your doctor put you on short term disability. Otherwise, grab some N95 masks and come on out with the rest of us who have been working through the whole thing no matter what preexisting conditions they might have.
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We are waiting it out. But our oldest just turned 4, so the academic consequences of missing preschool are a fraction compared to older kids.
Honestly, I've never felt this well in a long time since we stopped taking him to his daily petri dish of a school.
Honestly, I've never felt this well in a long time since we stopped taking him to his daily petri dish of a school.
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There has been a 90% increase in Covid-19 cases in US children in the last four weeks, report...
There has been a 90% increase in the number of Covid-19 cases among children in the United States over the last four weeks, according to a new analysis by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association that will be updated weekly.
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