OK to open schools?

posted by iclfan2

55% of elementary only logged on 3 days a week??? What a gig.

posted by Spock

I could see one day a week with a computer but not 3, 

This is 0.001% insightful.

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

At some point, we are going to have to accept the risks to society of COVID - much like we do many other things.  No one wants anyone to die.  But the human condition is such that there are going to be things that come along and get some of us.  But we collectively weigh the cost / benefit of avoiding said risk.  In the case of COVID, the costs of keeping kids out of school is going to cost our society immesurably for years to come.  Online learning is not even close to an adequate substitute - even when carried out flawlessly (which it is not).  We are punishing our children by not only retarding their educational progress,  but by showing them the example of not fighting through something that is challenging, yes, but not something we can work through collectively.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/08/13/florida-teachers-writing-wills-obituaries-school-reopening-coronavirus/3362679001/

I'm thankful from the bottom of my heart that these are not my child's teachers.  These are teachers who are "writing their wills" before classes resume and "writing their obituaries" and posting them on FB, also "inviting" leaders who they think have wronged them to their inevitable funerals.

So many teachers are awesome.  But these give the profession such a stain.  Guess what, you ain't he only one being asked to go to work.  Be fucking thankful you still have a job.  If you are obese or diabetic or have some other conditions, make arrangements as I'm sure your district will allow in this climate.  If you don't want to go to work, find another profession.  Your unions have punished children enough.  

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

  If you are obese or diabetic or have some other conditions, make arrangements as I'm sure your district will allow in this climate.  

posted by Verbal Kint
Yet, McDonalds is still open to supersize the value meal with Mountain Dew 

Wait.......McDonalds sells Mountain Dew?

posted by gut

I think the point is they'd be in a classroom 6-7 hours a day, normally.  And, IMO, if not giving a lecture should be available and responding to emails for that time period.

Could be a glimpse of the future.  Kids go to school twice a week for socialization, and then learn from a computer program the rest of the week that runs circles around every teacher out there. 

Better education at 1/3 of the cost?  Hell yes, sign me up!

Not sure of how things are where you are or where you grew up but man a mess of kids would be getting greatly short changed here in southern Ohio.

posted by Spock

Wait.......McDonalds sells Mountain Dew?

Yeah McDonalds is notorious for their coke with bigger straws 

posted by Ironman92

Not sure of how things are where you are or where you grew up but man a mess of kids would be getting greatly short changed here in southern Ohio.

If a teacher had 30 kids, you could probably give each chromebooks for $600.  That's $18k.  You could probably even do it without internet as there are courses on CD's.

So, yeah, there could be substantial savings for better education.  The US spends more per student on primary and secondary education than almost every country in the world, by good margin in most cases.  And we get a pretty lousy return on that investment.

posted by Verbal Kint
Don't we need an unproven vaccine that makes some software billionaire even more rich to protect the .04% ( or .0004 for those who don't understand percentages) that do not recover because they have underlying conditions?   I'm sure the mental health of all of our youth is just fine because of this 

So you think a guy who has given away  $50 billion is worried about getting even more rich? Got it lol 

posted by kizer permanente

So you think a guy who has given away  $50 billion is worried about getting even more rich? Got it lol 

You’ll have to excuse Kint, he is a moron  

posted by SportsAndLady

You’ll have to excuse Kint, he is a moron  

Welp, I was just called a moron by the biggest douche on the site, what an honor