This needs to be on top

I have a twelve year old godbrother who likes to hug and hang onto you all the time, so I know that children will not practice social distancing. There are adults who don't practice it.

If I may, circa 2018/19 "there's a chance it will precipitate at all today, and since it's *technically* winter, we should close for the day just in case -- that was also a thing.

I find that whole thing extremely sexist. Not just for the girl, but for us boys because they think we are so stupid that we will be so distracted if we see a bra strap or a bare shoulder that we can’t concentrate on school.

@Hans, it's not that nobody cares. Students are suffering, parents are suffering, mental health problems are spiking, businesses are closing and people are going bankrupt. But you can't just pretend that covid doesn't exist and expect it to go away. America is in a room filling with water and refusing to remove more than one pail a day, eventually they're either going to have to fully commit to bailing, or they're going to drown. The effects of quarantine are unavoidable, it's just a question of when.

Force the school board to give million dollar life insurance to every teacher a student if they die of Covid 19. Then you will see them reverse their decision.

The US has lost control over the pandemic. As simple, as sad, as brutal as that.

I know where I live the School Board has a meeting between the parent and teachers and only listened to the parents concerns and suggestions and any time a teacher had voiced their concerns the Board would not even listen to what they were trying to say. Every single Teacher is putting themselves and their families at a Huge extremely scary risk at the expense of parents who don't want to deal with their children home anymore. Many put in to Retire.

Word!

None of my schools could do this besides pre-k

I have a strong feeling that that is so.

Ok. If you don't like the lice comparison, how about chicken pox? Or a stomach flu? Or a cold? I worked at an elementary school and when one kid got sick, 50 kids/staff got sick. There was one stomach bug that was so epic, it makes those sugar free gummy bear stories sound like a vacation.

Over here, every teacher is entitled testing every two weeks. Obviously, the US administration thinks that such a policy would be wasted money.

Religious private prek-8th. They had the meeting over zoom. we are going back in person. I remember when in fourth grade they called a family member to clean the nail polish off my fingers (or they would send me home), get made at us for wearing scrunchies on our arms (SINCE WE AREN"T ALLOWED TO wear bracelets), and once my sister was gonna be sent home (my dad brought extra from home though) for wearing socks with a blue stripe at the top when they are supposed to be plain white. I feel like some of it is racism, considering some kids weren't even sent home for having the nike symbol on their socks, just given warnings. Reminds me of the time I got yelled...

Exactly. What a joke.

I was told there would be no math.

Boys won't get boners from Covid so it's cool

For me it's also my students getting long term chronic effects - they are too young to spend the rest of their lives with debilitating complications.

*millions

Exactly

Never tire of a common sense reaction. Am wondering why remote school isn't an option?

These are f*****g creepy and disturbing... photoshops of cats with child coughing faces.

And all your friends are dead or in the hospital

The idiots who say "but its against my constitutional rights to have to wear a mask" are the ones who should be forced to clean and disinfect the school every night

It’s not. Period.

...and shut down every team that had contact with The Marlins so we know it's transferrable.

I wonder if this means they'll be allowed to open the windows lower than that black line?

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the "greatest country in the world". It certainly is the greatest in ignorance, arrogance and abhorring self-absorbed population.