Our district has 8 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 2 high schools...totaling ~7200 students and ~1400 employees. If memory serves, all of last year, the number of in-school transmissions could be counted on your fingers.
If all are vaccinated, that creates the lowest chance of transmission. Anything else, it goes up, and there are variables. Some shed more than others.
All I will say is I’ve read reports that you can delta in seconds.
I have no idea what happened at your school, but at ours the days where shortened so the kids would not eat lunch at school.
I didn’t say it was good enough. But realistically I know my district won’t do more. I am actively working with leadership to give feedback on their plans, trying to get the voice of at risk students heard. There’s only so much I can do. (And please don’t say homeschool. It’s not an option for a multitude of reasons I’m not explaining here).
There is also online schooling available if you can’t homeschool your child personally.
Not possible in our district. 400 sq mile district. The same Buses are used for all levels of school. It’s not physically possible to meet the transportation needs of a day short enough so that no one is eating lunch at school.
The high schools were handed lunch on their way out the door (our district used part of the Federal money to offer free lunches to any student who wanted one)...the days were shortened but only to allow for fewer kids on each bus (there were also more buses) and staggered dismissals. All the other schools, lunches were served in the classrooms and students ate at their desks, which were spaced out for social distancing.
Not when you have a child with significant disabilities. Online schools don’t serve those needs well (if at all). Nor do most private schools (for my child’s needs).
My kid ate lunch at school. It didn’t blow up.
Some children lose ground with remote learning. There are also special needs students who rely on services provided by their schools.
Some? I am pretty sure the evidence points to a crap ton. Especially those that didn’t have the proper support structure at home.
Hopefully by Fall as they are improving better as many people will be vaccinating as possible!Yeah, my post wasn’t an attempt to say it was negative or positive, just the facts. To take it out of the context of percents, 104M adults in the US are not currently fully vaccinated. Maybe 8-10M have 1 shot and are in the process of completing the series but that’s still quite a few people left without protection. If we assume somewhere close to 20% of the population has had Covid (10% tested positive and 10% more untested) and we also assume that the percent is the same in the vaccinated and unvaccinated population then 10-20% of those unvaccinated adults has natural immunity. That’s still only 10-20M people meaning 80-90M adults right now are not vaccinated or naturally immune
There’s also those who may have done well academically remotely, but whose mental health plummeted. Which is equally important to consider.
Yeah, I know. I was just trying to avoid coming off as being melodramatic.
Well...if that really did happen (which I think is possible, given where it happened and the contact tracing going on there), that doesn't necessarily mean it's considered a common occurrence. So it may be fact, yet be rare.