Are schools now closed in every US state? And are they still open for the children of essential workers?
They're just now doing this? My kid's schools closed 2 weeks ago. Edit: sorry, 2 weeks ago..not 3...seems like 3 though lol
I live in a red state in the south. Our schools have been closed for going on a month. My grandson does schooling daily on his pc.
I've been on UI before, back when my hours cut a few years ago. Unless the system has changed drastically, I would get it again. And its my money. It was taken out of my pay checks and put into my UI account precisely for times like this. I'll clean up **** and vomit if my UI runs out and I'm still not back to work. Won't be any worse than working in the sewer. But I doubt they'll lay me off. We still have stuff that someone has to do every now and then, and now Im contracted similar to salary.
Seriously, where do you want it to stop? We could keep saying "but what about X, Y, and Z", until we get to the billionaire who got caught by the lockdown at his summer place in the Hamptons, and is now lonesome in that great big house with just his servants.
I live in a small town of about a little over 5k residents. It's that kind of town where everyone knows everyone. IE: family and friend oriented. So no need to worry about it. I'm an introvert. I RARELY get out. I don't like being around people. And I avoid it whenever I can. Yet even I know people that could watch my kids if I needed it. Not that I do. I work from home for an business that is considered necessary as we help doctors, police, security companies and the like. We even answer for the Marshals as a tip line. But if I needed to then I can. For instance if my IP goes out I would need to go into the actual office to work. (has happened before)
Closing schools in Seattle will more give the kids opportunity to be recruited into ANTIFA F the USA summer camps
Kids recruiting Antifa in Seattle? Hardly! In the Pacific Northwest would be the Right Wing white separatists who have been trying to blow up parades for the families watching the holidays.
For those who don't already know, it is instructive to review this thread and note who was trivializing this pandemic. Remember that the next time they are dissing things like climate change. Remember that if life depended on their opinions, we would all be long dead.
What do you mean? I was just asking a question. What does this example have to do with looking after kids?
Could be. About like the Republican spin of claiming that closing Seattle schools will give the idle kids opportunity to be recruited into ANTIFA summer camps! Lol!
Yeah, the schools being closed - and at this point I'm pretty sure they ALL are - has not made it easy for us. I've spent more time doing on-line training, webinars, and calling/messaging/emailing/texting parents and students to get on Google Classroom. We started it last week and now I have all but four of my kids on. Now the fun really begins. Next week I have to start calling all the parents whose kids turned in nothing because we've been told from on high that is online instruction and that the grades count. That's gonna be interesting. Oh, and the kids who have no tech at all. Our district has been passing out Chromebooks like there's no tomorrow. I'm sorta wondering where they were storing them all. Thing is, I can actually handle all that. Its the emails - the stupid emails that keep piling up faster than I can delete them. It's why I haven't been on very much the past couple of weeks - I haven't had any time. I dunno - maybe in a couple more weeks the chaos will die down and I'll have something of a normal schedule again.
It's almost like you work for my district. I couldn't get my hands on a set of Chromebooks to save my life the last two years. Now all the kids are checking them out. I've got half of my class on Remind.com and we're starting Apex on Monday. Our principal wanted our take on grades and we pretty much agreed no "F's" for the rest of this year. I work in a very economically depressed area. Our thinking is the kids have enough to worry about without a slew of 4th quarter "F"'s. Maybe. I'm in Southern California. We're not going back to the classroom this year. My District is also preparing us for not starting on time in August.
A kind of startling statistic I heard: 1 out of 1000 people in King County (where Seattle is) are already infected. That's actually kind of high, especially considering how the disease can easily spread exponentially.
I know I'm not in your district because mine is pushing Google Classroom and Zoom. They do want us to go easy on the kids as far as grades but on the other hand if we have done our due diligence with trying to get hold of the kids any and every way we can and they are still not logging on - *shrugs* We don't have an official mandate from the DO yet though. I'm not in an economically depressed area per se but the school I'm in is the poorest part of town and there's no major difference between it and the barrio. I'm in So Cal as well, although the northernmost part of it and yeah, we're operating under the assumption that we are not going back into the classroom this year either. They have not said anything about starting late next year though. As usual though, there's always the funny side to all this. Last week we were told if we wanted to we could go into our classrooms and take out anything we needed to teach at home, so many of us came in and took out our laptops, projectors, cameras, and butcher paper to use as backdrops at home. The secretary noted that under different circumstances it would look like the teachers were looting the school! Our IT person sent out an email saying we could take anything assigned to us except for the desktops and the Promethian Boards - then added that yes, there was a precedent for saying that. Meanwhile, I'm left wondering how the heck someone could even move those Promethians!
