I would figure that by December of 2015....most American schools will go through the Ebola ‘scare’, and shut down operations for three months minimum. How they arrange for the kid to get credit, or just dismiss school for 2015/2016...will be a big question mark. A lot of folks will go ballistic because they think it puts their kid behind a year.
Added to this...how does a university function, if it shuts down for four or five months due to Ebola? An NCAA football schedule completely cancelled? An NFL season cancelled? A TV series suspended because two of it’s main actors are in some quarantine?
GoToMeeting. It's wildly under-utilized.
West Africa’s economy is almost non existant right now because everyone is at home. It isn’t the diesase itself that will hurt the most, but the fear of it, causing an economic downturn.
Most universities nowadays have online courses, the students could all switch to online. High school and earlier would be more difficult, but there are online schools for them too.
“I would figure that by December of 2015....most American schools will go through the Ebola ‘scare’, and shut down operations for three months minimum. How they arrange for the kid to get credit, or just dismiss school for 2015/2016...will be a big question mark. A lot of folks will go ballistic because they think it puts their kid behind a year.”
If I had young kids, I would SERIOUSLY consider getting some home schooling materials while they’re still available.
“Added to this...how does a university function, if it shuts down for four or five months due to Ebola? An NCAA football schedule completely cancelled? An NFL season cancelled? A TV series suspended because two of it’s main actors are in some quarantine?”
On this you are only skimming the surface. The REAL QUESTION is how will food and water be distributed to 330 Million people who are ORDERED to stay home under penalty of being shot on sight (320 Million of them unprepared and laughing at us now).