Posted on 03/17/2020 5:07:04 PM PDT by Libloather
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced Tuesday that all public schools will be closed for the remainder of the school year and classes will be held remotely.
While at least 70 percent of all public schools have shut their doors in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Kansas is the first to announce such a sweeping response. However, many states have floated the possibility of schools remaining closed for the rest of the academic year. Many universities have already announced plans to hold classes remotely for the rest of the spring semester.
“I am ordering all K-12 to close and cease in-person instruction for the duration of the 2019-2020 semester,” Kelly said, according to Fox 4.
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As of Tuesday, the state had 17 confirmed cases and one death. The U.S. had 5,702 confirmed cases and 94 deaths.
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Geez
If I had school age children I’d be home schooling them anyway.
In Wa state April 24th is the soonest they can reopen. As it is the kids would be going half the summer to make up the days.
“As of Tuesday, the state had 17 confirmed cases and one death.”
17.
overkill, seriously
My niece in Tucson has her kids in a Catholic school that is currently closed. She told me that the City Council is actually considering having working parents send their kids to the YMCA or YWCA!
That will make the school children delirious with joy and TICK OFF all their working parents.
Will they ignore this? Bet they do.
You are clear, pithy and correct.
NJ here. Our district closed till April 20.
17 cases and they close schools. When the flu hits next year will they close again?
Pathetic.
We are doing online learning. Elementary kids took home packets for two weeks worth of learning.
Indiana has already cut 20 days from the mandated minimum. But I won’t be surprised if that is increased.
OK, I’m just taking a wild guess here, but I would bet that none of these governors have to agonize about what to do with their kids when both parents work.
And if I hear one more jackwagon breezily talk about teleworking as a solution... Yeah, I can telework, as can most of my white-collar neighbors, but not the guy who delivers from Amazon, or the people who make sure water comes out of our taps and electricity out of our sockets, or nurses, or first responders... The list goes on.
Maybe economic suicide really is called for here - Lord knows I am no infectious disease expert, but it sure would be nice if TPTB acted like they were balancing deaths from CV with those that result from economic contraction. A new medical advance that will save 1000 lives/year - if it is delayed a month you just killed 80 people. A 100-million workforce with 1% laid off, 1% of those resort to alcohol/drug abuse, 1% of those are involved in a fatality, another 100 people dead. And on and on and on.
I DON’T WANT TO DIIIIIEEEEEEE!!! OK, I’m alright now.
What happens when you elect a liberal Democrat. Kansas has (at last reports), four infections and one death. Perfectly healthly parents will not be able to work in order to take care of children who should be in school. Of course, being kids, they will figure out how to get together, at shopping centers, at other gathering places including cow pastures, so this will not help. I hope that people when remember this on election day.
It may or may not be. IMHO, my problem with this entire fiasco is that from the outset, information was monopolized by the Chinese government and US media who are perhaps the two least credible sources of info in the world. I do trust President Trump to make the best decisions with the data at hand, but I do have reservations about some of the people feeding him the data. As a general rule, I'm an "err on the side of caution," type, but in this case there are potential hazards in both directions.
My biggest concern at present is not the virus, nor the prudent prophylactic measures in place (international travel restrictions, quarantine of positive individuals), but the lingering question of how do we ever go back?
Once we're through this what happens with the next measles outbreak? Do we shut down the economy all over again? What other "emergencies" will justify like responses?
I am a student of history. I love history, and always have. I chose to go to Gettysburg College and major in history and still am a voracious reader of ancient history, medieval history, American history, art history, military history etc. In decades of reading and formally and informally studying history, I've never stumbled across one instance where panic (either individual or communal) has improved a situation. Apprehension that has prompted preemptive actions, yes. Hysterical panic, never. The ability of the media to induce panic, and the willingness of the American public to swallow it wholesale with little to no critical thought is to me, nearly incomprehensible.
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