Posted on 07/16/2020 12:31:22 PM PDT by karpov
In Honolulu, nearly all public schools are planning to allow students to return for just part of the week. But at Punahou, a private school for grades kindergarten through 12, school will open full time for everyone.
The school has an epidemiologist on staff and is installing thermal scanners in the hallways to take people’s temperatures as they walk by. It has a new commons area and design lab as well as an 80-acre campus that students can use to spread out. There were already two teachers for 25 children, so it will be easy to cut classes in half to meet public health requirements for small, consistent groups.
The same thing is happening in communities across the country: Public schools plan to open not at all or just a few days a week, while many neighboring private schools are opening full time.
Private schools may reverse course if there are outbreaks in their communities, and governors could still shut down all schools if they determine that local infection rates call for it. Some families and teachers won’t feel comfortable returning. But the ways in which private schools are reopening show it can be done with creative ideas — and the money to carry them out.
Public schools, which serve roughly 90 percent of American children, tend to have less money, larger class sizes and less flexibility to make changes to things like the curriculum, facilities or work force.
“The virus is this huge stress test on our education system,” said Robert Pianta, dean of the school of education at the University of Virginia. “It has exposed a great deal of inequity, and we are going to see this only exacerbated in the coming months, not years.
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Huh? They have ALL the tax money, time to take away money for private school students, let the money follow the child.
Wait'll they get a load of not getting a paycheck because of taxpayers refusing to pay for no schools.
Really? So the private school teachers did not demand an end to racism and that free healthcare be offered to everyone?
Taxpayers need rebates, no buses, no costs to operate closed buildings, and teachers should have salaries cut in half.
Usually more money? Many have very little. That’s why I have been donating to one for 13 years.
NY Times propaganda
Except very few, except the very most expensive elite private schools, public schools always have more money.
I have not found any connection to class size.
Flexibility is obvious. Private schools are not run by bureaucratic unions who adhere to State collective bargaining agreements. This rigidity of public schools is an utter disaster.
Public schools, which serve roughly 90 percent of American children, tend to have less money, larger class sizes and less flexibility
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Exactly.
This will be the left’s next BIG lie, to try to keep private schools closed.
Can’t have any education going on that isn’t controlled by the UNIONS/left/globalists.
Thats a bald faced lie.
Most private schools are faith based and manage with far less money per pupil compared to the bloated budgets of the government schools.
In October, when the public is seething about how democrats locked their kids out of schools they paid for, and we have data from thousands of private schools showing that the kids all survived, I hope Trump makes it into a national commercial pointing out how disastrous for the average family democrat policies are.
Yes, and the bloated public school budgets include much higher pay for the teachers, too. From a survey I’ve seen, the average public school teacher makes over 30% more than the average private school teacher, $49,630 vs $36,250. I am pretty sure that does not include benefits, either, which are usually going to be much more lucrative for unionized public school teachers.
Yikes ... 80-acre campus in Hawaii.
Cannot be cheap.
Partisan Media Shills update.
Governor Newsom tomorrow in CA is going to make some sort of sweeping announcement about schools—I’m hoping it’s “only” that schools can’t reopen until after Labor Day (that’s the rumor of the announcement).
I’m worried he will dictate 100% remote for all schools. For the whole year. For private schools too. Or whatever. Who knows.
I can guarantee that is the only and #1 concern of every parent right now in the US. Schools are toppling like dominoes all over the nation and refusing to reopen. The unions are so strong. Now “afterschool programs” are announcing they will instead be open full day, in effect becoming the new schools.
I want Trump to declare schools essential and urge (require?) their reopening as he did for the meatpacking plants.
The science doesn’t support keeping schools closed. Children don’t seem to transmit the virus much and they are nearly unaffected by it.
But millions of parents and students are being affected being denied education (and yes, childcare so working parents can work, whether in the home or not).
Trump needs to wake up—I love Trump but I am furious right now!— and see that “fall” and the issue of school reopenings is now here. Schools were supposed to start in 3 weeks (many of them). The rest of the Western world reopened their schools. The United States is currently poised to not follow suit.
If tax money is going to private schools then how long will they be private? If the government is providing the money then they government will have a say in what's done with it. The only way to keep private schools private is to keep the government out of it.
Yes, the government shouldn’t have any involvement except to send you a big fat tax rebate check if your kid is in a private school instead of a public one.
The school our 'bro' president obama attended.
Am I to understand that public school teachers will get full pay in September even without going back to the classroom?! WTF? Yeah, if kids weren’t returning to the private school my wife teaches at, she would be out of a job.
Yes, in my Christian school my kids go to, I don’t know ONE rich person. They may be there, but I would say no more than 10% are “well to do”.
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