Current Events > If you were a parent, would you send your kids back to school next month?

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1280209946085339136
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fuck no

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Our King has spoken.


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Not if I could avoid it lol.

Also

Fuck y'know school teachers

Even if kids are less likely to catch it, they still can, and they will spread it to the teachers.

Schools can do online options in the meantime.

I'm a parent. it's looking unlikely.

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Depends on what the school is doing. My sister school is allowing online learning and going through phases based on hospitalization rates/availability soooo...

If it's just a "Go back to school" thing with no true guidance, idk how are these kids at all expected to socially distance.

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Depends on how attached I am to the child I guess
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Maybe, it depends on if cases are still down then. I would pull them after the first sign that things are going bad though.
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No, because school doesn't start again until September

And not even then

Stop trying to kill children, Trump.

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have them potentially contract a disease during a ongoing pandemic/increase their chances of dying from the coronavirus or put family members at risk
have them lose out on education

Seems like a lose a lose scenario to me.
If they go to school, my kids could get sick/die or have other family members get sick/die. But if they don't go to school, they'll miss out on learning and it'll be like they flunked a grade.

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Most schools I know of are doing the online thing. I'm not a parent but if I was id probably see if I can home school them until it blows over. The actual academic knowledge can be learned on the internet these days with free resources, let's just be real here. The real loss when it comes to school is social interaction with peers and extracurricular activities.
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Smh tbh
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No lol

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Same
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RadiantAdolin posted...

No, because school doesn't start again until September

And not even then

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Jersey schools dont open until September even when things are normal.

But yes my daughter will be going back to school. The local schools released their new policies, they are doing all they can to keep things as safe as possible.

The online schooling was horrible. Not enough attention to the kids, lackluster curriculum, reduced hours, a requirement for a parent to be home, and socialization is an important part of a child's development. I do fear restrictions being implemented will still cause a lot of these problems to be present in some form though.

We were lucky enough to not experience any major hardships from a couple months of online schooling, but if one of us needed to stay home again once school started it would cause major finance problems. Myself and my wife are both essential workers in healthcare and have not been able to take any time off. My wife was able to work from home for a short time but that has caused large backlogs of work that needs to get caught up on.

IMO remote working and learning are not sustainable.

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The tentative plan my kids district has is alternating one week in the classroom then three weeks at home. They've also bought enough chromebooks so every student in the district will be able to borrow one if needed.

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If Maryland schools are open in September, my son will be going back.

schools here arent open next month though if i had kids.

my brothers kids have their sleep messed up though. kids are 4th, 2nd, and preschool. they play videogames tiktok and youtube with their cousins all night. they sleep in the morning and get up around 2pm.

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I know schools absolutely should not reopen, but man is an all-online semester of college going to be rough.

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True
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Hmm
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I'd probably home school them anyway.

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