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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated that “extended school closure is harmful to children” and that the school closures in March due to the pandemic have already “slowed academic learning for most children and stopped for some.”

With the federal government backing up the reopening with preparation guidelines, back-to-school day is closer than ever with many schools to open their doors in fall. But Twitter is far from impressed.

In a series of all-telling tweets about reopening, people are questioning if it’s truly the best idea. ‘Cause kids will be kids, and “anyone who thinks children won’t purposely lick their hands and chase each other yelling 'Corona!'” has probably never met one. So let’s take a look at what people had to say down below, which is really a lot to think about.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a twelve year old godbrother who likes to hug and hang onto you all the time, so I know that children will not practice social distancing. There are adults who don't practice it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I may, circa 2018/19 "there's a chance it will precipitate at all today, and since it's *technically* winter, we should close for the day just in case -- that was also a thing.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is arguing that “even though opening school does pose a risk for the spread of Covid-19, there are many reasons why opening schools in the fall of 2020 for in-person instruction is important.”

The main reasons, according to the CDC, are the following: “Schools play a critical role in the wellbeing of communities” and “Schools provide critical instruction and academic support.”

It also urges that K-12 schools should “coordinate, plan, and prepare” reopenings and expect “potential COVID-19 cases and increased school community transmission.”

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find that whole thing extremely sexist. Not just for the girl, but for us boys because they think we are so stupid that we will be so distracted if we see a bra strap or a bare shoulder that we can’t concentrate on school.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@Hans, it's not that nobody cares. Students are suffering, parents are suffering, mental health problems are spiking, businesses are closing and people are going bankrupt. But you can't just pretend that covid doesn't exist and expect it to go away. America is in a room filling with water and refusing to remove more than one pail a day, eventually they're either going to have to fully commit to bailing, or they're going to drown. The effects of quarantine are unavoidable, it's just a question of when.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Force the school board to give million dollar life insurance to every teacher a student if they die of Covid 19. Then you will see them reverse their decision.

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Meanwhile, teachers remain skeptical about reopening. In a previous interview with Bored Panda, an experienced teacher named Melissa Hillman, whose Twitter thread on the alarming scenario of what will happen if schools reopen has gone viral, said that safe reopening is impossible.

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“You can’t safely reopen schools when a third of your parents are not following the basic directives that keep the local community safe.”

The teacher also called schools “notorious petri dishes” and said that the danger lies in a “a significant percentage who are not just non-compliant with common-sense safety recommendations, but are actively hostile to them.”

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The US has lost control over the pandemic. As simple, as sad, as brutal as that.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know where I live the School Board has a meeting between the parent and teachers and only listened to the parents concerns and suggestions and any time a teacher had voiced their concerns the Board would not even listen to what they were trying to say. Every single Teacher is putting themselves and their families at a Huge extremely scary risk at the expense of parents who don't want to deal with their children home anymore. Many put in to Retire.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok. If you don't like the lice comparison, how about chicken pox? Or a stomach flu? Or a cold? I worked at an elementary school and when one kid got sick, 50 kids/staff got sick. There was one stomach bug that was so epic, it makes those sugar free gummy bear stories sound like a vacation.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Over here, every teacher is entitled testing every two weeks. Obviously, the US administration thinks that such a policy would be wasted money.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Religious private prek-8th. They had the meeting over zoom. we are going back in person. I remember when in fourth grade they called a family member to clean the nail polish off my fingers (or they would send me home), get made at us for wearing scrunchies on our arms (SINCE WE AREN"T ALLOWED TO wear bracelets), and once my sister was gonna be sent home (my dad brought extra from home though) for wearing socks with a blue stripe at the top when they are supposed to be plain white. I feel like some of it is racism, considering some kids weren't even sent home for having the nike symbol on their socks, just given warnings. Reminds me of the time I got yelled...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me it's also my students getting long term chronic effects - they are too young to spend the rest of their lives with debilitating complications.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It seems that those risks are very low. Hard to find good statistics, but I'm going to guess that risk of hospitalization is less than 0.1% for children under 10. Realistically, probably more children will be hurt by staying home (feeding children, domestic abuse, etc.) than would be hurt by going back to school. PROBABLY. But as this post points out, the risk to teachers, parents, and grandparents, even when they don't die, is substantial.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly. And this isn’t a new concept either. Just think of all those pre-vaccination childhood diseases our parents and grandparents (and older) were at risk for when they were kids. Think of all the past generations of people who survived childhood rheumatic fever only to have weakened hearts and die young from heart attacks, or scarlet fever only to have lifelong joint pain—-even now the mumps can result in infertility. And all because of exposure to someone who is contagious. Like a classmate in school.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If he's in the us 6 weeks is all we are entitled to if we get sick with disability pay. I think 70% of paycheck but I could be off

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, realistically, young healthy people are not terribly at risk of death. But you are totally right about those risks.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never tire of a common sense reaction. Am wondering why remote school isn't an option?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are f*****g creepy and disturbing... photoshops of cats with child coughing faces.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The idiots who say "but its against my constitutional rights to have to wear a mask" are the ones who should be forced to clean and disinfect the school every night

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...and shut down every team that had contact with The Marlins so we know it's transferrable.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder if this means they'll be allowed to open the windows lower than that black line?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the "greatest country in the world". It certainly is the greatest in ignorance, arrogance and abhorring self-absorbed population.

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