I don't blame the teachers at all! But this should have been the national priority in April, and why aren't people outraged that colleges are open—so much more documented risk that it's not even comparable. For medically-fragile kids, we should have had special provisions. +
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Options included: zoom from qualified (older) teacher supported, as appropriate to the risk/case, by in-person "counselor" who is either young or otherwise little risk, in outdoor settings and/or with proper ventilation. But that requires resources and prioritizing them!
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Replying to @zeynep @CGrantAdvocate
I worry abotu the gap between medically fragile and higher risk for COVID complications. Poorer kids, and Black children tend to have higher rates of asthma, etc. Less likely to have access to good health care. Their schools have poor physical infrastructure - poor ventilation.
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Again, not saying schools shouldn't do these things. I just really worry about people grabbing "the story" that "school should open for poor kids" and leaving all the needed funding & precautions behind (like we've done with everything else).
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Replying to @AmeliaNGibson @CGrantAdvocate
Sigh, yes. The problem is the same communities whose schools are worse and whose children are more vulnerable, are the same communities who are less able to work from home, and will now be forced into worse--uncontrolled, less monitored, haphazard--childcare scenarios. Terrible!
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We should have, could have prioritized them. Instead, everyone is fighting over pods and what it does to equity, as if the equity crisis isn't about what we didn't do rather than parents scrambling at the last minute, and those with resources finding it easier to adapt—as usual.
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Replying to @zeynep @CGrantAdvocate
Yes. We should have focused (and still should) on safe infrastructure for kids who need to be in-house, and making sure that they can be, safely.
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Ideally, this would be the time when state/federal governments would offer support to at least bring school facilities up to basic building codes (so that we could get to the ventilation issue)....https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/03/05/too-many-americas-public-schools-are-crumbling-literally-heres-one-plan-fix-them/ …
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Also, I'm firmly in the "pay people to stay/work from home until we fix this" camp. But that's maybe a different conversation. Given the current political constraints...
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Replying to @AmeliaNGibson @CGrantAdvocate
Yes, and... Some things need to happen (grocery stores or hospitals), and after six months, we know how to do them more safely. That includes schools, with different modes for different kids/families/settings. Instead, we've abandoned the kids & are now doing mommy-wars via pods.
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Such a tragedy. I don't know what to say sometimes.
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