We're starting to enter that time of year where kids need to start gearing up and thinking about going back to school. Though with the Covid, should they really and run the risk of becoming infected?
Should kids go back to school?
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In the UK they are on there summer breaks and they said they might go back in September. But it's up in the air at the moment.
Some schools reopened in the UK last month but I didn't really see the point given they are on summer holidays soon (don't know exact start date).
I feel like kids can go back at the start of the warm month, just enough time to learn everything they will cover before being sent home to learn via some computer connection. I know when winter hits, they shouldn't be in.
The fact is that safety should be our tip priority . If the rate of the spread of the virus has reduced in a country , I still suggest that the country shouldn't rush into reopening schools , they should rather encourage online teaching.
However , one fact is that the covid-19 , won't easily go away , thus online teaching should be used this year , and by next year schools can reopen .
In Croatia kids didn't go in school for last three month. They had online classes using Microsoft Teams. Some teachers did videocalls and some just share materials and do conversation using text messages. Even two national TV programs were converted into school programs. School lections were on TV entire day.
Now summer break starts.
For next year there are three plans - classic, full online and combination of those two. How we will start and continue depends on number of infected and sources of infected.
Now summer break starts.
For next year there are three plans - classic, full online and combination of those two. How we will start and continue depends on number of infected and sources of infected.
There is a heavy push here in Canada to go back to full day, five day school weeks in September. Some private schools have already adjusted and are ready to go for summer school.
As long as the virus is managed and people stay smart, I don't see there being major issues.
As long as the virus is managed and people stay smart, I don't see there being major issues.
I think the government wanted people to go back to work and didn't want to help parents with childcare. It seemed pointless considering they are going to be on holiday from next week. Schools are going to be very chaotic in September when it restarts.
Yes. I think people should be smart about it. But don't avoid work and school and make dumb excuses. If I didn't go to work, I wouldn't get paid and I have to pay rent. My landlord wouldn't buy the excuses that you hear about in the news about these teachers not wanting to go back to work. They want their rent and everyone out there wants these people to pay up what is owed.
Well. If you think really hard about it. Every 10 years or a decade there are multiple on going epidemics. When I was a younger in the 2000's to the late 2000's. There were 3 separate epidemics going on.
I had to go to school and they sent a lot of sick kids with flu and pink eye to school back in the early 90's and early to mid 2000's where it got spread around.
There was H3N2 going on and it killed a lot of people. Than the Swine Flu epidemic of 2009...H1N1. Then you have the regular flu epidemics plaguing America as usual that there are vaccines for. Then we have the 2012 Middle East MERS-COV that is still on going and is present in America. Of course everyone was familiar with the Ebola out breaks in Africa which stayed over there.
So yeah. Send the kids back to school. IF we shut down schools over every epidemic and pandemic our children wouldn't learn anything and not all kids do well in Home School.
Sickness is a part of life. We're born, we live, we die. That's the way of the world. We all went to school with nasty stuff going on. Some of those nasty diseases don't even make it to the news.
Well. If you think really hard about it. Every 10 years or a decade there are multiple on going epidemics. When I was a younger in the 2000's to the late 2000's. There were 3 separate epidemics going on.
I had to go to school and they sent a lot of sick kids with flu and pink eye to school back in the early 90's and early to mid 2000's where it got spread around.
There was H3N2 going on and it killed a lot of people. Than the Swine Flu epidemic of 2009...H1N1. Then you have the regular flu epidemics plaguing America as usual that there are vaccines for. Then we have the 2012 Middle East MERS-COV that is still on going and is present in America. Of course everyone was familiar with the Ebola out breaks in Africa which stayed over there.
So yeah. Send the kids back to school. IF we shut down schools over every epidemic and pandemic our children wouldn't learn anything and not all kids do well in Home School.
Sickness is a part of life. We're born, we live, we die. That's the way of the world. We all went to school with nasty stuff going on. Some of those nasty diseases don't even make it to the news.
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For more than three years, students had their classes online during the pandemic. I must say that it gives me time to teach and guide my niece to learn the proper way of learning. She had seen the differences in ways of teaching students at school and at home. Now, we are facing a new normal situation, and students need to go back to school.