I’m not following, most schools are offering the option to distance learn, therefore being in the classroom or on the bus is moot.
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I’m not following, most schools are offering the option to distance learn, therefore being in the classroom or on the bus is moot.
Most of Mississippi cannot "distance learn". Most schools have over 50% of students that have no way to distance learn because they dont have internet at home or a device to do their work on. I had about 75 students this Spring at Quitman in my 3 classes- less than 10 completed their "distance learning" assignments.
Distance learning is not feasible in the state of Mississippi outside of your suburbs. Parents have nobody to watch their kids while they work. They have to have kids go to school. School is the only way about 20% are able to eat regularly. School is happening this Fall.
No it's not at all that simple. My wife caught this and neither of us went anywhere. I mean no Where. We used instacart for groceries and we both have jobs that keep us away from people and we live way out in the country... masks dont make that big of a difference when people are constantly touching their face anyway.
Or, everyone could stop whining, man up and go back to living life. Who knows.
The thing that most of you (a few do) don't get is that neither the Department of Education, the MHSAA, or the MAIS will make that call. Bitching to them and about them is useless.
Honest question here: The canton school district has said they plan to go to school 3 days and do distance learning 2. Who keeps the kids the other 2 days when parents work? Will it be grandparents who are at risk of disease and now have to be around grandkids? Would going to school every other day really stop the spread? Am I missing the logic here?
So "don't try to prevent the spread" is your answer because you don't think masks work?
If you are within 6' of a person with COVID and neither of you are wearing a mask, you have a 17+% chance of getting it. If the person with COVID is wearing a mask it's 3%. That's a 6 fold increase in transmission. If you want to kill football season keep making excuses to not wear masks. Even the President, who isn't a fan of science, finally admitted people should wear masks. Which I believe means you have permission to be ok with masks now. You'll have to ask him, but I think he told FNC that y'all arent calling masks a "hoax" anymore. Coronavirus is no longer a Democrat hoax either. It's really real. But Russia having our soldiers killed, that's still a "hoax," for now.
I literally just told you my wife got it so I don't follow your hoax assumption. Work on your reading comprehension.
I'm saying that masks alone aren't going to be the difference maker. It's not that simple. There are way too many people that are getting this without ever leaving home.
Horseshit political propaganda? Which part? The science part or the part based on the words that came out of the Presidents mouth?
Wear a mask. Save football.
You are exactly right. I had a daughter and stepson in 8th grade in Rankin County in the burbs and the distance ?learning? was basically glorified busy work. There was no challenge to it at all. And even they said that a good number of their classmates just chose to do none of it at all.
If you as a parent in MS,at least in the public schools, are banking on distance learning for your kid you may as well just let them skip the year altogether. It would be about the same result.
A virus that has virtually zero chance of killing anyone that is playing football will not determine whether or not we have football. People trying to politicize it will determine that, but it will have zero to do with the safety of anyone playing and 100 % to do with how they can spin this politically. The southeast will play football because the governors of those states will have zero chance of getting reelected if they try to push that horse shit down their citizens' throats. Any coach or at risk person can decide on their own whether or not they need to be in a locker room environment that increases their risk of catching COVID. If they decide not to coach, there will be plenty of people willing to take their job, just like there are plenty of people willing to take jobs at every single company in America right now.
Alright you can say all you want about what football players should do. But lets look at some real science here. Football players are generally highly fit males during the portion of their pubescent and post pubescent lives. Women will find them attractive and they will find women attractive.
So just like it has always been, people that age are going to have sex. A lot of it. As much as possible. And there is no force on earth that is going to stop it. So we might as well have football, in class learning, the whole nine yards. Because none of those things will matter if you can't stop the hooking up.
EDIT: Here is a perfect example of how teenagers act. You can't stop it. https://www.al.com/news/2020/07/tusc...rus-first.html
There were school districts that took the grades at the time students were ordered to stay at home for the remainder of the year. Nothing was required and in some cases, no or very little additional work was assigned. Not just very small schools either. I know a 4A school that sent kids home and the students did nothing the rest of the year.
The Chinese virus isn’t even in the top 10 things to worry about when it comes to football . All sports for that matter
everyone be smart use common sense , masks when needed , practice good hygiene .. and everything will be fine
But we all know what this is all really about...
What are parents supposed to do with kids during the day if distance learning is required?
So were you sick or did you have any symptoms? I keep reading where test aren't accurate or they are saying 30% are not correct. My thing is if one doesn't feel bad or is sick, has no symptoms but yet gets tested and shows you have the virus, what the hell does that mean?