American Academy of Pediatrics Calls for Children to Return to Schools Despite Corona

[LV426]

Hmmm.... Are you calling the governors of each state, who I will remind you are the ones responsible for the opening up of their own states, "asg" (whatever that means)?

The governors who opened their states too soon (and this includes Newsom in CA too) all made a grave mistake that borders on manslaughter.

NY got a handle on it and now they're down to about 500-600 new cases a day, while Florida and Texas are in the 9,000-11,000 range.

NY used to hold the record for single largest daily case count, 1 month into the pandemic. Florida now holds that record, 4 months into the pandemic.

Conservatives don't know how to lead.

[LV426]

So you agree or disagree with sending kids back to school?

The advantages of homeschooling is parents and children become closer.
The disadvantages are kids don't learn anything about socializing.

There's not a damn thing related to your "Trump needed another ass-kissing session" bullshit.
Just keep kissing the asses of those in the clown car, they love that you're one of their ass kissers...

Kids should continue remote learning, as they did during the last school year. There's no reason why they cannot.

Sending kids to school as a pandemic is spreading, is just about the stupidest idea ever.

It's not just kids that go back to the school, so do teachers, administrators, security personnel, lunch room workers, librarians, janitors, bus drivers, facilities, counselors, and aides.

If one kid has COVID and goes to school, that kid is infecting everyone at that school one way or another.

There is no way to practice social distancing in overcrowded classrooms.

[archives]

Pediatricians say students should be in classrooms for in-person learning as soon as possible – the most full-throated endorsement yet for getting children back into schools amid the coronavirus pandemic and one that was included in a set of recommendations released by the American Academy of Pediatrics for how schools should safely reopen.

"The importance of in-person learning is well-documented, and there is already evidence of the negative impacts on children because of school closures in the spring of 2020," the group representing 67,000 pediatricians wrote.
"Lengthy time away from school and associated interruption of supportive services often results in social isolation, making it difficult for schools to identify and address important learning deficits as well as child and adolescent physical or sexual abuse, substance use, depression, and suicidal ideation."

"This, in turn, places children and adolescents at considerable risk of morbidity and, in some cases, mortality," the guidance continued. "Beyond the educational impact and social impact of school closures, there has been substantial impact on food security and physical activity for children and families."
The recommendations acknowledge that infectious disease experts are still learning about the effects of COVID-19 and that all reopening policies must be flexible to account for rapidly changing scenarios. But the academic, physical and mental upsides associated with reopening outweigh the risks, the group concludes, especially as evidence mounts that children may not be the superspreaders medical experts initially assumed they were and that they tend to exhibit milder symptoms when they do contract the virus.

Perhaps most importantly, the pediatric group concludes, reopening is essential for the country's most vulnerable students, including poor students and students of color, who often rely more heavily on the multitude of services schools provide.

"Beyond supporting the educational development of children and adolescents, schools play a critical role in addressing racial and social inequity," the guidance reads. "As such, it is critical to reflect on the differential impact SARS-CoV-2 and the associated school closures have had on different races, ethnic and vulnerable populations."

The specific recommendations largely mirror the recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, though allow for looser restrictions in some cases. For example, the pediatrician group concedes that in most school settings, requiring 6 feet between students is not feasible without limiting the number of students in a class. It recommends instead spacing as close as 3 feet, particularly if students are wearing face coverings and are asymptomatic.

Rules are generally more lax for younger students in pre-kindergarten and elementary school – a recognition of the reality that younger children aren't likely to comply with social distancing and face mask requirements – and escalate gradually through middle school and into high school.
https://www.usnews.com/news/educatio...te-coronavirus

Are their many people who are saying definitively that kids shouldn’t go back to school?

Not a question of if they should, although Trump is doing his best to make it that, but rather how, what is the best solution, and that will come on the local level not from some mandate Trump is attempting to politicalize

[Irish]

Yeah because locking them inside for another school year will be very bad for their mental health. Guess dims stopped caring about that.

[LV426]

Yeah because locking them inside for another school year will be very bad for their mental health. Guess dims stopped caring about that.

How will it be bad for their mental health?

Most kids are on their devices 24/7 anyway, and routinely do Facetime, Zoom, text, and chat with their friends.

It would only be bad for their mental health if their parents were absolute turds, like you.

[Nordberg]

But there’s an election coming up lol.

At this point, forcing kids to miss another semester borders on criminal. Democrats are tempting fate with this. All of those soccer mom’s Democrats think they own and have in the bag for Biden are going to be pissed off if they have to keep their kids out of school again *when the evidence says it’s not necessary*.

It’s not good for the kids; it’s places a significant burden on young families AND it isn’t necessary. Studies have shown that even when kids get COVID their viral load is low so they aren’t apt to transmit the bug to adults—it’s generally adults giving it to them.

Trump needs to hammer on this.

You do not understand the argument at all.

[LV426]

Yeah because locking them inside for another school year will be very bad for their mental health. Guess dims stopped caring about that.

What is worse for a kid's mental health:

(1) Being at home, learning remotely, surrounded by their family?

OR

(2) Wearing bulletproof backpacks to a school with armed guards where they have to do active shooter drills?

If you think #1 is worse, then that means you had shitty parents and you're a shitty person.

[Micawber]

The problem with home schooling is lack of socialization, lack of standardization and most importantly the fact that almost all parents are not competent to teach children to be useful adults
who can care for themselves and their own children in the modern world. Home schooling should be exceptionally rare.

[Nordberg]

Yeah because locking them inside for another school year will be very bad for their mental health. Guess dims stopped caring about that.

Can you think even a little? That was as typical, insulting and dishonest. Dems are super concerned about the immediate spread of Corona through schools. Corona may not be a permanent condition. If we stop its spread, then school can be safe. We opened businesses too soon and Corona is cranked up. That gives us pause about doing the same thing to schools. There is very limited data about the ability of children to spread it and get it.The data gathering has not been focused on kids. It is like a new field of study, Sans real data, the left does not want to risk it.

[anonymoose]

Here in Washington they are thinking making Not People Of Color such second class citizens that they will go back to school last....capacity will be shrunk to start with...."Shit white people stay away, and dont even think about complaining, know your place!".

We're having serious second thoughts about moving to WA. For now we're staying put in AK.

[Irish]

How will it be bad for their mental health?

Most kids are on their devices 24/7 anyway, and routinely do Facetime, Zoom, text, and chat with their friends.

It would only be bad for their mental health if their parents were absolute turds, like you.

Shut up, fag

[Irish]

Can you think even a little? That was as typical, insulting and dishonest. Dems are super concerned about the immediate spread of Corona through schools. Corona may not be a permanent condition. If we stop its spread, then school can be safe. We opened businesses too soon and Corona is cranked up. That gives us pause about doing the same thing to schools. There is very limited data about the ability of children to spread it and get it.The data gathering has not been focused on kids. It is like a new field of study, Sans real data, the left does not want to risk it.

Kids don't even die from Corona. Maybe like 3. And why are teachers lives so much higher than anyone else that has to work?

[LV426]

Shut up, fag

I can see why you staying at home is bad for your mental health; you're completely isolated and lonely, and every day that goes by just fills you with more depression over being the only one in your own life.

[Darth Omar]

So let's do a thought experiment, shall we?

Let's say the school in your district reopens in the fall, but because you live in a red state with a red governor, COVID is still spreading at a rate of at least 50,000 new cases a day. Let's say a student is one of those infected. That student, who is a child and lacks the restraint to avoid touching other people, their face, etc., goes to school while infected with COVID. Then the kid tests positive. So what happens next? Does every student in that kid's class have to isolate? Do their parents? What about the bus the infected kid took to school, does every passenger on that bus also have to isolate? And what of the teachers? Most teachers teach multiple classes, so one single educator could be in a classroom with 150 kids over the course of a normal school day. Since one of those kids tested positive, does that mean all 150 of those kids must isolate now because the teacher caught it from a student? And while we're on the subject of employees, what about the janitors, bus drivers, counselors, administrators, lunch room workers, facilities, etc. do they all have to isolate too?

Conservatives are so desperate to pretend that this isn't serious, and they're willing to sacrifice their own children for the sake of Trump's re-election.

Shameful. I guess all lives don't matter.

Easy lol.

Don’t test them. Do they test school kids for the flu when flu kills more kids 0-20 than COVID?

Test them for both or test them for neither.

[LV426]

Kids don't even die from Corona. Maybe like 3. And why are teachers lives so much higher than anyone else that has to work?

Ah, but a kid could catch it and spread it to their parents. Not to mention the staff at the school. Teachers can do remote instruction. There is no need to push kids back into overcrowded schools where they have to not only dodge COVID, but bullets too.