Looking good, school reopeners! But in Mississippi, the results have been remarkably dire. By the end of its first week, the Corinth School district had been forced to quarantine over 120 students and staff. Later that week, a longtime football coach at Lafayette High School died after quarantining with coronavirus symptoms. And on Monday, just as another group of school districts opened their doors, the state confirmed COVID cases in 22 schools. One day later, Gulfport High School sent 100 students to quarantine at home after a teacher there reported symptoms. On Wednesday, the Rankin County School District, which will begin holding in-person classes next week, announced its superintendent had tested positive for COVID-19. https://www.thedailybeast.com/mississippi-schools-are-a-coronavirus-disaster
I don't think you get it, this is the plan. Step over the dead bodies, lose votes in the mail, stop testing etc. This is deliberate.
With Trump's puppet as our Governor I believe that is part of the plan unfortunately. Why else would the state with the highest positive rate of Covid be the only one not allowing absentee voting as an option for fear of Covid? He and our Republican Senators are more worried about voters than people dying of Covid.
that’s awesome I’m glad the marines are getting those fat kids in shape and away from 12 hours of fortnite and triple layer brownies !!
He’s not schooling his kids ? He needs to step away from Clutchfans and avoid spats with superior posters
Yep. It’s as if parts of America are currently being run by the Mafia, and they are doing whatever it takes to hide the bodies. It’s disgusting.
Trump is a self-absorbed idiot. Many Democrats have college degrees and believe knowledge is power. The last thing those parents want is to make their children suffer by having their schools shuttered so they can’t serve as polling places.
Teacher creates national database of COVID-19-related school closings, cases and deaths https://www.mycentraljersey.com/sto...lated-school-closings-cases-and-d/5591124002/
She was shocked no one else is doing that! Ha ha. Now she's not shocked I guess. (Psst. The whole thing is dirty laundry. You think the government wants credit for the deaths?)
Woohoo! My school told me my classroom size, finally! 419 sq. ft. But they told me one person needs 144 sq. ft. . . . So, my class can hold me and 2 students.
"When Teachers Call the Cops on Parents Whose Kids Skip Their Zoom Classes": https://reason.com/2020/08/17/teachers-zoom-classes-parents-child-services-coronavirus/ excerpt: If there's one thing the public school system shouldn't be doing right now, it's making life even more hellishly difficult for parents. And yet many teachers in the state of Massachusetts are contacting the authorities to report parents for suspected child abuse when kids fail to show up for Zoom classes. "Massachusetts school officials have reported dozens of families to state social workers for possible neglect charges because of issues related to their children's participation in remote learning classes during the pandemic shutdown in the spring," The Boston Globe reported on Saturday. The infuriating article is worth reading in full. The Globe spoke with several parents who have received calls and visits from the state Department of Children and Families (DCF). The department has the power to remove children from their homes and place them in foster care if agents suspect that kids are being mistreated, abused, or neglected—and DCF considers distance-learning no-shows to be possible abuse cases. DCF lists numerous circumstances in which teachers should feel obliged to call the cops, among them kids appearing tired or hungry during Zoom sessions. Working parents who have no choice but to leave their young children in the care of a sibling, or let them fend for themselves, will be particularly vulnerable to unfounded child services investigations. This isn't a theoretical concern. Consider the case of Em Quiles, who more at the link
related https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/science/foot-surveying-metrology-dennis.html America Has Two Feet. It’s About to Lose One of Them. For decades, U.S. metrologists have juggled two conflicting measurements for the foot. Henceforth, only one shall rule. This is a foot. This is also a foot. But one foot is a tiny bit shorter than the other. 100,000x zoom 10,000x 1,000x 100x 10x Graphic By Eleanor Lutz By Alanna Mitchell Aug. 18, 2020Updated 6:45 a.m. ET How big is a foot? In the United States, that depends on which of the two official foot measurements you are talking about. If it comes as a surprise that there are two feet, how about this: One of those feet is about to go away. The first foot is the old U.S. survey foot from 1893. The second is the newer, shorter and slightly more exact international foot from 1959, used by nearly everybody except surveyors in some states. The two feet differ by about one hundredth of a foot per mile — that’s two feet for every million feet — an amount so small that it only adds up for people who measure over long distances. Surveyors are such people. For more than six decades, they have been toggling between the two units, depending on what they are measuring and where. The toggling does not always work. Michael L. Dennis, an Arizona-based surveyor and geodesist with the National Geodetic Survey, has been cataloging mix-ups with the two feet for years and repairing errors. Last year, he had enough. “I kept running into these problems with different versions of the foot, and I thought it was ridiculous that this thing had gone on this long,” he said. “So I had this secret desire to kill off the U.S. survey foot, and I’d been harboring that for years.” Most states mandate the use of the old U.S. survey foot for their state coordinate systems, which allow surveyors to take into account Earth’s curvature in their measurements. A few states mandate the use of the new, international foot. A handful do not specify which of the two feet should be used. Arizona, for example, is an international-foot state, but when employees with the Federal Aviation Administration or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or the Park Service measure there, they use the U.S. survey foot. more at the, um . . . link
