re: First day back as a teacher at a south LA primary school

Private school. Small classes. They already eat in their classrooms. Maybe the teachers will end up getting it, maybe most of them have already been exposed... who knows but unless it’s as bad as flu season last year with the kids we won’t be shutting down.

Oh when parents catch on about the monitoring temps daily thing...the children's motrin and Tylenol will be flowing like Niagara Falls. In fact I'm going to buy stock in those two companies right now. BRB

If a parent has any functional brain cells they will check the temp before going to school. But that is too much work so parents will not be doing it.

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Our kids school is conducting temperature checks after drop off and that’s it

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well gee, that shouldn't take too long

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f a parent has any functional brain cells they will check the temp before going to school.

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It’s worse than that. They give them Tylenol to reduce fever. Then, send them to school. They kid is obviously sick, but no fever. We have to wait until mid day to call hime. The parent is “on the way” until right before dismissal. It’s sick behavior.

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Temp checks are done by a few personnel each assigned to each grade level. Temp checks are done on the teacher and all students in the class. Anyone 100.4 or above are “discreetly” (Hipaa) led to an isolated classroom monitored by a teacher. After 15 minutes there, their temp is checked again to see if it has dropped below 100.4.

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This doesn't sound as bad as you originally made it out to be.

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Wow. Just wow. The guidelines that schools have to follow will be nearly impossible to accomplish without losing 50% of instructional time. We were given just a few bits of info concerning procedures like arrival, dismissal, eating breakfast/lunch and bathroom procedures.

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... unless there is more you are not sharing.

Constantly changing process/procedures

For example: my principal had figured out a way for kids to eat. Simple bag meals for breakfast and lunch were going to be placed on carts to be handed out in the classroom. But then the director of nutrition for the parish decides she wants the kids to have hot meals. So now every student from pre-K thru 5th grade has to walk to the cafeteria and back to pick up their hot meal to eat in the classroom. All while maintaining social distance and washing their hands in the cafeteria. How many dropped plates do you think there will be? How long will it take to complete the lunch process now?

Also of note, the bathrooms at school have to be completely sanitized after each class uses them. So the ritual in primary school of eating lunch then going to the bathroom has become a scheduling nightmare.

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This is what is wrong with public schools. People like you want as little involvement as possible and instead prefer to give ultimate authority to the school.

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Incorrect. Non-magnet public schools are representative of their community. It's no coincidence that the worst schools are also in the worst neighborhoods. Why? Because school administrations would rather shut up a mouthy parent to get them out of their hair than allow teachers the ability to discipline students the way the need to.

When Bonnie Sue comes into a parent-teacher meeting at 8am still smelling of cigarette smoke and Natty Light from the night before because she was too drunk to bathe last night and so hungover because she was running late this morning, that has a negative impact on their child(ren). I've got friends and family who teach in a variety of La public schools across the state and that story remains the same across the state.

Question: Do you think that between the teachers’ hesitation about these procedures and some “Karen-type” parents, the in person schooling will continue for long? What’s the over/under?