By Jeshika Lamsal,
National Center for Education Statistics[NCES] states amidst the count of 2016-17- there are 98,158 public schools and 56.6 million students from elementary to high school in the United States of America. There’s a saying that ” if you provide an individual education, it’s precious than helping an individual with money.” Under the 14th amendment, the bill was passed, stating: all kids living in the United States have the right to free public education. And the Constitution requires that all kids should get equal educational opportunity no matter what their race, ethnic background, religion, or sex, or whether they are rich or poor, citizen or non-citizen. However, no one had an idea a Corona notion would be stalwart that can revolve the living habits of human beings.
Covid-19, a fatal virus all around the world infecting millions of people, surprisingly drug for COVID isn’t discovered yet. This fall, public school districts should prioritize full-time, in-person classes for grades K-5 and students with special needs.
The report includes an updated review of the evidence from around the world and a set of recommendations on mitigation strategies for the coronavirus in school settings. It adds to a massive reading list of back-to-school guidance that now includes comprehensive recommendations from the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Federation of Teachers, and every U.S. state except Kansas. The new report makes nine recommendations. First, schools should consider that staying closed poses a serious risk to children, especially the most vulnerable children. When possible, districts should “prioritize” full-time, in-person classes for the youngest children in elementary school, and special needs children. Christakis says that this is because these two groups generally struggle the most with online learning and need the most supervision. The only concern of the parents sending kids to school is a methodical high school has more than thousands of kids and hundreds of teachers. Despite Mr. President have a different stubbornness in opening the country for the economical reason which we can’t deny his words because he might have his own way fo viewing pandemic. But the United States of America is hitting the highest unemployment after WWII, and the patients for coronavirus is skyrocketing. The report also goes into detail about processes for decision-making going forward and says districts should form coalitions to make decisions on opening, school operations, and staying open. They should prioritize equity, understanding that communities of color are more affected by this virus, and that poor students and students of color are more likely to attend school in outdated and dilapidated buildings with overcrowded classrooms.
Countries from Germany to New Zealand to Vietnam have employed all sorts of methods to keep the coronavirus from spreading among students and staff, including having some kids show up in the morning and others in the afternoon; putting a group of students together in a well-ventilated room with a single teacher all day; wearing masks, and administering repeated temperature checks and coronavirus tests.
The results have been varied. In Denmark, for example, coronavirus cases dwindled even as elementary schools and daycare centers reopened in April. But Israel saw confirmed cases spike after restarting in-person classroom instruction in May when the government felt it had a handle on the crisis.
Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a pediatrician at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, walked me through the complexities of designing an experiment to see just how safe it is inside of any school.
Assume you’re trying to design a randomized study in which some students wear masks in class and others don’t. Immediately, a few alarm bells start ringing: For example, surely some parents of the students who were placed into the non-mask-wearing group would be unhappy their child would be unprotected. The school may also have trouble enforcing mask-wearing — especially if younger children are the subjects — and may not have the labor or funds to see the study through to the end.
And even if the study overcame all those hurdles, how could anyone be sure the results at one school would be comparable to another? The truth is no one can. “There are a lot of variables present,” Edwards told me, noting that each local situation deeply impacts the inner workings of a school. “We’re really struggling with how to study this.”
The different States have a different decision on reopening their school:
California’s two largest school districts announced Monday that schools will not open for any in-person instruction when the academic year starts in August and that students will continue to learn remotely. Los Angeles Unified School District and San Diego Unified School District are the largest school districts to date to forgo any type of in-person instruction.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his plan for schools to reopen for at least some in-person instruction in the fall. Proposing three models of staggered in-person instruction, de Blasio’s blended learning plan would allow for in-person attendance to range from one to three days a week.Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that in order for the in-person class to be allowed, a region must be in Phase 4 of reopening, which New York City is not. School districts also must be in regions where the daily infection rate remains at 5% or lower over a 14-day average.
Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa expressed growing concern about being ready in time to reopen schools by mid-August, given the spiking rates of coronavirus in his district. Earlier in July, the Texas Education Agency released its plan for reopening schools detailing those families will have the option of face-to-face or virtual instruction.
San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Superintendent Vincent Matthews said that “after reviewing the best available evidence-based sources of guidance from health officials, and gathering input from staff, students, and families, we have determined that on August 17, 2020, our fall semester will begin with distance learning.”
Ms. Lamsal is a National Society of High School Scholars member.