ilovetotravel1977
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Also, if your child starts to show symptoms of being sick for ANYTHING, they will be home for 14 days until it passes. They will be able to continue schooling through online for that as well.
Yeah, good point. It's all up in the air of what changes school make going forward. And as you say, working online may be more of the norm.
And as you say, working online may be more of the norm.
Or, what if in order to keep social distancing in classrooms, they do shifts where half the class does one week in class, one week learn from home online? Then on the weekends, the classrooms can be thoroughly cleaned for the next group of kids to come in for Monday?
Adding: but then workplaces would have to be flexible for parents to be able to work from home the week of online learning. That would help keep offices spread out as well.
My sister manages the custodians for our local school board. It can be quite the undertaking keeping schools clean on a normal day!
Our school board sent out an email to high school parents recently advising them that they are aware of valuable items left behind in school lockers over March break (fortunately my daughter took home her clarinet but forgot her almost new Nikes in her locker). They are now working with public health to figure out whether to allow students to retrieve items before the end of June. So for those in Ontario wondering if schools will reopen before the end of the school year, based on this email, looks like it won’t.
Yes, I would expect the mandatory 14 day quarantine to remain as well. But I don't know if it's going to be as big of an impact as it was at the beginning of all of this. First off, that would mean retirees would be able to cross (though, those with an pre-existing conditions shouldn't be crossing) without much impact. They're not affected with needing to miss work, as they don't rely on work for their income. Secondly, anybody who can work from home, also wouldn't be affected much. There are those of us, like myself, who had this freedom even before the stay at home orders came in, and there are also those who've had that ability opened up to them. For instance, my Sis-in-law works in school administration. Before this all, her working from home would have been unheard of, but now, she's doing the majority of her job from her house. The infrastructure's been put in place, the working arrangements have been put in place, and the means to continue working from quarantine have increased for many people.
It's only those who don't have the options to work from home, like some of my family that works in various automotive factories/supplier factories, who would have to take the 14 days off work, but that number of people isn't as large as it was at the start of all this. Still pretty significant, but still, not as large.
All depends on what the schools do. I could see this home-schooling approach become part of the new normal, where the kids will be able to quarantine, but still provide their work via their assignments. Our board here uses Edsby, and it seems to be working well for that. They can see assignments per class, upload their work per class, get feedback on marks per class, they have open communication through the messaging system with their teachers for any questions, clarifications, etc... The only thing they'd be missing is school interactions, and any of the lectures.
And those with tech restrictions, like lack of access to the internet, probably wouldn't have the subsided help they're getting now, so yes, those parents probably wouldn't want to travel and then have their kids out of school, but I believe some might. I'll admit it's not ideal, but it's a possibility I can see coming. We'll have to wait for the schools to re-open to know how they're planning on dealing with it though.
I have heard that communities up on Lake Huron and Lake Erie have hired security/OPP to limit access to their communities to only permanent residents and not seasonal property owners.This may have already been answered. I don't know if the federal government is monitoring travel, but yes, you can be turned away. In New Brunswick, all non-essential travel is being turned away at the border (including, Quebec, PEI, Nova Scotia and Maine)
They could let only grade 12s and those leaving the system to make appointments to get their stuff out of their lockers over a week period. Everyone else waits until Sept. Or, they could invest in the money to just mail everyone their stuff from their lockers. I wonder what things they'll find that are actually contraband?Our school board sent out an email to high school parents recently advising them that they are aware of valuable items left behind in school lockers over March break (fortunately my daughter took home her clarinet but forgot her almost new Nikes in her locker). They are now working with public health to figure out whether to allow students to retrieve items before the end of June. So for those in Ontario wondering if schools will reopen before the end of the school year, based on this email, looks like it won’t.
It can easily be done with scheduled access, either one student or one family at a time, supervised at a social distance, to make sure they only access the lockers and get out with minimal interaction with the school. Might take all summer with the larger schools though...They could let only grade 12s and those leaving the system to make appointments to get their stuff out of their lockers over a week period. Everyone else waits until Sept. Or, they could invest in the money to just mail everyone their stuff from their lockers. I wonder what things they'll find that are actually contraband?
They could let only grade 12s and those leaving the system to make appointments to get their stuff out of their lockers over a week period. Everyone else waits until Sept. Or, they could invest in the money to just mail everyone their stuff from their lockers. I wonder what things they'll find that are actually contraband?