What is your School Doing so far regarding sports?

Our school came up with two options: distance or blended. The blended option is only in person two days a week,. Everyone is distance in Wednesday.

Masks must be while in the classroom, waiting to enter campus, while in school grounds, leaving school, on the bus and must be in compliance with the dress code.

Can participate in sports distance learning or blended.

Soccer has been put into the moderate risk along with baseball, basketball, softball volleyball,and water polo but not high risk like football, wrestling, competitive cheer or low-risk like golf cross, country, swimming, and tennis.

Three phases to resume physical return to athletics, phase 3 is where moderate activity sports resume regular practice and high risk can begin modified practice. Not even a phase 4 for high risk yet so looks like footballs is out for now.

Just today update was sent that the school district board will reopen schools "if and only if it's safe"
 
My kid’s K-8 school is shifting based on covid case count and deaths.

Case count over 10 per hundred thousand. -> zoom.
Case count between 1 and 10 per 100K. -> stable small groups all day. No sports, no choice of electives.
Case count under 1 per 100K -> normal class, including electives and sports.

Masks until vaccine or case count zero.
 
Kicker4Life said:
I work in DTLA, so say they don’t socialize is a gross understatement to be honest. No they aren’t in bars, but they are in communities and wonder throughout their areas visiting each other, sharing needles, cigarettes and booze. I see it everyday.
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True, but they usually stay within a relatively close area.
 
jpeter said:
Our school came up with two options: distance or blended. The blended option is only in person two days a week,. Everyone is distance in Wednesday.

Masks must be while in the classroom, waiting to enter campus, while in school grounds, leaving school, on the bus and must be in compliance with the dress code.

Can participate in sports distance learning or blended.

Soccer has been put into the moderate risk along with baseball, basketball, softball volleyball,and water polo but not high risk like football, wrestling, competitive cheer or low-risk like golf cross, country, swimming, and tennis.

Three phases to resume physical return to athletics, phase 3 is where moderate activity sports resume regular practice and high risk can begin modified practice. Not even a phase 4 for high risk yet so looks like footballs is out for now.

Just today update was sent that the school district board will reopen schools "if and only if it's safe"
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Which district?
 
whatithink said:
I most definitely want my kids back in school in the fall. But we can't be simplistic about it. We need a plan. My point was that its less about the risk to the kids and more about the risk to the adults (teachers and all the support staff) - aside from any indirect risks.

The most infuriating thing, to me, about this is the clear lack of leadership from the White House, through Congress and through the States. There is nothing but bumbling and reacting, inconsistency and lack of thought.

The number of teachers at risk and what they teach will differ from school to school. Each school should self assess, roll it up to their district, roll it up to their state and someone can then start to formulate a clear plan of action with all the resources available to them (in that state). That should have started in March for the next school year.
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Bingo! Studies show our kids would mostly be safe. I would send my kids to school 5 days a week, but the issue is not with the kids, it's the safety with the teachers and staff. If I'm a teacher, with no protections in place, I say F' U'. I swear no profession gets crapped on more than teachers.
We expect them to sacrifice their health (covid), spend their own $$ (supplies), work for free (covid online training), and pay them peanuts to top it off (starting salary in the mid 40's, compared to law enforcement, mid 60's). And then we call them selfish if they don't make these sacrifices "for our kids". It's a job remember.

You guys are lucky I'm not head of the teacher's union. First thing I do is take out full page ads in every major newspaper to show America how much our "First Responders for our Kids" get paid. I would put a side by side comparison of pay with other first responders. I think most people would be shocked a how little teachers are paid and how much first responders get paid. Not to mention first responders ALWAYS get their demands met when negotiating. And that LAPD Drop program is just criminal. I can go on and on, but enough my rant.

Desert Hound you stated we should not think of what's not possible, but think of what is possible. I've been harping on this since April, but why can't we get those 10-15 minute abbot tests at every school in America? We test ALL kids and staff daily, just like the do at the White House, military, and EVERY professional sports league, etc. You test positive, you go home and isolate. Are our kids not worth it? Harvard indicated that nationwide testing (not just schools) like this would cost 100 billion.

We've spent 6-7 trillion so far and we are about to spend another 1-3 trillion by the end of this month with another stimulus bill. 100 billion is pocket change! Also, by now, we should know everything about how covid travels in the air with and without masks. We should know, to the f'n millimeter, where to place the fans, suction fans, plexiglass, infrared, lasers, disinfectant, fuck I don't know I'm not a scientist, but you get the drift. And Grace, when I asked "where are America's F'ing studies" this is what I meant. And we should know this for airplanes, hotel lobbies, office buildings, etc. We should also have N-95 masks coming out of dispensers at every highway gas station bathroom.

The lack of imagination and vision form this administration is simply tragic, and we are all going to pay (my economic rant coming later). Arizona Unified is experimenting with fans that dispense sanitizers (I saw this yesterday), Arizona State & Berkeley are coming up with faster saliva tests, we have a guy in his garage telling us how effective masks are. https://www.12news.com/article/news...sting/75-0a512c66-8271-4cd7-9eca-1a7dce4de884, https://www.foxnews.com/us/schools-utilize-power-fans-to-combat-covid-19

This kind of stuff is the federal government's responsibility and it's a shame they didn't start this way back when.
 
Justafan said:
Bingo! Studies show our kids would mostly be safe. I would send my kids to school 5 days a week, but the issue is not with the kids, it's the safety with the teachers and staff. If I'm a teacher, with no protections in place, I say F' U'. I swear no profession gets crapped on more than teachers.
We expect them to sacrifice their health (covid), spend their own $$ (supplies), work for free (covid online training), and pay them peanuts to top it off (starting salary in the mid 40's, compared to law enforcement, mid 60's). And then we call them selfish if they don't make these sacrifices "for our kids". It's a job remember.

You guys are lucky I'm not head of the teacher's union. First thing I do is take out full page ads in every major newspaper to show America how much our "First Responders for our Kids" get paid. I would put a side by side comparison of pay with other first responders. I think most people would be shocked a how little teachers are paid and how much first responders get paid. Not to mention first responders ALWAYS get their demands met when negotiating. And that LAPD Drop program is just criminal. I can go on and on, but enough my rant.

Desert Hound you stated we should not think of what's not possible, but think of what is possible. I've been harping on this since April, but why can't we get those 10-15 minute abbot tests at every school in America? We test ALL kids and staff daily, just like the do at the White House, military, and EVERY professional sports league, etc. You test positive, you go home and isolate. Are our kids not worth it? Harvard indicated that nationwide testing (not just schools) like this would cost 100 billion.

We've spent 6-7 trillion so far and we are about to spend another 1-3 trillion by the end of this month with another stimulus bill. 100 billion is pocket change! Also, by now, we should know everything about how covid travels in the air with and without masks. We should know, to the f'n millimeter, where to place the fans, suction fans, plexiglass, infrared, lasers, disinfectant, fuck I don't know I'm not a scientist, but you get the drift. And Grace, when I asked "where are America's F'ing studies" this is what I meant. And we should know this for airplanes, hotel lobbies, office buildings, etc. We should also have N-95 masks coming out of dispensers at every highway gas station bathroom.

The lack of imagination and vision form this administration is simply tragic, and we are all going to pay (my economic rant coming later). Arizona Unified is experimenting with fans that dispense sanitizers (I saw this yesterday), Arizona State & Berkeley are coming up with faster saliva tests, we have a guy in his garage telling us how effective masks are. https://www.12news.com/article/news...sting/75-0a512c66-8271-4cd7-9eca-1a7dce4de884, https://www.foxnews.com/us/schools-utilize-power-fans-to-combat-covid-19

This kind of stuff is the federal government's responsibility and it's a shame they didn't start this way back when.
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I work in a food industry service sector and once stay at home order came out, I was exactly this way - being afraid what will happen to me when I go to work. What would happen to me, my family, my kids? It's not just an office job, it's a job requiring travel, customer visits, interaction with many guys in manufacturing, vendor visiting me and so on. It was easy to say F U, but the longer I work, the more I see how wrong it was to lock everyone and everything down. All it takes is sensible precautions to be safe, it doesn't matter if it's at work, restaurant, bar, soccer field or school. It's really easy to say F U and lets shut down. How about making it work or at least to try to make it work?
 
Eagle33 said:
I work in a food industry service sector and once stay at home order came out, I was exactly this way - being afraid what will happen to me when I go to work. What would happen to me, my family, my kids? It's not just an office job, it's a job requiring travel, customer visits, interaction with many guys in manufacturing, vendor visiting me and so on. It was easy to say F U, but the longer I work, the more I see how wrong it was to lock everyone and everything down. All it takes is sensible precautions to be safe, it doesn't matter if it's at work, restaurant, bar, soccer field or school. It's really easy to say F U and lets shut down. How about making it work or at least to try to make it work?
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exactly, what we are talking about our sensible precautions. are the precautions I mentioned not sensible or reasonable? further your situation is quite different than teachers, it sounds like you can meet one on one with vendors and you can socially distance and wear masks. I think Copa stated it best when indicated how long teachers are in the classroom with 30 students for 50 minutes or all day with elementary. much different situation. So it sounds like you’re not on board with me.
 
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