How will schools be able to go back in September? (Continued)

Will Yam · 21-09-2020 06:06PM

Blondini wrote: »

At least 10 new school cases so far just today.

Be grand....

10 out of one million.........

khalessi · 21-09-2020 06:11PM

https://twitter.com/Marc362/status/1307970981441556481

Interesting view of cases by age by week

Icyseanfitz · 21-09-2020 06:11PM

Will Yam wrote: »

10 out of one million.........

Just today! Do you understand exponential growth?

BoatMad · 21-09-2020 06:12PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

Just today! Do you understand exponential growth?

What about flattening the curve. We actually haven’t seen sustained exponential growth anywhere

Icyseanfitz · 21-09-2020 06:12PM

khalessi wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Marc362/status/1307970981441556481

Interesting view of cases by age by week

For anyone with a bit of logic in their head it's clear as day.

Icyseanfitz · 21-09-2020 06:12PM

BoatMad wrote: »

What about flattening the curve. We actually haven’t seen sustained exponential growth anywhere

We had near 400 cases yesterday alone.

alroley · 21-09-2020 06:13PM

Will Yam wrote: »

10 out of one million.........

That doesn't even make sense.

BoatMad · 21-09-2020 06:13PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

For anyone with a bit of logic in their head it's clear as day.

Cases don’t equate to sickness. It’s only sickness that matters

Icyseanfitz · 21-09-2020 06:17PM

BoatMad wrote: »

Cases don’t equate to sickness. It’s only sickness that matters

Cases = spread = more people getting the virus = more people getting sick from the virus

BoatMad · 21-09-2020 06:18PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

Cases = spread = more people getting the virus = more people getting sick from the virus

Err the data from Sweden completely disputes that, deaths level off and then drop even if cases ( which is largely a function of testing anyway ) rise or plateau

Blondini · 21-09-2020 06:25PM

alroley wrote: »

That doesn't even make sense.

Of course it doesn't, look what posted it.

wirelessdude01 · 21-09-2020 06:26PM

BoatMad wrote: »

Cases don’t equate to sickness. It’s only sickness that matters

More cases means more chance of vulnerable people catching it.

BoatMad · 21-09-2020 06:27PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

We had near 400 cases yesterday alone.

Let’s give this a month rather then reacting to every thing every day.

BoatMad · 21-09-2020 06:28PM

Funny isn’t it. Lockdown was released over increments of weeks , now restrictions change almost daily

Bit like the down and up of petroleum prices

Icyseanfitz · 21-09-2020 06:37PM

I wonder did they open the "wet" pubs up purposely as a scape goat for numbers in 2 weeks time? anything to keep eyes away from schools.

is_that_so · 21-09-2020 06:39PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

I wonder did they open the "wet" pubs up purposely as a scape goat for numbers in 2 weeks time? anything to keep eyes away from schools.

There are constant eyes on the schools, it's a huge deal for the government and the HSE. In effect it's the game, lose the schools and they are done!

BoatMad · 21-09-2020 06:40PM

is_that_so wrote: »

There are constant eyes on the schools, it's a huge deal for the government and the HSE.

The whole education of children and the safety of teachers is being trashed for the political expediency of sending kids into a building collectively

Icyseanfitz · 21-09-2020 06:42PM

is_that_so wrote: »

There are constant eyes on the schools, it's a huge deal for the government and the HSE. In effect it's the game, lose the schools and they are done!

i think the vast majority of people not associated with schools at a working level (staff + students) think its all working fantastic as thats what they are being told in the news.

BoatMad · 21-09-2020 06:44PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

i think the vast majority of people not associated with schools at a working level (staff + students) think its all working fantastic as thats what they are being told in the news.

Yeah , no lockers so kids have to carry books al day , no where to even hang wet coats

No practical subjects , no PE , no proper lunches , staff can’t even make tea ( staff room closed ) eating lunches in cars. 20 mins of each hour class lost to cleaning and one way systems taking kids 10 mins to get to an adjacent classroom

Corridors still packed with kids changing classrooms

It’s total BS

Lobsterlady · 21-09-2020 06:53PM

BoatMad wrote: »

Yeah , no lockers so kids have to carry books al day , no where to even hang wet coats

No practical subjects , no PE , no proper lunches , staff can’t even make tea ( staff room closed ) eating lunches in cars. 20 mins of each hour class lost to cleaning and one way systems taking kids 10 mins to get to an adjacent classroom

Corridors still packed with kids changing classrooms

It’s total BS

My kids stay in their classrooms, except for Art and Tech. It's their teachers that move, 600 pupil school. 20 minutes for cleaning....my kids, if leaving their desk have to clean it, so 20 kids take a few mins to clean each of their desks...time saved. My kids are doing PE.

KerryConnor · 21-09-2020 07:18PM

2 positive s per month per class?are you assuming the entire school population will contract covid by next year?

Of course a class should be quarantined after a positive case. SD is not happening amongst the kids and kids are not only socializing with their pod

jrosen wrote: »

Its not that simple. You could have a case or suspected case 2/3 times per month. It would mean a class not being in school at all.

BoatMad · 21-09-2020 07:19PM

Lobsterlady wrote: »

My kids stay in their classrooms, except for Art and Tech. It's their teachers that move, 600 pupil school. 20 minutes for cleaning....my kids, if leaving their desk have to clean it, so 20 kids take a few mins to clean each of their desks...time saved. My kids are doing PE.

Not happening in two schools I know specifically

Grandeeod · 21-09-2020 07:35PM

BoatMad wrote: »

Not happening in two schools I know specifically

My kids PP school move the kids across 6 classes a day. Practical subjects are being tried over a three week period before they choose. Appears the Art teacher is great as she is bringing them outdoors. Lockers are being reintroduced tomorrow. My jury is still out with it all. Once the weather goes down hill, who knows? I would have preferred a blended approach. As I said in a previous post, extra desks have been introduced in some classes and this has made things tighter.

Marty Bird · 21-09-2020 07:46PM

khalessi wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Marc362/status/1307970981441556481

Interesting view of cases by age by week

So the majority of the cases up to now have been outside of school since the schools are only open a little more than 3 weeks ?

Mrsmum · 21-09-2020 08:24PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

i think the vast majority of people not associated with schools at a working level (staff + students) think its all working fantastic as thats what they are being told in the news.

To be fair I haven't heard anything in the news about how schools are faring since they opened, apart from the first day back type of reports a few weeks back. However in my case it is the school giving that positive message, the last two Fridays ie the two Fridays they've been back, the school my kids go to sent the parents an email telling us how everything is working well and complimenting the students on their excellent behaviour, abiding by the rules and that ! How it's great to be back and see the students back and how all the staff are working hard etc. My kids go to the local PP feeder school with 750 students so not some kind of private utopia place or anything. When I ask the kids they seem to agree with the school that all is well, hand sanitizer outside every class, wiping down their own desks before and after use, base classes, perspex between desks, not using musical instruments, open windows and doors, most children go home for lunch, wearing masks of course, all that business. If i wasn't reading this thread I actually would think it was all going well.

Darwin · 21-09-2020 08:32PM

I suppose some schools are going to work better than others. In my wife's place (secondary), the kids are moving the desks around so they are beside each other, pulling down their masks to speak, throwing hand sanitizer around at each other. I see groups of kids walking to our local secondary school (a different school) in the morning without masks and no social distancing and same again in the evening coming home.

Mrsmum · 21-09-2020 08:38PM

Darwin wrote: »

I suppose some schools are going to work better than others. In my wife's place (secondary), the kids are moving the desks around so they are beside each other, pulling down their masks to speak, throwing hand sanitizer around at each other. I see groups of kids walking to our local secondary school (a different school) in the morning without masks and no social distancing and same again in the evening coming home.

Totally agree re groups of kids with no social distancing and no longer wearing their masks on the way home from school.

wirelessdude01 · 21-09-2020 08:40PM

Mrsmum wrote: »

Totally agree re groups of kids with no social distancing and no longer wearing their masks on the way home from school.

Schools cannot be blamed for what happens on the way to/from schools. Same as they can't be blamed for what happens on school transport.

Mrsmum · 21-09-2020 08:43PM

wirelessdude01 wrote: »

Schools cannot be blamed for what happens on the way to/from schools. Same as they can't be blamed for what happens on school transport.

I wasn't blaming the schools for that at all. Just agreeing with the other poster that it is a factor in the children being back at school.

mirrorwall14 · 21-09-2020 08:44PM

Mrsmum wrote: »

To be fair I haven't heard anything in the news about how schools are faring since they opened, apart from the first day back type of reports a few weeks back. However in my case it is the school giving that positive message, the last two Fridays ie the two Fridays they've been back, the school my kids go to sent the parents an email telling us how everything is working well and complimenting the students on their excellent behaviour, abiding by the rules and that ! How it's great to be back and see the students back and how all the staff are working hard etc. My kids go to the local PP feeder school with 750 students so not some kind of private utopia place or anything. When I ask the kids they seem to agree with the school that all is well, hand sanitizer outside every class, wiping down their own desks before and after use, base classes, perspex between desks, not using musical instruments, open windows and doors, most children go home for lunch, wearing masks of course, all that business. If i wasn't reading this thread I actually would think it was all going well.

What year group are your children in? Because I do not know how they are not moving? Our seniors for example, there is no real base class because all their core subjects are streamed and their options are obviously mixed

How will schools be able to go back in September? (Continued)

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