Warning gloomy temperament of hope about falling back to school – and normal circumstances

Fauci’s remembrance will echo among school principals and authorities and university presidents who try to plan strategies for certain types of class resumption. This underscores the fact that while children in countries with low infection rates will return the next academic year, those in hotspot areas may be out for weeks or months longer.

Parents are already worried that sending children back to school will not only make them vulnerable to infection but can turn them into asymptomatic carriers that can infect vulnerable parents. On the other hand, the damage to education and development caused by months of dropping out of school also burdens families.

But late testing makes schools more difficult to open. Fracture state budget that can cause layoffs also complicates the picture. And school supervisors have warned that without billions of dollars in additional funding, states and districts can struggle to enforce protocols such as surprising classes, socially distancing measures and additional bus runs to keep infections down.

Like workers who have lost their jobs, school children are also victims of the worst public health crisis in 100 years. Many have lost important education for weeks that they might have to strive for. Children from poor families often lack the computer or learning environment needed for online lessons. Millions of children must take the AP exams and other tests that are important for their future without proper teaching and from home.

And many young Americans will leave high school and university in the coming weeks without beloved maturity rituals such as graduations and early ceremonies.

Paul and Fauci clash with the school

Paul points out that the mortality rate for young people is relatively low and erroneously suggests that outside of New England, the virus is relatively “benign.”

“I think one size fits all – that we will have a national strategy and no one will go to school – it’s kind of silly,” Paul said. “We really have to do it school district for school district. And power needs to be dissolved because people make wrong predictions.

“If we get children out of school for another year, what will happen is poor and underprivileged children who don’t have parents who can teach them at home won’t study for a whole year … I think that’s a mistake great if we don’t open schools in the fall. “

Fauci warned Paul that the country needed to be “very careful” about underestimating the effect of Covid-19 on young people, specifically citing inflammation syndrome which had killed a number of children in the United States and Europe.

“I think we should be careful if we don’t dare to think that children are truly immune to adverse effects,” Fauci said.

Hoping to return to class largely rests on the administration making good on repeated promises to massively improve coronavirus testing programs and efforts by state governors to make up for deficiencies in federal efforts.

The government’s repeated failure to honor its promise to increase testing on a large scale is one reason why there is skepticism that education can be fully returned to normal from August.

Randi Weingarten, union president of the American Teachers Federation, who has made plans on how to open American schools again, complained that the testing available to everyone in the country did not meet the standards that Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had provided themselves in the House White.

“I strongly believe that if it’s safe and if we can make it safe, we need to return the children to school voluntarily during the summer and at school in the fall,” Weingarten said.

But he added: “You must have a testing infrastructure in a community that is large enough and large enough so that you maintain a minimal level of the virus and then if you see a case of you immediately, track your contacts and isolation.”

Trump wants schools to run

Trump, who is aggressively pushing to restart an economy important to his election campaign, first encouraged the state governor to open schools a few weeks ago.

“A lot of people think about opening a school. And I think it’s something … they can seriously consider and maybe continue,” Trump said.

The way forward for education dominates the virtual Senate hearing on Tuesday.

Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, who chairs the panel, decided with the White House victory on testing to call for an increased effort to bring schools and colleges back online.

“Extensive screening of the entire campus, school or workplace will help identify those who are sick, track those exposed,” Alexander said. “That, in turn, will help persuade all of us to go back to school and go back to work.”

Admiral Brett Giroir, a pediatrician and assistant US health secretary, told the hearing that the situation for students would depend on the spread of society in their area. But he voiced optimism that the test could rise quickly enough to continue schooling in August.

“We estimate there will be 25 million to 30 million treatment test points per month available. Of course it’s possible to test all students,” he said, but added that the surveillance strategy could reduce the need for blanket testing.

Giroir also suggested several “promising” strategies that could be used to test wastewater for the entire dormitory to determine whether there was a coronavirus in wastewater.

Countries and cities still hope to open, but warn it depends on science

The White House wants a decision on when schools will go left to state and local governments.

Resumption of academic life in phase two of the White House plan to reopen America in states and territories where there is no evidence of an increase in infection or that meets the criteria for decreasing disease incidence.

Many states are already advancing with the opening, although not approaching guidelines for a reduction in 14 days of infection even entering the first phase of the program. The White House did nothing to make the states comply with the guidelines.

In the absence of strong federal leadership, the resumption of schools and colleges tends to reflect broader efforts to open up the national economy.

Some jurisdictions have doubled in recent days because of their hopes to reopen in the fall. Pennsylvania Education Secretary Pedro Rivera said on Monday that “we fully intend” to be ready for the next academic year, despite warning that the data will drive the Keystone state’s decision.

And New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday “at present” he believes the city school can be opened in September – although it reminds him to pay attention to the inflammatory syndrome carefully.