THE SCHOOLS ARE OPENING FOR FULL-TIME IN-PERSON LEARNING!! WE ABSOLUTELY DID THIS AND I AM OVERJOYED!! STAY VIGILANT WHILE WE WATCH TO ENSURE THIS SUCCESS STICKS FOR EVERY SINGLE STUDENT!!
August 13, 2020
Final supporters
We, as parents and community members are concerned about the permanent psychological and developmental harm that another year of distance learning would inflict upon many of our most vulnerable students.
None of the options presented by OSPI currently prioritize or even include returning to school in the fall with students in school full-time.
The following scenarios should be considered:
1. Allow families and staff in LOW-RISK categories and those that prefer to be in person to return to full-time in-person learning with IN-CLASS instruction.
2. Allow HIGH-RISK groups or those that are not comfortable with the potential risks, to choose full-time REMOTE learning options with dedicated and trained staff. Distance learning has failed to engage many of our most vulnerable students, and many families do not have access to equitable resources on a daily basis.
Medical doctors are nearly unanimous in the belief that the risk of physical harm from SARS-CoV-2 is lower than the lasting social, emotional, and academic harm that results from keeping our kids away from peers and out of school.
We ask for consideration of a plan for fall that prioritizes the academic, as well as social and emotional needs of our children while balancing the individual risks of staff and families.
Here is a collection of recent data:
- Concerns regarding children's' mental health: https://www.npr.org/2020/05/14/855641420/with-scho...
- Children are rarely affected: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC72201...
- Kawasaki is not directly connected to SARS-CoV-2 in children: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Kawa...
- Research from Oxford looking at Case Fatality Rate: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case...
- A response to the data by epidemiologist John Ioannidis: https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/john-p-ioa...
- No Evidence of Secondary Transmission of COVID-19 from Children Attending School in Ireland 2020: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1...
- Face Masks are a serious risk: https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/05/dr-blaylock-face...; https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/25713/202005...
- Minimal spread on surfaces: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-...
- Children are not the main drivers of disease or "super spreaders": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ap...
- A study showing limited infectivity from asymptomatic carriers of SARS-VoV-2: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32405162/?fbclid=I...
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
June 13, 2020
19 Comments
My children are social learners!! The tears, frustrations, and arguments are constant. My children are not learning!!! We are healthy!!!!! Please let us go back! This has gone on too long!!
Get the kids back to school! My son has an IEP and he will not make it staying at home.
We are both essential workers who cannot work remotely, and required distance learning has been a huge burden and bad for our family's mental health. Our child needs the structure of a classroom setting.
I work full time/ 2 jobs! My husband works full time. My kids are at an in between age of to old for daycare (which are open by the way) yet to young to stay home alone! We cannot adequately remote / homeschool school!
School needs to open so family and kids have options as so many essential workers have to do what they need to do. Distance learning as an option would be great so people have choice based on their own circumstances. Currently, TotemFall is taking a minimum approach of teaching which is very disappointing!
Do this for the kids!
School as usual please. Our child is struggling. Online learning is not sufficient.
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THE SCHOOLS ARE OPENING FOR FULL-TIME IN-PERSON LEARNING!! WE ABSOLUTELY DID THIS AND I AM OVERJOYED!! STAY VIGILANT WHILE WE WATCH TO ENSURE THIS SUCCESS STICKS FOR EVERY SINGLE STUDENT!!
August 13, 2020
Final supporters
We, as parents and community members are concerned about the permanent psychological and developmental harm that another year of distance learning would inflict upon many of our most vulnerable students.
None of the options presented by OSPI currently prioritize or even include returning to school in the fall with students in school full-time.
The following scenarios should be considered:
1. Allow families and staff in LOW-RISK categories and those that prefer to be in person to return to full-time in-person learning with IN-CLASS instruction.
2. Allow HIGH-RISK groups or those that are not comfortable with the potential risks, to choose full-time REMOTE learning options with dedicated and trained staff. Distance learning has failed to engage many of our most vulnerable students, and many families do not have access to equitable resources on a daily basis.
Medical doctors are nearly unanimous in the belief that the risk of physical harm from SARS-CoV-2 is lower than the lasting social, emotional, and academic harm that results from keeping our kids away from peers and out of school.
We ask for consideration of a plan for fall that prioritizes the academic, as well as social and emotional needs of our children while balancing the individual risks of staff and families.
Here is a collection of recent data:
- Concerns regarding children's' mental health: https://www.npr.org/2020/05/14/855641420/with-scho...
- Children are rarely affected: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC72201...
- Kawasaki is not directly connected to SARS-CoV-2 in children: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Kawa...
- Research from Oxford looking at Case Fatality Rate: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case...
- A response to the data by epidemiologist John Ioannidis: https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/john-p-ioa...
- No Evidence of Secondary Transmission of COVID-19 from Children Attending School in Ireland 2020: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1...
- Face Masks are a serious risk: https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/05/dr-blaylock-face...; https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/25713/202005...
- Minimal spread on surfaces: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-...
- Children are not the main drivers of disease or "super spreaders": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ap...
- A study showing limited infectivity from asymptomatic carriers of SARS-VoV-2: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32405162/?fbclid=I...
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
June 13, 2020
19 Comments
My son will be a 2021 senior and learned ZERO while distance learning. If distance learning is the plan for Fall, the district needs to step up and require teachers to utilize Teams or Zoom to actually teach, not check a box that kids have logged in. It’s scary to think about college when he isn’t learning anything in high school
My children are social learners!! The tears, frustrations, and arguments are constant. My children are not learning!!! We are healthy!!!!! Please let us go back! This has gone on too long!!
Get the kids back to school! My son has an IEP and he will not make it staying at home.
We are both essential workers who cannot work remotely, and required distance learning has been a huge burden and bad for our family's mental health. Our child needs the structure of a classroom setting.
I work full time/ 2 jobs! My husband works full time. My kids are at an in between age of to old for daycare (which are open by the way) yet to young to stay home alone! We cannot adequately remote / homeschool school!
School needs to open so family and kids have options as so many essential workers have to do what they need to do. Distance learning as an option would be great so people have choice based on their own circumstances. Currently, TotemFall is taking a minimum approach of teaching which is very disappointing!
Do this for the kids!
School as usual please. Our child is struggling. Online learning is not sufficient.
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My son will be a 2021 senior and learned ZERO while distance learning. If distance learning is the plan for Fall, the district needs to step up and require teachers to utilize Teams or Zoom to actually teach, not check a box that kids have logged in. It’s scary to think about college when he isn’t learning anything in high school