D304 parents are on the warpath.
Geneva parents are fighting back against the D304 School Board and teachers union to get children back to in-person learning full-time. We speak with Geneva parent Kate Coxworth about the growing movement.
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Understanding the longing to return to school, and balancing quality practices is the challenge.
The following article was printed today. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/health/covid-children-inflammatory-syndrome.html?searchResultPosition=1
Covid-Linked Syndrome in Children Is Growing, and Cases Are More Severe
The condition, which usually emerges several weeks after infection, is still rare, but can be dangerous. “A higher percentage of them are really critically ill,” one doctor said.
Article by
Pam Belluck who is a health and science writer whose honors include sharing a Pulitzer Prize and winning the Nellie Bly Award for Best Front Page Story.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is still recommending children need to be in school.
https://www.aappublications.org/news/2021/01/05/covid-school-safety-010521
Cynthia-
There have been 2,060 cases of MIS-C total across the whole country since last May and of those- 30 died.
CDC.gov/mis-c/cases/index.html
Cynthia-
There have been 2,060 cases of MIS-C total across the whole country since last May and of those- 30 died.
CDC.gov/mis-c/cases/index.html
Cynthia,
Thank you for your comment and for posting the article. My response to that would be this:
First, for every column stipulating that possibility, I can rebut it with ten more – including evidence directly from the CDC.
Second, children are far safer in school than they are playing togehter in private homes where virtually no one takes any precautions. And that’s exactly where this disease is spreading – in homes.
Third, our public schools have been back in 5-day in-person session since September without a problem.
Fourth, the psychological and emotional damage remote learning is doing to our children far exceeds that of the plague.
Jeff