Sorry Kokiri, I’m supposedly going back hybrid on Nov 30. 12 kids each day. I’m upper elementary so we’ll be the last back in the building, I guess I’ll get to see how it goes for the other grades but I haven’t heard anything in terms of ppe, hallways procedures, classroom layout, lunch, etc. Over the summer they were saying lunch in the classroom?! Unmasked kids eating in my tiny room that barely has a window, not too excited about that.

Maybe not twice as long, but traffic, plus I'd have to park a schlep away from the class room. The train is pretty convenient.

I seriously doubt I'll have to do more a couple of classes before we go all online.

Unis in the UK are basically screwed. If the students aren't here paying rent, they go broke. If they are, we all catch covid. So the solution seems to be make the students come and pay rent, then teach all online and lock them in their halls when someone gets sick. I think the students are getting the shortest end of the stick, but there's a solid job that the entire sector goes bust and then we'll all be looking for jobs with our expertise in fifteenth century Chinese poetry or whatever.

Lmao

Really hope this doesn't happen though. And yeah I feel sorry for all the teachers who are forced to work throughout this. Children are definitely experts on spreading infectious diseases.

Anyone who thinks that children won't run around saying "I'm going to give you covid!" while licking their neighbors just because its funny is sadly mistaken.

It's also probably good for them in the general sense.

Yeah, exactly.

Some kids will, others are so anxious and scared of Covid that they are being hyper vigilant and serious. I’m worried I won’t take it serious enough for them and parents will be upset I’ve done something risky or didn’t stop the licking kid fast enough lol

I have a relative who teaches in a fairly large district so I've been (half-assedly) watching their COIVD weekly numbers and have been pleasantly surprised that they've been very low. I think they've had 2 positive students, both from non-school exposures, and about 5 staff, also traced to non-school exposure. Of course it's only a month in and as soon as anyone relaxes things will probably get worse, but I expected them to be all online by now.

Universities are obviously a far different story and disaster is inevitable. GL kokiri!

The high school my wife works at has had nine cases so far. No idea about whether there was any in-school transmission. Fortunately, no cases in the physical area where she works. She's a Behavioural Therapy Teaching Assistant, and so works within a special program in a specific part of the school.

She's waiting for the day that the provincial government closes schools, then she will work from home, or a provincial park that has wifi.

Kids being anxious and scared of covid seems odd, though there's a lot of people out there.

Why? There's a serious disease that's infecting lots of people and killing hundreds of thousands of them. It seems perfectly rational to be anxious and afraid

In an abstract way or if they fear their parents dying or something that would be rational.

I'm picturing more of a crippling anxiety and kids who wash their hands hundreds of times a day, won't leave the house or touch anything when outside. If constantly fearful also weird and probably bad.

They should also be fearful of many things that are more dangerous.

I had a terrible panic attack last Friday about covid and went to get the lab test on Sunday. Just got the results- negative for covid, still positive for crippling anxiety :/

This isn't my argument, but lots of people die every day - from old age, other diseases, malnutrition, whatever. If you're a kid and it hasn't directly touched your family or someone you know are you really that likely to be afraid? I'd lean toward not so much -- part of being a kid is being far more focused on self than the world at large.

One exception, I suppose, is that if you are a child of parent(s) that are notably anxious and afraid.

I don't spend time with enough kids to have a good sense of the current state of mind though.

Most kids have had their lives flipped upside down by this, regardless of whether they know someone with the virus.

It’s a big change for them not to be in school, do regular activities and clubs, and to wear masks and see everyone wearing masks. Maybe they used to go to the grocery store with their parents and now they don’t, maybe they used to have their birthday at Dave N Busters but this year they couldn’t, maybe their family usually goes on trips all summer, this year they couldn’t etc etc. Some are more anxious than others, but that’s just true no matter what. Some kids don’t seem bothered at all, just accept what’s happening and deal with it. I had a student last year who was afraid to leave her home for several months while others still went on their planned cross country road trip.

By ten years of age, some kids begin to think about the world around them and contemplate their own mortality or the mortality of their loved ones regardless of COVId. They also begin to question their morality and the authority of adults. Fun times.

I haven’t had too much anxiety about the virus itself, but I sobbed and sobbed last April when we were told we would not go back to school. I cried like a baby a lot over all the loss of normalcy and saying goodbye virtually to my students. This year I’m a bit more tough and resilient, mostly just stressed from the added workload.

Sounds like they are more scared of proxy events than covid based on that write up.

Just general changes in normalcy.

Fear may never be rationale as well, though sometimes reasonable.

Yeah idk how many actually think they would die if they got it, but they don’t want to get it and kill their parents or grandparents.

Nice public transport would be nice.

Catholic schools here are doing hybrid, parents choose in class or out. Went to a first communion and the priest talked about how all the cases in school were traced to out of school activities. Seemed a bit sus.

I just saw a squirrel jump from a roof to a tree giving zero ****s about falling. Maybe one of those thrill seeking squirrels.

Same here.

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