Columbus City Schools release recommendations to reopen this fall; 2 days in-person for K-8 students, all remote for high school -
If a substantial number of districts opted for 100% remote learning for HS students, would that not be a death blow for fall sports?I believe Akron City Schools' current recommendation is: 100% in-person for ES students, 2 days a week in-person for MS students, and 100% remote for HS students. Time will tell.
Yes. I agree. You can’t justify being 100% remote but being okay congregating for sports where kids compete next to each other. DeWine’s school plan is coming out tomorrow and I’m suspecting he is going to institute the social distancing requirement for all school buildings. Some districts will have the space in their buildings so all kids can come to school. Others like Columbus simply can’t do it and will have to prioritize who stays home and who doesn’t. High schoolers can be by theme selves when their parents are at work while the elementary kids can’t, which will force their parents to stay home with them.If a substantial number of districts opted for 100% remote learning for HS students, would that not be a death blow for fall sports?
It may be, but I imagine the number of districts that would opt to begin the school year with remote learning at the HS level will be small in number. I can't envision too many rural districts going that route if it automatically cancels their fall sports seasons. However, the districts that decide to go 100% remote may be large in enrollment. If Akron is looking hard at going forward with its plan, then I'm guessing Cleveland is having similar thoughts. What about Cincy, Toledo, and Dayton? If those districts nix sports as result of not having any in-person learning, I suppose there could be a late wave of kids trying to transfer to schools that are planning to be in-person come late August. Would those transfers qualify for any eligibility exceptions due to their former school not offering sports?If a substantial number of districts opted for 100% remote learning for HS students, would that not be a death blow for fall sports?
Jeez. That is ALOT of planning for your wife.Columbus' choice to go 100% remote for HS is based (as grange45 said) on their not being able to afford to transport (and not having the space) to break up the all kids into groups to do alternate day instruction like they plan to do for middle and elementary school students, and the HS kids are the ones who don't need child care. As of now they have not made any final decision on sports. We got an email notice (my son is a CCS student) that summer conditioning could start next week. I am not holding my breath, but we will see how things go.
My wife teaches in CCS (in a 7-12) building so she is going to be doing in-person classes for her MS kids, virtual classes for her MS kids and virtual classes for her HS kids. Gonna be a year with a lot of planning.
Did something get leaked out by ode concerning next school year to some districts? The district I am in has been waiting for guidance from the state before making decisions about next year. Some of the biggest districts in the state already outlined what they are doing but the smaller districts were waiting for tomorrow’s announcement. We seem really behind the game.It is going to be a lot of planning for her. She is going to be teaching MS Phys Ed, HS health, MS Core Academic Skills and College Credit Plus English.
I actually saw one of the draft plans for CCS for sports. Transportation to competitions is an issue, but here they are probably advantaged by the small teams. My son's XC team last year (14 boys and 2 girls) could ride on one bus and be distanced. But even most of the football and track teams (the largest teams in CCS) could likely take 3 or 4 busses and get everyone to and from games/meets. Their problem is that if they are 100% remote there is a basically 0% chance they will be able to get even half the kids in most sports at most schools to the school to practice. So I can easily see them not bothering. If the OHSAA stays "on" and CCS does decide to offer sports, I am seeing us spending a lot of time driving some of my son's teammates to and from practice.
And it’s starting to seem that there will be more restrictions on more populated areas than the latter. DeWine said that there will be flexibility on restrictions based on Where you live but never specified what being “flexible” looks like.Did something get leaked out by ode concerning next school year to some districts? The district I am in has been waiting for guidance from the state before making decisions about next year. Some of the biggest districts in the state already outlined what they are doing but the smaller districts were waiting for tomorrow’s announcement. We seem really behind the game.
I m not talking about counties. The guidelines I mentioned is for every school in the state (social distancing, masks for staff, temp checks). With these mandates for schools it’s very unrealistic to think that sports will be allowed to congregate with other schools in Ohio and spread the virus across county lines. I know the stats but Dewine is not looking at the specifics of the young, he’s looking at the whole which is totally wrong.I told you it will come down to the Counties. That's how it should be. No mandatory masks for students, and we should probably follow the American Academy of Pediatrics and have kids 3' spaced and get back to life as normal.
22 countries sent kids back, showed no spike nor spread from child to child or Child to adult. 40,000 YMCA kids in daycare showed the same thing here in the states. Multiple nations studies prove the same. kids don't spread Covid. We are still at a 0.000000 death rate for 18 and under in Ohio, and all deaths nationwide were kids with serious health issues. Those kids with health issues should be protected. We killed 6 kids with the flu in Ohio just this winter and didn't bat an eye. Flu kills kids. Flu kills healthy adults. Covid does not have those people on it's diet. Covid has hospitilized 7900 people in over 6 months in Ohio. The flu put over 11,000 Ohio citizens in the hospital in less time. Stop acting like kids are the problem, uneducated fearful adults are the problem with kids going back to school.
Our athletic department budget doesn't include coaches' salaries or transportation expenses - those come out of the general fund. Uniforms and major equipment purchases are done by our boosters. Our AD pays for officials, food/lodging related to state championships, and a minor amount for minor in-season supplies ($1000 combined for boys and girls track and field). We could certainly cover the AD expenses for a season with additional donations to the boosters even if there were no spectators at football games. I don't think finances will be the driver at my school.
Our community is extremely conservative (think MAGA/open carry), but it is still very split in recent school board driven surveys about whether parents are willing to send their kids to school in the fall.
There is no decision that is going to leave everyone happy and emotions are going to be extremely strong. I am happy that nearly every expert and political leader is emphasizing the importance of getting kids back into school. It would not surprise me if extra-curriculars did not occur to mitigate the amount of contact as a sort of compromise to get kids into school.
For ten years I have been predicting that we will eventually move in the direction of the European model for sports - clubs. I think this situation is going to nudge us further in that direction. Those who want their kids involved in sports will find a way to do so.
The more I look at DeWine’s plans, I feel he’s using this to privatize schools and sports. I can’t understand how people forget how he is had been all for this over the past two decades.Our athletic department budget doesn't include coaches' salaries or transportation expenses - those come out of the general fund. Uniforms and major equipment purchases are done by our boosters. Our AD pays for officials, food/lodging related to state championships, and a minor amount for minor in-season supplies ($1000 combined for boys and girls track and field). We could certainly cover the AD expenses for a season with additional donations to the boosters even if there were no spectators at football games. I don't think finances will be the driver at my school.
Our community is extremely conservative (think MAGA/open carry), but it is still very split in recent school board driven surveys about whether parents are willing to send their kids to school in the fall.
There is no decision that is going to leave everyone happy and emotions are going to be extremely strong. I am happy that nearly every expert and political leader is emphasizing the importance of getting kids back into school. It would not surprise me if extra-curriculars did not occur to mitigate the amount of contact as a sort of compromise to get kids into school.
For ten years I have been predicting that we will eventually move in the direction of the European model for sports - clubs. I think this situation is going to nudge us further in that direction. Those who want their kids involved in sports will find a way to do so.
China's stats are full of you-know-what.How is the largest country in the world and the starting point of this virus 22nd in cases? They are the same size as us with a billion more people. Are they just not testing as much? Are they just not reporting as much? Or are they doing something better than us? Why do we always have to be #1: testing, cases, deaths?
The death rates are not declining. Furthermore, hospitalizations, which had been flat-ish like deaths, are rising again. In some places dramatically. This is why the the scientists, doctors and epidemiologists who study this stuff have been loudly saying that things are not good for the past few weeks. The mathematical explanation is because of aggregated versus disaggregated data. Since I am one of the stupid people, here is another explanation for you.