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HS that suspended teen who tweeted photo of hallway has 9 COVID-19 cases:
North Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia, sent a letter to parents Saturday, saying, "At this time, we know there were six students and three staff members who were in school for at least some time last week who have since reported to us that they have tested positive." The letter was published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Most or even all of the six students and three staff members who tested positive could have had the virus before the school reopened on Monday, August 3. As Harvard Medical School explains, "The time from exposure to symptom onset (known as the incubation period) is thought to be three to 14 days, though symptoms typically appear within four or five days after exposure," and "a person with COVID-19 may be contagious 48 to 72 hours before starting to experience symptoms."
[...] As we reported Friday, the school issued a five-day suspension to student Hannah Watters after she posted a photo to Twitter, noting the "jammed" hallways and "10 percent mask rate." The school lifted her suspension after extensive media coverage. One other unnamed student who was suspended for a similar reason also had the suspension reversed, the Journal-Constitution said.
Students attended class in person only on Monday through Wednesday, as the district said it conducted a short first week "so that all of our schools can step back and assess how things are going so far."
Update at 6:50pm ET: North Paulding High School announced Sunday that it has canceled in-person instruction for Monday and Tuesday, August 10 and 11, because of the nine positive cases and "the possibility that number could increase if there are currently pending tests that prove positive." The school said that on Tuesday evening, parents and students will be notified about whether in-person instruction will resume on Wednesday. Remote learning will continue while the school is closed.
Previously:
(2020-08-08) Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday August 12 2020, @06:00PM (8 children)
I agree: rote learning is part of that "preparing them to be factory workers" approach. There are a number of modern, better approaches.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Opportunist on Wednesday August 12 2020, @06:33PM (7 children)
That's why I said you FIRST have to change the school system before you start trying changes to the curriculum. Else you're just pouring good wine into leaky casks.
We have to teach one of the most important skills that today's society needs: The ability to learn continuously. To know what is necessary to ackquire new knowledge. To differentiate between information and bullshit. And no later than the last part you're fighting a severe uphill battle, because nobody who could possibly be involved in this would actually want that. Certainly not politicians who need nothing less than an electorate that can't be bullshitted. Not a board of education that wants easily standardizable tests. And finally not principals and teachers that value obedience over curiosity.
This is something that might (MIGHT!) work in a private school where the structures are smaller and you have more leverage against a system fighting you, but the outlook for the public school system and its omnipotent bureaucracy is bleak.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @07:01PM (3 children)
Your anti-public schooling schtick is getting boring. If the public schools in your area are bad, that's a local issue, not some universal truth. Students in school districts that are run competently with adequate funding get a good education that covers all of your areas of complaint.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday August 12 2020, @07:54PM (2 children)
Your triumphalism schtick is getting boring. If the public schools in your area are good, that's a local issue, not some universal truth. Students in school districts that are run competently with adequate funding get a good education that covers all of your areas of complaint, if they're white/asian/south asian and upper middle class or better.
Thanks for demonstrating your ignorance of the educational realities that most black and Latino children, and some others of other ethnicities, face in America's urban school districts.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @08:45PM
Your copy/paste skills are great, keep it up, very convincing. So much wow, possibly even a shamwow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @04:16PM
I understand that inner city schools have lots of issues, but that doesn't make public school bad, that just makes the administrations running those school districts bad. I went to an incredibly diverse school with only a 50% white population, still got a good education.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday August 12 2020, @07:50PM (2 children)
I agree. I said initially that instead of switching public schools on and off again willy-nilly, we should switch them off. Homeschool in the meantime and move on to something new and better.
There are experimental programs here and there that are trying what you propose (and I also support), but there is deep-seated resistance to change in the system, with no real incentive to change. If parents walk away after the coronavirus shutdowns, perhaps they will find the will to make those changes, but in the end parents and students can't wait for the education industry to catch up to economic realities that came about 80 years ago. For once in history the tools to learn are widely available and cheap or free, so we should seize those opportunities for ourselves and kids and let the education dinosaurs die out.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @09:23PM
Or, bear with me here, we put all the corrupt assholes in prison and appoint a real educator instead of some greedy evangelical bitch?
Nah, makes too much sense. Better burn the whole country down and let the Native Americans rebuild.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @11:07PM
Ah, you tilt your hand. It was all a ploy to denigrate institutions that are bombarded by rightwing assholes to make them as dysfunctional as possible, all so the same assholes can privatize schools to leech even more money from the average American.
You sir are a cock gobbling wanker and the world would be better off without you.