AggieBiker said:

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Smokedraw01 said:

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The journalist got pissed when she got called out for manipulating the information.

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Can you provide more information? Not familiar with this story up here in the metroplex.

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She was trying some dumb gotcha about Katy ISD having all these cases because they went back in person and HISD is virtual. Even though Katy is actually huge. Not as big at HISD but plenty big.

Then she misrepresented the numbers. Got called on her BS and then tried to lie her way out of it.

I honestly don't understand what you're saying. New as in identified that day? There weren't zero active cases the day you posted and there aren't zero active cases today.
It's not an overwhelming number of cases, but it's not zero.

tylercsbn9 said:

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AggieBiker said:

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Smokedraw01 said:

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The journalist got pissed when she got called out for manipulating the information.

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Can you provide more information? Not familiar with this story up here in the metroplex.

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She was trying some dumb gotcha about Katy ISD having all these cases because they went back in person and HISD is virtual. Even though Katy is actually huge. Not as big at HISD but plenty big.

Then she misrepresented the numbers. Got called on her BS and then tried to lie her way out of it.

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Thanks for the information.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/no-link-schools-re-opening-coronavirus-infection-rates-global/

"There is no link between schools reopening and rising Covid-19 cases, according to an analysis of data from 191 countries.

Evidence from around the world has shown there is no correlation between pupils returning to education after coronavirus lockdowns and a rise - or fall - in new infections, the report from Insights for Education found.

Chief executive Dr Randa Grob-Zakhary, said: "It's essential to study the evidence to avoid making false assumptions about the impact of opening and closing schools on virus transmission.

"It's been assumed that opening schools will drive infections, and that closing schools will reduce transmission, but the reality is much more complex. The key now is to learn from those countries that are reopening effectively against a backdrop of rising infections.""

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"The analysis backs up what scientists increasingly believe - that children, initially thought to be major potential spreaders of coronavirus infection, do not appear to be playing that role. However, at the same time, there is a growing body of work showing the detrimental effects of keeping kids out of school across the globe.

Reflecting this, the report found that most countries which are now in the midst of their second coronavirus waves, including many European countries, are not considering going back to full-scale school closures and are instead looking at how to keep schools open despite rising infections."

Despite continued rising cases in our county, we currently have one active case and three total over six weeks in our district.

I think it makes sense that if kids are in school, they are staying in contact more or less with the same kids, not travelling as much etc. etc.

This was, a theory put out from the French studies, that the contact tracing found that kids in in person school by and large stayed in a quasi-bubble.

This won't help

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/10/01/919237103/kids-and-superspreaders-are-driving-covid-19-cases-in-india-huge-study-finds

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but that's not how the study is being interpreted.

"First, this is a study that shows that children do indeed spread the virus to other children," she says. "This will have major implications for kids returning to classrooms, to sports and to other activities where kids tend to be in close contact to each other. I think we need more robust contact tracing studies like this, especially in children, to have a really good understanding of the transmission dynamics in this age group."

amercer said:

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I don't necessarily disagree with you, but that's not how the study is being interpreted.

"First, this is a study that shows that children do indeed spread the virus to other children," she says. "This will have major implications for kids returning to classrooms, to sports and to other activities where kids tend to be in close contact to each other. I think we need more robust contact tracing studies like this, especially in children, to have a really good understanding of the transmission dynamics in this age group."

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I see your quote and raise you a quote:

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"What we found in our study is that children were actually quite important," says Laxminarayan. "They were likely to get infected, particularly by young adults of the ages of 20 to 40. They were likely to transmit the disease amongst themselves. And this is unusual, because schools in India have been shut since March. So clearly this is happening just at the community [level]. And then they also go out and infect people of all age groups, including the elderly."

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Kids in school aren't around adults for the most part. Teachers can and are taking precautions. Kids in school appears - based on evidence from multiple countries and states - to be a brake on community spread, not an accelerant. And the kids themselves just don't get very sick. They may be positive but their symptoms are very mild. All of which is good, unequivocally.

it's going to be interpreted based on local political discipline

the blue state where you live will read something completely different than red state where jenn lives

cone said:

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it's going to be interpreted based on local political discipline

the blue state where you live will read something completely different than red state where jenn lives

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No doubt.

I would also say that things will probably differ a lot by country. In India, getting kids into schools might result in them being less exposed to the community. That won't be true in the US.

Prosper ISD elementary school closes temporarily due to Covid.

Is anyone here in Prosper?

In Frisco here. Prosper is one of the districts that has been open the longest.

I thought it was one of the first, but wasn't sure I was remembering it correctly.
I'm honestly surprised it hasn't been more of a story, but I actually had to go look for confirmation when it was mentioned to me in a conversation.
I hope it's an outlier, not the beginning of a trend.

Covid is really starting to spread at my school. This time last week, we had one active case and three total for the year. We now have around 25 cases, including two teachers that are currently hospitalized. It's crazy how fast this went from nothing at our school to being on the verge of shutting down.

Damn. Two teachers in the hospital?
Do you mind sharing general location and which type of school (elementary, junior high, or high)?

cc_ag92 said:

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Damn. Two teachers in the hospital?
Do you mind sharing general location and which type of school (elementary, junior high, or high)?

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Springfield, MO area (the whole metro area is getting hammered right now), 7-12 building, 350 students, both teachers female. One teacher in 60s, one probably late 30s. As far as I know, neither are in the ICU.

Agree completely with you. Could not have said it better. School boards and administrators across Texas, some more than others, have greatly failed those that they serve and represent.

I am convinced that the only way that children are going to be allowed some kind of semblance of a what used to be normal education is if there is mass de-enrollments across Texas. Right now the districts can have their cake and eat it too with receiving state funding and continuing on with this virtual crap.

I will sum up our experience with the virtual deal, my wife yelling "you better have all A's with the amount of cheating that you are doing" at our daughter.

Grades at the local high end IB school are the highest they have ever been for a first grading period. Really? LOL. Yet at the regular HS 40% of the freshman class are flunking one or more subjects. Right.....all that makes perfect sense.

Wylie schools are now seeing a "spike" at the high schools but from a mom she says most are showing no symptoms or mild illness. Collin county has had less than 1% of the population test positive for Covid so this is expected.

Absolutely right. Well said.

And I would add that it is turning some students that thrived in a regimented curriculum setting into corner cutting slackers as they are no longer really accountable and have found that they can obtain the same or better results for less effort and time.

My kids' district, Southlake, seems to be starting to see a very small uptick. Not a scientific study, just based on the emails we get from the district. Nothing major, yet. Went from about one kid being positive per week, to a couple a day now. That's across the district, and most of them are all in HS. I know multiple parents, though, who have had kids test positive and did not tell the district because they don't want to quarantine their kids, so it's likely much higher.