Yup.
I was just talking with a couple of colleagues yesterday about this.
We just started our summer vacation this week (we go until the end of June here) and speculating what next Fall is going to look like.
The Province has said that we might want to consider opening a week earlier, because we *will* be shut down. And soon, I think.
The school is telling us to prepare for a hybrid model of teaching, mix of online and distance learning. I think many people are operating under the assumption there will be a lot of the latter.
I think it's going to be like 80% former. And that's in a province that has had fewer than 200 cases per day for most of the last two weeks.
In states where this is about to really hit... prepare now for a lot more distance learning.
School districts, as I've written before, as absolutely *STUPID* if they are not planning with local telecoms to blanket wifi coverage.This is especially an issue in school districts with high rural populations (something I've been advocating for more infrastructure in the past, way before this). They need to get teachers ready for online teaching. They need to talk about stripping down the curriculum to essentials and competencies. They need to take standardized testing out of their stupid mouths (better if it stayed out). They need to be planning to hand out technology for kids.They need to develop an attack plan for getting food to kids on free- and reduced-lunch plans (those are still budgeted). And so on.
Any district where this *is not* happening, if I was a parent and taxpayer I would be raising ten different kinds of hell.
But I know - for a FACT - that a lot of schools and districts have done little to nothing. And when the public rises up in outrage, justifiably, they are gonna have very little to respond with.
And the petty side of me wants to say, "And you deserve it! Every bit of it!" Except we're talking about kids, people. And their education. And it's so important for so many of them.