First, Corcoran issues an executive order that flies in the face of the state constitution bullying districts with the threat of losing my money, and now he has told districts before you close a class or a school give him a call so he can decide if it is okay to do so, even giving out his personal number. I want to remind everyone Corcoran is neither a doctor nor an educator or king of education, nope he's a hatchet-man doing the bidding of the governor.
From the Tampa Times,
“Before you get to the point of closing a classroom, we want to have that conversation with you,” Corcoran told the superintendents, adding that he will provide several top officials’ cell phone numbers for easier contact.
If a child exhibits symptoms, he said, there’s no reason to close the school and clean it. But schools should make sure if someone appears sick, that person should be sent home, and adequate communication should happen with families whose children might have been exposed.
Perhaps an entire class might be sent home for the day. But, without a positive test result or continued symptoms, he said, the students should be allowed back the next day.
The situation might call for even less drastic action, Corcoran added. School officials might want to determine who was within 6 feet of the person showing symptoms for longer than 15 minutes, he said.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/gradebook/2020/08/17/call-before-closing-school-over-covid-19-florida-education-commissioner-says/
You should read the article, it is terrifying.
Corcoran out every district in a hole, and he has now given them a shovel and instructed them to keep digging. Somebody needs to stand up to him, and if it isn't the superintendent, it has to be the teachers.
This is how one district in Arizona did it.
From the Guardian,
From the Tampa Times,
“Before you get to the point of closing a classroom, we want to have that conversation with you,” Corcoran told the superintendents, adding that he will provide several top officials’ cell phone numbers for easier contact.
If a child exhibits symptoms, he said, there’s no reason to close the school and clean it. But schools should make sure if someone appears sick, that person should be sent home, and adequate communication should happen with families whose children might have been exposed.
Perhaps an entire class might be sent home for the day. But, without a positive test result or continued symptoms, he said, the students should be allowed back the next day.
The situation might call for even less drastic action, Corcoran added. School officials might want to determine who was within 6 feet of the person showing symptoms for longer than 15 minutes, he said.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/gradebook/2020/08/17/call-before-closing-school-over-covid-19-florida-education-commissioner-says/
You should read the article, it is terrifying.
Corcoran out every district in a hole, and he has now given them a shovel and instructed them to keep digging. Somebody needs to stand up to him, and if it isn't the superintendent, it has to be the teachers.
This is how one district in Arizona did it.
From the Guardian,
An Arizona public school district was forced to cancel its plans to reopen on Monday after more than 100 teachers and other staff members called in sick.
“We have received an overwhelming response from staff indicating that they do not feel safe returning to classrooms with students,” Gregory Wyman, district superintendent, said in a statement on Friday.
Corcoran is going to get people sick or worse, and he is doing it with a smile on his face. How someone gets so hate-filled and nasty I beyond me.
What worries me is a lack of uniformity. One school principal told me they would notify staff at that school if there was a positive case. A principal at a different school said they might let us know. One principal said kids had to wear masks on the playground at recess. The other principal said it was not mandatory for them to wear masks outside on the playground. I get that this is unprecedented and we're doing this on the fly but give me a break!
ReplyDeletep.s. Back at my old unit we would call something like this a shitshow. At DCPS it's standard operating procedure. Fake it til you make it.
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