S/O Coronavirus School Closing considered in your area?

[mi*vida*loca]

First confirmed case in my area.

I work for a hospital and they sent out a lengthy email. All international business travel is cancelled immediately and if you fly internationally on a personal trip you are subject to a 14 day quarantine when you return.

Also, in so many words they said to find babysitters because schools will most likely be closing.

 

[HopperFan]

Local high schools have two sports that often compete in tournaments in Orlando adding a day at Disney or Universal. My kids went, now my kid coaches ... for last 17 years we've been involved. Wednesday they said they could still go next weekend but no future trips out of state would be approved. Last night they changed their stance and said they could go, even to the parks .... but they were not permitted to go on the rides ... touching all the rails, seats, handles etc. Yeah, that makes sense. So at our school at least they cancelled the whole trip.

 

[PollyannaMom]

One school around here closed for a day to deep-clean, as someone who had come back from a school-sponsored trip had flu-like symptoms and was being tested. But that's all I've heard of so far.

 

[mousefan73]

In Germany and rumor has it our school will close this week. i am on forced vacation for two weeks.. SOooooooooo I am tempted for a quick DLP trip.

 

[aristocatz]

Emergency meeting scheduled for DGD's school next Monday. Her school already has a remote schooling plan in place as a legacy of 9/11 and it's been used in the school's history for weather events so that's a mixed blessing. This is not a big deal for us as we are both retired but I do wonder how other parents and caretakers will be able to handle the possible situation if they work outside of the house? Any news on your front?

We are in Massachusetts and they are currently in discussion about this in the district where I work. 3 employees from a neighboring school district were recently quarantined for possible virus

 

[skyblue17]

Nothing so far in NYC that I know of, but I think closing school here would open a whole other can of worms, honestly.

 

[tvguy]

Elk Grove Unified School District in Elk Grove California announced today it will be closed next week after the parents of a student were put in quarantine. At this point there will be no loss of instruction time since what they are doing is moving Easter Break up to next week. Certainly going to be a challenge for some parents who have to arrange for child care, and those will plans for Easter Break will have to change them.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

Nothing so far in NYC that I know of, but I think closing school here would open a whole other can of worms, honestly.

Several schools are closed in NYC because of the family that spread it there - all private schools. The public schools there will not close unless they really have no choice, per Cuomo.

 

[tcufrog]

DS9 attends a K-8 private school that has the middle schoolers do distance learning when there is a snow day. The lower school kids don't. On the plus side, the school has experience with and is set up for distance learning but on the negative side, I'm not sure how effective it will be with the youngest students, especially since the lower school doesn't use textbooks. The school sent out an email about the virus but I wasn't impressed.

DS13 attends a public middle school in a school district where I doubt whether a large percentage of the students have the resources at home for distance learning. The school district hasn't sent anything out about the virus. He doesn't have any textbooks either.

 

[Colleen27]

Got an email from my daughter's school in San Francisco - they have several students self-quarantined after attending AIPAC, and one staff member because his partner came in contact with a confirmed case. They've suspended all non-essential campus events for the next few weeks but so far classes are unaffected. It is spring break week, which is hopefully making the quarantine a little easier for those who are waiting to see if they fall ill.

Meanwhile, my daughter is in limbo in West Virginia right now, waiting for the final decision about whether her Appalachia service trip is going to proceed or whether they'll be turning around and heading right back to campus rather than taking the slim chance of spreading it in an area already short on medical facilities. They arrived late last night and the decision to cancel school-related travel and large events came today, so the university coordinator and the leader of their host organization are trying to figure out the best way to handle things.

 

[fla4fun]

Our schools have spring break starting tomorrow so they will be closed anyway.

 

[mhautz]

Here in Nebraska, there is a confirmed case in a town not too far from us and the local school district decided to "extend" their Spring Break by adding a week to the beginning of it.

Our kids are starting their Spring Break anyway this week, my hope is that theirs won't be extended.

 

[Hikergirl]

My dd's university has no immediate plans of closing but they are asking all professors to come up with plans to finish out the semester online just in case.
No news from my ds's university on whether or not they are doing something similiar.
The only news coming from our local school district is that they haven't made any plans to cancel any major events or field trips, but to keep checking back for updates.

 

[tinkerhon]

Several schools are closed in NYC because of the family that spread it there - all private schools. The public schools there will not close unless they really have no choice, per Cuomo.

just read on another forum that I frequent that it's very possible that Nyc-Metro area schools will close by the end of next week - person claims that they know someone high up within the DOE -

 

[godisney14]

One thing I want to mention.
Even if no one in the family has Covid-19 and just has a normal cold or flu, please keep your child at home if s/he is showing any symptoms.

The elementary school here sent a notice out reminding parents of this because one child came to school sick and then 3 other families in the same class called in sick two days later. Obviously, there is a level of assumption that the three kids’ infection was from the first. But, this goes to show you how much disruption one individual can cause if not taking necessary precautions. Don’t make it hard on many others. An individual with minor symptoms is still as infectious as someone with greater symptoms.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Nothing so far in NYC that I know of, but I think closing school here would open a whole other can of worms, honestly.

Good article in this week's NYT about possibility of public school closings and how children would continue getting their education and parents, work.

 

[mnrose]

Both my college aged kids are on spring break from their schools. Both of their schools have told them to 'prepare" for two weeks of on-line classes when they return. Both schools are considering it because, of course, may college kids travel over spring break (not to exotic locales, necessarily, but instead to their homes around the country, where there may be more cases of Covid 19. This is all just the tip of the iceberg really.

 

[rajak73]

Here in Nebraska, there is a confirmed case in a town not too far from us and the local school district decided to "extend" their Spring Break by adding a week to the beginning of it.

Our kids are starting their Spring Break anyway this week, my hope is that theirs won't be extended.

And did you notice that announced the closing of all the schools in that city AFTER the one girls basketball team from that city played 3 days in the state tournament? But the exposure was supposedly almost a week before that.

 

[mhautz]

And did you notice that announced the closing of all the schools in that city AFTER the one girls basketball team from that city played 3 days in the state tournament? But the exposure was supposedly almost a week before that.

Yep! And I'm in Lincoln, so I'm sure the next thing I'll hear is there is a positive case here because someone who attended the tournament got it.

 

[soccerdad72]

I saw the UW online announcement. I think Seattle U is going online as well.

Stanford just did this as well