COVID back to school: Fall semester 2020 means uncertainty and fear | Coronavirus Chronicles

Teachers, students haunted by fall 2020 back-to-school unknowns.
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Going back to school amid COVID-19 outbreaks means uncertainty and fear for students and teachers, but staying home presents problems too.

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68 comments

    1. @Javier Rivera no I’m in 8th grade hun and I can like gacha if I want and I want to change my pfp but I have to wait for 60 days

    1. @R. M. if you ever think america or any western country will allow Russia to have the vaccine your not older than 10

  1. “The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those that speak it.” – George Orwell, Author 1984

    “It’s easier to fool someone than to convince them they’ve been fooled.” – Mark Twain, American writer

    “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” – William Casey, Director CIA

    “The American people don’t believe anything until they see it on TV.” – Richard Nixon, US President

    1. @Unmutual Bet you don’t even know why you hate Trump like the other libtards. Do us all a favor and watch Oprah Winfrey’s interview of him in the 80’s. At that time, he said he was not interested in ever running for President, but thought he would win if he did. He went on to state that he would ONLY consider it if he saw this fine country going down the toilet. Guess what he saw when he ran??? The man, like it, or him, or not, the man loves America and the values upon which it was founded. I won’t rehash all the good things he has done because you probably can’t hear it. He may not be the most personable, likable person on the planet, but that, in and of itself, does not make him a bad President anymore than Obummer being the first “black” President made him a good one.

    2. @Marshall Ray Most libtards don’t even realize Trump is not a racist. Only the racists call him that. It’s funny. While Obummer was in office, black unemployment rose from 8-16% while under Trump, black unemployment has hit the lowest percentages since slavery was abolished. He has given millions of his own dollars to fund black scholarships and otherwise aid the black community. Sheep make me sick :/

    3. @Marc Rushing No he’s a racist. When he was president of his father’s company in 1973 he was sued by HUD for refusing to rent to black people. He want the central park 5 executed before their trial. He went on news programs to tell people he hated them and wanted everyone else to hate them too. Of course they were innocent. Do you think Trump gave a sh*t? Please stop defending this man. He’s a fraud and his incompetent response on Covid has caused the death of tens of thousands more Americans then there should have been. He should not have disbanded the Pandemic reponse team set up by Obama. I hope he’s a one term President.

  2. I was on a camping trip when the coronavirus outbreak was announced. To try to stop the spread, we stayed in our tents all day. I guess you could say,

    the camping trip was in tents.

    1. im sorry but that is honestly so stupid if you’re not joking. Like on your trip you have been talking and laughing and having close contact with each other and then all of a sudden just because the “government” says there is a virus you all hide in your tents? lmao pathetic. If someone had the virus you would’ve had it by then.

    2. @V R What has 6 eyes, 16 tentacles and quacks like a duck?

      I don’t know either but it’s in my comment, please help.

    1. ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ it’s goin to ruin some things…yeah dem undeez

    1. Those children will infect each other, then they themselves spread the virus to their parents and grandparents…

    2. Heather Larson exactly and teachers, and most teachers i’ve know are older. till the deaths come, it won’t matter and by then it’s too late.

    1. and what if they dont have time to set it up i say just cancel schools to much work just for a piece of paper

    2. Yes it exists, but who is going to take care of the kids at home? Most parents have to work and can’t afford to hire babysitters or have a family member watch them

    3. the teachers failed at making online learning useful. students learned nothing and it cost too much to give out free laptops and free internet to every house in america.

    1. Almost like we don’t have something to compare this to. The failure reopening of businesses. Now let’s test it with kids and teachers! The American way!

  3. I might be nine years old but I’m just realizing if one of the classmates get infected somehow it’s and then expose it to another classroom in that classroom supposed to another one is it going to spread to the whole school then and to the. Parents ????

    1. Fire ALL the teachers. They’re no longer needed because online is much better. Plus, when my neighbors mom goes to work, she sneaks me in and gives me head! Win, win.

  4. “As long as the season isn’t canceled, that’s a win – that’s what our school has said.”

    Unfortunately, athletics has always overshadowed academics, but in 2020, athletics will also overshadow all concern for student and faculty health and safety.

    Gotta play those sports and make that money.

  5. radical idea: give Fall 2020 up as a wash and just do what you can? if students miss a year it’s not the end of the world unless they are seniors…as to cost…the government mandates it they can pay for it.

  6. Putting over a hundred people possible hundreds into one building is not safe in our current virus situation… honestly what is the education system thinking

    1. What are ya talking about? Clearly schools know what they’re doing like they always have.
      Im being sarcastic btw.

    2. This is clearly because of money, it is just plain obvious that it is a bad idea. Have a look on other countries and how well its going out for them, they have bunch of spikes in cases since they opened schools. some children also died from it.

  7. Just come by my neighborhood in Brooklyn and you’ll see the Jewish community without no masks, no social distancing, and their kids have been in school for a month.

  8. Danmmm, no schools. Maybe won’t even have a chance of going back there. School could be demolished and can be built a mask Center,

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