Ok, who thinks schools WILL be opening up as normal this year?

[Anonymous 1]

We are supposed to start Aug 17. I'm about 50/50 on whether they will actually open. I am in North Carolina. What are your thoughts?

[LiveWhatULove]

My bets are on: school will open as normal, but transition to online when typical flu season hits around October or November. I am speaking for Kansas/Missouri.

[Anonymous 1]

My bets are on: school will open as normal, but transition to online when typical flu season hits around October or November. I am speaking for Kansas/Missouri.

I can see this also. And, the way they worded our opening was they got a special waver to start early on the 17, BUT cannot be counted for instruction until Aug 24. Sooo.. leads me to believe they will go to school in person for 1 week just to get computers, lesson plans etc then be sent home for remote instruction.

[Traci_Momof2]

I am pretty sure our schools will open, but chances are it will not look like normal. DH has a good friend who is a teacher at our 8th grader's school. She said they had a meeting recently to discuss options. Some of the options discussed:
- Half the students go Monday/Wednesday and the other half go Tuesday/Thursday
- Students are assigned one room and stay in that room all day, while the teachers move from room to room to teach their subjects.
- Students wearing masks all day.
- Only teachers wearing masks all day.

No decisions have been made yet. They'll need to decide fairly quickly. Typically our first day of school would be Aug 5th though I saw the Middle School (same district different school) had on their marquee something about first day of school being July 29th. Either way there is not a lot of time for them to come up with a plan and implement it.

I'm ready to go along with pretty much whatever they decide to do. We will make it work. However, I do NOT envy the school officials right now because no matter what decision they make, they will have angry parents knocking their doors down. It's a lose lose situation for them.

[mcginnisc]

No clue.. I know they are in talks currently here as the start date is 8/1.

[carterscutie85]

They intend to open as normal but I doubt I will send mine back.

[mojogirl]

The uni I work for is having class starting in fall. The k-12 here always follows their lead.

[Pjmm]

They intend to open as normal but I doubt I will send mine back.

Mine has said no online learning. So unless we're forced to do online he's going back.

[Anonymous 2]

They go back the first week of september

[PurpleTurtle]

I haven't heard anything definitive either way for our schools. I think they're purposely *not* saying anything just yet until they have a clearer picture of where we stand closer to the start of school.