@Rbrown_SCOpin@greenhousemd@plkelly27 "We should absolutely not be trying to do this until it's safe to do it" -- when the science, numbers and public health experts tell us it's safe, says @greenhousemd. "And that when we do try to reopen, we do it with every possible precaution we can use." #LearningCurveSC
@Rbrown_SCOpin@greenhousemd@plkelly27 Even once we do reopen schools, @plkelly27 says school life will likely be significantly different. "We're going to have a new normal that we're going to have to deal with and we need everyone to buy in for these factors to work."
@Rbrown_SCOpin@greenhousemd@plkelly27 Pediatrician @greenhousemd says school districts need to find ways to offer critical support services to children who are learning virtually. "The needs are certainly there ... but the answer isn't necessarily pulling kids back in when numbers are sky-high." #LearningCurveSC
@Rbrown_SCOpin@greenhousemd@plkelly27 Increasing testing is key, says @plkelly27, especially because the positivity rate in SC is still high. Testing will give a "better capacity to identify cases, isolate cases, and make sure we don't have COVID spreading throughout" schools, he says.
@Rbrown_SCOpin@greenhousemd@plkelly27 Schools need families to monitor students, and when a positive is identified, doctors should be discussing necessary quarantine measures, @greenhousemd says - schools don't have the capacity to keep track of every family, so they need community to help.
@Rbrown_SCOpin@greenhousemd@plkelly27 It's important for families to make sure students are not spreading other, preventable illnesses by sending children to school while sick this fall, @plkelly27 says.
"We're all waking up to see the hidden structures within schooling that affect us all differently," @jazmyne_mccrae says. "...All of these things are getting magnified because of a pandemic."
@Rbrown_SCOpin@RichlandOneSupe@jazmyne_mccrae "I learn better when I have my teachers in my face," @jazmyne_mccrae says. "I can only imagine if you're 12, 13, 15, 5, what it is to lose that stability that a teacher provides no matter what color you are."
@Rbrown_SCOpin@RichlandOneSupe@jazmyne_mccrae "The first order of business is going to be some activities that validate students' feelings," @RichlandOneSupe says. "That's going to be critically important as we get started this year" in order to address basic emotional needs so that learning can occur.
@Rbrown_SCOpin In the last segment, @RichlandOne teacher Christi Lewis and Dr. Antwon Sutton, superintendent of Chester County School District, join us.
"I cannot guarantee them that ... they won't contract the virus," he says, but Chester County schools are doing all they can to keep teachers safe.
@Rbrown_SCOpin@RichlandOne "As a classroom teacher, I just want to be with my babies, however I can," Lewis says. "I need to check in with them and see that they're OK...then we can proceed with educating them."
@Rbrown_SCOpin@RichlandOne Question: How will districts accommodate students with exceptional and special needs while relying so heavily on virtual learning?
Dr. Sutton said Chester Co. schools want to get them in the classroom in small groups if possible, or do 1-on-1 virtual meetings.
It’s been 2,965 days since freelance journalist and #MarineCorps veteran Austin Tice disappeared at a checkpoint outside of Damascus, Syria. #FreeAustinTice.
“Every second he stays in captivity cuts a deeper wound in the hearts of my family," his brother Jacob writes, calling on all of us to help: thestate.com/opinion/articl…
We stand with our free press allies and the Tice family in calling for his release. We are asking you, our readers and followers, to join us in this campaign to bring Austin home by Thanksgiving.
Sandra Priester, Willie Mae Wright and Randy Spires are 3 of the more than 700 #SC residents who lost their lives to the #coronavirus. They were know for loving - loving their family, friends and strangers. Here's how they're remembered. (1/5) thestate.com/news/coronavir…
“You could be a stranger on the street and say you were hungry and didn’t have a place to stay, and she would take you in. She didn’t care who you were.” (2/5) thestate.com/news/coronavir…
When Willie Mae went to the hospital after falling in the tub, her family thought they’d bring her home after she recovered. They had to say their final goodbyes over the phone. (3/5) thestate.com/news/coronavir…