Or just The Farm 
A local relatively affluent HS district (two HSs with around 3-3.5K students) in my neck of the woods (Northern suburbs Chicago) announced they are starting the fall fully remote.
Did not cite budget reasons as the issue, rather referred to the need to provide a ‘consistent and stable learning environment’ for students and that so much is unknown as to what lies ahead.
So much for so many being so sure public schools will be in-person this fall. The district did leave the door open for the plan to ‘evolve’, should be interesting, can’t wait to hear the feedback they are receiving from parents and students.
Lots of potential downstream impacts of this decision, but this does not bode well for in-person instruction in the K-8 schools that serve those HSs, or less affluent school districts.
@Mwfan1921 Wow. That is big news. It’s a strong statement that will be far reaching in garnering attention. Makes me a bit depressed but not in a surprising manner.
“The Farm” has the same number of characters and syllables as “Stanford”.
“Stanford [University]” is the short form of “Leland Stanford Junior University”, which is apparently enough of a mouthful that it is rarely used.
Other rarely used mouthfuls are “Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University” and “Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College”.
For those of you who work in K-12, at what point prior to the scheduled start of school do you think your districts will announce a plan for fall? I totally understand that the situation changes daily, so I wonder how much notice we will likely get to start planning?
I’ve been a substitute teacher for the past 3 years. (Oh, the stories I could tell . . .) I’m wondering if I should start looking at job options.
Wow, those comments will make one appreciate the civility of College Confidential!
This is the most detail Purdue has released to date:
https://protect.purdue.edu/app/uploads/2020/06/protect-purdue-plan-20200612.pdf
Note, it’s 23 pages long ; )
My D is excited about the swag masks.
Notable additions that jumped out to me:
- 400 dedicated beds for isolation and quarantine and contingency plans for more if needed.
- tents set up for outdoor dining
- extra training for professors to set up remote learning and funds for them to outfit their homes with the necessary equipment. (Sounds to me like they are making plans if there is a crisis and they'll need to shift all online.)
- training for club executive teams on how to effectively continue in the Fall while adhering to all the social distancing and safety measures.
My D leveraged her AP courses to fulfill Core requirements so she could double major and take some graduate seminars (the latter not available at most LACs).
Unless you are a Cal grad, then its abbreviated to a four-letter term. 
@fretfulmother That’s exactly what I said. But I guess repeating the phrase makes it sound better coming from you.
My Words: IMHO, there isn’t that much value in APs unless one can shorten the entire school experience and save $$ by graduating early.
Your words: Of course the most valuable financial payback is graduating early
Anyway, we’re not experts at APs and their ins and outs. At strong private schools, the classes are often taught at an AP level and in many cases kids just take the AP test without the AP class. Will look into it based on where my kids end up applying and see what’s useful and what’s not.
@cstp28 Our high school district has said the committees will present plans to the board at the end of June and the board will make a decision about how school will look by mid-July. That’s a little nuts since we start school on August 10th. That north shore suburban Chicago district going all remote does not bode well for us either. All of our kids have Chromebooks and online classes went pretty well in the spring. That school district also said class will be run via Zoom and “like a regular school day” so supposedly kids will go to all seven of their classes like they normally would each day.
For spring, our kids switched to a block schedule and they were not in class as much as they are when school is in regular session. It was ok for AP classes because they had covered all of the material by the time the kids were remote. That will not fly for fall so, if they do all remote class, they would have to make sure kids are in class the full amount of hours per class.
I can’t even tell D21 about that district’s plan. She will be crushed. Editor of the yearbook and very difficult to get that work done without being at school…and no sports or activities to be reporting on will be a problem as well. I have a sinking feeling that suburban Chicago public schools will likely choose very similar paths.
She called a football player friend today to see if he’s heard anything. He said that the coach is telling them he’s hopeful for practice starting in July. Who knows.
I work K12 and we won’t know anything until at least mid August …at that point the state and unions should have a tentative plan. In the meantime my school is making plans for several different options.
Colby is planning on starting classes 2 weeks early (August 26) and ending at Thanksgiving with remote exams. This will allow the campus community more time to utilize outdoor space while the weather is warm enough to do so. They are not sharing other details at this time, but did say that this schedule will allow the school’s existing course structure to remain intact. I assume that this means students will not have to go through the course registration process (that happened in April) again. They are still planning to offer Jan Plan courses. More details to come at the beginning of July with the usual disclaimers of the situation being fluid.
@xyz123a did Colby give move in days? All of these schools are reporting first day of class but very few have said when kids move in (for those on campus). Flights need to be made at some point! I’m assuming Bowdoin will start early too, especially now since Colby has decided on it.
Our HS, a neighboring district to the one I mentioned above, also went to a block schedule for remote learning this past Q4. They have announced all of next year will be block schedule as well, but nothing else yet, we are waiting for school start date, remote/in-person/hybrid, activities status, etc.
I also haven’t told S21 about the neighboring school district going remote only, but know he will find out soon, he has many friends at those schools. We shall see how much pushback from parents that school district gets, and if that changes anything!
This Cal grad would never, ever!
I would not expect our district to announce anything until right before the school year. When the HS was considering moving to a block schedule, they did not decide yay or nay or what format (2x4 vs alternating days) until 2 weeks before classes began. And then there was the year that they shifted the school day by a full hour 6 weeks after classes began. They sent a robocall Friday night that it was to change Monday morning.
We are an area that thrives in procrastination and it drives me crazy. And with nobody in charge now, ugh.
@homerdog move-in dates will be forthcoming in the next few weeks. My guess is a staggered schedule over the weekend of 8/22 with freshmen moving in earlier, but we will see. I am on board with an earlier start date to take advantage of the weather. S18 will be ready to head back early for sure! Until Covid hit he had not been home for more than 3 consecutive weeks since he started college.
Yes, most of the commentors did not seem sympathetic to some professors lack of desire to return to in-person teaching. Many felt that if professors did want to come teach the students in person that were paying $85K/yr to be there, that the professors should take a sabbatical year, and let those who were willing do the teaching job. And then they noted that these same professors, though, would expect the Whole Food workers to be at work to provide their food, and health care workers to be a work to provide their heath care etc. The point being these are probably much riskier jobs and the professors were prima donnas not used to living in the real world. They also noted there would maybe be no jobs to return to in the future, if the colleges were financially ruined if they don’t offer in person classes. You get the drift …
I thought it was short for St Anford