I hope that students are not in close contact with dozens of people every few day. As a reminder, here is CDC’s covid-19 definition of a close contact:
Only people who meet the definition of a close contact to an infected person would be quarantined.
This is a quote from the story
“If college football can be played this fall, Big Ten presidents and athletic directors preferred the conference-only model, which will eliminate some long-distance travel and help ensure teams are being tested for the coronavirus universally, multiple sources inside the league and around college football told ESPN.”
IF college football can be played. Nothing is definite.
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I don’t think anyone will know the quality of the in-person classes until they actually happen, everything else is just speculation at this point.
@“Cardinal Fang”
Because like everyone else, they find out after the contact with the spreader, with multiple interactions between the time of the spreader encounter and the spreader testing positive.
The mask, the mask, how could I not think of that and I’m from Jersey! My wife taught K12 classes over Zoom this spring and it was pretty chaotic. Are we expecting verbal interaction in these online classes or is it text only like the “traditional” online schools?
If kids have to sit six feet apart in all directions, it’s been estimated that a 100-person lecture hall can fit only 20-22 students. Most will be far away from professor. Not an intimate discussion group. Kids will practically have to shout from back row. Even when I’m talking to my favorite check out worker at our grocery store, I have to raise my voice and we are two feet away with plexiglass between us.
That site says nothing of the kind. On June 15, in Arizona, 1506 patients were hospitalized for covid. That number has increased every single day since then except for one day. Yesterday’s number was 3437. Instead of decreasing, covid hospitalizations have gone up 228% since the middle of June.
@ElonMomMD - RE: Big 10 Conference Only - Notre Dame is so screwed. The disadvantage of being an “Independent” school bites them in the backside.
In other words, they are known to have been around someone who was infected. They didn’t know the person was infected. The person didn’t know they were infected. The virus does not care about what people know; it just wants to transmit itself. That is why people get quarantined if they were exposed to people with the disease.
Had a meeting today about continuing to mainstream my youngest next year. Mentioned that he does great with the current hybrid setup - only half the class in the room AND the schoolyard at anyone time, only four periods a day, one week on, one week off with the weekly work package sent online. He doesn’t even need an aide currently, but will need one once school is back to full time, full classes and full hallways and playgrounds, which will be a bit of a bummer, the teacher laughed and said she actually loved it too, everything was so calm and organised, she could pay attention to every one, no one under the radar and the class was making great progress.
Also saw all the kids play with masks during recess, didn’t seem to be a big deal. Kids and teachers take masks off in the classroom once everyone is seated at their spaced out tables, which I think IS a big deal
My big middle schooler just told me he loves the hybrid one week on one week off schedule, too, even though their days are almost back to full time he feels so much more relaxed and wouldn’t mind this being permanent. (I’m sure he also loves that there’s no PE!)
My little middle schooler is happy, too, she likes being home a lot and having at least one parent around for the day, only misses her best friend from whom she’s been separated by a cruel alphabet.
Met a mom with a kid in another school that is still on a one day on one day off schedule, for two hours, and she says she hates it, homeschooling was actually less of a hassle.
The childcare issue remains. There is emergency care in the “off” weeks, but places are limited.
Why are people continually talking about the low death rate for the young? We know - we get it! But - some DO die ( we just assume it won’t be ours) , we know nothing about long term health ramifications and all of these non affected youngsters can still spread it to others.
If my kid were a recent HS graduate he’d be taking a gap year.
As it is, I think he’s going to make the choice to stay home this fall and take classes remotely. Finances are important and the cost to be on campus is just way to costly for the lackluster experience it is going to be.
I really appreciate your perspective from Europe. Thank you, and please keep posting!
The ACC appears to be “adopting” Notre Dame for this year since they were already scheduled to play several ACC teams.
Why do people keep posting with a perspective that this will be over after 6-12 months? It may not! So I guess college and school are out for a long time!.
@ElonMomMD - For many other sports ND is in the ACC, so that makes sense. Now what with the PAC 12 do? They play Stanford and USC every year. These two have been question marks in my mind since it became apparent this bug was going to persist. The one Big 10 game is actually less travel for ND than it would be for much of the Big 10. But, conferences matter 
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I will still take a wait and see approach. Not every socially distanced class will be held in a 100 person lecture hall with fixed seating. It will be different but not impossible. Maybe for those used to sitting in a group circle it will be different. D19 schedule for the Fall does not have any classes with more than 25 people in each class and two of the classes are 16 people, including an art class.
@GKUnion wrote:
Well, I guess the short answer is that you contract it out. Wesleyan is using the same MIT-Harvard affiliated start-up, Broad Institute in Boston, that @ChemAM mentioned about 50 pages back.
The B1G going to conference only isn’t really a problem - there are 14 football teams. They won’t even play all the teams in the conference.
The only issue for schools staying in-conference is that some schools won’t be able to play some traditional rivalries like Utah/Utah State. Oh, and Nebraska won’t be able to schedule St. Mary’s Girls Choir as a non-conference rival to beef up its record.
@twoinanddone - LOLOL - Poor Nebraska (and Bama for that matter)