Bowdoin not even returning until Feb 6. Two weeks later than usual.
CU Boulder running short on isolation space – forcing kids to move to create more. CU reported 100 new cases on Wed and 130 more on Thurs.
I wonder if it depends on how things are going on campus? D’s campus is doing well. Currently no kids in isolation I have to tell you, no one wants to be the lone kid living in the isolation dorm so they are generally behaving well. In D’s case it’s not that she’s worried about getting sick, she just doesn’t want to be the ONE that gets it.
Both my best friend’s sons self-quarantined for at least 10 days in a separate apartment before forming a pod with their parents for the remainder of the summer. I thought it was a pretty responsible thing to do.
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I know a person whose child got positive test (had very mild symptoms) at an off-campus testing site and being isolated on campuses and got back to a dorm / in-person classes. A college won’t test a student anymore in this semester by assuming no longer spreading the virus or having risk to catch it again…A college will send all students back home before Thanksgiving.
I would like my son to get tested before he comes home. He lives in an off-campus apartment with one roommate (2-bed/2-bath). I hinted him that he doesn’t need to come home until all-online semester ends in mid-December.
We are all tired of “all this.” I still expect the students (nearly all legal adults) to abide by whatever agreement they made when they returned to their campuses. If they don’t, I hope they are sent home. I’m not generally a hard-ass but have very little patience for college students’ complaints on this issue. Pretty much everyone has had their life upended, some in much worse ways than others.
This is where at-home lick-a-stick tests would really be convenient and effective. For example, the morning D19 is scheduled to return home from her OOS college, she would test herself. If positive, she delays her trip until negative. If negative, she leaves for home. About seven hours later, she is home and we hug her because we know that even if she is incubating SARS-CoV-2, she is not contagious. The next morning, she tests again and so forth for 14 days. After that, we figure she isn’t a threat to anyone from Covid picked up at college. In the meantime, she can celebrate Thanksgiving as normal.
That only works if the student has somewhere to stay. For kids in the dorms it’s out by a certain time, no exceptions, especially this fall. My kid has classes ending on 11/20 and has to vacate by 5pm the next day.
@mom1720, does your daughter’s school not have an isolation dorm? Are they clearing out the isolation dorm the day before Thanksgiving, and sending all the sick kids home?
Edgenuity online tests, as used in some online/distance K-12 courses, are graded automatically, but the grading algorithm for some short answer questions is easily gamed.
Remember some years ago when the SAT writing sample grading methodology was effectively reverse-engineered by test-prep companies who then taught people how to game it? Seems like Edgenuity’s grading methodology for some kinds of questions is even easier to game – and that can have greater impact now with greater use of online/distance education, some of which is subcontracted out to Edgenuity.
How can you not have thought about this? We have my D20 coming home for thanksgiving and yes, she will test and yes, she will quarantine for around 10 days or more because we love her grandfather and little sister who are both high risk.
But even if you don’t have high risk family members, how can anyone just not have thought about what they would do for Thanksgiving?
Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that this might be the common attitude. Sorry.
They are using a nearby hotel. No idea what they are doing once classes end.
Thanksgiving is 10 weeks away. People have plenty of time to figure things out.
I didn’t say we wouldn’t do anything. I just said we hadn’t thought it through yet. There’s nothing we can do right now and there’s a possibility that S19 won’t even come home for thanksgiving and he and his roommates might just stay together. If he wants to come home, we will figure out a plan.
if my S, who is normally socially distanced anyway, and only leaves his on campus apartment for his hybrid classes and occasionally food shopping, has not been positive by thanksgiving, what is going to make me think that the week leading up to thanksgiving all of sudden he will be positive. If he “self quarantines” as much as possible, the only risk is then the flight. and if he is wearing his mask, and still catches it flying home, it would take 4/5 days before he will test positive anyway. We can have him test at that point, but I feel like he wont be increased risk any more so around thanksgiving than he would be now. Also all those kids who already have been positive; i would think they would have some type of immunity at least for 2 months.
ASU just announced that they will send everyone home at Thanksgiving and finish out the semester 100% virtual (1 week of classes, 1 week of finals). Smart move by ASU. No word yet on when Spring semester will start.
Why are they making this decision so late? We knew this information before my son went to his college.
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Why is everything always so doom and gloom? You will do what you need to do, period. It’s not about your son seeing his friends. It’s about keeping everyone safe including you. If you have a friend over hopefully you social distance?? Not really that tough with your son. My son will definitely go to his room since he would do that anyway. It seems on break getting sleep is a key thing… Lol ?. We can still have Thanksgiving and not be on top of each other. It’s just called being responsible. If your not going to do that please let others know so they don’t get sick. A little distance is not such a horrible thing. We will be in the middle of the flu season also. As you know just because you get a flu vaccine doesn’t mean you won’t get the flu, right? You need to set an example for your kids. If your not going to be responsible how would you expect them to be?