Daily Admin Update
Day 39
Good Morning,
As a school we are working so hard to maintain some learning and connection with you and your children. We hope that our efforts are meeting your needs during this strange time. If you are in need, please let me know. I know I believe as do others in our community that no one should go hungry., be alone or be in need when there are all of us to support. We are a CoOp and that means we stand strong TOGETHER. I have such love and respect for all of you and your strength during this time of crisis.
Please continue to send me pictures to put in the newsletter, it really makes a difference for all of us.
Sending you love and health,
Sarah
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Pandemic Drives Home the Power of the Parent
As schools shut down to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, Spring Break transformed into more of a spring breakdown for many of America’s parents stuck in their homes with their student brood.
Will Huntsberry illuminates the inescapable need for parents to play a larger role in their child’s education. School officials signaled that they’re here to take the pressure off: Teachers are still in charge of ensuring students master the material.
But parents can do three things to help, school officials say: Check in to make sure your student is organized; provide space to work; and show an interest in what they’re learning. That color of curiosity might just be what your child needs to keep the faith in fractions or physics homework.
In fact, how your student fares during school in normal times already depends a lot on parent involvement, said Richard Barrerra, vice president of San Diego Unified School District. It’s just another one of COVID-19’s little life lessons.
-Voice of San Diego
We Will Have Coronavirus in The Fall
Epidemiologists and infectious disease experts interviewed before the Wednesday briefing doubted that the virus would go away, and did not rule out the prospect of a worse crisis in the fall if the two diseases strike at the same time.
“When flu season comes, there is the possibility that we will be dealing with two respiratory viruses at the same time — flu and Covid,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the former head of the C.D.C. and the president of Resolve to Save Lives, a nonprofit focused on disease prevention, said in an email. “This could be a double challenge for our health care systems.”
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also differed from the president’s optimistic forecast.
“We will have coronavirus in the fall,” he said. “I am convinced of that.”
-NY Times
We are the innovators!
What we’ve seen during this crisis is that those states, districts and schools that are doing best are the innovators that deliver high quality education and were able to shift quickly from the classroom to the family room. Those that didn’t - from wealthy Fairfax County, which still cannot get its students online, to San Francisco, which has determined education should not count during the crisis - represent the worst of American education and the reason it must change now for all students to succeed.
“Education has never been more important. When we come out of this crisis, there will be new jobs, new requirements and new global awareness necessary. Not having a command of who we are, why we exist, and how one participates in society is a dismal failure of the US education system.