Daily Admin Update
Day 24
Good Morning Friends,
We are having a staff meeting this afternoon to check in with teaching staff. This has been very challenging for many of them as it has for you. This is a marathon that we have not trained for and we are working really hard to figure out how to make it to the finish line.
You can see below that 17 states will not be returning this school year. We make those decisions at the local level. Even though Governor Newsom and Tony Thurmond (State Superintendent of schools) have stated that California schools should be shut down for the remainder of the year at the local level they have recommended being "Closed until further notice". With that said we are making plans for our upcoming move into the new building.
Level 10 construction is still on track for us to begin next year in our new building. This is very exciting and will be yet another transition in a year that has been filled with transitions. We are going to do our best to plan with the kids and families in mind and keep you updated as much as possible.
State-by-State Map of School-Building Closures
Summer Heat May Not Diminish Coronavirus Strength
The homebound and virus-wary across the Northern Hemisphere, from President Trump to cooped-up schoolchildren, have clung to the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic will fade in hot weather, as some viral diseases do.
But the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, in a public report sent to the White House, has said, in effect: Don’t get your hopes up. After reviewing a variety of research reports, a panel concluded that the studies, of varying quality of evidence, do not offer a basis to believe that summer weather will interfere with the spread of the coronavirus. The pandemic may lessen because of social distancing and other measures, but the evidence so far does not inspire confidence in the benefits of sun and humidity.
The report, sent to Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House and acting director of the National Science Foundation, was a brief nine-page communication known as a rapid expert consultation.
Kristian Andersen, an immunologist at the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California and a member of the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats at the National Academies, said: “Given current data, we believe that the pandemic likely will not diminish because of summer, and we should be careful not to base policies and strategies around the hope that it will.”