Most of GA reopened schools this week -Already 20 cases in open schools

[kpete]

We received 80 reports from cases in schools in Georgia today. Most of GA reopened schools this week, and we've already confirmed about 20 cases in open schools. Report cases in your schools here:

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/6b749f8a58e44a44a9f9266fd4d4f25c

[CrispyQ]

1. Off topic, but since when does school start the first week in August?

[CurtEastPoint]

2. That shit started in GA a # of years ago. Start 8/1 and end around Mem Day.

[SoCalNative]

3. It starts then in many places

throwback to more agrarian times so the kids would be out of school in time to help with the harvests.

[louis-t]

4. I imagine all schools in GA have air conditioning, too.

Something we never had when I was in school in MI. We could stay in school until middle of June and it was only the last week or 2 that got hot. We always went back within a week after Labor Day.

[NickB79]

6. Same here in MN

My school was a massive red brick 3-story built as a jobs program in the Great Depression. Gorgeous architecture, but fuck all for insulation and A/C. You wanted relief on a hot day? Fight for the desks near the window and pray for a breeze!

[Alliepoo]

5. Our schools now start mid august

Ive heard it’s to be able to get the number of school days completed to administer mid-year testing before the kids go on holiday break in December instead of doing testing after they return and the material isn’t fresh in their minds. Gotta have those good test scores, ya know.

[mainer]

7. A student who shared photos of kids without masks got suspended

Suspended because he/she tried to tell the world that school was unsafe.

Link to tweet

[crickets]

8. Because of course. The school admin is shooting themselves in the foot with that.

If there were no problems in those pictures, there would be no issue with a student taking and sharing them. It was already obvious that opening schools was a bad idea and that schools were unprepared to keep students and teachers safe from infecting one another. Slapping a wrist here just makes school administrators look even worse. smh

Good for the students who are taking pictures and sharing them. They may save lives, including their own.

[democrattotheend]

9. Out of how many students?

Aren't there hundreds of thousands of students in Georgia? If so, 20 cases doesn't sound too bad, TBH.