The CDC has released ventilation guidance for schools... Ventilation in Schools and Child Care Programs How to use CDC building recommendations in your setting https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/ventilation.html How to use CDC building recommendations in your setting Ventilation is one component of maintaining healthy environments, and is an important COVID-19 prevention strategy for schools and child care programs. Wearing a well-fitting, multi-layer mask helps prevent virus particles from entering the air or being breathed in by the person wearing a mask. Good ventilation is another step that can reduce the number of virus particles in the air. Along with other preventive actions, ventilation can reduce the likelihood of spreading disease. Below are ways you can improve ventilation in your school or child care program, whether in a large building or in a home: Bring in as much outdoor air as possible. If safe to do so, open windows and doors. Even just cracking open a window or door helps increase outdoor airflow, which helps reduce the potential concentration of virus particles in the air. If it gets too cold or hot, adjust the thermostat. Do not open windows or doors if doing so poses a safety or health risk (such as falling, exposure to extreme temperatures, or triggering asthma symptoms). Use child-safe fans to increase the effectiveness of open windows. Safely secure fans in a window to blow potentially contaminated air out and pull new air in through other open windows and doors. Consider having activities, classes, or lunches outdoors when circumstances allow. Ensure Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) settings are maximizing ventilation. Make sure your ventilation systems are serviced and meeting code requirements. They should provide acceptable indoor air quality, as defined by ASHRAE Standard 62.1external icon, for the current occupancy level for each space.* Home-based child care programs should meet requirements established by their state and local regulatory authorities. Set HVAC systems to bring in as much outdoor air as your system will safely allow. Reduce or eliminate HVAC air recirculation, when practical and with expert HVAC consultation.* Increase the HVAC system’s total airflow supply to occupied spaces when you can. More air flow encourages air mixing and ensures any recirculated air passes through the filter more frequently. Disable demand-controlled ventilation (DCV) controls that reduce air supply based on occupancy or temperature. This way the air supply will remain constant throughout the day. For simple HVAC systems controlled by a thermostat, setting the fan control switch from “Auto” to “On” will ensure the HVAC system provides continuous air filtration and distribution. Consider running the HVAC system at maximum outside airflow for 2 hours before and after the building is occupied to refresh air before arrival and remove remaining particles at the end of the day. Filter and/or clean the air in your school or child care program. Improve the level of air filtration as much as possible without significantly reducing airflow. Make sure the filters are sized, installed, and replaced according to manufacturer’s instructions. Consider portable air cleaners that use high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters to enhance air cleaning wherever possible, especially in higher-risk areas such as a nurse’s office or sick/isolation room. Consider using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI)in schools and non-home-based child care programs as a supplemental treatment to inactivate the virus that causes COVID-19, especially if options for increasing ventilation and filtration are limited. Consult a qualified professional to help design and install any UVGI system. Use exhaust fans in restrooms and kitchens. Inspect and maintain exhaust ventilation systems in restrooms and kitchens. Ensure restroom and kitchen exhaust fans are on and operating at full capacity while the school or child care program is occupied and for 2 hours afterward. Open windows in transportation vehicles. Ventilation is important on buses and vans servicing schools and child care programs, along with other strategies such as mask use for people over 2 years old and physical distancing. Keep vehicle windows open when it does not create a safety or health hazard. Having more windows open is more helpful, but even just cracking a few windows open is better than keeping all windows closed. (Much more at above url)
So the CDC released it's own version of "air circulation for dummies". How much do we give them per year to come up with the elementary-level crap?
These teachers will all support having kids return to school and have a mandatory summer session too to make up for lost time and to make sure that students do not fall behind further right? Not.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...asted-hypocrite-dropping-daughter-school.html California teachers' union president is blasted as a 'hypocrite' as he's filmed dropping off his 2-year-old daughter at her private preschool for in-person lessons - despite leading the charge that it's UNSAFE to open public schools
Even a $130 Billion Bribe Won’t Get Kids Back in the Classroom this School Year Mish Feb 27, 2021 Biden wants to reopen schools. He promised schools would reopen in his first 100 days. But what does that mean? The Meaning of Reopen “His goal that he set is to have the majority of schools, so more than 50 percent, open by day 100 of his presidency and that means some teaching in classrooms, at least one day a week,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Teachers' Unions Roll Over Biden Please consider the Teachers' Unions Roll Over Biden One day out of five? We doubt that’s how working parents define open. Ms. Psaki is trying to make a virtue out of a humiliating political embarrassment. Mr. Biden figured that his support for the teachers union agenda, along with more money, would get the unions to reopen the schools. Instead he’s discovering what America’s parents have learned in the last year: Unions run the schools, and no one—not parents, not school districts, not mayors, and not even a new Democratic President—will tell them what to do. So it’s one day a week, pal. Get used to it. Chicago Strike Chicago elementary and middle schools were supposed to reopen at the beginning of February. They went on strike and are still not open. The strike has ended but they ratified an agreement to "reopen" in March. There's that word again. What's it mean now? The WSJ article explains. Teachers, who will be prioritized for vaccines, won’t have to return to classrooms if they have an underlying medical condition or live with someone who does. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40% of people in Cook County have a chronic condition. The agreement also requires in-person instruction to be “paused” for 14 days if a single child in a school tests positive for Covid. All of this means most kids will be stuck learning remotely for the rest of the school year. What About California? Incredibly, San Francisco’s school board and union hadn’t even considered a plan to reopen schools for nearly 11 months. Last week the city finally sued the school board to force it to come up with a reopening plan. Bully Pulpit If president Biden really wanted to lead, he would stand up to the teacher's unions. The WSJ asked Biden to "use his bully pulpit to tell school districts that don’t reopen classrooms that they won’t get the money." The Journal used the word "bribe" and so did I. Appeasement might be a better word, but Biden is attempting to buy off the progressive wing of the party. Free Money Instead, Democrats want to send public schools another $130 billion whether they open or not. And we also get a new definition of "reopen". Follow the Science?! President Biden promised to follow the science. Instead, he is Following the Teachers' Unions. That Op-Ed is by Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey. Let's tune into what Christie has to say. Follow the science. That was Joe Biden’s promise to the American people—until Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers disagreed. I spent much of my time as governor saying that we needed to put children and parents first in public education. The teachers union in New Jersey spent tens of millions of dollars to oppose my reform efforts and protect the status quo. As a result our per pupil costs were among the country’s highest, and families in many urban districts were held hostage by failure. In an article published Jan. 26 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, three researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found “little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission” of the coronavirus. Data from reopened classrooms don’t show the rapid spread that has been observed in congregate living facilities and high-density work sites. The CDC researchers looked at more than 90,000 students in 11 North Carolina districts and found that only 32 students and staff members were infected in school. In the same period, 773 got infected outside school. CDC Bows to Teachers' Unions Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, made the following admission at a Feb. 12 press conference: The CDC wouldn’t “follow the science.” Direct changes in the CDC’s guidance had been made as a result of consultation with teachers groups. To show how far the CDC had moved, Ms. Walensky said that even after everyone had been vaccinated the CDC still might not recommend that schools reopen normally. The unions pack a lot of financial muscle. I still have the bruises from my battles with them. But President Biden promised Americans an end to these games. This betrayal of our children and their families must end. The long-term mental-health effects and educational deficits created by continuing this policy will be devastating. It’s time to put our children’s interests first in this pandemic. Is Anyone Else Fed Up With Dr. Fauci's Forever Moving Goalposts? On February 26, I wrote Is Anyone Else Fed Up With Dr. Fauci's Forever Moving Goalposts? I concluded ... I understand wearing masks. I understand avoiding groups and parties. But enough already. The teachers' unions will pick up on this and play it for all it's worth. Numerous readers blasted my article. One reader commented: I am a bit perplexed by this statement; “The teacher's unions will pick up on this and play it for all it's worth.” I'm not even sure what that means. It sounds like a personal vendetta against teachers, or unions, and totally out of place in this discussion. My comment clearly was not out of place, but admittedly I provided no explanation, which I should have. I had this follow-up post in mind and added this addendum to my original post. Addendum I was asked about my brief teachers' union comment above. I will explain in detail in just a bit in another post. I have now explained, hopefully in enough detail, how the teachers' unions play into this. Not For the Kids I am sick of teachers' unions and public unions in general. They do not do a damn thing for the kids. Notice I said "unions". There are many excellent teachers, likely the vast majority, who do care about the kids. The unions don't, and never will. FDR's Take on Public Unions I have commented on public unions and FDR's take before. It's not just teachers' unions. All public unions are corrupt to the core. Yes, I have a "personal vendetta" against public unions. I am guilty as charged, and proudly so. However, my "vendetta" is not out of place in regards to Covid and Fauci. And it does appear Fauci bent to the unions. Public unions are a corrupt force. They should be abolished. Even FDR understood this important point. Indeed, FDR accurately predicted what would happen. To understand FDR's point, please see Democrats, Here's Your Chance to Get Rid of Bad Police I discuss problems with teachers' unions as well as police and firefighters' unions. I do not wish to condense that discussion down to a short synopsis here. Please click on the above link for a complete explanation including direct quotes from FDR. Mish