Is Online Learning here to Stay?

With new cases of infection with the corona virus daily, online classes have been stretched out longer than anyone thought when they decided to open America back up.

New York for example has had a spike in new cases in certain neighborhoods causing schools to be kept closed for now.

Almost daily we hear about another school or athletic program where someone has tested positive for the virus.

Possible vacinnes are still in stage three testing and we will have to wait for the results to become final as to any side effects before we can start inoculating individuals that will probably take sometime in 2021 before we know which one is effective in treating this virus regardless of what the current president says per epidemiologists and scientists that have spent a lifetime studying infectious diseases.

Social media and talking heads are not the ones with the answers or who we should be listening to but those that are working and studying this virus for months and other infectious diseases.

With the temperatures getting colder with the coming winter people will be spending more time indoors and possibly in groups that can spread the virus exponentially.

As this continues, the maks, social distancing, and washing your hands often protocols will continue for months to come.

It is up to individuals to protect their safety and the safety of others while still attending classes even it that means that classes will be online for the foreseeable future.

Online classes offer a safe environment to learn and for parents to help their children with their homework.

Until such time that we can have complete safety for all in the classrooms and school individuals need to do what is best for them to protect themselves from any illness. This will probably be online classes for months to come.

Make the best of this difficult time and stay safe for the virus.

Robert Medak

Freelance Writer, Blogger, Copy Editor, Proofreader, and Reviewer

Is Your School Safe?

In the local news today, a middle school had someone test positive for the COVID virus. It didn’t mention whether it was a student or a teacher. They are now quarantined at home and the school is being disinfected.

Over the past decade, school shootings have risen as well. It appears no one wants to do anything about the prevalence of guns in the hands of people that should never be able to have one are not old enough to have one legally.

Today, schools worry about more than viruses while trying to educate the students in their charge. There are staff, teachers, and students that must learn how to protect themselves and others while trying to learn.

It isn’t easy learning when students have to worry about things out of their control. States and local school boards have a huge responsibility to all involved in the care of students while in class.

Is enough being done?

From the statistics seen daily, it would seem the answer is no. This is why each student and their family must do their part to help control this pandemic for themselves and others with the hope of minimizing the risk to all until this pandemic is finally past us. It could take years until more people understand how deadly this virus is.

As of August 28, 2020, there have been over 180,000 deaths with another 1,000 today alone, and a projection of over 300,000 by the end of September if we continue going the way we are. Adults need to show by example that this is the biggest health crisis in over a century, which lasted for two years.

School should be a place of safety and fun with friends and not having to worry about getting sick or making someone sick and possibly dying for something that can be prevented with some simple steps.

All of us are in the same boat and must do whatever is necessary to come out the other end of the pandemic healthy for the future.

Learn what you have to do to take care of yourself and your friends and family during this trying time of a health crisis.

Robert Medak

Freelance Writer, Blogger, Copy Editor, and Reviewer