Coronavirus: Los Angeles Schools Closed Due To Coronavirus

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

While many private schools had already closed or announced their closure this week in Southern California in the face of the alarming spread of the coronavirus, the Los Angeles Unified School District or LAUSD finally decided on this fateful Friday the thirteenth to close nearly a thousand schools at serving almost 700,000 thousand people starting next Monday 16.

As reported by the LA Times, LAUSD has nearly half a million children from kindergarten to grade 12, and it is shocking to know that eight out of ten depend on their free or reduced-price lunches and almost twenty thousand do not have a home.. "They depend on us to eat," said Nick Melvoin.

As schools close, they ask themselves several serious questions: will their parents have to take their children to work? Who and where are you going to leave them with? Starting next Wednesday, forty family centers will be set up to help children and parents, where it is possible to provide them with more information, measure their temperature to alert if there is a fever and extend the care of families while reducing contact between children. children.

At the moment the closure is scheduled for two weeks, but everything can change in the face of the evolution of this pandemic. Scott Schmerelson, another board member, shared that it would be a good idea to spread out the children's lunches at the same points where the school bus route passes through.

While private schools have already started teaching online or are organizing to start doing so starting next Wednesday, for public schools it is a difficult task: many of the students do not have good Internet service in their homes and neither do they They could get computers to everyone.

Superintendent Austin Beutner agreed with PBS to broadcast educational programming on three public television stations: KCET-PBS SOCAL for secondary level, KLCS for grades 3-8, and PBS SOCAL KOCE for preschool through second grade.

Some parents worried about the emotional health of the children, about the cessation of coexistence at school and fear of illness. Psychologists recommend that parents tell them the truth, that there is something out there that is contaminating them and that at the moment it is better that they are at home.

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