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may be a back log of beef. Some people never forget.

Practice can start when in-person school is safe. 6 games: district and extras needed. Top 2 go to playoffs. If that starts Oct. 1, Nov. 1, Dec. 1, etc so be it. I just can’t see sports while school can’t be in session.

Imagine these numbers when school starts.

No to thread question.

We have to do what other countries have done to be able to play any sports. If we don't do that we can just copy and paste this entire thread.

That's not under the liability of schools. Students do a lot of things at home they can't do at school.

Kentucky is going in the wrong direction for any of this to happen.

This 100%. (which some of us have been screaming on here since the beginning of this thread) Anybody who is participating in trying to open a school at this time can't get their mind wrapped around fall sports.

By all means send the kids home from work, but to say a teenager’s work environment is a safer environment than teenager’s school environment is the false equivalency.

In my district, about 30% of our kids live with grandma. Working in a big-box store is a false equivalency to school classrooms and school buildings for that matter. Big-Box stores have the space for social distancing and can enforce strict mask policies for employees and adult shoppers. Not really possible in school with kids, and those who believe so have been out of school too long.

I watched a guy do that in the liquor store the day the mask mandate came down. He just forgot his mask, he was desperate, ?and did what was needed.

We will too, but contagious people don't always have a fever. Our school is going to put kids on buses trusting the parental temp checks.

This is the problem with schools. People will send their kids to school sick. They do all the time. Covid will be no different.

I remember some of the same disinformation when seatbelt laws were enacted. People would hang their hats on that one case where the seatbelt didn’t help or may have contributed to the death of a driver while ignoring the overwhelming amount of incidents where seatbelts saved the life of drivers.

If incoming Freshman could participate, I would continue to support Spring ball, but largely it's a waste.

These are all ideas we could use this Spring if we would just move the season. It's going to be near impossible to have a season this Fall with the curve in the South going up.

I'm eager to hear more on this. Children have been largely sheltered until this recent outbreak. I'll have to say these reports are all over the map, I read an article yesterday that discussed the damage that asymptomatic children are seeing to their lungs even though they show no symptoms.

Exactly, look at the daily rate of countries going to school and look at ours. We are lucky in Kentucky to be mostly rural , but a return to school and sports as normal will throw that advantage away.

Some of your points have merit, most are assumptions since schools haven’t been open, but starting school as we have an exponentially higher rate of community spread than we did we shut down makes little sense. How many teachers and kids are willing to sacrifice? Some have said “only” .02% of school age children would die from this. Seems like a low number except that’s around 15,000 kids. How do you replace the teachers and admins and coaches you lose? I actually am for going back to school, but many want to throw the doors off and bust back in for selfish reasons. A school return has to be calculated and safe.

We knew this to start with, but at the beginning the powers that be said it was “worth it” to shut everything down to save those people; however, today nearly 3 months later I can’t see anybody feeling that way. The only instances we will see of shutdown will be schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and places that may fear getting their tails sued off. Can’t put the genie back in the bottle now. Some new projections from Harvard faculty have us losing another 100k nationwide by September. TBH that seems like a pretty weak estimate. That’s just over a 1k lives a day which has been the norm with NY and California on lockdown.

Until it’s not.

New Zealand has eradicated virus.

I know what you’re saying, because so far we’ve been presented with elaborate plans and a week later somebody turns that plan into toilet paper.

Normal is going to be different. Districts are currently making drastic plans to maintain social distancing: 1/2 students in the building, limiting transitions, eliminating common spaces, etc. If extracurriculars endanger the huge changes that are being made to have a modified school during the day extracurriculars won’t happen.

NFHS pushes for more non-contact sports this fall.