School Is Off To A Slow Start, And It's Going To Be A Long Year
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🗓️ 8 September 2020
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Summary
Two teachers — Rosie Reid in California and Lynette Stant in Arizona — share how things are going in their schools so far.
Many states have decided to allow high school football to go forward, even if kids are not in school. NPR's Tom Goldman reports thatone coach in Alabama is demanding a coronavirus testing program for his players.
Students who are not in school are not just missing out on in-person education. Many are missing free or reduced-cost meals. NPR's Cory Turner reports on how some school districts are trying to feed students when they're not in school.
And for many parents who can't work at home, no school means a need for child care. But a recent study suggests millions of child care centers may not reopen after the pandemic, as Kavitha Cardoza with member station WAMU reports.
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| 0:00.0 | High school football is happening in more than 30 states this fall. |
| 0:04.8 | One of them is Alabama, where Mark Rose is head coach at Russell County High School. |
| 0:11.3 | He's been coaching football for 23 years. |
| 0:14.2 | And last week, he says he was about to do something pretty drastic. |
| 0:19.0 | Because, he said, making kids play without a coronavirus testing program in place was wrong. |
| 0:25.8 | I mean, this flat-out child exploitation. |
| 0:28.8 | Of course, kids want to play, but we are charged to protect them. |
| 0:34.3 | Still, officials in his district said the kids should play even after a 33-year-old assistant coach ended up in the ICU for nearly two weeks. |
| 0:44.1 | And the mother of a player got sick too. |
| 0:47.3 | All this in a rural county where a lot of students live with older people. |
| 0:52.8 | We're breaking every rule that every doctor in the world says. |
| 0:57.3 | We're not going face-to-face school yet. |
| 0:59.8 | We're running players into each other all week and send them home untested. |
| 1:04.7 | And then on Friday night, they want us to go out there and run them in to 100 in our sideline and 100 on the other sideline. |
| 1:12.9 | And all we know is that nobody out there have been tested. |
| 1:18.0 | So, last Friday night, Mark Rose decided he would not go to the game. |
| 1:23.1 | Said he wouldn't coach the season opener. |
| 1:26.1 | But then, one of his players tested positive and possibly exposed to dozen more players. |
| 1:33.9 | And the game was canceled. |
| 1:36.7 | Coming up with some schools open around the country, |
| 1:39.6 | millions of coaches and teachers and parents and students are having a really hard time. |
| 1:46.6 | This is considered this from NPR with some new theme music. |
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