WN TBD: What If They Close All the Schools?

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Last week, the superintendent of the Northshore school district near Seattle made a difficult decision. With the coronavirus spreading rapidly in the area, she closed all 34 schools in her district and moved all classes online. But for many schools, remote learning at this scale simply isn’t an option. With new cases appearing around the country, how will schools respond? And what happens when you send millions of students home for weeks on end? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, slate listeners.
0:01.5	Deal us a favor and help us make a better slate by answering our survey.
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0:07.1	You can find it at slate.com slash survey.
0:11.5	Hi, it's Lizzy.
0:13.0	Just wanted to flag for you all that this situation is changing pretty quickly.
0:17.3	As we were putting the finishing touches on this episode,
0:20.0	we learned that schools were closing in Maryland, Ohio, and Kentucky.
0:24.4	Okay, here's the show.
0:30.7	Good morning.
0:31.5	Good morning, Dr. Reed.
0:33.2	How are you?
0:34.9	Could not be better.
0:36.0	It's a beautiful Tuesday here in the Northwest.
0:38.9	You're sounding very upbeat for someone who's in the middle of dealing with what you're dealing with.
0:45.2	Well, that's that's what we do.
0:49.0	Michelle Reed is the superintendent of a school district near Seattle called North Shore.
0:53.8	34 schools, almost 24,000 kids.
0:57.5	And Seattle is also where the first US case of the novel coronavirus turned up.
1:03.1	Do you remember when you first heard that some people in your district
1:07.1	might have been exposed to the virus?
1:09.2	I do.
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