Due to the current issue of Covid-19, schools are still deciding whether they should send students back to campus. With the growing number of Covid cases around the United States, it is clearly unsafe to send students back, but not all schools believe this. On the other hand, the Bellflower school district mandates that it is necessary to begin online classes for the upcoming school year, rather than returning to campus in the fall. But if the school district were to send students back to campus, would it be safe to return to Mayfair?
From personal experience, Mayfair hasn't been the cleanest school for its students. But especially now with the CoronaVirus outbreak, sanitation is without a doubt essential. One of the recurring issues that students around campus have to face is the restrooms. Although we can’t expect school restrooms to be squeaky clean, they at least need to be usable. The restroom floors are usually flooded with water and are out of soap, paper towels, and toilet paper, which are the most important factors restrooms need to have, to keep students sanitary. However, this issue has been brought up several times by students and parents when school was last in session, but have we seen change? The answer is no.
But other than the restrooms, if Mayfair were to return to campus eventually, there would be an issue with the number of students. Since Mayfair is a combination of middle and high schoolers, it gets easily crowded. So whether they have a schedule on when certain grade levels go to campus, maintaining social distancing would be very difficult. In addition to distancing students from each other, they would also need to enforce wearing masks. Even if Mayfair does create rules for everyone's safety, it doesn’t guarantee everyone will follow them. Therefore, other than wearing masks and social distancing, Mayfair needs to create new rules for the safety of not only their students but also faculty.
As a student at Mayfair, what are some other circumstances that could be taken to keep students and faculty safe around campus? Did you experience any of these problems in the restrooms around campus? Do you think Mayfair would have been ready to reopen in the fall? Would you feel safe returning to campus during this pandemic under these circumstances?
Orange county was originally going to open, but people pushed them to switch it to online. Most of the students are ready to go back and reopen the schools, but with precautionary measures (6 feet distance, masks on at all times). Mayfair is most likely not going to reopen during the fall, although I wish it would. It would not affect me, because I do not get sick, i'm just built different. If the coronavirus wanted to infect me I would simply tell it to stop. If this whole coronavirus pandemic does not stop before school starts, i might have to intervene. For now, we are going to be doing online like how we did at the end of this school year, even though hardly any people complied with it.
ReplyDeleteI myself don't think that Mayfair, or any school, is ready to reopen in Fall. Even if we were required to wear masks at all times, we all know that kids would disobey that rule and continue to smoke or vape in the bathroom. And anyone who enters the bathroom is highly susceptible to Covid-19. From personal experience, the bathrooms are no where close to being clean in any way. I think the smarter decision would to stay home and work on online schooling because I would not feel safe returning to Mayfair in fall.
ReplyDeleteMayfair is not ready to open in the coming fall because it would be too dangerous for other students who just can't handle the coronavirus. Many students wouldn't follow the rules, we all use the same chrome books, and classrooms are so packed together that the most distance you'd be able to place between two desks would be 2 feet. It would not be a safe environment for 99.9 percent of students.
ReplyDeleteI strongly believe the only precaution we should take is keep Mayfair online school based. The bathrooms in the school are absolutely outrageous and unsanitary. What are the chances that someone could catch COVID-19 in an unsanitary environment like that? I do agree that some students will disobey the rules, and we cannot put other students at risk for someone's ignorance. The method where we limit students on certain days where they can attend school is called the "Hybrid method", and I do not believe it is safe to put our young generation at risk. To delay the curve, we should all just stay home until it is safe to go outside, and that includes school as well.
ReplyDeleteNo school is ready to reopen in California. The second wave hit California the hardest by confirming 400,000 total cases surpassing New York when it first hit. Its anything but safe to go back to school right now. Maybe in the spring when cases ease down a bit more, we can go back with masks and stay more sanitary.
ReplyDeleteIn my personal opinion, I do not believe we should be opening up Mayfair or any school in the US for any reason. Due to the extreme surgence of cases in the recent weeks, no child or staff member would be at all safe or protected in the case of reopening. Reopening should be a topic when our nation and our local governments handle the situation maturely and wisely, with no downfalls, but if this situation escalates or stays the same for a few more months, schools should not open. In the case of reopening the schools, I believe that board members of districts should mandate safety precautions such as social distancing and face coverings. These mandates should be in place until the pandemic is completely finished or when there is a vaccine readily available to the general population.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with my fellow classmates that Mayfair should not and is not going to be open during the fall. There are always going to be people who disagree and go against the rules and restrictions given. As much as we would like to, it would not be safe or wise to start school in person again. Like people have said, the classrooms, and bathrooms especially, are not even close to being sanitary. It would take too much work and effort to allow them to be safe for thousands of students to return to Mayfair.
ReplyDeleteI strongly agree with all my classmates. I believe that Mayfair should not reopen in the fall due to how people don't always follow the rules. If we were forced to wear masks, most students wouldn't listen. Areas in Mayfair are also very unsanitary like the bathrooms and most likely other areas of the school. For everyone's safety, it'd be better to be online based rather than going to school all year being exposed to others. We would never know if someone is positively exposed to Covid. Overall, I think we should stay home and that should be the same for other schools until we get a complete yes to go back.
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