At this time, students in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District should expect to return to school on April 13, according to the MDUSD.
The following message is from the MDUSD:
The Mount Diablo Unified School District announced a closure of its schools, effective March 17, 2020, with an expected duration through April 2, 2020. Spring Break is from April 3, 2020 to April 10, 2020. At this time, school is expected to resume on April 13, 2020.
Our district will continue in its provision of some services, including food services (breakfast and lunch) at the following locations: Cambridge, Meadow Homes, Ygnacio Valley High School, College Park High School, El Dorado Middle School, River View Middle School, Foothill Middle School, and Mt. Diablo High School. The exact times will be provided on the District web page, www.mdusd.org.
Educational options: We are committed to proceeding with the most equitable approaches to instruction available to the students we serve, which will involve both online resources and traditional resources. Our teachers will be working together at their school sites on Monday to develop and create some resources for students, and we will then work to provide access to these materials through our web pages.
Helpful resources:
- Education companies offering Free subscriptions.
- Seattle parent list of online & offline resources/ideas
- Free Internet & Wifi for 2 months from Comcast
- Free ZOOM videoconferencing for school & student email addresses
- How to Talk to Kids About Coronavirus: Keeping your own anxiety in check is key
- Talking to Children About COVID-19 (Coronavirus): A Parent Resource
- A comic-edition piece from NPR that focuses on the COVID-19 topic
- New York Times Article on talking with teens about the virus
- COVID19 Facts Infographic
- Develop a Family Disaster Plan – California Department of Public Health
All staff are expected to continue work as scheduled unless otherwise notified. While we continue to be open to the public, we may need to curtail some activities and appointment with community members during the school closure days.
We will continue to update our website and advise community members and employees of development with the coronavirus as developments occur.
So personnel still stay at work sites even though no kids?
And all the staff members with children whose schools are closed will be taking them to their school sites??
well, teachers always complain they don’t have enough time for planning and grading…. so, there ya’ go…
You’re an idiot, this is not time off for these teachers, they’re now expected to curate online courses everyday the kids are not in class. This will not be catch up time, no, it’ll be double down time.
🤫 shhh! Nobody should talk on a subject they know nothing about, and I’m going to try, although I DO know.
You’re contradicting yourself…
Such harsh words….
I forgive you and will allow you the last word if you’d like.
What about daycares and daycare workers?
didn’t know the school district had daycares
The district has contracted daycare centers in some of their campuses. (I assume the free after school programs will be closed for the sites who offer that program) I was told by the one my kid’s attend that they are open and are not offering refunds or credit to next month even tho there is no school. As if ppl are going to tell their supervisors, “hey, I can only come in for the 3 hours I pay for daycare afterschool”. So stupid. I’m going to report them.
I have 3 employee’s whose kids are in the MDUSD, no school=no day care=unable to work=no paycheck,,,?
Chris, maybe you could allow your workers to work from home or grant them paid leave as many other employers are doing.
Or would you rather they bring the kids to work or go without pay?
This is a time where employers share in community responsibilities rather than only bottom line concerns.
Let them bring their kids in to work. Make allowances for kids in a working environment. And maybe hire one child care worker for the job site and split the cost among the workers.
Unfortunately, working from home is not an option. I am in the service industry and employee’s bringing their kids to work is not an option either. My work site is a small desk in the corner and a Toyota Prius. I honestly believe this will be the end of my business, I make just enough money to pay wages, taxes, insurance and rent. I doubt that preventing large gatherings and closing schools will stop the spread but it will create a hardship on so many of us.
Say WHAT??? The U S CDC released a statement today that school closures probably won’t slow the spread of Coronavirus. So, now what? Cancel the closures?
Community-level nonpharmaceutical intervention might include SCHOOL DISMISSALS and social distancing in other settings (e.g., postponement or cancellation of mass gatherings and telework and remote-meeting options in workplaces). These measures can be disruptive and might have societal and economic impact on individual persons and communities (6). However, studies have shown that early layered implementation of these interventions can reduce the community spread and impact of infectious pathogens such as pandemic influenza, even when specific pharmaceutical treatments and vaccines are not available (7,8). These measures might be critical to avert widespread COVID-19 transmission in U.S. communities (2,6). Mitigation measures implemented in China have included the closing of major transport hubs and preventing exit from certain cities with widespread transmission, cancellation of Chinese New Year celebrations, and prohibition of attendance at school and work (5). However, the impact of these measures in China has not yet been evaluated.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6908e1.htm
yet, they still stated… propably won’t stop the spread….
The time to STOP the spread was two months ago.
We can only hope to flatten the rate of infection curve now.
Be ready 100 million Americans will get the corona virus in the next 12-18 months.
We only have 50 million hospital beds. Social distancing can help slow down the rate of infection but eventually we will get it
We missed the Opportunity to contain it
S, thank you for the CDC angle. They have a very good flyer on the pros and cons of closing schools. Biggest con: who do you think watches kids if they are not in school? 40% of the time it’s the grandparents. So the cowards who closed schools just increased exposure to the most at risk population.
So the cowards who made the kids do not feel responsible for their care?You want teachers to do YOUR job? We did not plan for them; YOU did! 40 % grandparents? 40 % teachers? You who produced them are only 20% responsible?WTF?
100% parent responsible at a time like this. To think teachers should risk their health (and in many cases their lives) for your children is just plain irresponsible.
@El Guapo. I would bet that you’ll be hearing soon about school staff who’ve contracted the virus and pretty soon you’ll be claiming they didn’t close school soon enough.
In the MDUSD Monday is a teacher in service day, this was always on the calendar. Instead of teacher meetings, they’ll be preparing work from home packets at the site my spouse teaches at. At this school(I can’t speak for other schools in the MDUSD), teachers will be on site Tuesday to hand out these work packets to the student’s guardians.
The expectation is to keep students on track with this home study model until spring break. The hope that is face to face instruction can resume after break and the school year will end on schedule.
The only people panicking about catching Coronavirus are the ones who don’t wash their hands.
It may have been better to cancel school for two weeks and reevaluate.