Obviously there is some controversy about how schools should be opened here in Southern California - and various hybrids, etc are being considered knowing that educational planners are always a step behind anyway.. What about high school sports? As a parent of a high school athlete, I would be very concerned. There are just so many issues to consider. Not to mention how high school sports are highly needed for college recruiting.
What have you heard? Here in So Cal, we are getting our CIF directives on Monday. So there will be a clearer picture then, or will there be? If, as projected, the fall sports are pushed into the new year, how will that look? Some have said it might be shorter (two month) seasons so that both fall and spring can be crammed together - so that they can all end before June. As a high school teacher and coach for 41 years, I can't even begin to visualize how this would work under the restrictions, regulations, Covid, and budget cuts public schools are facing.
And who says that Covid will be any better in January and that schools and staff will be better equipped? I don't see it getting any better at this stage. How terrible to lose a whole year of high school sports. It's what anchored many of us to high school to begin with. Friendships for life, and in my case, a love for football. What do you think happens this year? What is even worse is for ALL our kids to miss more than a year of actually being in school. Can you imagine that??

72CalBear said:

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Obviously there is some controversy about how schools should be opened here in Southern California - and various hybrids, etc are being considered knowing that educational planners are always a step behind anyway.. What about high school sports? As a parent of a high school athlete, I would be very concerned. There are just so many issues to consider. Not to mention how high school sports are highly needed for college recruiting.
What have you heard? Here in So Cal, we are getting our CIF directives on Monday. So there will be a clearer picture then, or will there be? If, as projected, the fall sports are pushed into the new year, how will that look? Some have said it might be shorter (two month) seasons so that both fall and spring can be crammed together - so that they can all end before June. As a high school teacher and coach for 41 years, I can't even begin to visualize how this would work under the restrictions, regulations, Covid, and budget cuts public schools are facing.
And who says that Covid will be any better in January and that schools and staff will be better equipped? I don't see it getting any better at this stage. How terrible to lose a whole year of high school sports. It's what anchored many of us to high school to begin with. Friendships for life, and in my case, a love for football. What do you think happens this year? What is even worse is for ALL our kids to miss more than a year of actually being in school. Can you imagine that??

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It's not good.

72CalBear said:

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.. .. ..What do you think happens this year? What is even worse is for ALL our kids to miss more than a year of actually being in school. Can you imagine that??

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a few minutes ago newsom announced just for starters ~no school this fall. random link..
https://www.kron4.com/news/california-schools-in-counties-on-covid-19-watchlist-must-stay-closed-newsom-says

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KRON) Most schools in California will not reopen for the start of the academic year.

Governor Gavin Newsom Friday pointed to the state health department's community spread watch list, saying counties on that list cannot reopen their schools until they're off of it.

With weeks away until the start of the school year, more than 30 counties sit on that list represent more than 80% of the state's population.

"Learning in the state of California is simply non-negotiable, schools must, and I underscore must provide meaningful instruction amid this pandemic," Gov. Newsom said.

The majority of California schools will need to start the school year distance learning, Governor Newsom announced Friday.

Newsom says counties that land on the state's watch list must put in-person teaching on hold until they're off the list and stay off of it for two weeks.

The governor confirmed this applies to K-12 schools public, private and charter.

For schools that can reopen masks are required for staff and students in grades three and up and are strongly encouraged for students in second grade and younger. Teachers will need to be regularly tested for COVID-19.

The new mandate says if a student tests positive, the class and teacher must quarantine for two weeks.
If 5% of a school tests positive for the virus, the school must go back to distance learning. Also, an entire district would need to distance learn if 25% of its schools are closed.

"Education broadly is absolutely about our kids, but we cannot deny the fact that we have hundreds of thousands of adults that are responsible to taking care and educating our kids and their health has to be considered," the governor said.

The Vice Chairman of the State Assembly's Education Committee, Republican Kevin Kiley, released a statement condemning the move saying in part, "the impacts of school closures will be devastating for working parents, academic equity, and mental health."

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# Go >Bears

72CalBear said:

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Obviously there is some controversy about how schools should be opened here in Southern California - and various hybrids, etc are being considered knowing that educational planners are always a step behind anyway.. What about high school sports? As a parent of a high school athlete, I would be very concerned. There are just so many issues to consider. Not to mention how high school sports are highly needed for college recruiting.
What have you heard? Here in So Cal, we are getting our CIF directives on Monday. So there will be a clearer picture then, or will there be? If, as projected, the fall sports are pushed into the new year, how will that look? Some have said it might be shorter (two month) seasons so that both fall and spring can be crammed together - so that they can all end before June. As a high school teacher and coach for 41 years, I can't even begin to visualize how this would work under the restrictions, regulations, Covid, and budget cuts public schools are facing.
And who says that Covid will be any better in January and that schools and staff will be better equipped? I don't see it getting any better at this stage. How terrible to lose a whole year of high school sports. It's what anchored many of us to high school to begin with. Friendships for life, and in my case, a love for football. What do you think happens this year? What is even worse is for ALL our kids to miss more than a year of actually being in school. Can you imagine that??

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It is my understanding that NorCal will also make a decision on Monday. It certainly does not look promising....

The Sacramento news station I watch has predicted that the announcement on Monday will be that all fall high school sports will be pushed to the winter. How that will work remains to be seen. Perhaps as a concession to the weather in many parts of the state the games could start in afternoon and finish in the evening. Of course, this is to assume that things will be better then. This could also mean a change in letter of intent signing and...............well, many other things.

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The Sacramento news station I watch has predicted that the announcement on Monday will be that all fall high school sports will be pushed to the winter. How that will work remains to be seen. Perhaps as a concession to the weather in many parts of the state the games could start in afternoon and finish in the evening. Of course, this is to assume that things will be better then. This could also mean a change in letter of intent signing and...............well, many other things.

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Yeah, it's all problematic for Spring football. The top senior year HS players would already be off to university via early enrollment. Just as the top senior (and some junior) year collegiate players would be off to the NFL draft. But is Spring football better than no football at all? Probably? Maybe?

Yes, the CIF announcement was somewhat expected, but starting practice in December (over winter holiday break) seems a bit hurried in a sense. Many issues. Some kids may not be able to do two sports - although that happens less every year anyway. Facilities may be strained in many ways - pools for both boys and girls water polo, field and gym issues. And the finals in April, so close to spring football. College letter signings. Already two football players have given up their senior year playing to enroll in Cal - sad for everyone there. My question is: Can sports practice and play games when school is still 100% online? Does that make sense? Social distancing and sanitation on sports teams and in contests safer than being in school?? I think it is now up to the various leagues to decide the next step for planning and schedules, and the "what ifs". One varsity football coach told me today, "It still may not happen."

This is too big of a country to flatly say that there will be no football at all. In rural Arkansas or Montana or maybe North Dakota there will be a few small high schools slugging it out with eight man football. The public will be so desperate for football that ESPN, CBS, FOX, and NBC will bid against each other for television rights.

72CalBear said:

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Yes, the CIF announcement was somewhat expected, but starting practice in December (over winter holiday break) seems a bit hurried in a sense. Many issues. Some kids may not be able to do two sports - although that happens less every year anyway. Facilities may be strained in many ways - pools for both boys and girls water polo, field and gym issues. And the finals in April, so close to spring football. College letter signings. Already two football players have given up their senior year playing to enroll in Cal - sad for everyone there. My question is: Can sports practice and play games when school is still 100% online? Does that make sense? Social distancing and sanitation on sports teams and in contests safer than being in school?? I think it is now up to the various leagues to decide the next step for planning and schedules, and the "what ifs". One varsity football coach told me today, "It still may not happen."

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CIF and the regional sections are trying to salvage a bad situation. The current statistics on virus spread, especially in SoCal, indicate that for most of the state October is an optimistic start date for in-person K-12 and even then it might be half days or two days a week in class on campus. What CIF has done is allow local districts to start sports practices early enough to prepare for January games but hopefully late enough that all California students will be on campus for at least part of each week by the time "fall" sports practices begin.

" The fall high school sports season in California will be postponed until at least December, the California Interscholastic Federation announced Monday.

The new calendar: The three typical high school sports seasons fall, winter and spring will be played between December and June and compressed into either fall or spring seasons.

Football a staple of fall Fridays will now take place in winter and spring, with the last game played no later than April 17, 2021.
Basketball and baseball will now overlap and end in late June, forcing multi-sport athletes to make tough decisions.
Athletes will be permitted to participate on club teams at the same time as their high school seasons in a temporary suspension of CIF rule.

The big picture: The fall high school sports season has also been called off in New Mexico, Washington, D.C. and Virginia (football only so far).

Eleven other states Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia have delayed the start of football, in most cases by a few weeks.
What to watch: Texas, Florida and Georgia the three biggest high school football states besides California are still moving forward with fall seasons.

The first games in Texas are still scheduled for Aug. 27, per USA Today.

The Florida High School Athletic Association voted Monday to retain its fall sports start date of July 27.
The Georgia High School Association voted Monday to push the season back two weeks, with a proposed start date of Sept. 4.
The bottom line: California's revised high school sports calendar isn't ideal for multi-sport athletes and will present facilities challenges. But it also might give the state's 800,000+ athletes their best shot at playing their respective sports." Axios

CIF buys into the hoax.

Bobodeluxe said:

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CIF buys into the hoax.

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On the contrary. The CIF will lose bundles of money if there is no season. They are trying to make something work placing health above their own interest, which is more than what we are getting from our national government.