Here’s a list of states that have closed schools statewide. They say they’ll keep it updated, so check back. Here’s the list; click through for details on a given state’s closure:
Alabama
Florida
Illinois
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Michigan
New Mexico
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Also: DC.
On Friday evening, our district said they were gonna stay open. I spent all day Saturday on conference calls and social media and texting back and forth with union leaders, moving a survey among staff about whether this was a good idea (spoiler: overwhelmingly folks said it wasn’t). We got a huge number of responses, over 1,300, to give to our superintendents. They included a lot of very thoughtful responses about why folks were concerned about keeping schools open, what we needed to be thinking about if we closed them (e.g., how to get Internet access for rural kids in mountain hollers), etc.
Our union president got on the phone with the superintendent at 4, just in time to get shunted off the phone so they could watch the governor’s press conference.
This is scary times. Tomorrow I go in so we can figure out how to help our kids.
Ohio suspending dine-in service at restaurants and bars.link
The Ohio closing of bars and restaurants is good because it will help keep people safe and stop the spread.
It will be half good half bad for people like my friend who is a diabetic heart patient waitress who has a kid now home from school who had to call off work indefinitely. All that was bad in itself but at least she’ll make SOME money from a stimulus. Hopefully a swift stimulus.
It’ll be devastating for a lot of people who will never make enough from the stimulus to cover what they typically make in a week from their restaurant jobs.
I’m holding my breath on this move.
Illinois has just announced the closure of all bars and restaurants for two weeks. That’s on CNN.
The US movie box office this weekend is bad. The worst since 1995 when ticket prices were much lower so the number of patrons is way, way down. Usually kid friendly films like Onward hold well. It fell 73% from opening weekend.
And yet I’m surprised the box office wasn’t $0. These things are still open?
“Tonight I’m going to party like it’s nineteen-ninety- … five.”
Business owners are taking a hit for sure, but what of restaurant and retail workers who depend on these jobs for their livliehood? Waitresses usually don’t have large stacks of cash in the bank to see them through tough times. My daughter was supposed to start a new job as a teacher’s aid on Monday; she’ll be another few weeks without a paycheck which means I’ll be paying her rent in the meantime. My heart aches for her and everyone else like her.
We saw The Invisible Man on Friday afternoon. I guess that’s close enough for the weekend. Very few people in attendance.
Our spring Gay Men’s Chorus concert has been cancelled. All the rehearsing, memorization, costuming, dance rehearsals, lighting and advertising has gone to waste. I assume all the tickets already sold will be refunded. Bad news all around.
We’re planning on attending a huge international LGBT choral festival in July. Assuming the virus is still among us then, it surely will be cancelled.
The school district where I coach has just announced closure of all sites from Mar. 19 to Apr. 19.
They’re making arrangements for continued nutrition services and will be doing classwork by remote access.
All South Carolina schools.
We now have two confirmed cases in my county.
Add the following states to the list:
Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, South Carolina and Vermont
Also, NYC and the Los Angeles Unified School District have closed their schools.
I’m at a PA bar right now and 2/3 of the patrons are old people LOL
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TN issued guidance to schools, but said it lacked the authority to unilaterally close the schools. Many districts have closed schools, including the districts of Nashville and Memphis.
My kids’ elementary school is closed till 4/6. I believe all schools in St. Louis City and County are closed now.
The governors of Washington, Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts, and California have closed all bars and restaurants. As I noted on another thread, the bars and restaurants here have been packed, mostly with people under 40. I wish we’d closed them all sooner. And I hope there’s federal money for the many, many workers who are now without paychecks.
Many school districts in California are closed, including the big ones in LA, SF, and Oakland. Our local smaller district, where my son goes, is also closed, as well as all the surrounding districts.
As far as theaters go, I heard the weekend box office for the US and Canada was a whopping $56 million.
All bars in San Francisco are closed. Restaurants can stay open, but have to allow six feet between customers, which makes smaller restaurants unprofitable. (Maybe bigger ones too.) Ditto for LA, plus movie theaters there are closed.
My town’s school system is closed, one of the last. My friend who teaches there part time (she’s retired) says it is supposed to go on line. Good luck with that for the second grade.
And I’m closed. People over 65 are supposed to self-isolate in California.
Melania just announced that this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll has been canceled.