What a perfect night for football! First round of the Missouri State High School playoffs. Albany goes into tonight’s matchup a heavy favorite against a solid Rock Port team.... oh strike that this equipment will not be used tonight or again this season.
All in an effort to “fight” this horrible pandemic that doesn’t have a significant impact on our kids. We should be worried more about the mental health impacts we are creating with these ignorant precautions.
Data shows that only about 100 children and teenagers have died of the disease in the US (most with pre-existing conditions).
Covid-19 has become the nation’s third-leading cause of death this year, but 18 states had not seen a single fatality among people under 20 as of Sept. 10, according to statistics compiled by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.
In 2019,almost 2,500 teenagers in the US age 13-19 were killed in automobile accidents.
Tell me why we are depriving our children from school and extracurricular activities? The drive to and from school is far more dangerous than this virus for our kids.
The damage of not having face to face learning for some students will be devastating. It will cause irreparable damage. This hits close to home for me I have one of those students. He will have missed 24 days of face to face instruction due to “contact tracing”. We are failing our students and I am truly sorry.
This isn’t an attack on staff or administrators, they are dealing with crazy “guidelines” that change daily. They are simply playing the hand they were dealt.
We have a healthy football team that is ready to play and healthy students at home who want nothing more than to go to school. It makes me sick to think what our seniors are going through tonight.
Brent Cline
Albany, MO
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