'We all prefer in-classroom instructions for all the obvious reasons - socialВ and emotional foundationally, but only, only if it can be done safely,' Newsom said. The counties are home to 35.5 million Californians. Gavin Newson announced the shift to full-time distance learning in those counties in a July 17 press conference, the Los Angeles Times reports. She lives in California in one of the 32 counties where schools will remain closed as they are on the state's COVID-19 monitoring list due to surging coronavirus cases.Д¬alifornia Gov. Kaylie Milliken's son is entering the first grade. It's a way to mitigate the health risks associated with sending students back to a physical classroom, but also allow them to enjoy a more complete educational and social experience than remote learning alone.ДЄnd while many school districts across the country have yet to announce formal plans for the start of the school year, many parents are scrambling to find their pod. Either a parent, or rotation of parents, will teach the students - or the parents of those students will pool together funding to hire an instructor. The concept of 'pandemic pods' has garnered a lot of interest over the last several weeks, the idea essentially being that groups of 10 or fewer students will learn together in a home environment. 'So not only will they be able to get out of the house, and have a safe environment, which is my mom's house, where we have all these rules in place so we can make sure that this 'bubble' basically doesn't pop,В but they'll be able to see each other and play.' 'And my mom, who is a retired teacher, will be homeschooling the girls three days a week for three hours a day on those days,' Gregg said. In Gregg's case, she contacted the parent of another immunocompromised child from Evi's kindergarten class in Louisville, Ky., to see if they would want to 'pod together.' While vaccines can take years to research and develop, according to the New York Times, 27 vaccines for the virus are already in human trials and scientists are 'racing to produce a safe and effective vaccine by next year.'Д«ut that leaves many school district leaders, educators and parents, including Gregg, in a position where they have to determine whether in-person education is the right choice for their students - and what the alternatives actually look like. 'So when school was initially canceled,' she said, 'it was a no-brainer that she wouldn't be going back to school until the majority of people are vaccinated.

For that reason, Gregg said, exposure to the flu is enough to result in Evi's hospitalization.

When Evi was 14 months old, she was diagnosed with fanconi anemia, a rare genetic disorder resulting in impaired bone marrow function, which leads to a decrease in the production of all blood cells. Madeline Gregg knew back in March, after the novel coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, that her 6-year-old daughter Evi probably wouldn't be physically attending first grade this upcoming school year.

Might time up your pandemic pod