With state guidelines for the return of prep sports having been eased, there has been scant information coming from San Francisco's Academic Athletic Association. The AAA website does provide one key caveat: Competitive sports cannot return until a school has re-instituted in-person learning. So, far the San Francisco Unified School District's teachers' union has balked at that. Still, the CIF sports situation is in such a state of change that predicting what, if anything, the AAA will (or can) do is speculative at this point.
What about the AAA
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There are a few districts in LA with a similar stipulation if I understood it right. Hard to keep it all straight district to district
The nearby Jefferson Union High School District, like its intransigent neighbor SFUSD, has decided not to take part in the re-opening of athletics as well.
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Coastal Mountain Confernece is holding firm on no football too
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While a new ruling from the state on Friday allows outdoor high school sports to hold games as soon as next Friday (Feb. 26), the new decision to allow sports such as soccer and football to proceed in parts of the state won't affect Lake County because the Coastal Mountain Conference, which includes all of the county's high schools, canceled those sports late last month and CMC Commissioner Robert Pinoli said the decision won't be revisited. Games can begin next Friday in counties where the per capita coronavirus caseload is fewer than 14 per 100,000 people. Lake County is currently at 16.5. Once it dips below 14, baseball and softball games can go forward. Indoor sports are not affected by the revised mandate from the state.
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While a new ruling from the state on Friday allows outdoor high school sports to hold games as soon as next Friday (Feb. 26), the new decision to allow sports such as soccer and football to proceed in parts of the state won't affect Lake County because the Coastal Mountain Conference, which includes all of the county's high schools, canceled those sports late last month and CMC Commissioner Robert Pinoli said the decision won't be revisited. Games can begin next Friday in counties where the per capita coronavirus caseload is fewer than 14 per 100,000 people. Lake County is currently at 16.5. Once it dips below 14, baseball and softball games can go forward. Indoor sports are not affected by the revised mandate from the state.
Clarification: Football games will not crank back up Feb. 26. Full practices can. Games will come some weeks later. Assuming the virus is under solid control.
I am just going to say that I am nervous for schools whose districts have not allowed them to even lift weights up until a couple of weeks ago and now all of a sudden, in two weeks, they are supposed to play games? And we all know that some schools have been practicing and/or lifting this whole time. I really hope that all sections push back the April 17 end date at least a week or two to allow teams time to get their bodies in position to play safely. Even if you didn't care about COVID, the shortened window of preparation time makes me nervous.
Several sections have pushed the season forward all the way through April. That might allow prepared programs to schedule seven games. As for the AAA and the Jefferson Union High School District, well, not so much. At least not yet.
Mercury News is reporting today that the AAA schools are in limbo due to San Francisco County's tough stand on outdoor athletics. SF, by the way, has the lowest covid case rate in the entire Bay Area. Go figure.
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AAA has maintained the position that sports will return only in the case of in person instruction in the classroom returns. The Jefferson Unified School District has a reopening plan but is opting not to do athletics
The Chronicle is reporting that the SF health poobahs have still not agreed to re-open prep athletics outdoors.
As of 3 p.m. today, the AAA website has not changed its pandemic rules information. Athletes and coaches remain in limbo.
Unlike other leagues, AAA is its own league, in its own section, with their own school district predominately with SFUSD schools (outside of a private school and a few charter schools within its league), in their own county and Dept. of Health. So all of these parts have to be in consensus on not only reopening schools but also resuming sports.
These are factors that also need to be considered as well than just the teacher's union allowing athletics. Even if the union decides to come back and school is resumed, submitting an application for in-person learning needs to be done by a school and receive SFDPH approval in order to engage in interscholastic athletics. There was a part weeks ago in that information piece that schools can opt-out even if sports are a go, but that part is no longer listed in that information.
When I looked at the SFDPH dashboard there are no AAA high schools that have submitted and application, but SFUSD elementary schools have been listed with some applications being approved. It doesn't fall solely on the teacher's union, but the union is the initial piece that can get the ball moving with other factors needing to be considered and executed after that.
These are factors that also need to be considered as well than just the teacher's union allowing athletics. Even if the union decides to come back and school is resumed, submitting an application for in-person learning needs to be done by a school and receive SFDPH approval in order to engage in interscholastic athletics. There was a part weeks ago in that information piece that schools can opt-out even if sports are a go, but that part is no longer listed in that information.
When I looked at the SFDPH dashboard there are no AAA high schools that have submitted and application, but SFUSD elementary schools have been listed with some applications being approved. It doesn't fall solely on the teacher's union, but the union is the initial piece that can get the ball moving with other factors needing to be considered and executed after that.
...so, the bottom line appears to be that the AAA will not return to competition anytime soon, if at all in the spring...
The WCAL can handle a CCS return working with three different counties, three different health authorities, eight different school administrations (for boys) and employees (including teachers) who have the same pandemic worries as their public school counterparts. But the SF public schools can't get their act together. The school board spent so much wasted time worrying about re-naming dozens of schools they forgot about the needs of their own students. Parents should demand a tax refund.
A critical issue is parental pressure. There seems to be very little in SF. If the villagers don't threaten the poobahs with pitchforks and torches, as well as media pressure, well, not much is going to happen.
As Doughboy once said "Either they dont know, dont show or just dont care whats what goes on in the hood" But hey they get to rename their schools!!!
Talk is cheap in San Francisco. The people who operate the city's public school district (board members, administrators, labor unions) spend a great deal of time lecturing all of us about the lack of fairness and equity for under-served groups throughout society. They huff and puff and point to the nation's sad history of racial injustice. It's a theme they return to constantly. Their perceived victims are everywhere. Their mantra is "equality for all." However, when it comes to equal opportunities for their student-athletes, it's a different story entirely. The policy-makers and union lobbyists are nowhere to be found. They are MIA. Hypocrisy and bad faith are rampant. San Francisco, as of last week, had the lowest rate of covid infection in the entire Bay Area. But, unlike surrounding public school districts, SF's cannot find a way to get its student-athletes back into competition. It's clearly not a priority. So much for the heralded virtues of "equity."
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Unfortunately I believe teachers are pushing back hard for many reasons. No daily commute to and from. No need to discipline kids on zoom. Its a clean 50min class then close the zoom. Boom!!! coffee break, walk the dog, watch more CNN.. Teachers have much more freedom at home and receive the same pay. Come back to the classroom or receive less pay would get them back.
Less pay? No way. Public employee unions rule. They run San Francisco and, for the most part, California. Kids in public schools are stuck if the unions stonewall change. If Riordan doesn't get a solid transfer or two or three, it will be a surprise.
That’s a harsh broad stroke you paint of teachers. There may be few that may think this, but there are plenty that are dedicated to their profession like Ferrigno @ Lincoln or Zelaya @ Mission.
What an awful post.
Agree .....that post proves even lab monkeys have access to keyboards.
My wife easily puts in +10 hours/day towards her classes and that's if the internet is functioning smoothly. As other posters have mentioned the kids have issues by not being in class with other kids and it is showing up in participation, grades and quality of class work. She spends a lot of her non class hours (on HER time huevon)
tutoring, counseling, and just being there for her students.
AND that's not including responding to the multitude of daily emails from parents who think the teachers job is to babysit their children while they (the parents) walk the dog, drink their instant Nescafé's and watch Fox drone on.
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Broad brushstrokes vs minuscule strokes of two teachers. Hope there are more...
i think you have confused every other work force with teachers. without a doubt the rest of us are happy to be at home working, most teachers probably want to see the faces of their students up close and learning.
The CDC has repeatedly said schools are safe to reopen. Teachers Unions are ignoring the science. Home Depots and Ralph’s grocery stores didn’t install all-new ventilation systems for their employees, and there’s no evidence to suggest this caused mass viral spread. If kids can now play football and sports, they should be able to go to class, IMO. If teachers want to get back to the classroom so badly, where is the outrage from teachers that are being prevented from doing so?
In a perverse way, there is one reasonably good thing to come out of the fierce debate about re-opening public schools (private schools, for the most part, have been re-opened for some time): Parents now understand who really runs their school districts _ the public employee unions (not just the teachers, by the way). It's a revelation that may have consequences down the line. Trustees who, at least on paper, are charged with overseeing their educational operations, are prisoners of the unions and their diligent lobbying forces. In fact, the entire state of California is hostage to the unions at every level of government. And let's not even mention the lurking issue of under-funded public pensions that eat away at budgets throughout the state. That's a vexing topic for some other time. But, all in all, it's not a healthy situation.
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Oh, as of 7:20 p.m. Friday, the AAA is still shut down. So much for equal opportunity for inner city student-athletes. Where is the outrage in hyper-progressive Burlap by the Bay? Hello, hypocrisy.
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San Francisco is Protest Central. Every conceivable grievance, real or imagined, gets a march, signs, media coverage, you name it. Outrage is the city's middle name. Not when it comes to youth athletics. In this case, it's a snooze, a backwater, an afterthought. No one seems to care much at all. The AAA is stuck. It's held hostage by the city's public school district and its radical union behavior. Most unfortunate. Literally thousands of SF boys and girls can only look on at their suburban peers who are up and running full-time now. Fairness? Not even close. It's a disgrace. It's adult malpractice on a grand scale. Hey, someone had to say it.
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It is really sad what has happened with the San Francisco public schools. I definitely don't know all of the specifics, but it feels like they are looking for reasons not to have prep sports instead of the other way around
Just a theory. 1 year+ of less tax revenue from businesses, etc. equates to less money for the school district and schools perhaps dont want to allocate limited resources to sports for this year. The city has more pressing/immediate matters like renaming schools
