What about school buses?

[Anonymous]

Have every child wear a mask. Squirt of hand sanitizer when they enter and exit.

DONE.

Get these kids back to school!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have every child wear a mask. Squirt of hand sanitizer when they enter and exit.

DONE.

Get these kids back to school!

What happens when Jake decides he won’t wear the mask. Does the bus pull over and wait by the side of the road for Jake’s Mommy to come get him? Or does Jake get to get away with it because he can’t be allowed to hold a bus with 55 other people hostage? Pretty sure if he gets away with it, Devin will join him tomorrow and the number of non-compliant kids will grow exponentially.

[Anonymous]

I don't what the big deal is. The problem is enclosed areas- areas open to the elements are a lower risk. Let's break out the jaws of life of make some convertible buses!

More seriously, I don't think MoCo schools are going to reopen in the fall. And yes, I think that's probably stupid if things continue according to the current trends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was the first post about buses not being at capacity. I have no insider knowledge but some elementary schools have 600 kids in them and some high schools have 2,000-3,000 kids. Even “small” schools have 400 kids. Nowhere that I have seen is allowing 400 or 4,000 people to gather inside. And places that can open have to do so under capacity restrictions- usually 50% capacity. I know the mantra this is months away and everything could be different, but I am not confident that things will be so different that 4,000 people can “safely” gather inside for 8 hours a day with multiple shared surfaces and common spaces.

So the next option would be to limit capacity somehow - and so that is what I am expecting. I

My child’s elementary school has 1200 students and some secondary schools in the area have 6,000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would imagine that they would have one kid per seat since the new number of kids would be smaller due to alternative days / times / weeks or whatever plan they go with. So the risk would be the same as in class or in lunch.

I have seen these proposals, but cannot imagine that they would possibly work at the school where I am on staff. Many, many parents don’t speak English, don’t follow communications from the school, and don’t even walk their kids to school. The kids just show up outside the school, often 30 minutes before school starts, even in the winter. There is no way they are going to follow a plan of Kid 1 on Monday, Kid 2 on Tuesday, etc.

[Anonymous]

regular buses, roll down the windows, problem solved.