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[quote=Anonymous]Our school district (Palm Beach County, FL which is pretty close to Fairfax in size) has both and parents with both DL and in person are happy with their choices, though everyone admits that neither is perfect.  The school district originally wanted to do hybrid but the governor shut that down by tying state funding to 5 day in person schooling.  Luckily only about 50% of students are back in person so social distancing is possible in the classrooms.  Elementary schools have higher percentages of students who are back in person and we had some teacher swapping as the administration tried to adjust class sizes as schools opened up for in person in September but things have settled down now.

There aren't enough bus drivers so a bus route for some kids that it would have been 20 minutes in previous years has been combined with other routes and now takes an hour.  Many teachers wanted remote positions but only a few were able to get them so quite a few of the veteran teachers have retired/resigned or taken leaves of absence.  The district reporting of cases in schools has gotten better and there does not seem to be much if any transmission occurring in schools though community transmission outside of schools is on the rise in our area.

Schools do not shut down for covid cases.  The health department does contact tracing and there have been teachers and students who have to swap from in person to virtual to quarantine while waiting for negative test results but it's on a small scale.  For example, my son's middle school has 1280 students and 480 are back in person and 800 are at home doing DL.  There has been one case of a teacher testing positive and one set of 3 siblings but no other known cases at the school.

Teachers aren't loving synchronous teaching, but some of them are doing a great job with it.  All of my kids teachers are managing pretty well.[/quote]

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