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[quote=Anonymous]Even if the danger is low, the problem before break was the rate of absences. The private school where I work has had up to 13 percent of students in quarantine at once. We’ve been so short on subs that teachers and administration staff are skipping lunch and canceling parent meetings to substitute teach while many of our teachers are home sick awaiting PCR test results. An “ideal” situation during quarantines is that staff stay healthy enough to work at school and end up teaching hybrid classes to quarantined and in-person students. That ends up being the least effective teaching style and causing the highest rate of teacher burnout. We’ve also seen people pre-emptively pulling their kids out to avoid exposure. They’re not necessarily afraid of their kid becoming seriously ill, but they feel their family can’t afford an exposure at the moment. Maybe a family member has a scheduled surgery, specialist doctors appointment, or the arrival of a new baby upcoming. The absence numbers are sky high. Maret recently reported 47 cases to DC health. In Montgomery County, Blair had a fifth of its students absent before winter break. You can say that school is safe until you’re blue in the face. Unfortunately, at this level of attendance, it is logistically extremely challenging-to-impossible to keep things running as usual.[/quote]

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