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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So stupid. I support each school having a threshold focused on the teachers (i.e. close if &gt;15% of teachers are unavailable) but not students and certainly not city-wide. [/quote]

Yeah, tying it to staffing makes sense.  But case rates don't mean anything without more context -- how many kids are sick?  Are all grades equally affected?  How many are really ill?  Is there in-school spread?  What mitigation measures is the school already taking, and are there more that could be implemented (ventilation, for example)?[/quote]

I agree. "Positive" does not equal sick, but when it does I think schools need to make sure they're giving the teachers time to recuperate.

Generally, I would think that making it more grade-specific from the staffing side could be a good thing. But with the complete absence of subs, a an absent teacher in one grade means they yank a teacher from another grade. At least at my school, "grades" get blurred a bit due to overall staff shortages. The 2nd grade SPED teacher might be subbing for the 5th grade science teacher tomorrow. It's really a confluence of factors that create the closures. I don't give the alarmist harpies of DCUM a ton of credit for nuance, but I do hope that people can see that the teacher shortage is driving a lot of the pain, the shortage existed before the pandemic, and that the shortage exists because teaching is a really undesirable profession for lots of reasons.  [/quote]

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