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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]For those of you who favor having schools open with in person instruction, how do you envision that working? I'm genuinely curious.
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Can you lay out the precautions and COVID-related procedures? Seems to me that any sensible attempt at this would require:

- masks on everyone, all day long except when eating lunch.
-- keep a classroom  cohort together all day long as much as possible. You don't want the entire student population to mix with one another. 
-- social distancing to the extent possible, which may involve kids coming in only on certain days of the week.
- basic health checks, such as daily temperature screenings and health questionnaire asking if you've been around anyone with COVID. Kids who have a temp or who answer yes would have to be sent home immediately.
-  a system (perhaps county run) for testing people regularly and for disseminating the word about positive tests of kids who are in school. Students and teachers who were in close proximity to someone who tested positive would need to self isolate at home for 2 weeks, or at the very least could not come to school.
 - a system to provide fill in teachers to replace teachers who are out sick.
- A system or method for keeping self-isolating students on track with their schoolwork at home, if they feel well enough to study.
-- No sports teams or clubs  and certainly no games between schools.
-- Bus transportation would need to be modified --- more buses to run the same number of kids, so kids can spread out on the bus more.

If you do all that, maybe you can pull off a year of school with in person instruction supplemented with some distance learning when necessary.

Even then, substantial numbers of students and staff to get sick. My guess is about 50 percent over the course of the year, but that's purely a guess.[/quote]

I envision it working according to the recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/clinical-guidance/covid-19-planning-considerations-return-to-in-person-education-in-schools/[/quote]

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