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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most parents do NOT want schools to open. They are well aware of the risks! Many parents are voicing sadness and frustration that their children's lives are still upended for the upcoming school year, but it doesn't mean they WANT schools to reopen with the pandemic uncontrolled as it is.

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The best survey I saw showed that only 13 percent of parents wanted schools to reopen full time.  The rest wanted them closed or wanted them open on a hybrid model with lots of protections.  But the logistics of that hybrid model and those protections are very complicated.  I want schools to reopen, but only if they can do so safely for kids and staff.  And that means that community spread needs to be stamped out, which it could be if bars, indoor dining, and other indoor activities with high risk of transmission were closed.  But we can't eat our cake and have it, too, so here we are.  [/quote]

I think many aspects of the hybrid model are appealing until you start asking questions and like you say, trying to work out the logistics.  Staffing is a large challenge, which could probably be overcome by streamlining the DL part but I'm not sure there has been enough time to work that out.

Also, I think it can be a safer approach IF the kids are staying home with their parents only during the off days.  But that is not practical for many families.  So you'd end up with all of this mixing of different groups over the course of the week, which kind of defeats the purpose.  The ideal scenario would be small groups of the same kids/teacher for the full week.  But I'm not sure how you get there realistically.[/quote]

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