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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've seen the statement 'APS can't open b/c our schools are overcrowded' repeated numerous times on this thread.
I was trying to square this with the drop in enrollment of over 2000 students at the elementary level.
Using April enrollment figure and the Facilities accommodation plan- the following schools currently exceed their capacity;

ASFS by 76
ATS by 108
Claremont by 80

several schools are under capacity by more than 100 students.  APS is simply lying about not being able to accommodate all students 5 days a week- they just didn't want to bother.
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/U-MEM_281-Membership_Summary_All.pdf[i]
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Update-to-Fall-2019-Capacity-Utilization-Tables-v2.pdf[/quote]

Dude!  Just because you can fit everyone in the school that you're supposed to under NORMAL conditions does NOT mean that you can fit everyone in with appropriate spacing, particularly for lunch and elementary school snacktime.  The fact that even with folks dropping out of APS there are STILL 3 elementary schools that are over maximum capacity (UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS) is amazing.

Under normal conditions, without extra spacing, McKinley would normally run three or four lunch starting as early at 10:30 in the morning because its lunchroom was too small for the capacity of kids in the school.  You may need to start even earlier than that and run super late with additional spacing requirements.  The fact that you're not actually over capacity doesn't really solve all your covid spacing problems.

Similarly, if you're going to let elementary school kids eat a snack in their classrooms and unmask, I think you now run into another spacing problem.

And there could be other spacing issues -- like, if you can't fit all the required kids in a room with 3 foot spacing, do you need to get another room and then another proctor for the kids?  Not sure about that one.  Point is there seem to be lots of considerations you are leaving out of your 5 day a week RIGHT NOW calculation.  This won't be an issue for me by next fall because my kid will be vaccinated, numbers will be down even further, etc.  [/quote]Our APS elementary school has already outlawed snacks.  No snack.  Done.

Lunch should be outdoors at all schools.  On rainy days our school is still outside under an overhang.  With severe weather they'd spread out in hallways, the lobby and classrooms, but that hasn't happened.  I think most parents would be happy to go 4 (or 5) days a week knowing that schools could switch to DL on days where severe weather is forecast.  For schools without an overhang, APS should have sourced tents.  And if APS hasn't already, they need to for the fall since elementary students won't be fully vaxxed until mid-fall.[/quote]

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