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[quote=Anonymous]I think the problem is that kids will actually come into contact with more people if they are only in school part-time, since they'll be in child care or with relatives.

In a perfect world, we would hire a massive number of teachers (or at least distance-learning facilitators, who can manage a blended classroom, with a good team making the materials). Rec centers and libraries and other public sites would be used for classrooms. Each classroom would be open every day from 8am-6pm but parents could drop off  later and pick up earlier if needed, and instruction would only be from 9-3 with the rest of the time for playing or watching movies or other typical before/aftercare activities. Each classroom would have no more than 10 kids in it, ideally grouped to be on a similar level. Lunch would be delivered to the classrooms; recess would be staggered. Probably it would only be 4 days a week to allow for the longer days. Parents would be able to work better with 4 days of full-time school and kids wouldn't be bouncing as much between grandma and day care and school.

But this would be hard and expensive to pull off.  I don't know what you do about teachers whose kids are in other districts or if you shut down a whole room if one person gets sick. There really isn't a good answer here. we're all just picking from a crappy set of choices.[/quote]

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