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Temp checks are basically Covid theater, anyway.  Many people don't have fever (partic kids) and those who do are contagious before the fever, anyway.

They need to design the classroom assuming that someone is sick-- i.e., distancing, masks, open windows, air circulation, etc.  [b]They also need to minimize mixing of groups-- i.e., a sick kid could infect the 12-15 in their classroom but unlikely anyone else in the school.[/b]  Forego the Covid theater so that people don't have a false sense of security.[/quote]

Except that's not possible for middle school or high school, so it needs to not be a requirement.[/quote]

That's an odd position to take.  Are you just going to explain to the virus about high school class structures to convince it not to spread?[/quote]

No, it's not an odd position to take. It's the position to take when you start from the premise that middle-school and high-school kids need to be in school.[/quote]

I think it's 100% feasible in MS-- There are only a handful of elective options and there are definitely at least 15 kids who are in any combination of an elective-language-math level.)  It would take more organization than schools might like to do (and possibly kids would be in an art/music elective different from their first preference), but heck, my 6th grader has at least 8 close friends in the same combination of these three things, so I have to believe there are 7 more out there with the same class preferences.

HS it gets trickier, but I think it's still feasible in a lot of cases--especially for freshman and sophomores.  Juniors and seniors tend to specialize more but there could definitely be a core set of classes students take together so that there would only be 2 or 3 switches rather than 7.  (And given that we're talking hybrid rather than pure face-to-face, those classes that would cause the cohort to mix could just be offered 100% online. )  [/quote]

Not at our MS.  Mine is not with 8 other kids.  Nor do they have staff like that. [/quote]

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