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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Duran needs to set the parameters and let individual principals figure out what works best for their schools.  Focusing on elementary schools here b/c  I am most familiar and this is the most urgent.
needed parameters
1. return to 5 full days of instruction- with regular school hours, not shortened by an hour and 20 minutes.
2. plan on outdoor lunch when at all feasible, come up with a plan for indoor lunch.  such a plan could include; 
                  a. sending 1/2 the class out to the hallway to eat and staggering lunch times by room rather than by grade.
                  b. sending every other class to the cafeteria, and splitting classes into the other room.
                  c. use spaces like gym, music room, art room, etc for lunch on these rainy days.
                  d. purchasing tents.
               the point is, there are lots of ways to solve the 'lunch problem' but what the optimum way to solve it is may vary by school.
3. Give principals the flexibility to ditch concurrent teaching and consolidate classes as makes sense.

for transportation;
1. tell them to open the windows mask the kids and fill up the busses.  They can assign seats, siblings can sit together.  These are short bus rides, they can make it work.   Possibly jettison transportation for the option schools if this is the real sticking point.  [/quote]

1) lunch. Sitting in halls is not feasible. Fist there are only air cleaners in currently used classrooms. Halls are smaller enclosed areas at many schools and there is not room to basically line kids up 6-10’ apart and then be unmasked eating with no ventilation. On top of that there isn’t enough supervision. Extended day works we cover lunch right now, 1 per class. Who would also watch 50 kids in the hall spread out over hundreds of feet of hallway?
2)gym is being used for PE. Music room is acting as a classroom at my school. Art room too.
3) we have not started outdoor lunch yet at my school.
4) I agree the buses need higher capacity. 1 kid per seat masked with windows down should be fine.

We are not using all the classrooms at my school building every day but we are using many and the issue is that grades 3-5 require the largest classrooms available and we are mostly sharing them on the alternate days we are I person. I already have 16 in person kids and I don’t think the remaining 4 plan to come back for any reason this year.

I do think K-2 may be able to go back into one space and then do 4 days if the transportation and lunch can be sorted out. Adding additional grades on in person days they normally weren’t there will change the feasibility of lunches and transportation too.

I is pups love to have more in person days with my students- I’m an APS teacher. My job is easier, more effective,  and more efficient in person.[/quote]

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