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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I agree -- not every parent will be able to stay home with their kids on the DL days, so you have kids exposed to one babysitter/family member, several sitters/family members, or group care.  Or not being properly supervised at all.  Investing in more teachers to permit smaller classes, using more space, would help, but I doubt that the money is in the budget.

I do think it's a bit early to be freaking out.  The district seems to be considering several options (like most school districts around the country, I'd imagine) and it makes more sense to see what they announce before going ballistic about it.  Whatever it is will not be perfect, and I think parents need to temper their expectations.  [/quote]

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