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[quote=Anonymous]As a parent, I ask all the teachers commenting on this thread  - what are you proposing?  It’s a serious question because from where I sit, opening schools for in person instruction  in the Fall (with face masks and hand sanitizer) is the “least bad” option from number of bad options.

Unfortunately, it is going to be impossible to make the classroom a COVID-19-risk-free environment.  Classrooms never were entirely free from communicable diseases.  Yes, it would be better if we could test everyone before entering a school, but even that is no guarantee, and not realistic in the near future.  Yes, we could and should improve the hygiene practices in schools and this will have the added benefit of hopefully decreasing the spread of flu, colds and other illnesses.  But we have to start considering the non-COVID-19 physical, emotional and yes economic (because without money, many kids don’t eat or get medical attention when they need it) injuries occurring every day now when deciding how to precede.

Ideally no one would have to be exposed, but parents bristle when teachers argue that they should continue to be paid, while teaching about 1 hour a day, And expect the rest of society to just suck it up.  You ask the supermarket workers and delivery workers and UPS workers and farm workers and meat packers and truck drivers to all risk their own health, because you definitely have obtained groceries in the past 8 weeks.  Shutting down schools was the right thing to do on an emergency basis - but not a long term one.  [/quote]

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