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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Based on the responses I thought his was going to be some wing but. The article lacks substance but it is overall a sentiment shared by most. Most people know that school needs to START to reopen. That does not mean swing the door open and let’s go back to normal. But grades K-2 cannot Distance learn w/o full time assistance, and if you have that luxury better to home school than struggle through the unrealistic DL schedules. Special ed also needs to be back. Let’s phase these groups in from the start. The numbers in our region are good and support opening in-person. Yes, we may need to close in later in fall. But starting in-person and having those kids make connections with their teachers will be so important if they need to switch to DL. [/quote]

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+2. There is a middle road between "everyone go back as normal" and "everyone stay home for a year". This is the reason I signed my first grader up for a private school that is using smaller class sizes, requiring masks and distancing, repurposing some rooms to make them classrooms, and using the outdoor space as much as possible. It seems that districts are unable or unwilling to acknowledge that DL just isn't going to work for certain groups and prioritize them. It's like superintendents and/or the school boards are afraid of pissing off parents of kids not in those groups, so let's just keep everyone home to make it fair. But it isn't fair, because there is a huge difference between a kindergartner and a 6th grader in terms of the ability to handle DL  and generally be more self-sufficient while home (generally speaking). The reality is that kids in k-3 are going to be in group settings whether schools open or not, thus increasing community spread, because parents cannot work and supervise DL for 6 hours/day. In some cases the groups will even be in school buildings! It's so frustrating.[/quote]

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