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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's be sure to send kids right before Thanksgiving so that we can put family members at risk, or miss out on holidays. GREAT MOVE! [/quote]

That was my thought too.  The 3 - 5 kids will get SIX whole days in person before winter break.  Hardly seems worth the risk of travel/holidays/etc, not to mention the extra work for the teachers around the holidays.[/quote]

Six is better than none. I don't know why this would disrupt anyone's holiday plans. Are people really staying in their houses 100% still? I see soccer games, kids at parks, kids at stores, what is the difference?

I have two kids, one in private high school and one in public. I can definitively say that having them in a classroom with a live teacher is much more beneficial for any length of time. If children who choose all virutal are with a new teacher, I get the disruption, but when there is a large cohort of virtural learners who are not also kids in the classroom, the coursework may be given on a different schedule or pace. The two hour learning break, for one. This may not happen with the kids who are on the hybrid but at home. Who knows?

Many unanswered questions which will need to be addressed, but progress is progress.  And as for mask compliance issues, I know that there will always be a risk to someone's mask coming down under their noses or messing with them all day. Unless you keep your child home 100% of the time (in which you should do virutal learning), these things are happening out there daily. I have to correct my child on her mask placement and yes, it's a pain, but she does it when she notices.  She's back in school and there have been zero cases in her Upper School.

I think change is scary and transition is tough. Those of us who have one child in private have seen it work out, so it's simply not as scary.   For the record, we are keeping our kids home the week of Thanksgiving for an extra two days so we can see grandma without worrying a lot.  We have the option to be in the virutal cohorts for days we are not in school for our oldest. It's a way to do so without losing ground academically.  I hope that can be the case for public schools as well.

For so many who don't have stay at home parents or who are strugglin wtih virtual learning, those six days can be a god send. To those who don't want to go back, there are options while the options, granted, include more change.

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