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I absolutely feel bad for the school administrators having to do the "hygiene theater" with deep cleaning and trying to enforce social distancing during outdoor play. They'll twist themselves in knots complying with the DC Health guidelines, then the kids will leave school and head right to crowded playgrounds and activities. It's silly, but it's not the school's fault, so we can just hope the CDC relaxes the guidelines over the summer. [/quote]

Ugh, same here. DC Health is acting like it's still early 2020 when we thought that hand-washing and lysol wipes were the most important.

As others have said, the cohorts are more for contact tracing (and preventing a full-scale shutdown) than safety ... but even then, it doesn't make sense because kids have siblings, they have friends in other classes, they go to playgrounds. If we were in a full-on lockdown and strict cohorting was how we kept schools open, then great. But again, that hasn't been the case since last spring. When you take away full-time school, people just come up with ad hoc education & childcare solutions that have no safety measures OR that rely on older, at-risk relatives.

It's better, in my opinion, to do a few safety measures REALLY well than do a dozen for show. One of my kids has been in in-person pre-school for months and they don't enforce distancing with this age group because there's no point. But they're great with masks, they are outside constantly, and they made sure adults got vaccinated ASAP. They've had zero cases.

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PP here. At our charter they are only outside with their cohort, but even within the cohort they're enforcing distancing and not sharing manipulatives/toys. I completely agree it makes sense to separate the cohorts carefully (for shut down/tracing purposes), but within the cohort it feels excessive, especially since the kids would all have to quarantine together anyways. I highly doubt anyone at the school actually thinks all of these restrictions are necessary, but I do applaud them for making the effort to get kids back in the building even though they have to jump through those hoops. And yeah, we've done camps too and they are much more relaxed, but still have had no cases. [/quote]

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