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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS is finally getting with the program. It seems this thread is 95% responses by teachers if I had to guess.

Teachers, there are other teachers around the country successfully teaching. I do think there should be some kind of opt-out for teachers with immune system issues or serious complicating health factors. But for healthy normal adult teachers, let's be reasonable. You cannot stay out of the classroom until there is zero risk. The educational system is changing drastically while you sit this one out.

By pushing parents to the brink with union protests, you are losing your public school children populations and you will eventually return to a very different school framework, where parents realize public school education is less desirable and your formerly "upper-middle class" schools might look very different. Maybe smaller size public schools will be for the best, but it further segregates our society's children, which is not.

My child's in-school public school 2nd grade class (outside the DMV) had two kids at separate times catch COVID (they suspect from a soccer team, family contacts etc), and none of them transmitted it to other students in the class or teacher, or others in the school (based on the school's tracking and low numbers). Wearing masks, tracking cases, and social distancing works in schools. [/quote]

Cool story bro. But now there’s a British mutation AND a South Africa mutation, both of which are much more contagious. To which a (yet to be peer reviewed) study suggests may require closing achools(British) and is so changed the vaccines may not be effective (S African). So yes, definitely let’s rush to return to schools rather than consider the implications.

My suggestion is APS needs to open schools for free lunch/low income students to do their DL. The Open Schools Now peeps insist they are looking out for the most at risk - most studies that talk about the detrimental effect in younger children are talking about those in low income families, not Larla in her 8k sq ft house. There are enough schools to adequately socially distance them, even if they have to bus, which gives them the WiFi, tech support, and structure/access to food necessary to help them. Something tells me that Trumpy jack hole Laird would still sue APS though. [/quote]
Thanks for actually reading the science. And taking the time to post about it. [/quote]

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