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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother teaches at an Urban school district  in PA not far From NY.  His particular school has high poverty - lots of ESL though the school district overall is middle income.  The whole area got hit hard With COVID in the spring coming from NY and covid rates  worse then here - still.  But they have been hybrid all fall until planned break in December. As planned, they Restarted hybrid this week.  All the teachers will be vaccinated Jan 25 week.

I just don’t understand why MD is so different. [/quote]

And, how many families actually signed up for hybrid?  The issue is we don't have enough teachers to do both beyond the safety issues.  We have 35 kids per MS class on a good day.  We don't have enough classrooms for each teacher to have their own classroom.  Kids are mixed up in different classes so they change classrooms multiple times a day plus lunch.  Some classrooms don't have windows (not sure how that is safe from a fire standpoint but its still allowed).  We have an old boiler system, no HVAC.  [/quote]

If you check the building plans, they are probably listed as supply closets and not classrooms or offices. This is the case at my school. If a storage space fit at least 8 desks, it was turned into a classroom. A hallway is being used as a classroom.  There was some discussion about turning the shower rooms into classrooms since students do not shower after PE. The opposition has been that it has to be entered through the locker rooms which are single sex. If we ever had a single sex self-contained class, that’s where it would be. Last year, we had a special ed support class with just one girl.[/quote]

I’d rather have my child dL than in a supply closet where it is a fire safety risk.  [/quote]

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