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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle schoolers and high schoolers going to school on line is a non-starter. If it's ok for the parents to go to work, then it's ok for the middle schoolers and high schoolers to go to school.[/quote]

100% this.[/quote]

That’s non-sensical.  MS and HS might not be in physical school buildings because those buildings may be repurposed for ES students.  Sheesh![/quote]

A typical kid at our public high school might have 7 classes, averaging 25 students each.   There is some overlap but not a huge amount, so they're exposed to over 100 different people a day, plus 20 more on the bus, etc . . .  [b]Many adults have jobs that expose them to many fewer people.  
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Opening schools is going to be a major task.  We've got several months to look for solutions but it's not as simple as "if it's OK for adults, it's OK for kids".  [/quote]

Many adults don't.

Opening schools is no less complicated than many other workplaces that have been shut down or that have had a lot of problems with covid transmission. And it's just as much of a priority, if not more.[/quote]

Yes and the state is requesting that those who can telework do so, even after we reopen in the first phases. And businesses are figuring out how to have their employees come in in shifts, or telework over the long term, or wear masks, or rearrange seating to be 6 feet apart or all of the above, which my employer is doing. It isn’t easy to sort this out for adults or kids, and coming up with a program that suits thousands of kids in hundreds of buildings is way harder than an individual business sorting it out. It’s complicated for businesses and it’s complicated for schools. [/quote]

And yet nobody is saying, well, it's too complicated to figure out how to safely operate meatpacking plants and shipping warehouses, so we'll just keep them closed until there's a vaccine.[/quote]

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