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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think rather than trying to try to find a way to make face to face person learning safer, we should concentrate on making distance learning effective.

Much of the argument for traditional at-school learning is that children are not susceptible to the virus.  However we're still learning about the virus.  We now know that some children develop Multisystem Inflamatory Syndrome, that even asymptomatic cases can have lung damage, and that COVID may need to be re-classified as "airborn".  Sending kids back to school at this point is making them human test subjects in a very dangerous experiment.

Distance Learning has been done for years.  I remember stories of children in remote areas like the Alaska wilderness or Australia's Outback having distance learning long before cell phones/tablets, 5G, and Zoom.  I know that more recently online curriculums have been used by homeschoolers.  Rather than spending the summer conducting surveys and trying to decide what to do, have somebody study the available options and pick one that works.

I realize there are other, less academic benefits to children having school.  We can implement new programs/systems as needes to compensate for these areas, as we did last Spring offering food distribution/meals through the school.  Remember, in a typical year, students don't have school during the summer, Spring Break, and Winter Break.

There are probably special needs students whose needs cannot be met remotely.  For this much smaller population, I would think it more feasible to provide for their needs in school, with much less risk than if the entire system was in attendance.

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No, actually, much of the argument for having school is that not having school harms children.

Is it possible to do remote instruction? Yes, obviously. Is it appropriate to do full-time remote instruction for everyone, given the current trends in Montgomery County? Absolutely not.

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Really? Last I knew curriculum 2.0 harmed children more.[/quote]

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