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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have a strong opinion on the protections, but I want schools to reopen. We see in the news that people gather in large crowds anyway, [b]I don't want schools to be the victim of social isolation while other parts of the society open up. If anything, schools should have the priority of opening[/b]. (Frankly, I don't see an end to this until we reach some level of herd immunity anyway. In the meantime, I believe the most vulnerable should limit exposure to outside society, but schools should definitely open in my opinion.)[/quote]

Right? Restaurants have to re-open for eating in, because people work in the restaurant industry. Salons have to re-open because, because people work in the beauty industry/people want haircuts.  Meat-packing plants have to keep running, because people want to be able to buy cheap meat at the grocery store. But schools? Shrug.[/quote]

The comparison breaks down because parents are legally obligated to send their kids to school. They are not legally obligated to get their nails done or buy meat.[/quote]

DP, but the point is that if these services, which lack any legal obligation to be used, can be reopened, then we need to reopen schools.  Yeah: parents are legally obligated to send their kids to school.  Schools need to open so that we can do that.  Distance learning isn't cutting it, especially not when so many parents have to work concurrently.[/quote]

I don’t follow the logic. The businesses you mention can open because people have the choice to go or not. Opening schools is like telling the whole population they are legally required to go get a haircut, regardless of whether they have health conditions or elderly family at home. [/quote]

The way to solve this is to set up a parallel school option for people who have health conditions or elderly family at home.[/quote]

Agreed.  Why not set up a camera in the back of the classroom and continue providing Zoom sessions for kids whose parents have opted not to send them back to school?  This is how business meetings work with geographically diverse staff attendance.
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That would be worthless.  A better option would be to enroll the kids in a known cyber school or home school option.  For kids who are legitimately medically fragile, the district pays for cyber school.  For kids who’s parents want to just #shelterforever, those parents can pay.[/quote]

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