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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One day a week is better than none. Labs, presentations, q&a  - much better in person.[/quote]

yes, but if you're doing this with 25% of the class on each of the 4 days, what is the other 75% of the class doing on each of these days???
Who is teaching them at home?
Are they just doing homework?
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Yeah, that's my question too. I would prefer five days of in-person school, of course, but ... if it's ONE day of in-person school with no social stuff (no recess, lunch in the classroom, no after school activities) plus four days of working on homework/tests/whatever, then I'd rather have five days where they're actually SEEING their teachers and interacting with them. Maybe it makes sense for high school - as the parent of a middle-schooler, I felt that language learning and science class were probably the least suited to distance learning, but they aren't really doing big time lab work in 6th-7th grade. (though they were doing some fun experiments! I'm trying to supplement that a little bit at home with some science kits and lots and lots of NOVA but it isn't the same of course.)
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High school and middle school don't have recess. And of course they will be social kids talk to each other in class and at lunch. 
One day keep everyone accountable to do the work on the other days. Any amount of actual face time, checking in, time for in person questions, labs, hands on projects is important.  Of course the school needs to completely change the scope of the school and prioritize what schools need to be teaching on the in person day and the online days .[/quote]

PP here. middle school ABSOLUTELY has recess, at the very least in 6th grade. They have one period that’s lunch and recess and my kid would scarf his lunch as quickly as possible to go out and play basketball (and sometimes go to GRIT during the lunch part so he could play basketball for a little while.) And ... we don’t WANT kids talking to each other during class because they’re supposed to be learning and they will be maskless at lunch so we don’t want them talking and spreading germs there. We just went for a hike with a friend of my rising 7th grader - they had to be reminded constantly to keep their distance and the other kid had to be reminded to pull his mask up over his nose. This was a little glimpse into what will be happening for 6 hours every day they are back in school. [/quote]

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