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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The pressure to reopen schools will build very quickly as cases and deaths continue to fall across the country. The evidence is piling up that this virus is getting less deadly, and that schools can reopen safely. At the same time kids are falling further and further behind, academically and psychologically. Right now, the "lockdown forever" crew is still hanging on to the narrative, but people do see schools opening safely, and whole countries in normal states (Sweden, the bane of pro-lockdown people). The narrative won't hold for much longer. It'll happen--give it a few weeks.
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I hope so... and I am (was?) relatively pro-closure.  But I agree that the vast majority of schools in, let's say, "average" states (I.e. neither FL on the one hand, nor VT on the other), are probably going to be OK. For whatever reasons, political or legitimate, teachers (and to some extent) parents here are reluctant to return.  I'm not sure that anything short of a couple months of functioning schools in other jurisdictions will be proof enough that in-person is possible.  (And I agree with the PP that said the actual school decision--all virtual--was less concerning than the utter lack of uniform standards or metrics for reopening.  The only standard for in-person appears to be "feels safe"--so I can only hope that we get "evidence" of this from elsewhere...)[/quote]

Agree with this.  I have heard anecdotes of districts in “good” areas (MA, NY) that were initially planning on hybrid but reversed course and are going virtual.  I hope we have enough examples of schools that are opening successfully and that someone is tracking the data.[/quote]

I think those districts realized what a nightmare planning hybrid schedules would be, along with coordinating which teachers would take leave.  They just switched to virtual because it’s easier to plan.  I think that’s part of why DCPS didn’t do hybrid.[/quote]

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