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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assign one project manager to each school to take the lead in making sure that school is set up for return to school. The county should provide the initial guidelines (chairs 3 feet apart, sanitation stations at entry points, hvac needs (some classrooms may need portable air sanitizers, etc.)
The project manager will be responsible for making sure their school complies. 
You have to break it out to each school since each building and population is different across all schools. 
Make sure each school is stocked with masks, soap and sanitizers.

So basically outline the guidelines and assign a staff for each to.school to execute. If MCPS can get kids back on hybrid model in the spring, it will be the only way to get us to full return in the fall.
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The masks, soap, distancing etc. aren't the real problem with going back to school.  The problem from what I can read and hear about it schools that have stayed open, lies with contact tracing and quarantine.

Schools can have very detailed plans about what happens if a student or teacher tests positive.  When community spread is low, few students and teachers will test positive.  So it is fairly easy to do contact tracing and to quarantine close contacts.

But, when community spread is high, kids and teachers and family members are testing positive right and left.  Schools are put under a lot of pressure NOT to report cases in that situation.  Because you would have whole classes out, and staff out, for multiple weeks.

So what is happening throughout the US right now is this:   Schools are changing the guidelines for reporting a case.  They are changing what counts as a close contact, telling teachers that as long as kids all were wearing masks, no one could be considered a close contact and therefore parents don't need to be notified and kids don't need to be quarantined.

Parents assume that there is no problem in school and there is little spread, but in fact they just aren't being told about the spread.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/01/27/biden-covid-19-plan-looks-safety-students-teachers-defy-rules/4257689001/

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Sick kids in class, teachers punished for speaking out: Over 780 COVID-19 complaints reveal schools ignoring safety[/quote]

No teachers are shocked by this situation. [/quote]

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