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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Wakefield, the Principal said he was able to honor all requests from teachers who wanted to stay home. DC has 2/7 classes virtual. I know another friend whose DC has 3/7 classes virtual. This is just the first week, so I am ready to give it time, and grateful for the 5 teachers who came back. But DC said sitting in the cold, stinky, crowded gym yesterday to listen to a teacher on a computer screen was not that fun, and I think that's a fair reaction. Wakefield also only had 40% of kids come back, so some classes have 2 kids in them.[/quote]

As much as people predicted it would be harder for the schools with higher percentages of hybrid to manage the return, I suspect reality may be the opposite.  When 70% of your school is back hybrid, it is easy to justify putting an aide in a dedicated classroom for 17 kids while the teacher is teaching remotely.  When only two kids in the class are hybrid, it's a lot harder to justify those kinds of staffing levels (especially when APS is short on aides and subs generally), so secondary schools with lower hybrid percentages pretty much have to do what you described, moving a bunch of kids from different classes into a large common space that can be monitored by fewer aides.[/quote]

The other part of this is one of the main benefits of being back is social interaction. I'm willing to be patient, but I want this to work at Wakefield, and I think having more kids in the building is a part of this.[/quote]

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