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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers have ZERO downside to the DL plan.  They keep their jobs, they keep their salary. . Even if the Academic results are terrible.

Parents have HUGE downside to the DL plan. Most kids will lose an entire year of education.  And parents have the struggle of figuring out solutions to kids being home all day while parents have to go to jobs.

Opening schools is mostly, but not 100 percent safe. The person who has literally nothing to lose from DL (teachers) will choose DL, because they don’t have to make any trade off.  Those who have a lot to lose from dL (parents) will weigh the safety trade off and, given the low safety risks, it reasonable that 70 percent of parents will want to send kids back to school and take that small gamble.

My guess is the 30 percent of parents who favor full DL probably have a sahp or available grandparent who can handle all of the oversight.  For those families, like teachers, there is close to ZERO downside to the DL plan.  With a full time available caregiver, their kids will not lose a year of education. And they don’t have to worry about juggling jobs with the DL plan. The only downside for these families is the loss of social interaction - which may not offset the small safety risks for those families.  [/quote]

You are absolutely right!  Incentives are huge here.  I wonder if teachers' salaries were reduced by 10-20% (perhaps to offset parents' expenses), they would be more inclined to return to the classroom.[/quote]
+1 This is the most accurate formulation, the economics of any decision is made on incentives. In the case of DL, you have virtually zero incentives for teachers to return to schools. Granting them additional hazard payments for in-school teaching people or disincentivizing by leveling a WFH tax would probably shift things. We have a full-time SAHP to concentrate on DL so it’s obviously a non-issue for us. [/quote]

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