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[b]If the logistics can be worked out, hybrid potentially reduces class size[/b], reduces risk by having kids in buildings fewer days, and allows teachers to develop some level of comfort that promised PPE, sanitation, and enforcement of policies like masking will be followed.

I keep seeing everyone say that hybrid is too complicated with minimal payoff. I don't see schools going face to face full time any time soon. Why doesn't anyone listen to all of the private school kids who are going to school using some hybrid model and are happy with even a few days a week in person?[/quote]

If I can work out how to get wings, I can potentially fly.[/quote]

They need to try. Just try. Obviously, the first hurdle is transportation. However, the problem is that there is no way to assess whether than can be overcome without some proposal on the table. You can ask families whether they will need bus transportation, but if the question is asked in a vacuum, the answers won't be meaningful. Parents need to know how many days the kids would be going, what the start and finish times would be, etc. in order to give an answer. Then, if enough people say that they will drive their own kids, you can work from there to try to provide buses. [/quote]

There is no need, and no reason as far as I can tell, to go to all of this trouble just for hybrid. If they're going to do it, they should do it for the real thing, i.e., a regular school day/week.[/quote]

I guess you don't see the need for social distancing? That's the reason for hybrid.[/quote]

NP. No, there is no need for social distancing (in the sense of everybody 6 feet apart) in elementary school if you keep classes together as cohorts. Other countries have been doing it successfully without having outbreaks (individual cases yes, but no outbreaks).[/quote]

Are those countries providing students with transportation that does not align with cohorts? That's where the cohort idea falls apart in my mind. [/quote]

Yes, other countries have school buses, including France and the UK, whose schools are open and buses are operating.

If busses are really the concern, it would be good to know that.  Transportation is a tractable problem, but it would be good to know if that's where people think we should devote our resources.  Elementary schools, in particular, have a relatively small catchment area, and a fairly large percentage of kids in a walkable distance. [/quote]

Canada buses its students. The buses do not align with classroom cohorts, but things have been pretty good here. We have cases in individual schools, but very few outbreaks originating in schools.[/quote]

Canada also has school-based before and aftercare that do not align with classroom cohorts. Again, the schools are doing pretty well. I should also mention that I am in Ontario and there is no 6-feet distancing in the classroom (maybe 3-feet distancing at most?). We cannot do the 6-feet distancing and have full time F2F school, We don't have the resources.[/quote]

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