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[quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I don't see that parents, when faced with the opportunity, are choosing to send their children in. I think when it comes down to it, parents are balking at what schools currently look like. My school is doing hybrid. The current percentage of my class that has opted to come in to the building? 15%. Fifteen! At first it was half, and just yesterday three more of my students opted out of the hybrid. Some of the parents have told me that they are essential workers but they don't trust that their children will be able to follow the kind of safety protocols that they have been working under. They don't want to expose their families. I had a parent tell me that she has opted to work nights so she can supervise remote learning for her four children. Now, I have to teach that fifteen percent of my class in person as well as teaching the rest of the kids online. I can't live stream (we don't have the bandwidth in the school building) so they're ultimately going to have a really bare bones experience-just because there are fewer students doesn't mean that I have any extra time. I'm still expected to teach the "in person" students live every period of the day. I'm not working all day, commuting, and then going home and working all night to create content for the remote students. It's a mess. We aren't being provided with any curriculum or any additional resources. 
Parents need to know that a hybrid system is going to deprive their children of a lot of access to their teachers.[/quote]

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