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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t even know what I want to happen. I’m scared of the impact of losing a quarter of this school year’s in-classroom learning. I can’t imagine how serious the impact would be if we have distance learning for a significant chunk of next school year. It’s a dire situation. At the same time, our schools are too overcrowded to return to school as we knew it. Social distancing would be impossible at secondary schools if all students return. Even if 20% of kids were kept home, I think it would still be difficult to social distance. We’re going to have to choose between 2 bad options. More risk averse people whose kids have always been top students will want schools closed, as long as lack of childcare isn’t a dealbreaker. People who are less risk averse, people whose children are really struggling with online learning and/or with the absence of their usual special services, and people who can’t keep their jobs without childcare will want schools open. Everyone else is probably feeling at least somewhat conflicted.[/quote]

In other words, most people want schools open. Kids need to go to school.[/quote]
1) Schools need to be open
2) Having students return to secondary schools is not compatible with social distancing 
3) Lack of social distancing could lead to large outbreaks

What is your solution?

That’s my point. There’s no way to have everything we want. We want in-person school. We don’t want big coronavirus outbreaks. What’s the solution for secondary schools?[/quote]

Except the countries that are opening are seeing that schools are not contributing to large outbreaks. That’s what you’re missing.[/quote]

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