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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am confused about why the decision whether or not to open the schools isn't simply based on the metrics they finally put out, particularly the percent positivity rate and number of cases per 100k. It seems to me the biggest mistake was not coming up with those metrics in time for the fall. Kids could have gone to school until the numbers went back up. Now they're way up and it seems dumb to push to open schools right at the peak of the pandemic just because people are tired. The virus does not care. Making this purely a numbers-based decision would stop all the arguing and finger pointing. Why come up with metrics only to imply that you might toss them out? That just gives parents and kids false hope. Just tell everyone the decision is based on the metrics and that school will open when the metrics are met. It will probably happen later in the spring and almost certainly in the fall. This is all being made so much more complicated because no one wants to make any firm decisions. Just leave it up to the numbers![/quote]

Study after study has come out in the past couple of months showing that community spread numbers don't mean much [b]if schools have mitigation measures implemented properly.[/b] THAT'S why the districts aren't just leaving it up to the numbers.[/quote]

But that's the problem. That is a huge IF and large school systems and their teachers/staff don't seem confident that they can do that. So then go back to using numbers. If community spread is on the lower side, then the odds of a school or classroom having someone with an active COVID infection is lower on any given day. It doesn't seem that hard.[/quote]

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