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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am trying to determine the requirements that are preventing schools from opening more fully for a letter to DOH and the mayor/councilmembers.  Here are the ones I have come up with so far and would appreciate it if others would chime in if there are others:

1. Six feet of distance between each student/desk in the classroom.

2. No classroom can be used for more than one cohort (is this per day? or needs to be cleaned between cohorts?)

3. Bathrooms- how many classrooms/kids can use at the same time?

4. No more than 11 students in a classroom at a time.

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At our dcps elementary school, #2 is per day. The daily am and pm cohorts taught by the same teacher each have totally separate classrooms. This seems I necessary and doing away with this would greatly increase the number of children in school. An hour in between cohorts is sufficient to wipe down surfaces. 
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Sorry meant to say it’s UNNECESSARY to have separate classrooms for am and pm cohorts. [/quote]

Saying it is unnecessary is a very kind way to put it - it is INSANE to keep any, let alone many, kids out of school due to a thoroughly debunked theory of the threat of surface transmission from the early days of the pandemic. Yes, the virus lasts on surfaces, but it getting transmitted this way is extremely rare. It's this kind of unscientific, fear-based approach that aims to eliminate every residual risk (no pun intended) that is ruining everybody's life and especially those of kids.[/quote]

And yet the CDC has said otherwise.[/quote]

Well, the CDC, or the CDC people who wrote the guidelines, are being excessively cautious based on outdated information. No surprise that there would be a certain amount of inertia and also no surprise that people at the CDC aren’t immune to the fear-based discourse around Covid, but if it causes this much harm, it needs to get called out. [/quote]

So you know better than the CDC?

Just this week this insult was used against the WTU demands. “How dare these teachers think they know better than the CDC!” Etc. But yet here you are saying you know better. [/quote]

It's not me knowing better. It's a very broad consensus right now. The same could not be said of the WTU demands.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00277-8

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/11/covid-19-airborne-transmission-cleaning-surfaces/

And before you say these are just "editorials" and "opinions", you can follow the footnotes of that recent piece in Nature and read up on the actual research.[/quote]

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