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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks - these are the guidelines today.  Based on the information (misinformation?) provided by the CDC at the time.

There is new information about COVID published from real researched studies (not Trump medicine) that:
1.  Spread from asymptomatic individuals is minimal
2.  Spread from touching stuff is minimal

So this is new information this week - think about what this means.

In my mind the 2 most important elements are:
1.  check everyone daily before entering the building.
2.  Wear masks to limit spread from airborne transmission

of course lots of handwashing.

I expect the numbers will change for how many children can be in a room safely given precautions and this will align with new guidance received from the CDC.[/quote]

#1 and #2 are false. There is no new study and both claims were back tracked. They just said they believe majority was transmitted by airborne droplets, but without much more contact tracing there is no certainty. [/quote]

There is sufficient evidence that surfaces are less important than previously thought and that child transmission and risk is relatively low to shape public policy, in part, around those facts. If it were about kids, kids would be back in school. It’s clearly about teachers and, while teachers are important, I just don’t understand why public policy is being shaped around prioritizing their interests over Chikdrens’ interest when they are doing a paid, voluntary job. No one said doctors, nurses, policemen,, mailmen, delivery workers, firemen, EMS, grocery store workers, garbage man, metro employees,  bus drivers,  etc didn’t have to deliver the service for which they are paid.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

Oh STFU. Those jobs MUST be in person. The ones that aren't are all online. And yes distance learning doesn't work for everyone but at the time it's what we had to do. You don't care about kids, you're just mad at your assumptions about the decision as to why DL was put in place. 
I'm sorry you guys are too stupid to realize if all the teachers quit there won't be replacements so soon. You know we already have a teacher shortage right?

I wish it could only be hybrid for parents like this. The rest of the students whose parent's hearts aren't trash can return to full time, I'll glad teach them in person everyday since I am not at risk.[/quote]

My kid is in K. Tell me again how teaching doesn’t have to be in person. Incorrect. A fireman could give me instructions for putting out a fire over the phone, but way more houses would burn down so we tell firefighters they have to work in person. Distance teaching for K I’d approximately as effective. I’m not faulting the decision to go to DL initially. Now that we are opening many things way less important than schools back up and science shows schools down increase transmission all that much, reopening should be a no brainer. I’m happy to call teachers’ bluffs on mass quittimg, but I actually think hybrid learning is likely to result in an equal number of quitting teachers since they still get the exposure but don’t get dependable childcare either. [/quote]

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