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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's what's gonna happen:

In about 45 days, kids with special needs and ELL students and perhaps very young students like Kindergarteners will be allowed to go back hybrid. 6th and 9th graders may get to go in in small groups once or twice to do a face to face activity and see their school.

Elementary kids could get to go back in for a little bit before February, maaaaaaaybe.

MS and HS won't be called back in until February at a minimum, because their age puts them at minimally greater risk and their social behaviors and independence make them less able to be controlled, and they behave in a riskier way.

Sometime in Spring 2021, or probably February, all students will be offered the option to do hybrid (something like 2 days per week, with the other two synchronous....or if we're really unlucky, asynchronous). At that point, about half the student population will return, and the other half will stay virtual through most of the year or all of the year. There will be more battles about an inequity shift where virtual students suffer and in-person students consume the most resources.

50/50 that the hybrid/in-person model will never happen this year due to Americans being f*c*(#&$& idiots and not wearing masks during socializing indoors in the winter, or that the schools open but have to close again and we're back to square one.

In no scenario do all students go back 100% this academic year.

Then it'll be long enough doing this that the academic week will substantially transform due to people getting used to virtual and some liking it, and/or we'll lose teachers, and/or budgets will be so severely cut they'll want some people to stay home. There will be a push for more virtual options or perhaps 4-day school weeks.

Mark. My. Words.

(FWIW, I don't foresee it being smart to go back any time soon, with the exception of students with exceptional need.)
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I agree with you. They may allow seniors and possibly juniors back instead of 6th and 9th graders.

Another sticking point with MS and HS going back, after almost a year of sleeping in do you think MS and HS students will so readily agree to going back under the old bell schedule? Catching a bus at 6:30 or even 6:50 in the morning? And starting to do that when it is dark and freezing cold in the morning?

There is also going to be the issue with weather related closures. Last year was an anomaly with the lack of snow days/2 hourcdelays. Is everyone ready for winter weather? You know real snow days won’t cut it this year but teachers/students will need enough warning to bring anything home from school so they can teach from home. Are you ready for MCPS to make the announcement “hey, it looks like there will be precipitation tomorrow and since we always have 2 hour delays when it is raining in the morning because ice, let’s just have a virtual school day tomorrow”. And the precipitation never materializes. Are you ready for that?[/quote]

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