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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone wants schools back in session. Safely. If you can’t do it safely - either due to lack of funds or lack of willpower - the teachers will not come back.

Here’s what you need:
1. 100% masking
2. Social distancing - 6 feet radius. This means you to reduce class sizes and setup new physical spaces.
3. Ventilation - fresh air in every room, plus enhanced circulation
4. Hand washing & disinfecting
5. Vaccines for teachers

Do this and you can open schools. Cant do this? You’ll be in distance learning until your kids are vaccinated.

If you’re pushing against these safety measure or won’t fund them, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.

It’s really that simple. 
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Actually it’s not. States that have full time regular old school are doing just as well as hysterical jurisdictions covid-wise. See FL vs CA. NPR did a whole story about it. [/quote]

Can confirm. My elementary schooler has been back full time since Oct (public school). It is mostly normal school with masks. Some additional distancing measures (particularly at pickup, drop off, hall management etc- main objective is to avoid mixing of classroom cohorts). No 6ft radius in the classroom. Increased use of sanitizer and hand washing yes. No special ventilation. All teachers who want vax have now received first dose but obviously that is recent.

400 kids back in person since October, 4 cases total (all unrelated- not even in same class) and we are in an area of high community spread. [/quote]

And yet teachers & some parents are acting like they are marching into a death sentence. [/quote]

Right. The thing is: is there a 100% guarantee your kid won’t catch covid? No. Is it possible that it had been pure luck that things have gone well? I guess so. But: if there was a class of elementary schoolers somewhere that turned into a terrible superspreading event...don’t you think the media would have absolutely jumped to report this?? I have seen no such stories. It seems very likely, that at least at the elementary level (1) mitigations work and (2) little kids don’t spread the virus very effectively. Probably both. People can cite all of the conflicting studies etc that they want- no doubt there are studies to confirm pretty much ANYthing- but the fact is, my kid has been full time in public elementary school since October and everything has been fine. Countless other elementary schools across the country have also run smoothly, kids and teachers are fine. The sky has not fallen.

I’m also not saying this would apply to high schools or even middle schools, as there are other challenges to be considered. But elementary schools certainly seem to be running smoothly, by and large. [/quote]

I do think that many schools have handled everything well and have done a great job with reopening. However, I did want to point out that I personally know of a mass outbreak at a daycare-- multiple kids in different classrooms (as many as 4 kids in one class with it), teachers and parents infected, and in some cases, entire families. In some areas there are no requirements to report any of this.  All this to say, outbreaks do happen-- I think in this case with younger kids, it's impossible for them to keep masks on and social distance 100% of the time and that may lead to transmission. I'm not saying close the schools, but I do think it's fair for people to want to keep their kids home, for not really fear of death necessarily, but more about long haul covid and all the unknown implications around the potential damage that covid seems to wreak havoc on long term with many organs and systems in the body. Unfortunately I have known quite a few young people that have complications from covid that have not abated, as well as several in their 30's and 40's who have died, sadly leaving behind young children.[/quote]

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