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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] And I also don’t think you need an entire second set of people. You have the existing staff who are supervising cafeteria lunch. I don’t see why those individuals can only supervise indoors, especially if there was a designated outdoor area where children were supervised last year. That makes no sense. [/quote]

At least at my son's elementary school, last year for lunch they split up the grade and rotated them between three different eating areas (the cafeteria and two outdoor). It wasn't just that everyone was outside in one place instead of everyone inside the cafeteria. Our school doesn't have any outdoor space large enough to accommodate the whole grade at once (especially because while they're eating, a different grade is having recess). So you needed three separate sets of adults doing lunch monitoring duty.[/quote]

That makes sense when there was at least masking and other precautions but its silly to demand outdoor lunch based off covid safety when there is no masking or other requirements so what is the benefit beyond its nice to be able to eat outdoors.[/quote]

There’s not no masking. Some students are still masking. One-way masking with a well-fitted high quality mask is decently effective indoors. Unmasking entirely is 0 percent effective indoors. The people still masking are asking for a layer of mitigation with outdoor lunch. MCPS in their reopening guide encourages schools to make use of outdoor spaces for meals when possible. There are funds available that could help make this possible. For whatever reason, people who have stopped masking and don’t care about covid want to stop anyone else from protecting themselves too. I do not care if these people are maskless and want to eat indoors. Why are they trying to make it more difficult for people who would prefer to mask and eat outdoors? It does not affect them.  [/quote]

Do the schools have direct access to the funds you reference?  If not you need to work on that first.  If you want something that is outside the norm, you are going to have to put in the legwork to get it.[/quote]

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