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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see a lot of comments about costs and troubles making a cohort. A cohort that OP is talking about could very well be a cohort of kids in the same grade at the same school. They don’t have to be medically fragile themselves - maybe they have medically fragile family, or maybe they just prefer to take certain precautions. For example, if there are 100 kids divided into 4 classes for 5th grade at a school, perhaps the school, with parents’ permission, could send a communication to the parents of 5th graders to gauge interest in having their child assigned to a classroom that takes pre auctions to help protect a medically vulnerable classmate. If that works out, there would still be 100 students and four teachers. I believe TKPK Elementary had such a classroom cohort pertaining to allergies last year. [/quote]

That seems like it will not provide the level of certainty that OP is looking for. What you are suggesting would be totally voluntary. What are the odds that exactly 25 families volunteer? What if only 10 do? Do you make the other classes larger? Or just say too bad we can't accommodate you this year? And that's assuming a teacher volunteers to teach masked all year.[/quote]

All fair questions. Looks like they made it work in VA - maybe MCPS could use a similar strategy? 
https://dcist.com/story/22/03/24/virginia-mask-mandate-ada-ruling/[/quote]

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