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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe there should be designated schools for people demanding in person education for their children without any safety, sanitation, or social distancing measures in place. The county can concentrate high quality masks on the teachers in those schools, provide for social distancing for the teachers (not the students) and staff, and perhaps pay them a bit more. Those kids can get up as early as they need to so that they can be transported on crowded buses to the designated schools. Designated schools can have sporting competitions against each other. There will be no health screening to inconvenience parents or students. It will be business as usual with every seat filled.

That will make room for all the rest of us who recognize that no government entity created this pandemic and who have compassion for the adult administrators, staff, and teachers who have to try to formulate the best possible plan with limited funding. These schools schools will flexible scheduling, greater social distancing for all, and nicer kids and parents. Hopefully, in exchange for the inconvenience associated with measures to promote public health, these schools will have the best teachers too.[/quote]

What's with the black and white thinking?  Is it easier, emotionally, to vilify people who have different needs and/or different perspectives than you?  Man.  You get to the point where any benefit to society from not spreading COVID--in theory, at least--is washed away by how judgmental and critical you are of others.  Nicer parents?  Not likely, with this kind of attitude.[/quote]

Then what is your solution?  What social distancing measures can be put in place in a crowded high school where there is no room for additional chairs and every seat is taken?   Maybe I am just frustrated because I don't think we should have such severe overcrowding in the first place, but I can't figure out a way to promote social distancing, small groups, limited exposure, and all the other things the CDC recommends in the high school setting. [/quote]

Not being so clearly judgmental would be a good start.  Assume the best of everyone in this situation, not that we're made up of two sides, one who cares about all of humanity and one who doesn't.  If you start from there, nothing useful or positive will come of it.

And from there?  Look at the freaking data on transmission in kids as a starting point. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/children-are-only-half-as-likely-to-get-infected-by-the-coronavirus-research-shows/2020/06/16/be86aff4-afb6-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html

That's not the only study showing lower rates of infection and transmission among kids.  Why are we ignoring that?  And then, maybe, we prioritize children already at a disadvantage and those of essential employees.  It's imperfect, but it's a more tractable starting position than thinking those of us who think kids' education should be a priority are evil.[/quote]

I'm the PP. I agree with all of that and have posted similar ideas upthread. People then said anything less than full time for all was unacceptable. [/quote]

Yeah—that won’t work, either.  We’re struggling, but still fairly privileged, and I’m totally fine if we as a society prioritize the kids who are *really* being harmed by these closures.  I know others don’t want to make any compromises, though, and that’s not a tenable position.  Something has to give, and I know there are many of us who want kids back while acknowledging that likely won’t happen as fully as would be preferable for quite some time.[/quote]

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