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The partitions might be a good idea, but the hallways are very risky in high school. At my son's school, they give rewards for walking quickly in the hallways and not talking to friends, that's how crowded they are.

I thought about getting rides to school, but honestly, it could take an hour to drop off at a high school if everyone drove. They just aren't set up that way.  Most kids aren't walkers either.[/quote]

That was me coming up with a plan with 2 minutes of thought. It's not perfect, and I"m sure the experts at MCPS can do better -- if they want to. Maybe they slightly stagger start times so some people have a first period class and some don't, to ease getting to school. Maybe they set up  drop-off points  a few blocks away and kids walk from there.

For hallways, [b]maybe they set up class schedules so you only need to chagne classroom every other period (teacher comes to you), [/b]or one-way hallways plus staggered bell times, or even re=route some hallways to use outdoor walkways too. Who knows.. Point is, it's possible with some creative thinking... if MCPS is willing to do that.

Unfortunately, we don't have much faith in MCPS on this. We're 10 weeks away, and only this Sunday they said they're going to issue a survey to parents "in the coming weeks". Meanwhile, Fairfax is going to have a decision made in 10 days.

Whatever a school system decides, there are so many pieces that need to fall into place, and even if they were to decide today, 10 weeks is cutting it tight. There's so much logistics to figure out. It's a school system with 160k kids.

Am I the only one? Is MCPS really going to pull things off smoothly by the end of August?[/quote]

By secondary school, schedules are too complex to do that. Math has the biggest impact. But you might have a highly advanced math student in the same English class as one retaking Algebra 1. And even an advanced math class could have ESOL 2 or 3 students who can’t also take Honors or AP English. There would be uproar on this site if students were mixed together to accomplish this. If there’s anything DCUM Hayes more than COVID, it’s mixed ability classes. I can see the posts now: “This is social engineering!”  [/quote]

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