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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meanwhile my two oldest kids going back to college but my kid in middle school can’t sit in a classroom. [/quote]

I think that the bathrooms in college campus buildings will have soap.[/quote]

Also, take a minute to think about how a college campus serving adults who are paying tuition might be different from a large public school system legally required to provide a free publication for children of all ages, and to transport them to school.  [/quote]

You mean, it's more urgent for a large public school system to be open? If so, I agree.[/quote]

You are impossible. It is much more challenging to serve all ages with appropriate safety measures in place. The transportation is one of the most difficult challenges. What are your solutions, or do want to return F2F with no mitigation measures in place?[/quote]

Lots of solutions on this thread already.

And no, transportation is not one of the most difficult challenges. Require masks and put the bus windows down.[/quote]

So if you were in charge, would ignore the CDC guidelines for social distancing? I know they aren't law, but if they are best practice, you would just ignore them?[/quote]

Then what's your solution? Because more "distance learning" is simply not acceptable.

Public transportation has been shown to NOT be a vector of transmission.[/quote]

Have crowded school buses been shown to be vectors of transmission?  Any studies on that?

I've said all along that if in person for all isn't possible, getting younger kids  back, grouped in small groups with social distancing on the buses should be prioritized. But everyone keeps arguing with me.

What makes this so difficult from a policy perspective is the public health guidance. It isn't the law, and the CDC guidance is riddled with phrases like "where possible." They are recommendations and if you look at them, they are difficult to implement in crowded schools, particularly high schools. You want your kids back in school, so you will say that the districts are free to ignore these recommendations. I guess that they are. But if things go wrong, everyone will come back for blood because the public health expert advice was ignored. There are also drawbacks to trying to go back and then having to close, which could result in worse outcomes than a better planned DL program with more instruction.

There is no "no risk" scenario, no matter how much you want everyone to be back. The risk isn't just whether kids will die, but whether opening schools will increase community transmission to unacceptable levels. [/quote]

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