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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought the author brought up a good point about risks to teachers, which is commonly cited as a reason for these on/off days and weeks:

"it’s hard to imagine that a system in which each child will spend two weeks out of every three being handed off among various caretakers only to reconvene in a classroom, infinitely increasing the number of potential virus-carrying interactions, protects a teacher more than a consistent pod of students week in and out with minimized external interactions."

And with people bringing in grandparents to help out more, it will increase risks to them too.  [/quote]
But I thought kids can't spread the virus? So how would this increase the risk to teachers? It seems like a lot of parents want to insist that kids can't transmit COVID but all of a sudden when it suits them, they can! [/quote]

The point is that you are just trading one exposure risk for another.  If kids can't spread the virus like you say, then why are they devising all of these crazy schemes to limit the number in the classroom at one time or on the bus, and subsequently forcing many parents to find alternative care for the off days?  It seems like it would be more productive to keep the staff away from eachother, not the teachers away from the kids.

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