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[quote=Anonymous]DH teaches in public school in an affluent area in the Midwest. Families have had the option to be in person or DL 5 days a week since early November; all DL before then. Classes are concurrent DL and in person. When in person became an option, approximately 2/3 of kids were in person. Now, in many of his classes it is only 1/3 of the kids at most on any given day. Yesterday 4 kids were removed from school in the middle of one of his classes to quarantine at home. This is not atypical. It is extremely stressful for all involved—healthy kids are anxious given the sudden disappearances and appearances of classmates and often end up opting to go back to DL.

And how is DL + in person working? 40-60% of kids in the district are not turning in work or participating in class regularly with as many as 20-30% of the high school age kids essentially dropping out—just not participating. The problems gets worse as kids get older. These are not kids whose families are lacking in economic resources. The levels of anxiety affecting all kids—even those who are in person— is tremendously high. Simply getting kids back to in person is not enough given the constant churn of kids who quarantine (DL), come back to in person, quarantine again (DL) with another exposure, go into isolation if they get COVID, etc. One of the students who was pulled out for quarantine yesterday had literally been back to in person class for one day before having to quarantine again due to another exposure.

I don’t know what the answer is, but I think encouraging families to repeat a given school year without stigma when things are a little more normal might be a good start.[/quote]

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