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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t have any data so my comment is based solely on how this approach appears to me as a teacher who observes 150 elementary students in a cafeteria at once. But how could the dividers possibly prevent droplets from coughing, sneezing, shouting, etc from traveling throughout a small cafeteria? Elementary students probably should not eat all together in the cafeteria this year. Eating in rooms or outside (which we did even in February last year - it was fine) is probably best. The problem will be in finding enough staff to cover all of these non-aggregated lunches. Teachers need a lunch break and planning time that is mandated. This is a sticky wicket but might be solvable with longer outdoor, aggregated recess time and individual classroom-teacher-supervised lunches.[/quote]

PP above you. Yes, you're absolutely correct that eating lunch in classrooms would be safer, because at least the kids are with their classmates and it reduces viral spread between groups. In the same vein, It might be best for elementary schools to avoid the teacher switch for upper grades: where each 5th grade teacher teaches one subject and the kids rotate between classrooms. I don't know if they do that in your school, but the goal would be to minimize viral spread by keeping each classroom separate from others. 
The partitions on tables has been shown to reduce viral spread from direct droplet transfer at shared tables, but obviously it doesn't prevent all infections. [/quote]

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