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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does this even accomplish??  Students attending even ONE day a week will be exposed to other children, expose the teachers and then come home from school and expose others, including parents, when they go to the playground, restaurants, childcare centers, stores etc.

This is pointless.  Either have kids attend all days or zero days.

A big question is what if covid isn’t a problem?  What if there is a treatment or a vaccine?  It’s just assumed kids will only attend a day or two a week regardless?

What is the metric for school returning to a normal schedule?

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No, of course not. Come on. The District and every other school system is working through the various scenarios which currently say no vaccine for a year or two. They are working off of having enough of a reduction in cases so our hospitals aren't overwhelmed, contract tracing is available, PPE is available, and more testing is available. If those things are in place, reopening slowly is possible. There will be new cases but it won't overwhelm the system. None of the inconvenient scenarios for schools - whether 2 days a week, rotating weeks, half days, whatever - will matter with a vaccine. if there is a vaccine that we can all access, problem solved. [/quote]

I’m still confused.  Are you saying school will be on a one or two day a week schedule until there’s a readily available vaccine?  So for one or two more years?

Because above you say “hospitals aren’t overwhelmed...testing available.”   Well all of that should be in place this fall.  So that can’t be the metric DCPS is using.  If so, school should be the regular schedule.

If DCPS really implements this schedule, especially if the vaccine appears to be under control, then they need to be explicit with parents about what needs to happen for schools to return to the normal schedule. This needs to be based on science and not “we are scared something might happen so let’s implement a reduced schedule for kids even though it won’t really change anything.”

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