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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My question about a hybrid model is about staffing. Do schools hire twice as many teachers or are they expecting teachers to expose themselves to the same
Number of children pre-pandemic? These ideas about teachers floating in to a static student group still scare me as a parent. Whose to say one teacher doesn’t pick up something from one student group and pass it to another? [/quote]

No additional teachers, kids come half as often.  Either half days or 2 days a week or every other week (4 days a week).  [/quote]

Right, but this way the teachers are still mixing between cohorts. I don't see a way around that for larger privates with more than 18 students per class. Current CDC guidelines recommend no more than 10 per cohort total, including the teacher. (So, one teacher and 9 students.) The teachers can absolutely be vectors between cohorts, rendering the model pretty ineffective for transmission control (and contact tracing--the idea of stable cohorts was to allow one cohort to be absent due to illness while others carried on, if there's cohort mixing even by staff, then it renders a whole-school or whole-grade shut down more likely).[/quote]

A modular approach could work.  4 weeks of English class, all day, same kids, same teacher.  Then 4 weeks of Math, then 4 weeks of Science...  Would really reduce the mixing among cohorts.  [/quote]

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