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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of you have been saying for months “schools are safe with mitigation, mitigation works.” Now you don’t want any mitigation? Do you care at all about your children’s  health? I’m asking seriously. Because to get rid of mitigation is to say “I don’t care if my kids get sick, suffer lung damage, or any other long term effects er don’t yet know of a novel virus we’ve only known for a year.”

The teachers are vaccinated and that’s great, that made reopening safer. It doesn’t mean MY KIDS are at zero risk. Putting your kids in a room of 20+ kids right now with no distance is asking not only for them to contract Covid but to bring it home to YOU. [/quote]

5 days a week does not equal no mitigation.
The types of mitigation that can still occur- and fully be in CDC guidance
1. universal masking
2. cohorting- e.g. don't switch classes in elementary school for things like math groups etc.
3. face all desks forward rather then sitting in small groups
4. space desks out to the extent practicable
5. reduce sharing of materials (this is still on the list as a recommended mitigation so I include it, I am doubtful of its effficacy in light of the reduced concerns about fomite transmission.
6. eat lunch outdoors or in classrooms when outdoors is not feasible instead of crowded cafeteria
7. open classroom windows.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some.  The fact is the '6 feet' is not a magic number.   In some circumstances its not enough, in some its way more than needed.  [/quote]

You are not getting 5 days until fall. Deal with it. Schools are not obligated to be vectors of spread because you want them to be. Every school that has done this even moderately successfully has used MASKS and DISTANCE and ideally cohorting which isn’t possible in secondary which makes distance even MORE important. Reduce sharing of materials? Okay Jan. It’s an airborne virus. That’s theatre. Nobody is getting it by touching staplers. [/quote]

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