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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. Here’s a potential answer to OP’s question: no testing or tracing.[/quote]

Yes. And indoor lunch.

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get over it. everyone else has. If there were testing, tracing, and outdoor lunches, there would be new reasons not to return. We've all learned that these past several months. enough already. [/quote]

F off. I was giving another reason why teachers might be worried.

Another is a-hole parents who don’t take safety precautions.

It’s not like we have some really well-thought-out plan. 
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umm.. what about the thousands of school systems that were able to make this work? do you think they all had a well-thought-out plan, or parents and teachers that were willing to work together to make in-person learning a priority to happen?[/quote]

The answer is they “made it work” only in the sense it happened. I am a teacher and I know a lot of teachers all over the country. The ones whose  schools did this had so many interruptions and gaps between kids getting exposed and quarantining or themselves having to quarantine. One teacher I know has missed a cumulative 12 weeks of school due to 7 different quarantines after confirmed exposure. Imagine that chaos. I know teachers whose students lost parents to CoVID in these kinds of communities. Countless infections in building. Lots of flip flopping between full in person and remote. Arguably simply staying DL until was possible without all that was less stressful and more stable and consistent.

Nobody I know in a system even half the size of our local systems did this without much chaos, disruption, stress, and multiple exposures. It has been a mess. I am glad we are going back now and I’m glad we avoided all that as well. [/quote]

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