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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of cases at DS’s school, but no switch to virtual. Seems reckless![/quote]

I really really doubt anyone will go virtual again not matter the case numbers.  [/quote]

Why not though (not asked with snark). They have the capability to do so.

I'd similarly hope they would do virtual if there were any other kind of outbreak ... flu, norovirus, etc.[/quote]

Because virtual learning has been proven ineffective at best and damaging at worst for 95% of youth. If yours isn’t one of them consider yourself lucky![/quote]

For a week, to stop further spread it would be fine and hardly damaging. [/quote]

It doesn't stop spread though, not unless you're also restricting students' socialization, activities, travel, and everything else outside of school that week – [b]which isn't possible[/b], especially now. At my older kid's school, we often see the largest case numbers after school breaks or long weekends.

Switching to virtual also isn't like flipping a switch. It's a major change in instruction that requires teachers to redo their plans, students to have the right materials at home, younger students to have supervision and/or a parent to help them with the tech, schools to reschedule events and move assessments, etc. Even though it's not damaging for a short period, it's still very disruptive.[/quote]

Hmm. We have pulled back (indoor) social events and travel (work meetings flipped to virtual, and canceled conference attendance) right now. We're back to socializing outdoors and eating at restaurants outdoors right now. I can name many families doing the same, and none of us are "we should all wear masks forever" types. We are, however, "follow the data" types.

It's incredibly doable and hardly an imposition, ESPECIALLY for a week. Your social life will survive. Getting COVID would be the actual imposition.[/quote]

The problem with proposals like “close schools for just a week! We promise, just a week!” Is that no one believes you anymore. A week won’t do anything and we all learned the awful, hard way that closing schools is easy. Getting them re-opened is way harder than it should be. [/quote]

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