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SvennoJ on 28 July 2020
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Some details came out about back to school in September, basically all options suck.

What they're proposing is cohorts of 15 kids, stick to the same group, smaller classes, sounds reasonable.

However, many kids have siblings, thus doubling the cohorts by siblings being in different cohorts.
To achieve this it will be 2 days / 3 days school per week alternating, while the other days many kids will go to day care meeting other kids (from different schools as well), cohorts multiply.
The teacher will of course teach all week going in between cohorts, doubling the cohort size again.
Shared bathroom use, exposure to different cohorts.
Kids from different cohorts travel together on the bus from and to school, mixing the cohorts again.
And you have the after school activities mixing cohorts likely also between different schools.

So it's just a bunch of security theater bullshit not achieving anything.


As for measures in school, mask use and kids need to clean their own desk etc.
First of all, elementary kids cleaning things properly, good luck with that.
Second, lunch breaks, take of mask, eat together...

More security theater, not effective when you're in the same room for hours while eating without a mask.


And nothing about air filters thus micro droplets build up and get free roam around the school anyway.



Alternative, home schooling through Brightspace.
First of all, it's a nightmare to use Brightsuck.
Second, trying to keep both your kids engaged with that 3 blocks a day, 100 and twice another 80 minutes, I don't see it happening.


Kids need that school interaction, but this security theater penny pinching won't do anything to stop the spread. Heck they're proposing for the school buses to make several loops (to have fewer on the bus) but not stagger the classes so some will be late or waiting to go home after. It's a logistical nightmare and we simply don't have the teachers and class rooms available to solve this problem properly. Can't spend money on actual safety but have to lull the parents into believing its safer so they can go back to work.