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Originally Posted by CMD UW
I'm certain that there will be many parents that change their routine and drive their kids directly to school or grandparents/close friends. There is no back to school approach that will be foolproof. We also should acknowledge that every single jurisdiction has its fair share of 'critics' as it relates to a plan to get children back in school.
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i get that any plan will have its share of critics but i'm not convinced this is a particularly robust plan for the province of alberta.
the jurisdictions that were mentioned as "models" all do things like limiting class size to 15; providing barriers between desks; enforcing masking as well as limiting distances; etc. as near as i can tell, those jurisdictions also have densities and social norms such that almost all students walk or bike to school.
if this was being proposed for adult workspaces and not for schools, it wouldn't get past the starting gate. and if it's being rationalized on the basis that kids don't get covid, they're wrong on that front. kids may not get as ill in the short term (no one knows the long-term effects) but it's becoming pretty clear that they do indeed get the virus and it appears that they are as likely to spread it as adults.
i certainly don't envy the choices a parent will have to make in the next month, particularly those that don't have great options to choose from, but if my kids weren't long out of school and my grand kids still a long time from school, they would be home schooled and not at school. these are not choices that a compassionate government would be forcing parents to make instead of offering better options or offering to pay for better options.