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This Really Cannot Be Done

This is a great gig. We are attending school in a hybrid model. A teacher’s class size is eight to ten students. About a third of how many we usually have. It would be even better if we could do any group things Instead the children sit six to eight feet apart Behind three-sided plastic partitions Wearing masks that fog up their eyeglasses We thought virtual school was weird. This is every inch as strange. Walking in a line down hallways six feet apart. CDC was right. This really “cannot be done” and yet here we are, in a school, pretending we are doing it.

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Date: 4/9/2021 8:14:00 AM
I've wondered how this will play out. Also, I wonder what long-term effect this is having on kids.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/9/2021 8:44:00 PM
I have no idea but it is a nightmare. They have lost a year of school.

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