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Politics : Socialized Education - Is there abetter way?

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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (1427)2/17/2021 9:04:49 AM
From: TimF   of 1513
 
Some Fairfax Students Go Back to School 2 Days a Week, Wear Masks, Sit 6 Feet Apart While Their Teachers Stay Home
Is this really what reopening looks like?
Robby Soave | 2.16.2021

A Fairfax, Virginia, high school has at long last reopened: Some students can now come to class two days a week, sit in desks that are six feet apart, open up their laptops, and receive virtual instruction from their teacher, who remains at home. An additional school employee—one of 800 new "classroom monitors"—sits in the classroom with the students...

reason.com

This is so crazy. You have the kids all at school together anyway, and you have an adult (the monitor) in the room. No matter what assumptions you make about covid spread and severity there isn't any way this makes sense. If its so dangerous the teacher can't be there, then why is everyone else there?

I suppose its all about the teacher's union flexing its power while not caring about the non-member monitors. Whatever it is it isn't a real reopening.
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