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When schools reopen then smaller class sizes will need to be the norm with social distancing in effect. More teachers will be needed so costs to tax payers will
by sys_64738 7y ago
When schools reopen then smaller class sizes will need to be the norm with social distancing in effect. More teachers will be needed so costs to tax payers will increase. Online learning doesn't work for kids. It barely works for adults. I'm not sure what else can be done.
- dehrmann 7y agoI guess the concern would be kids as vectors? The death rates for people under 18 have been so low that that social distancing would be rather silly if it weren't for them bringing it home.
- elliekelly 7y agoYou might find this recent NYT article[1] about the “birth of social distancing” interesting. TLDR - In the early 2000s a high school student did a project mapping the “social network” of her school. Her father just so happened to be a scientist. He used her school project to create a model that showed by closing the schools during a pandemic in a hypothetical town of 10,000 people, only 500 people got sick. Leaving the schools open would result in half of the population infected. Closing schools is one of the most effective strategies we have to prevent a contagion from spreading. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/social-distancing-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/social-distan...