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So Now The CDC Says Students Can Sit 3 Feet Apart From Each Other At School

The boy told me yesterday that nobody was really following the 6 foot social distancing rules from before Christmas on anyway.
Longpatrol · 31-35, M
I saw kids on the school bus jumping on each other. They're not even following a one foot rule.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Longpatrol How could they ride a school bus and maintain a 6-foot distance rule to begin with? Packed like a tin of sardines with up to 60 on a bus at one time. 🤣
Sounds like a light at the end of the tunnel.
There's no point in distancing them inside school if you step one foot out of the door and see them all huddled together immediately outside the door.

Parents and children are just as bad for that.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@HootyTheNightOwl at the boy’s small private school (160 students from pre-K through 8th grade) they haven’t allowed parents to get out of their cars and accompany children to the building this year. Parent-teacher conferences are done on ZOOM or over the phone. The boy forgot his lunch a couple weeks ago & they don’t have a cafeteria & I called the school & they told me to bring his lunch to the main building where their offices were and leave it on the folding table in front of the building outside....and they’d call his teacher and give him the message about where it was. There were books & jacket & other things all over the top of the table. It was about 10 minutes before his lunch period and I left it there but it gave me a weird feeling.
@cherokeepatti In the case of my local junior school, that would be more preferable to having them grouping together outside the main entrance. There's not enough space for social distancing without queuing out of the gate and half way down the (busy) street. They don't even have any sort of visual reminders of social distancing on the ground there, either, so parents and children are huddling together outside, just like in pre-COVID times.

I don't have children, so I don't know what policies that particular school has in place - but I guarantee that I will be in court for not sending my child to school if they went to that school.

The school that my goddaughter goes to doesn't even allow parents on the school grounds - despite the fact that they actually have the space to ensure social distancing and create a one way system without too much inconvenience. The other school has no way to create a one way system without closing the playground and having parents walk through the school, across the playground and out of a fire exit gate.

Then they wonder why COVID is still an issue at schools.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@HootyTheNightOwl When I was in high school it had 3 grades and was so crowded that during class change we had to shove and push our way to the class room in the main area of the main building till we got to one of the side halls. Felt like a sardine in a can. The next year they changed to a 2-year school and it wasn’t like that at all you could walk normally to class. If it was like it was when I was a sophomore they’d have to do home school all year long.
MarineBob · 56-60, M
Changing their minds yet again
Ingwe · F
they should err on the side of caution
we'll need time to figure things out
we need look back time

 
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