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VarryOn

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16. My wife teaches 6th grade and my son is in 2nd grade...
Wed May 12, 2021, 01:45 AM
May 2021

Both have been going since August. Twice, my wife was quarantined out of caution, but all was well. All in all, it seems to have gone pretty well, with only a handful of cases with none serious. At least for their school, returning was the right thing. In fact all the public and private schools in our two-county population of 500k went back in August, too. Again, with no significant outbreaks. The risk was acceptable, and the regions children aren't down a year of learning.

My wife had 6 out 65 students whose parents would only all their kids to participate remotely. It took almost as much time and effort taking care of those kids as it did the 59 other students. Over the course of the year, four of those students decided to return to the classroom.

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