The Hybrid Model of School Reopening is Not Safe Either
Safety is in the eye of the beholder.
No matter what you do, life involves some risk.
The question is whether certain actions or courses of action involve acceptable risk and exactly what you consider to be acceptable.
These issues are not academic. School directors across the country are juggling such questions in their reopening plans.
With federal and state officials largely leaving the decision up to local elected school boards of how to hold classes in August and September, people used to choosing between bids for text books and whether to renovate the gymnasium are forced to make life and death decisions for hundreds or thousands of students, staff and their families.
There are three main options:
- (1) Open schools completely to in-person learning with safety precautions
- (2) Keep classes entirely on-line as they were in April and May
- (3) Offer some kind of hybrid of the two
Many schools are opting for this hybrid model.
This means reopening to in-person classes part of the time and on-line learning for the rest.
There are many ways to do this.
In my home district of McKeesport, this means having half of the students attend in CONTINUE READING: The Hybrid Model of School Reopening is Not Safe Either | gadflyonthewallblog