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Originally Posted by Chris
I’m not questioning any of that. Simply the practicality of some of the specific suggestions Viners has made around the partial reopening of schools, which betray a complete lack of understanding of how British school premises are designed and utilised, and how children behave when they’re denied the chance to blow off steam in the playground.
Missus is volunteering at the local key workers school where the staff/pupil ratios, maximum room occupancy and other infection control measures are absolutely insane (in a good way). The building is a school with a capacity of a little under 200 and it is presently able to accommodate something like 40 children in order for social distancing to be maintained.
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I agree that in the current form, schools could not perform the social distancing done by Taiwan which included staggered classes and children not moving from room to room but the teachers coming to their class instead (actually my daughters secondary school does do this for their first year) But it is food for thought that there are possibilities out there that have been shown to work.
Staggered classes does sound like an interesting concept. For example, let Years 9 and 11 (4th year and lower 6th of secondary school in old money) start sooner to crack on with their GCSEs and A levels and let other years go part time, maybe one day a week each in the first instance (Years 10 and 12 have finished now of course)