Originally Posted by
otnavuskire
Maybe this will help set your mind at ease, maybe not, but here is what the school year has looked like where I work. Students and families at the beginning of the year were given the choice to be fully remote or a hybrid in-person/remote schedule. I think about a quarter to a third of the students in the school chose to stay fully remote. For those in person, half the students attend school M/Tu, and the other half on Th/F. Wednesday is remote for everyone. A small group (including the student I work one-on-one with in the school) come four days a week.
While there have been cases of kids in the school testing positive and classes having to quarantine, there have been ZERO cases of the virus spreading in the school. I credit this to the school taking the COVID protocols very seriously. Everyone wears masks (at all times except for when eating or outside on breaks) and properly social distances (most of the time - kids will be kids). The students are also separated into smaller pods that they stay with all day, so there's little to no contact with the majority of the other kids at school. Kids get one warning about stuff like masks, and if they don't follow the direction and refuse to wear it properly, they get sent home. I have felt very safe in the school all year because of this.
Admittedly it's a bit of a different situation, being that this is a rural school. But the principal still applies that if you wear masks and social distance, you should be able to stay safe.