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25. And it still narrowly defines "open"

because then it sets up a straw man.

District's planning to be open in mid-August.

No clue what that means.

Currently they have one team working on on-line instruction, another working on proposals that involve mixed instruction where students come to school Monday & Wednesday or Tuesday & Thursday.

One team is toying with having younger kids in the building and older kids do more on-line/at home stuff.

One team is considering having at-risk kids on campus, those who want on-line stuff not on campus (except maybe for tests).

One team is considering having on campus the classes that need to be in person--orchestra or welding for instance, and things like World Geography off campus.

Another's looking at how to social distance and what resources are available to handle overflow student population--the local UMC has a huge campus, a dozen rooms, sanctuary, cafeteria that could be used to hold kids in quarantine, study hall, or as auxiliary classrooms, for instance.

Scarier? One team is trying to work out how Monday we can be doing one regime but when a kid's IDed as infected Monday afternoon word goes out and we start Tuesday on a completely different regime. For two weeks.

These are all "open." And most of them satisfy the requirements that are usually laid out when more than 120 characters are used, which is that some kids are in the building.