What would public and private schools look like next school year with SARS-COV-2?

[QueenCat]

Our county just announced that the county budget is being slashed 5-10%, including the school system's portion of the budget. They've indicated that it will be around 20 teachers and many para-educators with 5% and closer to 40 teachers slashed with 10%. They are looking at cutting fine arts and other resource classes (art, PE, music, library, computer) so that there are less classroom teachers cut. Since this would cost elementary teachers their planning time, if the kids don't have resource, they are also looking at a 4-day school week with Fridays off for planning & meetings. They won't be able to cut classroom size. Nothing is firm, but they will approve a budget the first week of June and then start putting plans into place. 

[Wheres Toto]

1 hour ago, Plum said:

This just came across my feed. Way way back the Netherlands had outdoor schools. Before WWII, Nothern Europe started taking their classrooms outside to prevent the spread of TB which lead to Germany's Forest Schools. There are loads of pictures in the link showing these classrooms. It's fascinating to see. 

https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/03/15/classrooms-without-walls-a-forgotten-age-of-open-air-schools/?fbclid=IwAR3ugMo7L0gB8bXrFb4dc31f_taZ-prn6oqCIwX-6mh8yVQWB_mM_HNfuGU

 

The ones with the fold-back walls are pretty neat.  I would love something like that so it can be closed as the weather gets colder.   Around here they could be open until maybe the end of October, and opened up again end of March.  Maybe with an unseasonable nice day in there.