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Returning to high school in Los Angeles Unified, the nation’s second-largest school district, means sitting in one classroom all day, two or three days a week, with little intermingling or movement.

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The “Zoom in a room” option for in-person schooling — the format for high school in Los Angeles and San Francisco — has failed to draw back the majority of students.

LAUS is hardly alone in struggling to persuade high school students to return.

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Most of California’s largest districts are providing a patchwork of reopening approaches based on how local school boards weighed risks and benefits and how they met demands from teacher unions over back-to-campus working conditions.

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The goal of safely bringing high school students back to campus has largely resulted in limited schedules and restrictions on hallway encounters, lunch with friends and extracurriculars, among other rules.

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Statewide, about 84% of secondary school students have the option to return to their middle and high schools in some form, according to data, which do not separate out high schools.

An estimated 48% of all secondary students have returned to campus.

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Reopening elementary schools was simpler: one class, one schedule.

But educators have grappled with complex secondary schedules in which students move from classroom to classroom.

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Read more about why high school students are opting to stay home or go to campus from reporters @palomaesquivel and @howardblume at latimes.com/california/sto…