Thread by @EmpireinWinter

I don't doubt that you have, & follow you often enough that I might've recalled. W/ a background in curriculum design, my interest wasn't centered on the open / closed binary, but rather...

What does it take to make education safe (for kids & adults) & ideally better than b4?

https://twitter.com/iwelsh/status/1478510988504842240

Having written reports & proposals (largely unheeded) to this effect, this was always going to go through
1. NPIs (ventilation, filtration, UV disinfection, C0@ monitors aggressive testing, contact tracing, communication)

2. student/teacher ratios --
a) time to do better overall, plus we had idled over 1 million university students who could have become part-time teaching assistants.

b) in-class: w/ groups broken into 5 cohorts (day of week), so 5 to 6 kids per day in classroom; the rest remote.

3. massive investment in blended-learning curriculum redesign: face to face blended w/ remote; synchronous & asynchronous; more peer-to-peer involvement; coaching / pooling of parents in support.

Again, university students locked out of their schools as part-time TAs.

4. funding / training to address tech challenges for disadvantaged groups, households.

5. coordinated, rigorous advocacy & research for educational contexts--including epidemiological, pharmacovigilance, mental health, instead of having schools be the plaything of opportunistic agendas--

school openings to warehouse kids to keep parents at work; low-balling harms to kids to get parents spending, traveling; droplet dogma & fomite theatre, and now 'safe & effective' vaxx for kids based on Pfizer trial of 2k kids for 2 months.

ffs