“Europe stays committed to in-person classes as school outbreaks remain rare”

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What do people think about this article?

www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/coronavirus-outbreaks-schools-europe/2020/09/27/0dd19bf6-ff48-11ea-b0e4-350e4e60cc91_story.html

The whole thing is fascinating but this stuck out for me

“ Viral spread in school appears rare enough, he said, that Belgian policymakers think having in-person classes might actually be safer than virtual schooling, assuming students tend to be less rigorous about social distancing when they’re not being supervised in classrooms.”

And btw I'm writing as someone in the US whose children have gone back to some in-person teaching, which sounds like it's still pretty rare here.

If you choose your samples right you can of course get at an average of 20 DC per class in Germany.

Take a year 5 (24), a year 7 (30) and a year 11 LK1 of ancient Hebrew (5) and a class of handicapped children (8): = 67 / 4= 16,75. The maths is right, the statistics shoddy.

The real number for allowable class sizes are available on the proper websites.