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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
How about sending some employees into the schools to retrieve the books and then setup a distribution point where parents could pick them up. It's the logical thing to do.
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First off, since you show yourself as being in the metro Seattle area, I find it hard to believe that you have not noticed the covid-19 pandemic and the changes that it is triggering.
In light of that, I have to ask if I am understanding you correctly? You expect the school district to send school board employees—most of whom are supposed to be working from home or just staying home—into the schools with the likelihood that over half the lockers are going to need the locks cut off (
*) so we can then remove the books from them? The books that the students were supposed to take home with them to read
over spring break and "forgot" at school?
And then you suggest that the district set a distribution point to distribute the books as "
the logical thing to do"? A suggestion which is likely to have the district violating the rules on maximum size of any gathering and the guideline that any in-person gatherings of any size are discouraged?
Am I to believe that you are willing to fund the hours of work and the replacement locks out of your own pocket? I would prefer not to think about the likely lawsuits from the parents about violating their little darlings' privacy without due cause.
* The percentage of locks that would need to be cut off comes from the number of lockers that have had the school supplied lock replaced by a student purchased lock which then needs to be cut off during the summer locker clean out.
For every problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
—H. L. Mencken
Just BTW, as of April 1, 2020, the official number of covid-19 cases and deaths in Washington state were 5,984 cases and 247 deaths while British Columbia has 1066 cases and 25 deaths. This does not include the number of people who had mild cases and so were never tested or reported which is likely a much higher number.
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