Kids need an education they don't need to play youth football. That's a difference, regardless of how poorly they are executing a haphazard and inadequate plan for in-person learning.
In theory, you can isolate 25 kids and their teacher in a classroom during the day with minimum interactions from other staff only as necessary. You can test them regularly, alternating in-person and remote learning to contain potential out breaks. Having kids breakout of those bubbles to intermingle then return to their bubbles is problematic and completely unnecessary.
Welp, you obviously know nothing about how a modern high or middle school education works. Kids dont have one teacher all day, instead they have about 5 to 8 (math, science, history, writing, language, elective, gym and some take music). And then like it or not, kids grade out to at least three levels from advanced to remedial which you need to account for as well. The administrators are doing the best they can to put kids in pools to limit mass interaction, but the reality is they are in pools of about 60 to 120 kids not 25. And then you have the teachers and support admin, some of whom have to teach specialty subjects across these new pods, albeit they limit it as best as possible. All in all, at the medium and large high and middle schools the kids are already mixing in pools of humanity on a scale near what football operates.
As for need, frankly we dont need a lot of things. Look around.
