Colleagues, As you already know, we have called on the Rochester City School District to postpone any at-school and in-person reopening of schools at least until the end of the first quarter of the 2020-2021 school year. Instead, we should continue remote teaching and learning until it schools are safe for our students and their educators. Our position is summarized in the attached “RTA Resolution to Keep Our Students Safe” unanimously adopted by the RTA Representative Assembly at a Special Meeting on June 30th. The District’s current hybrid plan for reopening schools is aspirational, vague, unworkable, unrealistic and problematic in many ways. It raises a multitude of unanswered questions and includes contradictions and departures from required regulations and obligations. It cannot and will not keep our students nor their educators safe. By extension, it also jeopardizes the health and the lives of families of our students and families of teachers.  To address this ill-advised...