I’m looking at options of traditional dorms or suite style - traditional with a long hall of doubles all sharing a communal bathroom and suite style having two or three bedrooms (2 kids each BR) sharing one or two baths. With COVID which seems safer? With traditional, the student is only in constant close/closed contact with one roommate. With the suite style, they are close exposed to the several suitemates and I assume they don’t wear masks in the suite’s common areas. Then again, with traditional, all those kids one bathroom worries me.
Personally I think the traditional dorms are better because:
- Communal bathrooms are cleaned regularly (unlike suite bathrooms whose cleanliness will depend on the kid’s motivation to keep them clean.)
- The “Pod” of a traditional double room is just 2 people so it is easier to monitor whether someone is following the rules.
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I think a suite is more flexible. The students could stay in their rooms as needed, and that would not be different from the traditional room situation but there would be fewer using the bathroom. Then if the situation becomes safer, or all are vaccinated, the suite has advantages with the common space.
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If they are vaccinated then I don’t think it makes a difference.
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