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Those are the options NSW Minister for Transport Andrew Constance hopes most students will choose on Monday when they return to the classroom full-time for the first time in more than two months.
Nevertheless hundreds of additional transport staff are being deployed across the network as more people return to work and students are back in the classroom full time.
Mr Constance said hundreds of Transport Officers, Security Officers and Marshalling Officers will be out from Monday to help customers physical distance and stay safe on the network.
Transport for NSW chief operations officer Howard Collins said these new teams bolster efforts in providing a safe and clean public transport system, especially with students returning to school full time.
"Transport has a vital role to play in getting students back to school and we want to assure parents and carers we are working hard to support this return," Mr Collins said.
"Most importantly, no school student will be turned away from any public transport, even if this means physical distancing won't always be possible."
This was welcomed by NSW Department of Education secretary Mark Scott, who also asked for parents to cooperate to ensure the return to full school operations runs as smoothly as possible.
"We need to ensure that students move in quickly through the school gate and the crowds don't congregate outside the school gates," Mr Scott said.
Pre COVID-19 time schools actively encouraged parents to participate in school activities.
But that was then, this is now.
"It is not a time for parents to be entering the school and joining in school activities. School is a place for our teaching staff, our other staff members and also for students at this time," Mr Scott said.
"We think we've prepared well. We are confident and excited about the return of students. We have strong confidence and strong belief that now is the right time for our schools to be fully operational again.
"I spoke to principals around the state last Friday. They indicated a high level of readiness and a high level of enthusiasm about students returning to school and the kids seem to be very excited to be back to be learning and to be with their friends and their teachers again."
Mr Scott said an enhanced cleaning system had been rolled out in schools over the last fortnight. "Our schools are not only cleaned after school hours, we have cleaning services at work in schools during the school day to ensure that extra cleaning is taking place."
The NSW Teachers Federation's Wollongong organiser Duncan McDonald argues while teachers are seeing increased levels of cleaning, it is not the picture that has been painted for parents.
"There isn't much increased cleaning between classes of the hard surfaces like desks and keyboards and door handles, railings," he said.
"It is more of an after school enhanced cleaning that is occurring, it is not actually having cleaners there on site during the day.
"And, it does look different in different schools depending on the cleaning contracts and what equipment and access to I guess the sanitisation products that are required.
"The supply of soap and hand sanitiser is in schools but often because the teachers have actually brought their own supplies in.
"Teachers and students are taking that extra care to clean desks down during the day but often with supplies that the teachers have provided."