Why do so many parents want DL forever?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kids to "DL forever" but we aren't out of the Covid woods yet, and most parents haven't been able to get a vaccine. As well as some teachers.

See the new CDC directors message today. Too many mask freedum people, and too few vaccines, are leading to another potential surge. It usually takes a pandemic like this 3 years to burn thru the population (see 1918), hopefully with the vaccine that will be shortened, as long as people take it.

Send your kids back if you want.

Feel free to keep yours home, in DL if offered or homeschool if not. If you opt for DL, your kids should not be permitted to participate in any in person activities.

I’m so glad that whether they can participate will not be decided by you nasty, selfish keyboard warrior parents.

LOL get some sleep crazy lady. Really, coming on here at 1 am to yell at people and call them “keyboard Warriors.” I feel sorry for you.

Well, I'm not PP but I agree. And really, your post adds nothing to the discussion. For that, I feel sorry for all of us who had to read it.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want to do it forever. But to be honest, I really like hybrid school. Our kids are in school 2 days a week and we have a tutor come the other 3. I wouldn't mind doing another year of this.

It feels like the perfect blend of having them out of the house/getting a break and then having them home and being able to spend quality time with them.

Except THEY want to be in school. It's not about you dummy.

PP here. Thanks for the name calling School isn't the same with the masks, small class sizes, can't sit together at lunch, can't play in the classroom anymore, etc.

I do think they miss the old, normal way of school but this year hasn't been it. They have a lot of friends in our neighborhood and get a lot of socialization that way.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want to do it forever. But to be honest, I really like hybrid school. Our kids are in school 2 days a week and we have a tutor come the other 3. I wouldn't mind doing another year of this.

It feels like the perfect blend of having them out of the house/getting a break and then having them home and being able to spend quality time with them.

Except THEY want to be in school. It's not about you dummy.

Does all caps make it true for every child?? Who knew? We can all type the things we want to make true in all caps and so be it!

Who is the dummy here, PP? Because you do not speak for every kid. My rising HS kid would love Hybrid in perpetuity. It's a great mix for lot of kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kids to "DL forever" but we aren't out of the Covid woods yet, and most parents haven't been able to get a vaccine. As well as some teachers.

See the new CDC directors message today. Too many mask freedum people, and too few vaccines, are leading to another potential surge. It usually takes a pandemic like this 3 years to burn thru the population (see 1918), hopefully with the vaccine that will be shortened, as long as people take it.

Send your kids back if you want.

Feel free to keep yours home, in DL if offered or homeschool if not. If you opt for DL, your kids should not be permitted to participate in any in person activities.

I’m so glad that whether they can participate will not be decided by you nasty, selfish keyboard warrior parents.

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I don't understand the above. If you think it isn't safe to attend school and a separate option has to be provided for your children after vaccinations are widely available, it is also unsafe for your kids to participate in activities, right? Or do you get to decide what is or is not safe based on your personal desires? Because that's what it sounds like you want. If it's not safe for you, stay home. Period.

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I love how people are like "Yeah, DL is working for us. I think we'll do this another year." Ummm..

NewsFlash: The pandemic is coming to an end. If you think I want to spend my tax dollars on a school system that caters to a bunch of mothers who like forcing their kids to stay home due to their pathological need for control, you are sadly mistaken.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how people are like "Yeah, DL is working for us. I think we'll do this another year." Ummm..

NewsFlash: The pandemic is coming to an end. If you think I want to spend my tax dollars on a school system that caters to a bunch of mothers who like forcing their kids to stay home due to their pathological need for control, you are sadly mistaken.

Soooo... sell your house and move. Your problem is solved.

Like it or not, those other parents have a say that is equal to yours.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how people are like "Yeah, DL is working for us. I think we'll do this another year." Ummm..

NewsFlash: The pandemic is coming to an end. If you think I want to spend my tax dollars on a school system that caters to a bunch of mothers who like forcing their kids to stay home due to their pathological need for control, you are sadly mistaken.

Soooo... sell your house and move. Your problem is solved.

Like it or not, those other parents have a say that is equal to yours.

I don't need to. We're in the majority hon. You should probably move to a farm somewhere with no neighbors for miles and miles. You can control your family much easier that way.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how people are like "Yeah, DL is working for us. I think we'll do this another year." Ummm..

NewsFlash: The pandemic is coming to an end. If you think I want to spend my tax dollars on a school system that caters to a bunch of mothers who like forcing their kids to stay home due to their pathological need for control, you are sadly mistaken.

Some children/teens are overwhelmed by large schools and huge class sizes. DL works for them in ways that in person school did not. I think the DL option should stay for the students who do better with DL.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how people are like "Yeah, DL is working for us. I think we'll do this another year." Ummm..

NewsFlash: The pandemic is coming to an end. If you think I want to spend my tax dollars on a school system that caters to a bunch of mothers who like forcing their kids to stay home due to their pathological need for control, you are sadly mistaken.

Some children/teens are overwhelmed by large schools and huge class sizes. DL works for them in ways that in person school did not. I think the DL option should stay for the students who do better with DL.

If your kid needs smaller class sizes, send them to private.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how people are like "Yeah, DL is working for us. I think we'll do this another year." Ummm..

NewsFlash: The pandemic is coming to an end. If you think I want to spend my tax dollars on a school system that caters to a bunch of mothers who like forcing their kids to stay home due to their pathological need for control, you are sadly mistaken.

Some children/teens are overwhelmed by large schools and huge class sizes. DL works for them in ways that in person school did not. I think the DL option should stay for the students who do better with DL.

Do you always just demand what you want with no consideration of cost or impact at all? "I like DL so I demand my local school which has limited resources fund a permanent DL program for me." Ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how people are like "Yeah, DL is working for us. I think we'll do this another year." Ummm..

NewsFlash: The pandemic is coming to an end. If you think I want to spend my tax dollars on a school system that caters to a bunch of mothers who like forcing their kids to stay home due to their pathological need for control, you are sadly mistaken.

Some children/teens are overwhelmed by large schools and huge class sizes. DL works for them in ways that in person school did not. I think the DL option should stay for the students who do better with DL.

If your kid needs smaller class sizes, send them to private.

Not everyone can afford private, and privates tend to cherry pick.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how people are like "Yeah, DL is working for us. I think we'll do this another year." Ummm..

NewsFlash: The pandemic is coming to an end. If you think I want to spend my tax dollars on a school system that caters to a bunch of mothers who like forcing their kids to stay home due to their pathological need for control, you are sadly mistaken.

Some children/teens are overwhelmed by large schools and huge class sizes. DL works for them in ways that in person school did not. I think the DL option should stay for the students who do better with DL.

Do you always just demand what you want with no consideration of cost or impact at all? "I like DL so I demand my local school which has limited resources fund a permanent DL program for me." Ridiculous.

It would not cost more.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not want a permanent DL option supported. I think that raises severe equity and segregation issues, and it routes funding to a population that needs it least.

Honestly, I don’t either. It’s not what the public schools are good at and it’s not consistent with their mission for the long term. I WOULD like to see lessons learned in virtual — where it has better served ASD and SN kids for example — taken back to the physical classroom. Long term, resources should be focused on making the in-school experience equitably optimal for all kinds of kids.

Except some SN families are saying DL is better. So, why do you feel the need to dismiss an educational plan that is working for them. If your kids return to school and others, choose not to, that helps kids in person as there is less overcrowding and more attention given to the in person students. The goal should be meeting all kids needs and in person one size fits all doesn't work for all kids and families. It takes nothing away from your kids going in person to set up a DL school for kids who are doing well at it. I would have loved DL for ES for my SN child. We could have focused more on private therapies and supplement and more importantly provide the needed support that school refused despite us trying.

Most posters have mentioned using DL for medical and special needs kids with specific needs served by DL (as well as home and hospital). The objection is to DL for anyone who wants it. Many of us question whether a parallel DL model is an appropriate use of resources that will benefit the students who need it most.

Why do you care? Really, it does not impact you.

DP. Yes, it does, especially if the DL academies become a way to segregate out some children (which is something that pro-DL posters are open about on DCUM). I don't want funding going to this.

How would it segregate kids? Kids are segregated by income (which then leads to race) now so how would DL be any different? You are making it about your wishes, not others. You do what is best for your kids, which is in person as they have a rough home life and others of us will get the option when its safe to return on if we want to continue DL vs. in person or a hybrid depending on what is offered. Why are you threatened by families choosing DL? Because you can't make it work for your kids? Mine do well in both environments. I see a lot of opportunity in offering DL and hybrid including fixing the overcrowding issues and getting classes not offered at your home school. My child will have to be driven or bussed for 8th grade math. Much prefer DL then being a classroom of high schoolers who are a few years older.

You got it exactly. The more people screech against DL the more I know that their kids are miserable at home because of their parents. So for those kids I do hope they get back to school. But for those families where they have stable, committed parents, where they don't have the same sense of urgency and don't need to be unsafe in the midst of the pandemic, then they can do DL because it IS working for them.

Going to school with a mask is not unsafe.

You know kids eat two meals a day at school, right? And teachers are required to provide multiple “mask breaks”? There is no masking with fidelity in schools. That’s a fantasy.

Italicized PP, you clearly have not been in a school during this pandemic.
--school staff member

I teach elementary school. What part of my quote do you think is untrue? You didn’t refute any of it.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want your kids at hime forever, that’s fine. That option has always existed — it’s called homeschooling. The local school system should not have to continue to pour resources into online learning after this school year because some parents want to keep their kids home. There are virtual schools and many states have their own virtual public school. The local district should not have to spend money to keep providing this.

This is what it has always been about. Wealthier white families who are afraid that the minority kids at home are siphoning resources from their own kids.
There are kids in my class who have lost multiple family members to COVID. They have parents who don’t speak English, who work in fast food and public transit and in housekeeping. Some of these kids have parents who are illiterate even in their own language. You have absolutely no right to dictate how funds are allocated to students like this. Do you understand how devastating it will be to these families if their child brings home COVID to grandma and an infant? They don’t have insurance. Some live in shelters or in crowded low income housing. They can’t isolate a sick family member in a cozy bedroom like you can.

I’m embarrassed for the people who pretended to care about these children months ago. They pretended to advocate for these families until they finally realized that they don’t, in fact, want to send their kids back to school mid pandemic. They were always a prop, and now they’re back to being an obstacle to Charlotte’s flute lessons. Vile.

I'm embarrassed for you that you think keeping schools closed is the best education environment for your most at-risk students. If distance learning is the best for these students, why isn't distance learning the best for all students? Why have in person school for anyone?

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Anonymous wrote:If you want your kids at hime forever, that’s fine. That option has always existed — it’s called homeschooling. The local school system should not have to continue to pour resources into online learning after this school year because some parents want to keep their kids home. There are virtual schools and many states have their own virtual public school. The local district should not have to spend money to keep providing this.

This is what it has always been about. Wealthier white families who are afraid that the minority kids at home are siphoning resources from their own kids.
There are kids in my class who have lost multiple family members to COVID. They have parents who don’t speak English, who work in fast food and public transit and in housekeeping. Some of these kids have parents who are illiterate even in their own language. You have absolutely no right to dictate how funds are allocated to students like this. Do you understand how devastating it will be to these families if their child brings home COVID to grandma and an infant? They don’t have insurance. Some live in shelters or in crowded low income housing. They can’t isolate a sick family member in a cozy bedroom like you can.

I’m embarrassed for the people who pretended to care about these children months ago. They pretended to advocate for these families until they finally realized that they don’t, in fact, want to send their kids back to school mid pandemic. They were always a prop, and now they’re back to being an obstacle to Charlotte’s flute lessons. Vile.

I'm embarrassed for you that you think keeping schools closed is the best education environment for your most at-risk students. If distance learning is the best for these students, why isn't distance learning the best for all students? Why have in person school for anyone?

You’re simply pretending that the pandemic doesn’t exist, which is convenient. Of course in school learning is best for them under normal circumstances. It is NOT the best for them (or for their families) during a pandemic. They’ve told you this, many times. The death rates for these communities support this. What makes you think you’re in a better position to make decisions for their children during a pandemic than their own parents? Oh right, racism and classism.