Why do so many parents want DL forever?

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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.

I supervise DL in the classroom. I don't provide a single mask break during the day. Kids don't ask for it and don't seem to mind. They do ask for headphone breaks and movement breaks. They do eat lunch. Other than one kid one day who came with an ill fitting mask that kept slipping (and that was fixed next day), I have had no issues with kids masking happily in the classroom.

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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.

DP. You are speaking for these communities as well, in a very problematic manner, just to serve your own goals. The communities you reference are complex and are not nearly as single-minded in favor of DL as you claim. You talk about them like they are a monolith who all agree with your position on DL, but that's inaccurate. The reality is more nuanced (some want DL, some for hybrid, some for in person) and that is shown by the limited studies that exist. You act offensively when you set yourself up as the spokesperson for complex communities. One of the troubling aspects of all of this has been watching unions that are 80% or more made of white women speak over community members who can speak more eloquently about their own lives and communities.

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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.

DP. You are speaking for these communities as well, in a very problematic manner, just to serve your own goals. The communities you reference are complex and are not nearly as single-minded in favor of DL as you claim. You talk about them like they are a monolith who all agree with your position on DL, but that's inaccurate. The reality is more nuanced (some want DL, some for hybrid, some for in person) and that is shown by the limited studies that exist. You act offensively when you set yourself up as the spokesperson for complex communities. One of the troubling aspects of all of this has been watching unions that are 80% or more made of white women speak over community members who can speak more eloquently about their own lives and communities.

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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.

DP. You are speaking for these communities as well, in a very problematic manner, just to serve your own goals. The communities you reference are complex and are not nearly as single-minded in favor of DL as you claim. You talk about them like they are a monolith who all agree with your position on DL, but that's inaccurate. The reality is more nuanced (some want DL, some for hybrid, some for in person) and that is shown by the limited studies that exist. You act offensively when you set yourself up as the spokesperson for complex communities. One of the troubling aspects of all of this has been watching unions that are 80% or more made of white women speak over community members who can speak more eloquently about their own lives and communities.

SO much the bolded. "Stop using Black children to open up schools!"

Uh, stop using Black children to keep them closed. It's so much more complex than any white person hiding behind minority groups likes to claim.

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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.

No one is demanding permanent DL and you are making stuff up. You cannot handle your kids so you have to bully others into your beliefs to justify sending your kids back to school unvaccinated during a pandemic. However, some kids are doing better so for them it would be nice to have the option to continue with DL. For other kids like mine, DL makes sense when their home school doesn't have a class they need so it far better than bussing a young child to a high school to take a class and bus them back. That is far more costly to have the bus round trip than a class 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.

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.

No one is demanding permanent DL and you are making stuff up. You cannot handle your kids so you have to bully others into your beliefs to justify sending your kids back to school unvaccinated during a pandemic. However, some kids are doing better so for them it would be nice to have the option to continue with DL. For other kids like mine, DL makes sense when their home school doesn't have a class they need so it far better than bussing a young child to a high school to take a class and bus them back. That is far more costly to have the bus round trip than a class DL.

No one is going to have a problem offering higher level courses not offered at a home school through DL.

As to the bolded, how is this not demanding permanent DL? That's exactly what you are doing.

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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.

DP. You are speaking for these communities as well, in a very problematic manner, just to serve your own goals. The communities you reference are complex and are not nearly as single-minded in favor of DL as you claim. You talk about them like they are a monolith who all agree with your position on DL, but that's inaccurate. The reality is more nuanced (some want DL, some for hybrid, some for in person) and that is shown by the limited studies that exist. You act offensively when you set yourself up as the spokesperson for complex communities. One of the troubling aspects of all of this has been watching unions that are 80% or more made of white women speak over community members who can speak more eloquently about their own lives and communities.

SO much the bolded. "Stop using Black children to open up schools!"

Uh, stop using Black children to keep them closed. It's so much more complex than any white person hiding behind minority groups likes to claim.

You realize that this person is arguing that we should stop "pouring resources" into providing an OPTION for high risk families to choose remote learning? I work in a district where all my students have been offered full time, 5 day a week in person schooling and the vast majority of my students' families (who are ALL minorities) have elected to stay remote? White parents are literally arguing that we should divert resources from lower income communities because they feel that taxpayer money should only support THEIR preferred method of pandemic schooling. Don't try to pretend that the original post I responded to was advocating for something else.

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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.

DP. You are speaking for these communities as well, in a very problematic manner, just to serve your own goals. The communities you reference are complex and are not nearly as single-minded in favor of DL as you claim. You talk about them like they are a monolith who all agree with your position on DL, but that's inaccurate. The reality is more nuanced (some want DL, some for hybrid, some for in person) and that is shown by the limited studies that exist. You act offensively when you set yourself up as the spokesperson for complex communities. One of the troubling aspects of all of this has been watching unions that are 80% or more made of white women speak over community members who can speak more eloquently about their own lives and communities.

SO much the bolded. "Stop using Black children to open up schools!"

Uh, stop using Black children to keep them closed. It's so much more complex than any white person hiding behind minority groups likes to claim.

You realize that this person is arguing that we should stop "pouring resources" into providing an OPTION for high risk families to choose remote learning? I work in a district where all my students have been offered full time, 5 day a week in person schooling and the vast majority of my students' families (who are ALL minorities) have elected to stay remote? White parents are literally arguing that we should divert resources from lower income communities because they feel that taxpayer money should only support THEIR preferred method of pandemic schooling. Don't try to pretend that the original post I responded to was advocating for something else.

Actually, given how many wealthy white families I know opting to stay virtual due to their overwhelming anxiety and/or control issues, it's not at all clear that's what the PP was talking about. That's your interpretation.

The unfortunate truth is that the pandemic isn't solely about preventing COVID. It's also one thing to have had robust online instruction, as we've had this year, and another to stand it up indefinitely. All adults who want a vaccine will have access to one by, what, June? And now teenagers likely by late summer? At that point, opting to remain virtual *at SUBSTANTIAL cost* to students choosing in-person, many of whom are also racial and/or ethnic minorities, is less defensible, absent specific medical conditions (that people acknowledge are a unique case). Plenty of people make uninformed choices that are not in their or society's best interest (vaccine refusal, anyone?). That doesn't mean we shrug our shoulders and drain resources accordingly. Of course we need to do better at making schools safer for people with a compelling reason to believe they're unsafe. I don't think anyone is arguing that. But, you have your biases, too, and it would be great if you could own them.

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My kids have learned a lot this year due to our tutor. She’s a former classroom teacher who took a sabbatical this year and had prior experience with teaching their grades (3rd and 5th). We’ve found that our kids learn best in a one-to-one context where the teacher really understands their strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

I wouldn’t want to homeschool and keep them home every day with a tutor (plus that would be extremely expensive if we did this ad infinitude!) but hybrid has been a great compromise. They get 2.5 days of schooling and 2.5 days of one-to-one with our tutor. They’ve learned more math this year and improved their writing skills more than any other.

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Anonymous wrote:Notice how they say START with the vaccine? What else could they possibly demand beyond a vaccine in the name of safety? I am honestly asking this question.

I honestly wonder that too. With adults as well as children. There’s so many vocal people who say they don’t “feel safe” even with the vaccine. Well what else are we supposed to do? The vaccine IS the end game. Masks and distancing are just stopgap measures.

I'm not that PP, but honestly, I think the next phase of the pandemic is going to be all of the people who have had the tremendous privilege of isolating at home this whole time come to terms with what level of risk they're comfortable with. For some, once they themselves are vaccinated, they will do whatever they want to/are permitted to do (eat in restaurants, travel, etc). For others, the anxiety over doing even the smallest activity will be a huge hurdle. I have had people tell me they cannot imagine walking back into a grocery store or getting a haircut. This is going to take a lot of time. And of course, there are tons of people who have not been able to shield themselves to that level so may feel more comfortable with the levels of mitigation being taken in schools, even when kids aren't vaccinated.

Oh good gravy. I'm plenty privileged, but I still had to go into the office starting in April. Layered mitigation really does work, as the majority of America that has stepped outside their houses knows.

DP. You know that. I know that. But people who have stayed in their homes for more than a year have not yet discovered that. For many, the disciplined isolation they have engaged in throughout the pandemic is grounded in a need for control and anxiety over risk of harm from the virus. That's not going to go away immediately. Those extremist and their children might find themselves terrified to venture back out into a world which has largely enabled them in demanding a school system free from all COVID risk.

Damn that’s heavy. The mental health issues are going to take longer to resolve than the physical health issues .....

Do we really think it's that many people? Honestly, it's all anxiety of their own making....

It’s not that many people who have had the ability to isolate a lot during Covid, but they have outsized influence. They’re comfortably middle class or upper middle class. They portray themselves as more virtuous and the most cautious, compared to working class people who have generally always had to work in person, or rich people who could disregard a lot of aspects of social distancing. And there’s a lot of them in this area in particular. It’s going to be a mess.

I really do think a lot of it is segregationist tendencies.

Wait, so both the push to open schools and the desire to stay home forever are both racist?

I guess it depends on your school boundary!

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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.

So you want the bright kids in your class so the teacher can spend all their time with the disadvantaged kids to bring them up to the grade standards while ignoring strong students. Isn't that a type of hoarding of resources as well?

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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.

So you want the bright kids in your class so the teacher can spend all their time with the disadvantaged kids to bring them up to the grade standards while ignoring strong students. Isn't that a type of hoarding of resources as well?

DP. No. It's called public education. Not all disadvantaged students are weak students. Your post is racist. Public education promotes the greater good. We need more diverse student populations, not more opportunities for those with the most advantages to hoard more resources.

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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.

DP. You are speaking for these communities as well, in a very problematic manner, just to serve your own goals. The communities you reference are complex and are not nearly as single-minded in favor of DL as you claim. You talk about them like they are a monolith who all agree with your position on DL, but that's inaccurate. The reality is more nuanced (some want DL, some for hybrid, some for in person) and that is shown by the limited studies that exist. You act offensively when you set yourself up as the spokesperson for complex communities. One of the troubling aspects of all of this has been watching unions that are 80% or more made of white women speak over community members who can speak more eloquently about their own lives and communities.

SO much the bolded. "Stop using Black children to open up schools!"

Uh, stop using Black children to keep them closed. It's so much more complex than any white person hiding behind minority groups likes to claim.

You realize that this person is arguing that we should stop "pouring resources" into providing an OPTION for high risk families to choose remote learning? I work in a district where all my students have been offered full time, 5 day a week in person schooling and the vast majority of my students' families (who are ALL minorities) have elected to stay remote? White parents are literally arguing that we should divert resources from lower income communities because they feel that taxpayer money should only support THEIR preferred method of pandemic schooling. Don't try to pretend that the original post I responded to was advocating for something else.

There should not be many high risk families. Anyone high risk got the vaccine. If it is a exceptionally sick child, the school system already has measures in place for those small, select cases.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids have learned a lot this year due to our tutor. She’s a former classroom teacher who took a sabbatical this year and had prior experience with teaching their grades (3rd and 5th). We’ve found that our kids learn best in a one-to-one context where the teacher really understands their strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

I wouldn’t want to homeschool and keep them home every day with a tutor (plus that would be extremely expensive if we did this ad infinitude!) but hybrid has been a great compromise. They get 2.5 days of schooling and 2.5 days of one-to-one with our tutor. They’ve learned more math this year and improved their writing skills more than any other.

And the kids who don't have a tutor?

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Honest, Sincere Question: what does “when it is safe” mean? What constitutes “safe”?