The prospect of kids not going back to school until 2021

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Anonymous wrote:I just got an email that arlington co says that online learning thru 2021 is a possibility.

Post it

[Anonymous]

All you hysterical people get a grip. Go outside. You’ve been in the basement too long.

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Just look at the lawsuits against College Board over the AP exams:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/students-wanted-ap-tests-the-tests-they-took-werent-perfect-now-theyre-suing-the-college-board/2020/05/24/668f511c-9c37-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html

Any good deed by anyone in education will be punished if parents don’t like the outcome. Open schools so they can keep their bosses happy and parents will sue as soon as something about that no longer makes them happy.

[Anonymous]

DC never disappoints. Some of you are flat out insane.

Schools have to go back. If not, people with means will move en mass to areas with open schools and open economies or send kids to private. Telecommuting with make that possible. If privates close, the exodus to other areas will definitely happen. Bank on it. Montco and the DC area will implode with a lack of a tax base. For the poor families and ones stuck here, the achievement gap will become a canyon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just look at the lawsuits against College Board over the AP exams:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/students-wanted-ap-tests-the-tests-they-took-werent-perfect-now-theyre-suing-the-college-board/2020/05/24/668f511c-9c37-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html

Any good deed by anyone in education will be punished if parents don’t like the outcome. Open schools so they can keep their bosses happy and parents will sue as soon as something about that no longer makes them happy.

OK, and so College Board responded by...?

Anybody can sue anybody over anything. That doesn't mean that Maryland is going to keep schools closed for fear that someone will sue. For that matter, someone will also sue if Maryland does keep schools closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC never disappoints. Some of you are flat out insane.

Schools have to go back. If not, people with means will move en mass to areas with open schools and open economies or send kids to private. Telecommuting with make that possible. If privates close, the exodus to other areas will definitely happen. Bank on it. Montco and the DC area will implode with a lack of a tax base. For the poor families and ones stuck here, the achievement gap will become a canyon.

It’s shocking how people don’t seem to get this. DC is going downhill. People keep screaming that it’s temporary. It’s really not. If the standard for reopening schools is a vaccine that’s been administered then we may be looking at returning to school in spring 2022.

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Nope, it doesn't. The mortality rate among children and young adults is very low. The risk is not to the kids, but to the adults (including elderly ones) who are at higher risk of catching it from a kid who is just a carrier and exhibits no symptoms.

Again, this is why the focus should now be on protecting the most vulnerable. The level of protection, ranging from social distancing & substantial hand washing... to total quarantine depends on the people being protected.

It's always useful to remember that you can't have school without teachers, building staff, transportation staff, and administrators, all of whom are typically adults.

And you can’t have grocery stores, electricity, telephones, gas stations, infrastructure, banks, doctors office and hospitals without adult staff either, yet we have all those things.

If some teachers and staff can’t or won’t come back, so be it. But, the kids are entitled to an education and shutting schools indefinitely because some teachers won’t come back is a gross disservice to every kid.

This may be true...but I hope that each person who feels this way is planning to become actively involved in the school systems. If you have a bachelor’s degree it is possible to become a certified teacher in a year...becoming a substitute only requires a certain number of college credits...men are especially needed in the schools as well...so please step up! I have been teaching 2 years and some of the best substitutes have been people with no background in education. We need you!

We already have jobs. We're the hospitals saving lives. Thanks for the offer.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's what will happen:

A kid gets the virus and is a carrier and is asymptomatic.

That kid spreads it to another kid who immunocompromised or to an older staff lady who gets it and dies. Or a cluster of kids get the dreaded Kawasaki's disease related to COVID and one dies.

Mcps get sued out the wazoo. School is closed until a vaccine.


Schools won't open until 2022-2023 after wave 2 and 3 hit, or until a vaccine that actually works comes out.

This is a fantasy. DC is majority low income district. You think families have telework jobs or will pay for nannies?

MCPS and DC are two very different places in terms of the litigiousness of public school parents. North Bethesda parents love to sue Central Office.

North Bethesda? Like, the area around White Flint? I've never noticed a rash of lawsuits coming from that area. What am I missing?

Your map. North Bethesda is also upper old Georgetown road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All you hysterical people get a grip. Go outside. You’ve been in the basement too long.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Here's what will happen:

A kid gets the virus and is a carrier and is asymptomatic.

That kid spreads it to another kid who immunocompromised or to an older staff lady who gets it and dies. Or a cluster of kids get the dreaded Kawasaki's disease related to COVID and one dies.

Mcps get sued out the wazoo. School is closed until a vaccine.


Schools won't open until 2022-2023 after wave 2 and 3 hit, or until a vaccine that actually works comes out.

This is a fantasy. DC is majority low income district. You think families have telework jobs or will pay for nannies?

MCPS and DC are two very different places in terms of the litigiousness of public school parents. North Bethesda parents love to sue Central Office.

North Bethesda? Like, the area around White Flint? I've never noticed a rash of lawsuits coming from that area. What am I missing?

Your map. North Bethesda is also upper old Georgetown road.

OK, so who, between the 270 spur and the limits of the City of Rockville, is particularly prone to sue? (Besides Lord & Taylor.) Please explain.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's what will happen:

A kid gets the virus and is a carrier and is asymptomatic.

That kid spreads it to another kid who immunocompromised or to an older staff lady who gets it and dies. Or a cluster of kids get the dreaded Kawasaki's disease related to COVID and one dies.

Mcps get sued out the wazoo. School is closed until a vaccine.

Schools won't open until 2022-2023 after wave 2 and 3 hit, or until a vaccine that actually works comes out.

No, MCPS won't. It would be very expensive to sue, and the plaintiff would be highly unlikely to win.

Class action lawsuits.

An immunocompromised kid gets covid from another kid at school, and then files a class-action lawsuit? Iamnotalawyer, but I don't think that's how class-action lawsuits work.

It won’t just be one kid.

Parents are already planning a class action lawsuit over DL.

Good to hear!

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It won’t just be one kid.

Parents are already planning a class action lawsuit over DL.

Good to hear!

Why is that good to hear?

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It won’t just be one kid.

Parents are already planning a class action lawsuit over DL.

Good to hear!

Why is that good to hear?

Because not considering school (i.e. in-person instruction) essential is an outrage.

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It won’t just be one kid.

Parents are already planning a class action lawsuit over DL.

Good to hear!

Why is that good to hear?

Because not considering school (i.e. in-person instruction) essential is an outrage.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait until a single kid gets Kawasaki's disease related to COVID they contracted at school and there is a death. The outrage will be insane.

You might be right, if a kid dies. If a teacher dies? Oh well, that’s just part of your job. You chose the profession. Now, get your lazy ass back into the classroom and teach my child! If you die, MCPS can just get somebody else...and probably cheaper. It’s a win-win for me! My taxes won’t go up and my kid will be out of my hair.

Teachers...get...no...respect.