APS hurts children again by canceling Extracurriculars until January 14th

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yet restaurants and bars are open. Kids are the only ones being made to relive the spring of 2020.

Professional athletes are having their games canceled too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's for 2 weeks to get a handle on the major surge happening right now. Our area is the hottest COVID hotspot right now. A little perspective folks. Th kids will be alright, although I'm worried about the parents.

+1 It’s as easy way to maintain cohorts at the elementary level, though the teacher in me also thinks they’ll be using the band and chorus teachers as subs where needed (good idea but they’ll be hysterical about it.) I’m not too concerned about going back to school but must admit I’m glad my son won’t be singing in chorus or blowing his saxophone, those activities seem slightly risky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So I guess you can quibble with my wording, but what I meant is it's not a desperate hospital situation here in Arlington right now. And I don't think kids' activities are going to be the tipping point, esp. as many others have pointed out when we haven't taken other drastic steps like closing indoor dining. Which, by the way, I won't eat indoors right now, but I will let my kids play basketball with masks on.

This pretty much says it all about Arlington parents. PP will protect themselves by not eating indoors, but will force coaches, refs and others to face additional exposure by forcing them to hold games. Selfish.

Because you can wear a mask indoors while playing, but you can't while eating! Honestly, people.

And anyone who thinks this closure, once it happens, "will only last two weeks," is kidding themselves.

Also, I think this is a fair question: Which is more likely?
a) this two week closure of a small, select set of activities that largely affect teens in Arlington will result in a saved life from COVID
b) this significant disruption, yet again, to "normal" activities for our teens will harm mental health and increase depression and the risk that one of our teens will commit suicide

From my perspective, "B" is much more likely, and it's not even close.

[Anonymous]

It's two weeks. Your kid will survive a two week break. If they are that upset at missing a few games maybe you need to work on that. My DD will be taking a two week break from band practice even though those kids are also tested everyday (she's been negative all year). She's not freaking out just curious how that class time will be used. She'll keep up practice and lessons (via zoom) at home

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Anonymous wrote:
Also, I think this is a fair question: Which is more likely?
a) this two week closure of a small, select set of activities that largely affect teens in Arlington will result in a saved life from COVID
b) this significant disruption, yet again, to "normal" activities for our teens will harm mental health and increase depression and the risk that one of our teens will commit suicide

From my perspective, "B" is much more likely, and it's not even close.

(1) "Dies by suicide," if you want to position yourself as someone with any sort of clue about mental health
(2) You think it's likely that someone will take their own life because of two weeks without high school sports, but not that an infected teenager will pass this highly communicable strain of covid on to someone who will die from it. Gotcha

[Anonymous]

At first I thought this thread was about actually closing schools. Kids will survive 2 weeks without EC to get a handle on Covid spread.

OP you are a clown and clearly have no clue about children who have actually been hurt. The title of your thread is insulting and shows your privilege.

[Anonymous]

I thought schools should have been open in person all last year. But 2 weeks with no sports? Come on. This is not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

This is your concern, OP? I hope you understand COVID is spreading through sports teams (professional, college, high school, etc)! Are you suggesting there is something wrong with getting ahead of a potential spreader situation while numbers are high? So many NOVA high schools were impacted by omicron right before Christmas and during winter break due to exposure at practices, meetings, and being spectators at events. It seems APS was paying attention to those outbreaks and the source.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought schools should have been open in person all last year. But 2 weeks with no sports? Come on. This is not a big deal.

Do you remember March 2020 when school closed for two weeks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
"I'm living my life and traveling and going to parties! You can't stop me!"

"What, sports are canceled?! That's so unfair!"

"OMG, my kids' school just closed! I can't believe they'd do this to us! I'm going to vote Republican in the next election, that'll show them!"


(Thus the cycle repeats itself.)

Except there is no cycle that includes voting Republican in Arlington. It's one party rule, for better or for worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I guess you can quibble with my wording, but what I meant is it's not a desperate hospital situation here in Arlington right now. And I don't think kids' activities are going to be the tipping point, esp. as many others have pointed out when we haven't taken other drastic steps like closing indoor dining. Which, by the way, I won't eat indoors right now, but I will let my kids play basketball with masks on.

weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought schools should have been open in person all last year. But 2 weeks with no sports? Come on. This is not a big deal.

Do you remember March 2020 when school closed for two weeks?

Two weeks with no sports isn’t two weeks with schools closed, idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought schools should have been open in person all last year. But 2 weeks with no sports? Come on. This is not a big deal.

Do you remember March 2020 when school closed for two weeks?

Two weeks with no sports isn’t two weeks with schools closed, idiot.

It's not nice to call names, but the point is that "two weeks" may not actually mean two weeks. In the last case, "two weeks" meant an entire year. Even Duran said all that happens in two weeks is that they "evaluate." Do you think this latest surge will be done by then? So how long are we going to cancel everything extra for kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At first I thought this thread was about actually closing schools. Kids will survive 2 weeks without EC to get a handle on Covid spread.

OP you are a clown and clearly have no clue about children who have actually been hurt. The title of your thread is insulting and shows your privilege.

No. The entire left response to the pandemic has been out of touch and caters to the Zoom class. It has been UMC families who have work flexibility, can afford tutors, pods, etc. that have weathered the left's pandemic response. Women and minority women have left the labor force in record numbers because of the instability of school and child care. Only the priveged cannot see this. This is one reason why Democrats will deservedly get clobbered in 2022 and 2024.

-A disappointed Democrat

[Anonymous]

Looks like a few of the Zero COVID fanatics have now overran this thread. They’re mentally ill people who don’t care how much it hurts kids for them to try to avoid a cold.

None of the other counties are canceling sports. This is just to appease the Arlington nuts