School hesitancy

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Anonymous wrote:This quote really stuck out to me:

“ Professor Kogan’s research has found that parents are more likely to feel hesitant about in-person learning if their children’s schools were closed for a longer period, which was most likely to be the case in the liberal-leaning urban districts that serve large numbers of nonwhite students. The hesitancy was caused less by fear of the coronavirus than by messaging from school districts about whether in-person learning was safe and desirable, Professor Kogan found.”

me too. I’ve been saying since September that the teachers unions and their political allies were exploiting the fears of people in Wards 7 and 8, and that this was going to have serious repercussions. WTU needs to own up to what they did.

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Anonymous wrote:For a few years now we’ve been talking about children who have extensive absences from school. This has come up with regard to DCPS passing and graduation rates, but the circumstances apply to many school districts. The kids who are no-showing for distance learning are, by and large, the same children who had 20-30 absences during in-person learning. It’s not distance learning that’s causing this. Rather, these families face issues like trauma, poor parental supervision, teens needing to work to supplement income, etc.

I know many are searching for reasons to blame school systems and teachers for the challenges of distance learning. But this is not unique to online school at all.

This, it was the same situation before. The other big difference is parents could more easily check out and didm't really know what was going on as they let the schools handle it. With kids at home, you can see it more. This really has nothing to do with DL.

Did you even read the article? The educators quoted state that this is DL and they want kids back because they are worried about the loss of education due to DL. In other words, it's worse than pre-covid.

I don't understand this compulsion to deny the deleterious impact of DL on vulnerable student populations. It is documented at this point. This is not debatable.

Stop using your fluff news to push your agenda of forcing kids back into the schools in person because you want your kids out of the home. Many of these kids had academic and school issues prior to covid where the school system and parents just ignored the problem. Sending them back in person isn't going to fix it. It will take that much more.

Many of the so called vulnerable choose to stay home as they are more vulnerable to covid and understand the real impact. You may be a covid denier but for many of us who take it seriously, we will make DL work.

You never cared about these kids before so why pretend to care about them now?

+1. This article carefully avoids discussing the fact that most Asian parents are also choosing DL in large numbers. It’s not about parents not paying attention, it’s about parents not wanting to expose their kids and families to a potentially serious virus. I’ll grant that some of the students weren’t doing much in person before Covid, but it’s unlikely a 15 year old C/D student who reads at a 5th grade level is going to have a different trajectory if they’re required to attend school.

Are you under the impression that all Asian families are rich and educationally advanced? Because that’s not true. In cities like NYC Asians have very high poverty rates and are vulnerable populations, often undocumented. But yeah keep on using those cheap and uniformed stereotypes.

No, and I believe you missed my point. Regardless of income, Asian parents are electing DL in large percentages, often for the same reasons as other families of color.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This quote really stuck out to me:

“ Professor Kogan’s research has found that parents are more likely to feel hesitant about in-person learning if their children’s schools were closed for a longer period, which was most likely to be the case in the liberal-leaning urban districts that serve large numbers of nonwhite students. The hesitancy was caused less by fear of the coronavirus than by messaging from school districts about whether in-person learning was safe and desirable, Professor Kogan found.”

me too. I’ve been saying since September that the teachers unions and their political allies were exploiting the fears of people in Wards 7 and 8, and that this was going to have serious repercussions. WTU needs to own up to what they did.

I thought that the article provided a useful perspective. Poor and some minority families don't want their kids to return to school because teachers unions basically told them that every one would die if schools reopened. In addition, there's the childcare/economic reality that hybrid schedules don't work for many of these families. It's too much trouble, not logistically possible, or, for older kids, will cut into paid employment taken up during the pandemic (which, it should be noted, is likely to be more of a COVID risk than attending school in person).

The simple fact is that not enough was done to protect their communities from COVID in the first place. However, continued absence from school buildings is only going to cause greater harm.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For a few years now we’ve been talking about children who have extensive absences from school. This has come up with regard to DCPS passing and graduation rates, but the circumstances apply to many school districts. The kids who are no-showing for distance learning are, by and large, the same children who had 20-30 absences during in-person learning. It’s not distance learning that’s causing this. Rather, these families face issues like trauma, poor parental supervision, teens needing to work to supplement income, etc.

I know many are searching for reasons to blame school systems and teachers for the challenges of distance learning. But this is not unique to online school at all.

This, it was the same situation before. The other big difference is parents could more easily check out and didm't really know what was going on as they let the schools handle it. With kids at home, you can see it more. This really has nothing to do with DL.

Did you even read the article? The educators quoted state that this is DL and they want kids back because they are worried about the loss of education due to DL. In other words, it's worse than pre-covid.

I don't understand this compulsion to deny the deleterious impact of DL on vulnerable student populations. It is documented at this point. This is not debatable.

Stop using your fluff news to push your agenda of forcing kids back into the schools in person because you want your kids out of the home. Many of these kids had academic and school issues prior to covid where the school system and parents just ignored the problem. Sending them back in person isn't going to fix it. It will take that much more.

Many of the so called vulnerable choose to stay home as they are more vulnerable to covid and understand the real impact. You may be a covid denier but for many of us who take it seriously, we will make DL work.

You never cared about these kids before so why pretend to care about them now?

+1. This article carefully avoids discussing the fact that most Asian parents are also choosing DL in large numbers. It’s not about parents not paying attention, it’s about parents not wanting to expose their kids and families to a potentially serious virus. I’ll grant that some of the students weren’t doing much in person before Covid, but it’s unlikely a 15 year old C/D student who reads at a 5th grade level is going to have a different trajectory if they’re required to attend school.

Are you under the impression that all Asian families are rich and educationally advanced? Because that’s not true. In cities like NYC Asians have very high poverty rates and are vulnerable populations, often undocumented. But yeah keep on using those cheap and uniformed stereotypes.

No, and I believe you missed my point. Regardless of income, Asian parents are electing DL in large percentages, often for the same reasons as other families of color.

Ok show me the stats disaggregated by SES.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This quote really stuck out to me:

“ Professor Kogan’s research has found that parents are more likely to feel hesitant about in-person learning if their children’s schools were closed for a longer period, which was most likely to be the case in the liberal-leaning urban districts that serve large numbers of nonwhite students. The hesitancy was caused less by fear of the coronavirus than by messaging from school districts about whether in-person learning was safe and desirable, Professor Kogan found.”

me too. I’ve been saying since September that the teachers unions and their political allies were exploiting the fears of people in Wards 7 and 8, and that this was going to have serious repercussions. WTU needs to own up to what they did.

I thought that the article provided a useful perspective. Poor and some minority families don't want their kids to return to school because teachers unions basically told them that every one would die if schools reopened. In addition, there's the childcare/economic reality that hybrid schedules don't work for many of these families. It's too much trouble, not logistically possible, or, for older kids, will cut into paid employment taken up during the pandemic (which, it should be noted, is likely to be more of a COVID risk than attending school in person).

The simple fact is that not enough was done to protect their communities from COVID in the first place. However, continued absence from school buildings is only going to cause greater harm.

Exactly. Possibly the most harmful sector will be the older kids who started working/doing childcare and will exit education permanently now.

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Anonymous wrote:For a few years now we’ve been talking about children who have extensive absences from school. This has come up with regard to DCPS passing and graduation rates, but the circumstances apply to many school districts. The kids who are no-showing for distance learning are, by and large, the same children who had 20-30 absences during in-person learning. It’s not distance learning that’s causing this. Rather, these families face issues like trauma, poor parental supervision, teens needing to work to supplement income, etc.

I know many are searching for reasons to blame school systems and teachers for the challenges of distance learning. But this is not unique to online school at all.

This, it was the same situation before. The other big difference is parents could more easily check out and didm't really know what was going on as they let the schools handle it. With kids at home, you can see it more. This really has nothing to do with DL.

Did you even read the article? The educators quoted state that this is DL and they want kids back because they are worried about the loss of education due to DL. In other words, it's worse than pre-covid.

I don't understand this compulsion to deny the deleterious impact of DL on vulnerable student populations. It is documented at this point. This is not debatable.

Stop using your fluff news to push your agenda of forcing kids back into the schools in person because you want your kids out of the home. Many of these kids had academic and school issues prior to covid where the school system and parents just ignored the problem. Sending them back in person isn't going to fix it. It will take that much more.

Many of the so called vulnerable choose to stay home as they are more vulnerable to covid and understand the real impact. You may be a covid denier but for many of us who take it seriously, we will make DL work.

You never cared about these kids before so why pretend to care about them now?

+1. This article carefully avoids discussing the fact that most Asian parents are also choosing DL in large numbers. It’s not about parents not paying attention, it’s about parents not wanting to expose their kids and families to a potentially serious virus. I’ll grant that some of the students weren’t doing much in person before Covid, but it’s unlikely a 15 year old C/D student who reads at a 5th grade level is going to have a different trajectory if they’re required to attend school.

Are you under the impression that all Asian families are rich and educationally advanced? Because that’s not true. In cities like NYC Asians have very high poverty rates and are vulnerable populations, often undocumented. But yeah keep on using those cheap and uniformed stereotypes.

No, and I believe you missed my point. Regardless of income, Asian parents are electing DL in large percentages, often for the same reasons as other families of color.

Ok show me the stats disaggregated by SES.

Also, I missed your ugly little suggestion that we should basically give up on kids of color because they were doing badly before so what’s the point of making them go back to school now. I continue to be astounded to hear these views expressed in this age of supposed racial reckoning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This quote really stuck out to me:

“ Professor Kogan’s research has found that parents are more likely to feel hesitant about in-person learning if their children’s schools were closed for a longer period, which was most likely to be the case in the liberal-leaning urban districts that serve large numbers of nonwhite students. The hesitancy was caused less by fear of the coronavirus than by messaging from school districts about whether in-person learning was safe and desirable, Professor Kogan found.”

me too. I’ve been saying since September that the teachers unions and their political allies were exploiting the fears of people in Wards 7 and 8, and that this was going to have serious repercussions. WTU needs to own up to what they did.

I thought that the article provided a useful perspective. Poor and some minority families don't want their kids to return to school because teachers unions basically told them that every one would die if schools reopened. In addition, there's the childcare/economic reality that hybrid schedules don't work for many of these families. It's too much trouble, not logistically possible, or, for older kids, will cut into paid employment taken up during the pandemic (which, it should be noted, is likely to be more of a COVID risk than attending school in person).

The simple fact is that not enough was done to protect their communities from COVID in the first place. However, continued absence from school buildings is only going to cause greater harm.

I think the article was good and talked about things I see in my community that haven't gotten much attention nationally. I don't think this is accurate, "Poor and some minority families don't want their kids to return to school because teachers unions basically told them that every one would die if schools reopened." From what I see in my mostly Black and Brown, mostly working class neighborhood, families were worried about sending kids back since spring 2020, with a lot of concern about the conditions of school buildings and elders in muti-generation households. Teachers unions used the fears of Black and Latino parents to push a delayed return agenda, but parents had already made up their minds, and parents and teachers shared a fear about the enviornmental conditions of urban schools. And the fears of Black and Latino parents were driven in large part by knowing so many people who were very sick or died.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This quote really stuck out to me:

“ Professor Kogan’s research has found that parents are more likely to feel hesitant about in-person learning if their children’s schools were closed for a longer period, which was most likely to be the case in the liberal-leaning urban districts that serve large numbers of nonwhite students. The hesitancy was caused less by fear of the coronavirus than by messaging from school districts about whether in-person learning was safe and desirable, Professor Kogan found.”

me too. I’ve been saying since September that the teachers unions and their political allies were exploiting the fears of people in Wards 7 and 8, and that this was going to have serious repercussions. WTU needs to own up to what they did.

I thought that the article provided a useful perspective. Poor and some minority families don't want their kids to return to school because teachers unions basically told them that every one would die if schools reopened. In addition, there's the childcare/economic reality that hybrid schedules don't work for many of these families. It's too much trouble, not logistically possible, or, for older kids, will cut into paid employment taken up during the pandemic (which, it should be noted, is likely to be more of a COVID risk than attending school in person).

The simple fact is that not enough was done to protect their communities from COVID in the first place. However, continued absence from school buildings is only going to cause greater harm.

I think the article was good and talked about things I see in my community that haven't gotten much attention nationally. I don't think this is accurate, "Poor and some minority families don't want their kids to return to school because teachers unions basically told them that every one would die if schools reopened." From what I see in my mostly Black and Brown, mostly working class neighborhood, families were worried about sending kids back since spring 2020, with a lot of concern about the conditions of school buildings and elders in muti-generation households. Teachers unions used the fears of Black and Latino parents to push a delayed return agenda, but parents had already made up their minds, and parents and teachers shared a fear about the enviornmental conditions of urban schools. And the fears of Black and Latino parents were driven in large part by knowing so many people who were very sick or died.

The reasoning becomes circular at some point, but it also shows how misguided it is to brand proponents of school reopening as entirely selfish. Reopening this spring was necessary and beneficial to the interests of children from at risk communities, even if some members of those communities opted not to send their kids back. Communities suffering from loss due to COVID needed to see that reopening could be accomplished safely to build trust and commitment to returning to in person learning in the fall.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a really good article in the NYT about "school hesitancy" and how it disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable students:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/us/covid-school-reopening-virtual-learning.html

I see this locally too, where the most vulnerable populations are far more likely to have disappeared in DL and are far less likely to go back. I think there is a generation of kids who are severely at risk for permanent educational loss. I think ongoing DL risks severe educational damage to the most vulnerable students.

Its an article skewed to make people like you believe its damaging. I don't see any damage done to my children and I fully support staying DL at least till covid is under control better. We have no seen educational loss and our children have picked up other good skills they need in life. If you want your kids to go back and you don't mind putting them at risk, good for you but mine are not rushing back as Covid is real and serious.

Oh my god. Have you ever considered that this is not written about you or your children?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For a few years now we’ve been talking about children who have extensive absences from school. This has come up with regard to DCPS passing and graduation rates, but the circumstances apply to many school districts. The kids who are no-showing for distance learning are, by and large, the same children who had 20-30 absences during in-person learning. It’s not distance learning that’s causing this. Rather, these families face issues like trauma, poor parental supervision, teens needing to work to supplement income, etc.

I know many are searching for reasons to blame school systems and teachers for the challenges of distance learning. But this is not unique to online school at all.

This, it was the same situation before. The other big difference is parents could more easily check out and didm't really know what was going on as they let the schools handle it. With kids at home, you can see it more. This really has nothing to do with DL.

Did you even read the article? The educators quoted state that this is DL and they want kids back because they are worried about the loss of education due to DL. In other words, it's worse than pre-covid.

I don't understand this compulsion to deny the deleterious impact of DL on vulnerable student populations. It is documented at this point. This is not debatable.

Stop using your fluff news to push your agenda of forcing kids back into the schools in person because you want your kids out of the home. Many of these kids had academic and school issues prior to covid where the school system and parents just ignored the problem. Sending them back in person isn't going to fix it. It will take that much more.

Many of the so called vulnerable choose to stay home as they are more vulnerable to covid and understand the real impact. You may be a covid denier but for many of us who take it seriously, we will make DL work.

You never cared about these kids before so why pretend to care about them now?

+1. This article carefully avoids discussing the fact that most Asian parents are also choosing DL in large numbers. It’s not about parents not paying attention, it’s about parents not wanting to expose their kids and families to a potentially serious virus. I’ll grant that some of the students weren’t doing much in person before Covid, but it’s unlikely a 15 year old C/D student who reads at a 5th grade level is going to have a different trajectory if they’re required to attend school.

Are you under the impression that all Asian families are rich and educationally advanced? Because that’s not true. In cities like NYC Asians have very high poverty rates and are vulnerable populations, often undocumented. But yeah keep on using those cheap and uniformed stereotypes.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:For a few years now we’ve been talking about children who have extensive absences from school. This has come up with regard to DCPS passing and graduation rates, but the circumstances apply to many school districts. The kids who are no-showing for distance learning are, by and large, the same children who had 20-30 absences during in-person learning. It’s not distance learning that’s causing this. Rather, these families face issues like trauma, poor parental supervision, teens needing to work to supplement income, etc.

I know many are searching for reasons to blame school systems and teachers for the challenges of distance learning. But this is not unique to online school at all.

This, it was the same situation before. The other big difference is parents could more easily check out and didm't really know what was going on as they let the schools handle it. With kids at home, you can see it more. This really has nothing to do with DL.

Did you even read the article? The educators quoted state that this is DL and they want kids back because they are worried about the loss of education due to DL. In other words, it's worse than pre-covid.

I don't understand this compulsion to deny the deleterious impact of DL on vulnerable student populations. It is documented at this point. This is not debatable.

Stop using your fluff news to push your agenda of forcing kids back into the schools in person because you want your kids out of the home. Many of these kids had academic and school issues prior to covid where the school system and parents just ignored the problem. Sending them back in person isn't going to fix it. It will take that much more.

Many of the so called vulnerable choose to stay home as they are more vulnerable to covid and understand the real impact. You may be a covid denier but for many of us who take it seriously, we will make DL work.

You never cared about these kids before so why pretend to care about them now?

+1. This article carefully avoids discussing the fact that most Asian parents are also choosing DL in large numbers. It’s not about parents not paying attention, it’s about parents not wanting to expose their kids and families to a potentially serious virus. I’ll grant that some of the students weren’t doing much in person before Covid, but it’s unlikely a 15 year old C/D student who reads at a 5th grade level is going to have a different trajectory if they’re required to attend school.

Are you under the impression that all Asian families are rich and educationally advanced? Because that’s not true. In cities like NYC Asians have very high poverty rates and are vulnerable populations, often undocumented. But yeah keep on using those cheap and uniformed stereotypes.

No, and I believe you missed my point. Regardless of income, Asian parents are electing DL in large percentages, often for the same reasons as other families of color.

Ok show me the stats disaggregated by SES.

Also, I missed your ugly little suggestion that we should basically give up on kids of color because they were doing badly before so what’s the point of making them go back to school now. I continue to be astounded to hear these views expressed in this age of supposed racial reckoning.

It really is pretty vile. And it tracks along with the other comments in this thread basically saying similar things. Like that "the kids never wanted to be in school" anyway, and then talks about little kids as though they really have agency here. It's their own fault! Or the people who are arguing that putting kids in schools won't 100% fix their academic issues, so we shouldn't push them into school buildings, even though it would make some improvement. I suspect the motives of the people who letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For a few years now we’ve been talking about children who have extensive absences from school. This has come up with regard to DCPS passing and graduation rates, but the circumstances apply to many school districts. The kids who are no-showing for distance learning are, by and large, the same children who had 20-30 absences during in-person learning. It’s not distance learning that’s causing this. Rather, these families face issues like trauma, poor parental supervision, teens needing to work to supplement income, etc.

I know many are searching for reasons to blame school systems and teachers for the challenges of distance learning. But this is not unique to online school at all.

This, it was the same situation before. The other big difference is parents could more easily check out and didm't really know what was going on as they let the schools handle it. With kids at home, you can see it more. This really has nothing to do with DL.

Did you even read the article? The educators quoted state that this is DL and they want kids back because they are worried about the loss of education due to DL. In other words, it's worse than pre-covid.

I don't understand this compulsion to deny the deleterious impact of DL on vulnerable student populations. It is documented at this point. This is not debatable.

Stop using your fluff news to push your agenda of forcing kids back into the schools in person because you want your kids out of the home. Many of these kids had academic and school issues prior to covid where the school system and parents just ignored the problem. Sending them back in person isn't going to fix it. It will take that much more.

Many of the so called vulnerable choose to stay home as they are more vulnerable to covid and understand the real impact. You may be a covid denier but for many of us who take it seriously, we will make DL work.

You never cared about these kids before so why pretend to care about them now?

+1. This article carefully avoids discussing the fact that most Asian parents are also choosing DL in large numbers. It’s not about parents not paying attention, it’s about parents not wanting to expose their kids and families to a potentially serious virus. I’ll grant that some of the students weren’t doing much in person before Covid, but it’s unlikely a 15 year old C/D student who reads at a 5th grade level is going to have a different trajectory if they’re required to attend school.

Are you under the impression that all Asian families are rich and educationally advanced? Because that’s not true. In cities like NYC Asians have very high poverty rates and are vulnerable populations, often undocumented. But yeah keep on using those cheap and uniformed stereotypes.

No, and I believe you missed my point. Regardless of income, Asian parents are electing DL in large percentages, often for the same reasons as other families of color.

Ok show me the stats disaggregated by SES.

Also, I missed your ugly little suggestion that we should basically give up on kids of color because they were doing badly before so what’s the point of making them go back to school now. I continue to be astounded to hear these views expressed in this age of supposed racial reckoning.

It really is pretty vile. And it tracks along with the other comments in this thread basically saying similar things. Like that "the kids never wanted to be in school" anyway, and then talks about little kids as though they really have agency here. It's their own fault! Or the people who are arguing that putting kids in schools won't 100% fix their academic issues, so we shouldn't push them into school buildings, even though it would make some improvement. I suspect the motives of the people who letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I find it interesting in that the right's racism is tracking with the left's purported anti-racism for the same purpose -- kids of color shouldn't go to school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This quote really stuck out to me:

“ Professor Kogan’s research has found that parents are more likely to feel hesitant about in-person learning if their children’s schools were closed for a longer period, which was most likely to be the case in the liberal-leaning urban districts that serve large numbers of nonwhite students. The hesitancy was caused less by fear of the coronavirus than by messaging from school districts about whether in-person learning was safe and desirable, Professor Kogan found.”

me too. I’ve been saying since September that the teachers unions and their political allies were exploiting the fears of people in Wards 7 and 8, and that this was going to have serious repercussions. WTU needs to own up to what they did.

I thought that the article provided a useful perspective. Poor and some minority families don't want their kids to return to school because teachers unions basically told them that every one would die if schools reopened. In addition, there's the childcare/economic reality that hybrid schedules don't work for many of these families. It's too much trouble, not logistically possible, or, for older kids, will cut into paid employment taken up during the pandemic (which, it should be noted, is likely to be more of a COVID risk than attending school in person).

The simple fact is that not enough was done to protect their communities from COVID in the first place. However, continued absence from school buildings is only going to cause greater harm.

I think the article was good and talked about things I see in my community that haven't gotten much attention nationally. I don't think this is accurate, "Poor and some minority families don't want their kids to return to school because teachers unions basically told them that every one would die if schools reopened." From what I see in my mostly Black and Brown, mostly working class neighborhood, families were worried about sending kids back since spring 2020, with a lot of concern about the conditions of school buildings and elders in muti-generation households. Teachers unions used the fears of Black and Latino parents to push a delayed return agenda, but parents had already made up their minds, and parents and teachers shared a fear about the enviornmental conditions of urban schools. And the fears of Black and Latino parents were driven in large part by knowing so many people who were very sick or died.

The reasoning becomes circular at some point, but it also shows how misguided it is to brand proponents of school reopening as entirely selfish. Reopening this spring was necessary and beneficial to the interests of children from at risk communities, even if some members of those communities opted not to send their kids back. Communities suffering from loss due to COVID needed to see that reopening could be accomplished safely to build trust and commitment to returning to in person learning in the fall.

Yeah, I live in one of the few east coast urban districts to open in September. We likely also have one of highest percentages of low income students in the northeast, about 85%. I think it was a good choice to open (and have a virtual option for every student). Families really needed choices this year. At my child's school which is about 75% Black and Latino, a bigger percentage of white students did choose in person, but the majority of in person students are Black or Latino. Interestingly, with open schools, the biggest voices and most organization by parents against reopening is by middle-class and wealthy white parents.