I get the risk of Covid but it's maddening to see BTS pictures from across the US on Facebook/Insta

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We are in Florida, going back in person next week. With many, many precautions in place. We’re in an area with fairly low transmission, most of which has been confined to nursing homes. Parents also have the choice of full virtual learning.

Our district inadvertently leaked the data from July when they first polled parents as to whether they leaned virtual vs in person. The schools with higher free lunch numbers skewed way more to DL, while the lowest free lunch schools (and gifted schools) skewed higher for in person. Our city has a broad mix of poor, blue color and wealthy - and while it slightly tilts republican, there are plenty of dems here too - and the politics don’t track wealth. That is, in our rich community of $1m+ houses, there’s already a handful of Biden signs and no trumps signs - we probably skew 75% dem. But the blue color neighborhood next to us typically skews 100% gop (at least based on street signs).

Point being that the wealthy people going back to in person aren’t all Trumpers. We’re going back, and so are our neighbors (all in the medical field).

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Friends going in person in Cincinnati and Cleveland. Some are private school, some are smaller school districts. I cried last night I’m so sad for my kindergartener missing out on this experience

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The district where I grew up in Ohio is back 5 days a week (at least for elementary, I don’t have any friends back there with older kids to know if MS/HS is also back) with masks for everyone. I’m very happy for them and very sad for us at the same time.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an RN married to an MD and work with Covid patients. I get the risk. My husband had a long-standing patient in his 50's (no pre-existing conditions) die of the virus this week. It's not a joke.

BUT my Facebook and Instagram is littered with pictures from across the country of kids going back to school: Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Colorado, South Carolina, North Carolina, Utah.
I have dozens of friends whose kids are back in school.
Public and private.

It's maddening that we have between 25-50% of their rates of infection here in DC and our kids are home interminably. I have no read hope that anyone will go back in 20-21.

I'm so torn. I get the risk. I am jealous beyond belief that much of the rest of the country is just sending their kids in 9-3pm each day.

Troll. Anyone in the medical community understands why we are not in school. Those other places you mentioned are Trumper's or Trumpland how ever you want to spin it. We will go back, no one wants this but we know the score.

Completely fals, spouse is a doctor and the many health care professionals we know all are in favor of returning to in person school. It’s the teachers and other non medical people who are opposed.

OP here. Spouse is a doctor and most of our friends are doctors. The ones I saw on Facebook TODAY who are sending their kids in person:

family practice doctor in Lancaster PA.
pediatric pulmonologist in Birmingham AL
cardiologist in Denver
peds ER doctor in Houston
cardiologist in Knoxville
peds ICU doctor in Nashville

This. All the doctors and nurses I know believe there is a common sense middle ground where we can have in-person school with masks, distancing, probably alternate schedules. The people who seem most opposed to this, in my circle at least, are not teachers (most of whom are also parents and are being forced to make a lot of the same terrible choices as the rest of us). It's the 20% or so of our friends who believe that they can eliminate risk from their lives if they just plan well enough and make the right choices. Usually well off, as that's the only people who can afford to live this way. And they are casting this overzealous approach as "socially and morally responsible" even though it's actually not possible for most people.

Most people in the medical profession are pragmatists. You have to be. You get used to weighing risks, and looking for ways to mitigate. Most procedures and medications carry risks, but they are often worth it because the underlying illness needs to be addressed. Sometimes you have to make hard choices.

I don't know a single doctor or medical professional who supports the plan to keep kids home from school until the virus is eradicated. Most don't even think we should keep kids home 100% now -- just that we should be careful and make smart choices.

This isn't my experience. We are at an expensive private school that is reopening. Four families in my child's grade (middle school) with at least one doctor parent are not sending their kids back, instead opting for the distance learning option. Most have been treating Covid patients and were just too uneasy with the many unknowns around this virus.