"Without mitigation, they predict that 80% of elementary students will be infected within 2 months"

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.

That's exactly the reason I started this thread. My kids did well in remote learning last year, and I keep leaning more and more towards pulling them for virtual school. I wish DCPS would run it, since I feel strongly about public schools. I'm also concerned about people in my same situation that can't afford to do a private online school.

oh ffs. if you “feel strongly about public school” don’t try to ruin it. you’re the worst.

So what exactly am I supposed to do? Send my kid in person when I'm not comfortable doing so? That's not commitment, that's stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.

you know that no child has died of covid in DC?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.

That's exactly the reason I started this thread. My kids did well in remote learning last year, and I keep leaning more and more towards pulling them for virtual school. I wish DCPS would run it, since I feel strongly about public schools. I'm also concerned about people in my same situation that can't afford to do a private online school.

oh ffs. if you “feel strongly about public school” don’t try to ruin it. you’re the worst.

So what exactly am I supposed to do? Send my kid in person when I'm not comfortable doing so? That's not commitment, that's stupid.

you’re supposed to can in about “feeling strongly about public school.” because if you are trying to undermine in-person school, you are no friend of public school. go ahead and make whatever irrational choices you want; but don’t you dare try to wreck public school for the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.

That's exactly the reason I started this thread. My kids did well in remote learning last year, and I keep leaning more and more towards pulling them for virtual school. I wish DCPS would run it, since I feel strongly about public schools. I'm also concerned about people in my same situation that can't afford to do a private online school.

oh ffs. if you “feel strongly about public school” don’t try to ruin it. you’re the worst.

So what exactly am I supposed to do? Send my kid in person when I'm not comfortable doing so? That's not commitment, that's stupid.

you’re supposed to can in about “feeling strongly about public school.” because if you are trying to undermine in-person school, you are no friend of public school. go ahead and make whatever irrational choices you want; but don’t you dare try to wreck public school for the rest of us.

Try again?

I both support our public schools and want to take care of my children. It's the people demanding only in-person that are going to sink the system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.

you know that no child has died of covid in DC?

As of last week, 423 kids 0-18 have died of Covid in the US and the trend may be going up for young children. I hate the callous dismissal of a child's --or any person's -death. It is STILL exceedingly rare and each parent has to make their decision connected to their analysis of risk. I'm deciding to send my kids to in-person school (I look at my behavior on all other risky things--I let my kids drive in cars, ride bikes, and cross the street--in 2019 there were 844 deaths of children under 13 for vehicle crashes. I even occasionally let my school-aged kids play on a trampoline--which has a worse rate among child users. I feel like it would be personally hypocritical of me not to let them go to in-person school given all that). BUT I don't think it's crazy for another parent to decide to wait for the vaccine and I'll keep my eye on the data and maybe revisit my thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.

you know that no child has died of covid in DC?

As of last week, 423 kids 0-18 have died of Covid in the US and the trend may be going up for young children. I hate the callous dismissal of a child's --or any person's -death. It is STILL exceedingly rare and each parent has to make their decision connected to their analysis of risk. I'm deciding to send my kids to in-person school (I look at my behavior on all other risky things--I let my kids drive in cars, ride bikes, and cross the street--in 2019 there were 844 deaths of children under 13 for vehicle crashes. I even occasionally let my school-aged kids play on a trampoline--which has a worse rate among child users. I feel like it would be personally hypocritical of me not to let them go to in-person school given all that). BUT I don't think it's crazy for another parent to decide to wait for the vaccine and I'll keep my eye on the data and maybe revisit my thinking.

2 in Virginia

0 in DC?

This isn't NYC, Texas, Kentucky, etc. But sure, each parent has right to pull their kids and home school if they can and want to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.

you know that no child has died of covid in DC?

So, would you like one of ours to be the first? Kids ARE dying of covid. Schools were largely closed or hybrid so that helped keep our kids safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.

you know that no child has died of covid in DC?

As of last week, 423 kids 0-18 have died of Covid in the US and the trend may be going up for young children. I hate the callous dismissal of a child's --or any person's -death. It is STILL exceedingly rare and each parent has to make their decision connected to their analysis of risk. I'm deciding to send my kids to in-person school (I look at my behavior on all other risky things--I let my kids drive in cars, ride bikes, and cross the street--in 2019 there were 844 deaths of children under 13 for vehicle crashes. I even occasionally let my school-aged kids play on a trampoline--which has a worse rate among child users. I feel like it would be personally hypocritical of me not to let them go to in-person school given all that). BUT I don't think it's crazy for another parent to decide to wait for the vaccine and I'll keep my eye on the data and maybe revisit my thinking.

We have basic safety precautions in cars. For biking, a good parent would bike with them and supervise them, same with crossing the street. And, COVID vs a trampoline is not comparable.

How many kids world wide have died of covid? How many in the past month?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.

That's exactly the reason I started this thread. My kids did well in remote learning last year, and I keep leaning more and more towards pulling them for virtual school. I wish DCPS would run it, since I feel strongly about public schools. I'm also concerned about people in my same situation that can't afford to do a private online school.

oh ffs. if you “feel strongly about public school” don’t try to ruin it. you’re the worst.

So what exactly am I supposed to do? Send my kid in person when I'm not comfortable doing so? That's not commitment, that's stupid.

you’re supposed to can in about “feeling strongly about public school.” because if you are trying to undermine in-person school, you are no friend of public school. go ahead and make whatever irrational choices you want; but don’t you dare try to wreck public school for the rest of us.

How is my concern for safety and not being willing to send my kids to in person school during a pandemic undermining in person school. I want it to open. I want to see what covid does to your kids so I can then decide the safety of sending mine. I think its great you are willing to risk your child's health or life to see if its safe for mine to go to school. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

I don’t think people on this forum realize that children have been in private school and daycare since the pandemic started. People are living in March 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think people on this forum realize that children have been in private school and daycare since the pandemic started. People are living in March 2020.

Day cares are very small settings with precautions. They are not even close to being comparable to public schools. Same with privates. Many privates have much more space, updated facilities and only 1-2 classes per grade. Our public ES in this area are 400-1000+ students, our typical MS is 1000-2000 students and our high schools are generally 2500-4000 students.

[Anonymous]

Round and round we go.

Enough is enough.

If you want to keep your kid on lockdown at home March 2020 to August 2022 - almost 2.5 years, for a virus that killed 2 kids in VA and 0 in DC, go for it. Pay for virtual school or home school. Whining on here like a neurotic person won't change a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Round and round we go.

Enough is enough.

If you want to keep your kid on lockdown at home March 2020 to August 2022 - almost 2.5 years, for a virus that killed 2 kids in VA and 0 in DC, go for it. Pay for virtual school or home school. Whining on here like a neurotic person won't change a thing.

You're welcome to not read it. Weirdo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.

you know that no child has died of covid in DC?

Yes, I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.

That's exactly the reason I started this thread. My kids did well in remote learning last year, and I keep leaning more and more towards pulling them for virtual school. I wish DCPS would run it, since I feel strongly about public schools. I'm also concerned about people in my same situation that can't afford to do a private online school.

oh ffs. if you “feel strongly about public school” don’t try to ruin it. you’re the worst.

So what exactly am I supposed to do? Send my kid in person when I'm not comfortable doing so? That's not commitment, that's stupid.

x1000 Forget about the person you're responding to, PP. That person is willing to do anything for schools to reopen even if it means sacrificing their kids. The rest of us are with you.