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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are privileged economically, are in a one working parent household, have family around to assist with childcare, you should pull your child from the public school systems and figure out a way to distance learn. Leave the public system for those that truly need to utilize it. This will create less stress on that system organizationally, and with health risks.

I am just a parent with no background in anything education, but here is what I propose you do if you are actually able to - even if it a bit harder for you and your family to do;

1) Families need to come together and create mini cohorts of students. 3-5 student groups that can learn the necessities a few hours a day, together. Done in a mixed in person plus virtual environment. 
2) These cohort families need to decide whether they wish to make use of the willing adult bodies that are part of their families, or hire a "teacher" to instruct.
3) They should decide on the best location/s for the in person experience and how it set up. Maybe there is Covid consultancy company that exists that helps people/companies create best layouts for given space. Outdoor learning spaces being ideal.
4) The government needs to step up and offer some sort of rebate, subsidy, grant that makes this more possible for families to have a stay at home learning experience. 
5) Instead of pushing for public schools to open fully to everyone, they need to think smarter and shift the paradigm, as they say. We can, and should have, more than 1 learning environment. DC public schools, in particular, stink, and they have needed a refresh for a long time. We do not need to focus on testing and scores so that our schools look better, we need to focus on teaching to learn, safely.

To the bashers that want nothing more than to see kids streaming back into schools this fall, I am not sending mine. The risk is not worth it. Learning while clearly important, does not weigh as heavily on my conscious as does human life and long term health. My kid can catch up the intricacies of algebra next year.

We do not how dangerous the Covid virus truly is, and [b]I am not guinea pigging my kid out[/b], to see what happens.

https://cbs12.com/news/local/doctors-concerned-that-covid-19-may-be-harming-lungs-of-children
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/health/coronavirus-brain-damage-study-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/dozens-more-cases-reported-of-neurological-problems-in-covid-19-67717[/quote]

Great. And I am not guinea pigging my kids out for a half-baked distance learning program, just to see what happens.[/quote]

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