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[quote=Anonymous]If you compare the number of times the Board members mentioned the needs of educators versus any discussion of student needs, it makes you throw your hands in the air. If in person happens in any form next year, I will be shocked. This school year is over. It is virtual all the way. Teachers don't feel comfortable coming into the building and that is all that matters, regardless of the metrics. It was pretty much expressly stated.

I have often criticized Dr. Martirano, but he was forceful in advocating for continued work on a better hybrid plan.

I don't care anymore, because nothing I do or say is going to make a difference.

I am starting to think that boards of education need an appointed expert (or two) qualified to offer testimony about the needs of children, educational and otherwise, separate and apart from family concerns, which are often perceived as selfish. I am envisioning something like a court appointed counsel for children in a divorce case. School administrators are constrained by budgetary and logistical concerns. Board members act as the decision makers. Someone needs to speak for the children.

Honestly, the part of the meeting that made me throw in the towel forever was when one member expressed concern about the mental health needs and isolation of older students, and another responded that those concerns shouldn't be used to blackmail educators into returning to the building when they "feel" unsafe. What?  Who is blackmailing who? This is a Board that already approved metrics for returning students the school buildings, with substantial input from a capable county health officer, and then completely disregarded those metrics because staff in a non-binding survey with actual consequences have said that they don't "feel" safe returning this year. [/quote]

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