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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clear communication and confident leadership can make a huge difference. I'm a DCPS parent but it is telling how rarely you hear from PG parents complaining about the school situation. These boards are filled with complaints from MoCo, DC, and the VA districts, but I can't even remember a single specific complaint about PGC's handling. Kudos to all of you.

As a DCPS parent one of my main complaints is not that schools have been closed but that DCPS and the Mayor have exploited the challenges parents are facing with remote learning (and they are real and important, lets not sugar coat it) as a cudgel to force the teachers union to agree to things that they were never going to agree to. If DCPS had the interests of kids and families at heart from the beginning, then they, like PG County, would have been honest with parents about limitations and crafted a plan that allowed parents to plan in advance. I'm not saying people would have been happy about the closure, but I think you would have seen less increasing impatience and anger as proposed opening dates kept getting pushed further and further back, and plans constantly shifted and failed to deliver on promises.[/quote]

+1  That's it exactly. There's stereotype that all of the parents pushing for reopening are privileged and white. There are certainly plenty, but that's not the whole story.

Surveys are showing that POC and the communities are more likely to be afraid of COVID, live in multigenerational households, and have been hit hard by COVID. These families do not want to risk their health to return to school buildings. Many are already exposed through their work and don't want to take on more risk. All of this makes perfect sense in terms of support for PGPS, although communication also comes into play.

Everyone keeps forgetting about lower wage earners who have to work outside of the home and don't have older family members in the home or nearby to help with the kids.  When you have to work outside of the home and don't earn much, your capacity to withstand long term DL is not as great. This apparently matters for teachers, who are understandably reluctant to return to buildings in part because they are uncomfortable putting their own children into daycare. But safety for educators comes at the expense of those families who need to use daycare to in order to continue working, who are forced to take on risk similar to schools by using outside childcare plus paying daycare costs. It is easier to try to to figure out a long term solution to what seems to be a long term problem than to keep patching together temporary solutions only to wind up disappointed and financially struggling.[/quote]

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