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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Please sign this petition to keep doing what we are doing! I am an upper middle class Bethesda mom! Do the thing I say that you are already doing NOW!"[/quote]
Do you think the working middle class parents outside of Bethesda have the means to supervise their kids during virtual learning?[/quote]

I think the more realistic take is that people of all socio economic classes and races and locations want virtual and the same goes for in-person. Given that there are solid reasons for both, there should be options, at a minimum, excusing students who choose to remain at home and providing the something short of hybrid (streaming without interaction, permission to follow along in Canvas with unexcused absences, etc...).

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NP, I think you're right about the perspectives of people by socio-economic group, but the conversation is still frustratingly driven by people accusing other people's opinions as being because of "privilege." I've changed my position on COVID a bit(I was more supportive of virtual last year and now I'm not), but no matter where I've landed people are convinced it's because I'm a white Bethesda mom (only one of those things is true, I am white). I'm very open to flexibility right now and letting parents choose what's right for them, but I wish we could all just admit that there's not a "right" choice for the sake of equity or whatever. [/quote]

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