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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]

Yeah, actually, see-- not all of them do, but here's what I know.

Working class parents* outside of Bethesda are sending their kids to school right now, sometimes even with suspected COVID or a close contact, because they have those working class jobs that don't let them just take off. If they were to keep their kids home, they would be truant (which has greater consequences to them than UMC Bethesda parents), they would have no supervision, and they wouldn't be in school-- they'd be home, likely alone or with an older sibling, with no structure.

If school were virtual for everyone, it would be virtual for everyone, which means parents could organize with a few others in their communities to trade off childcare duties, the kids would at least potentially have the structure of virtual school, they wouldn't miss classes and they wouldn't be flagged for truancy.

It's one reason most of "those" parents chose virtual in the spring, and this is largely what they did.

And lol at "supervise their kids during virtual learning." Yes, they should have someone there, and preferably keeping the youngest at least occasionally on-task with a reminder or 5. But I suspect your definition of "supervise" is a lot more involved, which certainly would be a high bar to clear!

*Many, not all! I'm sure there are WC non-Bethesdans who greatly prefer in-person. They seem to be in the minority, though.[/quote]
A lot of parents relied on their older kids to help the younger ones which caused the older ones to miss out on their instruction.

I grew up lower income, and this is what usually happens in families without means -- the older kids end up picking up the slack.[/quote]

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