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I’m very much for opening schools and agree that our long term goal needs to be herd immunity in some sort of controlled fashion, as brutal as some may view that. We know we can do that (perhaps without the controlled part) versus a vaccine. I just don’t see the system taking the political risk of fully opening with reasonable safety measures, nor do I see there being any more time to make that decision. The system has 160,000 students. Any decision other than opening as normal is going to take every day left available to implement. Nine days ago I would have agreed with you about Phase 3. In fact, I would have bet on it. I’m not as sanguine about that anymore because the rest of the country has become a cautionary tale for Elrich. [/quote]

What about the political risk of saying, "Sorry kids, sorry parents, sorry employers of parents, we're just going to continue to not have school because that's easier than figuring out how to have school."?[/quote]

It's not a question of ease, it's a question of safety. Safety wins every time.[/quote]
DP, but what about the safety of kids in unsafe homes?  I don’t even mean abusive ones necessarily, but ones in which parents have to go to worksites and can’t find childcare, so kids are left alone.  I know DCUM likes to bury its collective head in the sand about this issue, but it’s very real.  How do you rank the safety of those children with that of adults who work in schools?[/quote]

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