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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The schools needed to stop 100% for the year. No DL. If you want to save lives and keep the buildings closed, I'm all for it. If you want to keep an even playing field and keep kids on the same level without needing to tax ever stretched thin families and stressed kids with the extra weight of managing DL at home, close. Completely close. No DL. Just close. Only families with stay at home parents or ones with very flexible lives or independent kids are managing this well with student actually learning. If you are doing great with DL, congrats. I don't think it's the vast majority.
Why keep this up another semester or two and stretch stressed out families? To widen the gap? Why?
Close and reopen when it's safe. [/quote]

PP, I am reading your words and sensing the sadness and frustration you feel about continuing in DL. That is understandable, especially if you are one of the families with kids for whom DL isn't working. This is a difficult time, and so much responsibility for adapting and supporting student learning is being put on parents that it sometimes feels as though your needs and the needs of your kids don't matter at all. I get it. I am an HCPSS parent. While my kids are doing ok now, I've been at the lowest of the low point in my life with one of my kids and I was completely let down by HCPSS to the point then I thought no one cared at all about my family. It still hurts to think about that time.

Right now, there isn't much that can be done to reopen schools any time soon. All the anger and outrage in the world isn't going to change that. With that understanding, do you have any thoughts or ideas about what could be offered, either through HCPSS or in the community, that would help your family? Your needs matter too. What, short of reopening schools, would help?

I wish we would stop shouting at each other, argue less, and listen more to each member of the community who is struggling. You aren't a failure or a bad parent if you are having a hard time with this. [/quote]

PP here. Thank you. Yes. Sadness. Frustration. Feeling like those who have stay at home parents or money for daycare don't get the frustrations of seeing your children fall behind because there is no one home to help them log on. Why is it so hard for some to realize that it is truly a privilege to be ABLE to adapt. Sometimes, there is no flexibility. None. 
I am trying my best. My kids are trying their best. There is little learning happening with DL in our house. I finish assignments for them at midnight that they couldn't find in the tools to do themselves. I'm answering emails about what missing assignment where is an issue and who didn't log in when -- as if I can do ANYTHING about it at 10pm when the class was at 9am.

I have to work. The kids are old enough to stay home solo, but yes, they are still pre-teens and even with discipline, they miss classes.  If this continues another year, I don't how some can not see the widening gap. How can you not see it?

We do need to stop screaming at each other. It's not a reopen so things can be the same and I can have daycare. I don't need daycare. My kids can stay home solo. They can't stay home solo and somehow navigate DL on their own. 
We will all get through the pandemic eventually. I don't think it's safe to open schools. I'm not asking for schools to open. I want someone to see the issue is not just reopening schools. The major gap has been widening for years and now, either forget grades and pushing ahead and wait until it's safe, or help those who don't have the support systems of the students who are thriving.

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