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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you care what others do?   We planned to keep ours home if we did not get into virtual.  Given the health pandemic, lack of safety precautions it was a no for us. [/quote]

I don't think anyone cares what you do personally but they do care about how what you're doing affects others given the lack of resources available to DCPS.  If this is were just a case of being able to throw some additional money at virtual options, pretty sure no one would care that you want to stay home until it's "safe".  But that is not the case, and people don't want their in-person experience ruined to accommodate a minority of parents, most of whom sound like they need health anxiety therapy instead of actually needing a virtual option. [/quote]

here are the people "inconvenienced" by people just saying they can keep their kids home until January and not send them to any sort of school, or even homeschool:

1)  the children who are receiving substandard or no education  
2)  school staff who have to report those kids to CPS or interact with those parents, possibly providing them educational materials or some sort of backdoor virtual option
3)  CPS who has to investigate those parents because before the Council's bill they'd be doing something illegal.

I, another parent, am not inconvenienced.  It is actually true that I care about the kids that are going to not receive any education at all because of this.  It is actually true that by saying that CPS shouldn't be involved we let more kids who are being neglected or abused fall through the cracks.

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