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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every county, or at least he bigger ones have VA.  Googling to see it, even Baltimore City has one.  At some point, if you have 10-40K students in VA, you'd have to create a entire new school system, vs. separate schools like each county did now.  If that poster wants to go through the state, fine, however they can argue all they want but MCPS has been clear that they are committed to keeping VA.

Doing it through the state makes no sense except if you mandate each county use the same exact curriculum so kids can move in and out of VA to in person easily.  Although the state taking over the curriculum may not be a bad thing if they brought textbooks back.[/quote]

I get why it there might be substantial value to making it easy to go to/from virtual during the pandemic. But we're nearing the end-game on COVID, with the 5-11yo vaccines rolling out. Of the kids whose parents choose to keep them in virtual next fall, I think it is safe to assume *most* will never return to their old  in-person schools. So there's very little benefit to keeping the virtual curriculum aligned with the physical schools that happen to be geographically close to the  students.[/quote]

There is a benefit to keeping it with the county, in that many kids won’t need the VA for their whole school experience. They may need it just a couple years, or even just one semester.  (I’m a NP who hasn’t carefully read all these very long posts.) [/quote]

PP here. I agree. Made sense to have MCPS its own VA aligned with its own curriculum. Many VA students will return next school year, having been vaccinated.

My point just starts with *next* school year. Waiting yet another semester or year isn't going to change anything during the 2022-2023 school year. The kids that don't return then aren't likely to come back anytime soon, if ever.[/quote]

Kids are in VA for a variety of reasons and many of us have not made the decision of when as there are too many issues going into it.  It’s not just vaccines for many of us.  [/quote]

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