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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the only issue I care about in the upcoming primaries. Did you support banning children from going to school? If the answer is yes, we are going to end your career. What happened in Virginia and New Jersey is coming to the D.C. [/quote]

Why would vote out school board leaders who have had to make the completely thankless decisions regarding closures, masks, vaccines, social distancing, etc.  I guarantee that whatever decisions you would have made would have generated widespread opposition as well.  Get a life!  Over 800,000 Americans have died due to COVID, which is probably understated.[/quote]

Because it was anti-science and hurt children.  Plus the repercussions on women's work force participation.  [/quote]

It certainly is not anti-science.  Yes, closures hurt children, but so does COVID.  It has hurt everybody's work force participation.  Take note that over 800,000 Americans have died, more than in any war.[/quote]

There's plenty of evidence that school closures did nothing to limit spread.  Hell, have the case numbers dropped in the DMV these past couple of weeks when schools were closed for break?  no.

So, if school closures don't reduce spread, why do it?  It becomes only a negative and no positive.

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How many teachers are available to go into these classrooms to teach the children? How many school bus drivers are out on covid related issues? People keep screaming to send the kids back into the classrooms, but fail to consider how to get the children there and who will be in the classrooms to teach. You cannot force teachers to go into environments which many consider unsafe. I would rather the virtual learning than nothing at all. Substitute teachers are useless, as they are simply babysitting without actual instruction. My kid's school planned on returning in-person on Monday, but more than ten teachers reported positive for covid. Monday and Tuesday school closed totally. The remainder of the week is virtual learning. Touch and go to follow. [/quote]

Seems like a strawman, because people recognize staffing issues.  I, for one, completely understand that people will test positive and be out.  Hopefully the schools will follow CDC guidance and those asymptomatic positives will only be isolated and out for 5 days.  At least that's the case here where teachers are required to be vaccinated.  I guess it would be 10 days in places where teachers aren't required to be vaccinated.  At any rate, once they get it we can all have a regular 3 months.

But what people are "screaming" about (where do you see this?) is the pre-emptive closings as if 2 days of extra closures will protect anyone.  People were pretty traumatized (parents, kids, teachers) from last year, and the trust in schools is gone.  So the mere suggestion that we do something to protect against covid -- without evidence that it will actually prevent spread -- just pokes at the trauma.  People get excited.[/quote]

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