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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I'm in MoCo and I do think the large size (both in terms of student population and in terms of geography) makes it a LOT harder to work through a situation such as the pandemic.[/b] I grew up in New England, where schools have mostly stayed open through the pandemic primarily because the schools are run on a town-by-town basis. It's a lot simpler when you're not trying to come up with a one-size-fits-all solution for 165k kids, hundreds of schools and a massively dispersed and complex transportation system. I doubt that will ever happen here since the county government system is how MD and VA are organized overall, but it would enable a lot more flexibility and nuance.[/quote]

This. Town-based school systems are key. Our schools were virtual for 3 months in 2020, but have been open since then. Blue area in red state, with weak unions (also key).

-alum of MoCo schools, when it was a smaller and more manageable school district[/quote]

I also think that a lot of these smaller towns/districts deferred to the state for guidance and didn’t try to reinvent the wheel with their own metrics.  States like RI, CT, NY, MA had governors that supported reopening last year and frankly showed more leadership on the issue.  MD left districts up to their own devices and Hogan was late chiming in.[/quote]

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