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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, the idea that public school is some kind of nom-essential luxury that parents wrongly think of as an entitlement is...something. It's one of THE major universal institutions in all modern first world countries. And it IS an entitlement! It's not a luxury, everyone pays taxes because children, NOT their parents, are ENTITLED to an education. It is a right of residence and a key institution of social reproduction.

Now, whether and how much schooling happens in person during a pandemic is more of a logistical question, I'm not saying therefore we have to go back 5 days a week. But the whole framing that school is NOT essential and that it's selfish of PARENTS to want it is one I strongly reject. With lots of caps.[/quote]

Well said. The PP who thinks public school is a non-essential privilege embodies everything that's wrong with America.[/quote]

Oh for God's sake.  THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOL  They are going to be educated to the standards set by the state.

They are just not going to have it in the format you want it.  That's sad for you, but oh well.[/quote]

It's not sad for PP, it's sad for her kids. What's also sad is how dismissive and even gleeful you seem to be about that. I hope your kids can find someone to teach them remotely about empathy, since it seems like you are unable to do it in person.[/quote]

What's even sadder is that 126,000 people have died from this virus and 2.6 million have been infected in less than six months.  Schools aren't doing distance learning just to inconvenience you or make your kids sad.[/quote]

Oh, I didn’t mean PP’s kids would be sad (my own kids are actually pretty happy not to go to school, at least for now). I meant it’s sad for this whole generation of kids that there is little consideration of the actual costs and benefits of keeping schools closed indefinitely. Little attention is being paid to the pretty unanimous expert assessments that closing schools has minimal benefit for preventing overall deaths.[/quote]

This is my problem. So is MCPS just prepared to completely ignore expert advice that not opening schools is the wrong decision?[/quote]

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