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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure if I create a new thread for this it will be deleted because, gasp, it's about another state and so irrelevant here (ok Jeff...) but you all need to read this: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-illinois-schools-opening-pressure-20201031-cwivxnk72bfr7f77jtxwop75ne-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&utm_content=861604189979&fbclid=IwAR2aDhVi2SnK6LkJZiIq6ZQfZEBfNvvucOBDVeqGFeLsxbT38Nz1_MvxPzk

I'm pro-reopening, but I'm also white and middle class. This article shows why this won't happen. Once it becomes a race issue, and it's wealthier whites that want it, in DC, it's doomed.

I actually think it will push many of those families into private schools, including ours, or to the suburbs. This is the issue. [/quote]

Of course I know about the racial divide. But it’s ironic that that article claims white parents are ignoring “the science” when the current science strongly supports reopening. It’s an issue of communicating to those communities that they should not be overly fearful. That’s exactly why the WTU’s fear-based tactics are so incredibly toxic. Beyond that, nobody is going to force families into the classroom that don’t want to go.  [/quote]

Of course they aren't. But that's not the point. If it becomes clear that white families will return their kids to the classrooms but Black and Hispanic families will not because they don't feel safe, there will be no in person school. Opening will create equity issues, and schools will remain in DL, not just in DC, but throughout the DMV.  [/quote]

so everyone will get demonstrably worse educations for “equity” including minority kids? makes zero sense. if in school is so much better (implied by your equity argument) then schools should open for everyone, no DL. You can’t simultaneously argue DL is inferior and creates equity issues compared to in person, and then refuse to open the schools. [/quote]

I'm not making the argument, but I am speculating that the argument will be made. It is the same reason that hardly any instruction was offered in the spring. The thinking, which I personally do not agree with, is that if what is being offered cannot be accessed in an equitable way, then it is better to offer less. Of course, as you suggest, another way to address the problem from an equity perspective would be to reopen schools without offering a DL option. I don't see that happening, but it a potential solution.[/quote]

Yes, this argument will be made and is being made. Not offering a DL option is even less equitable because many students actually cannot attend in person, due to high risk households or their own medical needs.

I was wondering if anyone would point out the bias in the article around certain scientific views. There is NOT consensus on what's safe, clearly, see quoted health professionals in the article. It's also a good point that minority communities have been hit hardest and also have poor healthcare, so good reason to fear this disease.

To make the argument for reopening, you would need to win on the level of making those minority families, or enough of them, feel safe enough to send kids back in enough numbers. I don't see that happening. I do think it's a little crazy to, as you said, offer less because of equity - lower all boats so to speak. That's really the DC way though. Then everyone simply pours their private money into their own personal family solutions (or used to be, into the PTO).

This is sort of like the tiresome and neverending argument around gifted education.

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