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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I right that there were no new covid cases reported in Arlington yesterday?  Really disheartened my kids are sitting at home doing nothing right now, instead of being educated in school where they belong.  [/quote]

We are having a pretty great day at home here, frankly.  I only have one kid, but he went to virtual office hours with 2 different teachers today to check on assignments.  Did 40 minutes of work in 3 different subjects.  Now working on math which is the nemesis.  Half hour videogame break in between a few of these.  He made himself lunch and ran around the house a few times as well.  This is 7th grade so ymmv.  I understand everyone doesn't have it this easy (and most days here are not this easy tbh) but right now it's nice to be tying this out as I work from home and have had this whole day home with the kiddo working as well.  It's actually nice.  *soft rain gently falls*[/quote]

As a parent of a kindergartner I’m SO over smug responses from parents of tweens/teens about how their kid is thriving or whatever with distance learning. As if we aren’t just making the best of it.

It’s not going great here. My career has been hanging on by a thread and my kid (who does wonderful on in-person days) cries because he doesn’t want to do school on an iPad. Virtual learning f-ing SUCKS for the young kids. And no, I haven’t let him know how I feel about it. I try to have a positive attitude, but a “make it work” attitude isn’t going to make a 5 year old not doing school virtually.

So whatever. Your independent 7th grader who can make himself lunch and do school on his own has absolutely ZERO bearing on my things are going for A LOT of other families. So you’re little post about enjoying the “soft rain” and day “with your kiddo” is pretty tone deaf.

I am lucky that I’m healthy and am not at high risk of COVID, but I’m not making proclamations that working from is “actually nice” because I’m cognizant enough to realize there are essential workers and high risk people who have been going into the office in-person this whole time. JFC of course others’ mileage is going to vary in regard to virtual learning. You could try gaining some freaking perspective and not making obnoxious posts like this. I guarantee people don’t like you in real life because you are tone deaf and clueless. [/quote]

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