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[quote=Anonymous]Just a general request:

- Please stop lumping colleges in with schools when we talk about reopening schools in DCPS. The problems colleges face around Covid are very distinct. The kids live on campus! They don't have parental supervision. They are demographic known for risk taking around health and safety. It's so different. I don't care how many colleges have had to shut down due to Covid outbreaks. It's not relevant to whether a 2nd grader could safely go to school 2 days a week.

-  Please stop assuming that everyone who wants schools open is white or rich. Many of us are neither! A lot of us are just looking at the data, seeing the risk is extremely low for our very young children, and then looking at our children, who are absolutely miserable and struggling, and concluding that maybe there's another way. If you want to argue that opening schools could hurt black and brown communities, I am very interested in those arguments and want to know more because I am worried about my community, too. But don't assume I'm just some wealthy Karen just because I think in-person schooling is a good idea.

- Check your sources. Half the time someone will post an alarmist link to a study that looks like it says kids are super spreaders, but then I investigate a little bit and it turns out that it doesn't say that at all, or there have been three studies since then showing the opposite. Could you please try to make these argument in good faith? Many of us are genuinely interested in both public health AND ensuring our kids get a good education, and it's exhausting to constantly have to have these side arguments about data that isn't even relevant.

Anyway, carry on.[/quote]

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