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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]-Distance learning is a disaster for all kids!
-It's not a disaster for my kid.
-It's not a disaster for my kid either.
-It will be a disaster for your kids too, you egotistical hater![/quote]
Yep! DCUM gotta DCUM  :mrgreen: [/quote]

DP. I see you are happily ignoring the data and press that is pouring out about the disproportionate numbers of disadvantaged kids who have simply disappeared from the education system altogether.

Of course, it is true that not even thinking about disadvantaged kids is indeed classic DCUM.[/quote]

As for whether it's appropriate to call DL a "disaster" or a "district-wide disaster" or "a tragicomic sh!tstorm of epic proportions" even when some students are happy and thriving, DCUM can knock itself out splitting those hairs.

However, it is very clear that, taken together, both on average, or as measured by those who are worst-off (some weirdos suggest that the measure of civilization is taken by those at "the bottom," but they are probably communist snowflake trash,) when we account for academic outcomes, and mental health outcomes for the group as a whole: this is un-great.

I think that most of us will at least agree that what is so incredibly frustrating about the current moment is that, will all of the system's weaknesses and flaws on full display, there is little hope that we MCPS will manage to do much more than revert to the prior system once all of this is over. Alas.

P.S. It's great that some kids are thriving! Individual experiences are important. It's also at the same time to look at the experience of the group, of the community, and to look at it in different ways. I hear a lot of parents talking about "their kids," and all I can ask is: Aren't we responsible for one another more broadly than that? It's such a weird way to organize ourselves, as humans: My offspring, and my offspring only. Obviously all of us -- really everyone here -- cares about the good of the student-body at large, even if only to avoid future systemic problems -- though probably in deeper and more caring ways that just that. [/quote]

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