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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every county, or at least he bigger ones have VA.  Googling to see it, even Baltimore City has one.  At some point, if you have 10-40K students in VA, you'd have to create a entire new school system, vs. separate schools like each county did now.  If that poster wants to go through the state, fine, however they can argue all they want but MCPS has been clear that they are committed to keeping VA.

Doing it through the state makes no sense except if you mandate each county use the same exact curriculum so kids can move in and out of VA to in person easily.  Although the state taking over the curriculum may not be a bad thing if they brought textbooks back.[/quote]

I get why it there might be substantial value to making it easy to go to/from virtual during the pandemic. But we're nearing the end-game on COVID, with the 5-11yo vaccines rolling out. Of the kids whose parents choose to keep them in virtual next fall, I think it is safe to assume *most* will never return to their old  in-person schools. So there's very little benefit to keeping the virtual curriculum aligned with the physical schools that happen to be geographically close to the  students.[/quote]

It is striking how little anyone here seems to contemplate the prospect of a vaccine-escaping variant.[/quote]
The vaccines target the spike protein. The spike protein is the part that engages with the cell. If the spike protein mutates far enough to escape the vaccines, it will no longer engage with the cell.

Naturally acquired immunity, though, can target any part of the virus, and those parts of the virus can mutate away. This is why vaccine acquired immunity is better than infection-acquired.[/quote]

I would bet money that the COVID spike protein turns out to be more creative than this makes it out to be.

More to the point, I wouldn’t bet our school system that it’s going to happen only the way you suggest and that we’re not going to be right back in March 2020 a lot faster than any of us want to be.

Good luck to all.[/quote]

This post perfectly illustrates my point. For some people the pandemic will never end, and they'll never consider in-person schools safe. To someone like the pp, terrified of breakthrough infections, hesitant to get vaccine boosters, and convinced the other shoe is going to drop, there's plausible path back to in-person learning. And that's her right. But let's structure virtual learning around the false belief that students in these families are coming back. We'll need a large number of students return next fall after getting vaccination. But the ones that are kept home after that are going to stay home for a long, long time. And when/if they return to in-person school, I suspect will end up in private schools rather than public schools. Only a small percentage will end up ever stepping foot in an MCPS school again.[/quote]

Stop making up stuff to justify your poor behavior.  No we will not go private.  I got my kids spots for the fall and they choose virtual. Privates are not much safer.  [/quote]

I didn't mean to suggest you would go private. I think your kids will stay in virtual for the foreseeable future.[/quote]

They will for the rest of this year and then we'll decide in August if we'll return to in person.  We did look into and get spots in private.  We figured that was better than in person public as the last resort as we couldn't find an good virtual option.  At least the privates have weekly testing.

I can completely understand why many left for privates between the school violences issues, covid and curriculum.  [/quote]

Cool. More evidence that it is needlessly wasteful to keep virtual education managed by individual counties/districts. If they're not back to MCPS next fall, they're probably never coming back.[/quote]

How is it wasteful?  How do you know if we'll come back or stay in virtual?  How do you know about the 3000K students in virtual and each of their choices?

Really, its far cheaper for MCPS to run a VA than it is to open up more in person schools.

If anything, in person is wasteful, so if you are looking at cutting out waste, maybe all kids should go virtual.  That way we can get rid of all the physical buildings and staff that go along with it.  That would be a huge cost saver.  No more busses.   That a would be a win on finances and environment.

So, maybe the issue isn't we should close down VA, but based off your logic, we should shut down all in person schools.  And, we should just get rid of MCPS and have the state run all educational programs.  [/quote]

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