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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It has been quite surprising/disappointing to see some liberal friends of mine who have turned really anti union in this time. [/quote]

Come on, the teachers union has been difficult.  The Mayor's Office has been difficult.  OSSE has been difficult.  DCPS leaders have been difficult.  The White House has been insanely difficult.  Call me virulently anti all of them right now.[/quote]

So, if you're proposing safer but not perfectly safe, what does that look like? Teachers in full PPE every day? Because the reality of the structure of our school buildings makes it impossible to be socially distant at school. Take a look at Gwinnett County, Georgia, which was mandating that teachers do their virtual lessons from their classrooms even though the students would be remote. After the first day of in-person teacher planning, 260 teachers called in to say they had tested positive for COVID or had been exposed to someone who was. I'm not a teacher, I'm just a parent who also desperately wants my children to be back in school, getting the socialization they have been craving for months. But we are clearly unable to keep people safe in a meaningful way in any institutional setting. The idea that "safer" is safe enough is garbage.  The social contract is broken because of people who think that their individual freedoms and needs are more important than the needs of the many. [/quote]

Not really.  The social contract is mainly broken because the public health care system has been underfunded for decades, and our current president is an incompetent jerk.  We can't keep schools closed forever without jeopardizing our economic recovery.  Yes, I'd prefer teachers and kids in full PPE every day than closed schools. [/quote]

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