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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this is all true, can someone please repost this information in a new thread with a better title, calling people to action? And then lock this thread down? The title of this thread is not going to garner much attention. We need to mobilize and get this passed through the VA legislature!

Would most parents support this, regardless of political party? Regardless of school district?[/quote]

No, absolutely not. [b]The metrics are what matters.[/b][/quote]

The metrics only partially matter - in-school mitigation is the biggest factor and that's not wishful thinking on the part of the districts, it's what the data has shown:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7004e3.htm?s_cid=mm7004e3_w
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2021/01/06/peds.2020-048090.full.pdf
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2775875

That's why VDOE has a decision matrix for schools released on 1/15 that uses a matrix relying on a combination of community spread AND school transmission/staffing impacts/kids quarantining. See slide 5 and then 13 (second from end). Unless there's a big outbreak or they run out of staff AND community spread is high (which it admittedly is), kids should be in as long as there's space, it says (which under all the hybrid/concurrent plans, there is):
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uploads/sites/182/2021/01/Interim-Guidance-to-K-12-School-Reopening.pdf[/quote]

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