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I’d really appreciate folks who disagree that in-person education for kids is a priority providing substantive evidence to support that position.  So far, I’ve seen none.  If I’m missing it, I want to see.  
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Who is saying that?

Like people already said, schools are open. Sure, there have been some temporary switches to virtual for outbreaks but there's seemingly no threat of all-virtual all the time.

I read through this packet yesterday and it didn't seem to offer anything new.

If we're talking about what we'd like to see discussed - where's the support for masks being harmful? That's what I expected to see in this toolkit because a lot of people seem to be making that claim. But the toolkit authors simply say, "Potential harms from long-term masking are poorly understood, and reports on mask removal have noted social and emotional benefits for students."

That's very similar to the language used to evaluate masks effectiveness, which is more or less a big shrug.

So, again, what's new here?[/quote]

Go to the MCPS forum.  While it's died down in the last week or so, there were a LOT of people calling for virtual earlier in January, because "Omicron," with zero consideration for the trade-offs of doing so.  Zero consideration that MoCo is very highly vaccinated.  Even short-term virtual has consequences, but the people claiming it doesn't provide no evidence for that claim, just a lot of hyperbole.

As for masks being harmful, how about for kids learning to read?  Learning a second language?  Learning to recognize and process emotions?  With speech delays?  Part of the issue is that people don't even want to consider the possibility that indefinitely masking children might not be ideal, when I just came up with multiple scenarios in which it could be problematic, without a lot of effort.
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I was the PP. Regarding masks, what I was looking for is evidence. Anyone can come up with whatabouts, including me. I wonder about those things, too, but I don't use the random questions I come up as support in an argument. I see that someone else posted some studies so I'll have to check those out.[/quote]

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