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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]Gayle just said children can catch it and have complications.[/quote]

https://montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/

0 deaths in MoCo in 0-17 age group.

447 cases out of 100,000 population[/quote]

If you don’t trust him, how can we reopen schools?[/quote]

Kids will probably be okay if they get it, but their teachers, parents, and grandparents not so much.[/quote]

Think about the many low income students at my school who live in crowded multigenerational households. That’s a lot of potential trauma. And there are usually 3 or 4 a year who are in family foster care with a grandparent raising them. If that grandparent dies, they will be placed with strangers or even in a group home. [/quote]

If you actually cared about these ‘low income’ students, you would be actively advocating for them to go back to school.

Guess who is losing out the most with Distance Learning.  Lower-income students.  They don’t have the help at home to complete assignments, parents can’t hire tutors to fill in the gaps, like all the PPs on here.

We are at a lower income ES and my kid’s teacher only had 5 out of 21 kids participating in DL on a regular basis.

This will exacerbate the Achievement Gap for the next several years.  [/quote]

That really is the sad irony.  This board is incredibly focused, maybe too much so, on the achievement gap.  Every decision they are making seems geared to protecting the interests of lower performing students.  But, the choices they are making are going to hurt those students the most, and no amount of food or chromebook distribution is going to change that.  To be clear, I’m not saying they shouldn’t do those things to try to lessen the impact, but students who need food and computers from school are going to be hurt most even with those things provided.[/quote]

This is 100% correct.  This BOE has hung its hat on equity - and now when they have a chance to make decisions in favor of it, they cower.  Not surprising, but wholly upsetting.  [/quote]

This exactly.

Where are all the teachers and the Equity Unit employees?  Why aren’t they speaking out in favor of returning to school.

Ironic that Trump is the one pushing for schools to open.  Maybe if Trump took the angle that lower-income families are suffering, the SJWs in MCPS would get on board.

Or else, it appears to simply be liberal hypocrisy from teachers and staff.[/quote]

Maybe because they realize that it is black and brown families who are getting COViD and dying of it at higher rates?  Who don’t have access to good health care? who don’t have savings to prevent eviction when an hourly wage worker gets sick and loses their income?

I’m not convinced that equity considerations dictate offering in person school.[/quote]

It appears that MCPS leadership (BOE and Jack Smith) and teachers can pick and choose when to advocate for Equity.

If Jack Smith truly believed what he wrote in his post from July 11, getting lower-income students back in school would be a priority.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/opinion/opinion-july-4-in-a-country-unable-to-protect-black-americans-life-liberty/
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