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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We told our child in third grade that this was not ideal but it was what it was and we expected him to do his best. He logged in, turned on his camera, and participated as his Teacher expected. He did his work and figured out how to make the google slides even easier (find three cylinders was answered with marker, marker, and marker because he had a box of markers on his desk). He has done fine. He has learned this year but not as much as we would have liked. We supplemented with AoPS for math and bought him whatever books he wanted to read. He discovered audio books and listens to those when he is going to bed. He has been thrilled to return to school in person and strongly prefers those days to the days on the computer.

We are also blessed to have a kid who loves to read and do math and is naturally curious. I am not surprised to hear that some of my friends kids struggled and that DL was a disaster for them because I know the kids and I know that the parents were struggling with work and helping their kids. Most of my friends who struggled with DL report that their kids are making up ground now that they are in person, most for 4 days because they are in FCPS.

I understand why schools were closed. I think hybrid should have been an option from day [b]1 but that is based on knowledge that we have now[/b] and not the knowledge we had when all this started. We were also in a better position to support our son then other parents were. [/quote]

huh, somehow private schools, parochial schools, and all of the NYC school district had the knowledge to reopen or stay open the whole time, or far before DMV public schools reopened.  I wonder what sort of secret knowledge they, and only they had. Or maybe it's that there are other reasons our schools stayed closed that had nothing to do with knowledge. [/quote]

They are much smaller school populations with mostly middle class and wealthier students and didn't have to make adjustments for 27,000 students.  NY was ahead of the curve v. DC area on containing the virus and implementing safety measures and protocols. Measures APS has still not implemented. Therefore, they were willing to go ahead with in-person school.  [/quote]

This.

Private schools could force students to wear masks and comply with policy because they could force kids who did not comply into the schools virtual option or remove the kid from the school. Public schools did not have that option. Some school districts were more risk averse. Loundon was back in person far earlier then FCPS or APS, I think that is when other schools should have returned. NY also had already been through a huge wave of COVID and probably had more families and kids willing to comply with COVID restrictions at school because of that experience.

It is easy to look back and complain. My family signed up for hybrid and would have sent our son in on day 1 but I understood why that was not an option. The delays and the like were frustrating but I cannot expect larger entities to be super flexible and nimble. There are concerns to be had in the Public environment that Private schools do not have to address.

the change I wish had been made from day one was to create a virtual school and in person school. If you wanted virtual, you joined that school and understood that it meant that you would not be taught by a teacher at your base school. They should have kept kids from the same base school in the same class but those kids could have been mixed with kids from other schools. When in person was possible, schools would have been in a better place to make it work. But parents balked at the idea that their kids would not be taught by a teacher at their base school. I think that was the major screw up. [/quote]

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