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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you all read the legislation? It’s not a free-for-all keep your kids home/no learning. It expands the category for virtual learning to families who have immunocompromised adults in the home, for example; and allows quarantining kids to have excused absences vs. in excused.  Talk about living in a bubble. Lots of families have multiple losses due to COVID. If a family wants to do virtual school to reduce risk of transmission to vulnerable caregiver, that’s what this does. [/quote]

Read the first post which is a direct quote from the legislation.  It allows schools to grant excused absences to anyone if they are just worried about Covid, until January 2022.

Virtual school would mean not mean absences.

Maybe you should read the legislation.  It does what you say but it also allows anyone to just stay home (without virtual and without applying for homeschool), if the school allows.[/quote]

Schools were asking for this, bro. They have long time families who they have been in contact with who they know are not getting neglected and who they did not want to have to disenroll because they know they’ll be back in Nov/Dec after vaccines. [/quote]

Are you sure they'll be back after vaccines?  Or will they decide that xxx means it still isn't safe?  Breakthrough cases?  Non-universal testing?  Then they will just petition the Council again and keep their kids home for another year, burdening teachers and schools and CPS.  All the while opening the door for actual neglect.[/quote]

OMG the histrionics. [/quote]

I continually laugh at the people who just forced the Council to declare emergency legislation deride 'histrionics' in others.[/quote]

You mean the people who could die of Covid because they’re on chemo but were forced to choose between sending their kid to in-person learning or losing their school community because the mayor doesn’t consider immunocompromised family members to be a good enough reason to enroll in virtual? Yeah those people are real drama queens. [/quote]

No, not them.  The ones who want to have bespoke schooling for their non-immunocompromised children, even when they don't have other immunocompromised family members.

Which is what the thread is about.[/quote]

That’s just made up nonsense. [/quote]

No, that's literally in the bill.  Some people can just keep their kids home until January, without virtual school and without homeschooling, as long as the school says it is ok.  But it's just, apparently, for a select few that the school deems worthy, not everyone.  How is that not bespoke?[/quote]

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