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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, here's a real translation.

"We were afraid of the very vocal absolutely-no-virtual parents, because they are disproportionately well-off and powerful and know how to get attention. Even though the data suggested we were in for a sh!tshow and it might be best to go virtual for a few weeks to ride off the omicron sugre, we tried to create a school-by-school metric that might at least exclude at least THOSE people's schools from having to go virtual.

Since wealthier, whiter and more-vaccinated people have lower rates of actual infection and spread of COVID, we thought, hey, we're geniuses. Whoever made/insisted upon this plan didn't consider that purely self-reported data was going to have the opposite effect, because the same people who are wealthier, whiter and more-vaccinated are also the ones more likely to speak fluent English, have time to be highly informed, understand the procedures and have or find access to tests. Thus though the spread may be the same or lower in, say, the Whitman cluster than the Wheaton or Blair clusters, the way this whole mess was designed, the Whitman people were more likely to have their schools shut down.

So we are uhhhhh not just asking everyone to go virtual for a week or three, like we should have in the first place, but making these decisions, based on highly inaccurate data, even more granular and more needlessly complicated. Because there will be hell to pay if Larla with the "red" Burning Tree kid has to go virtual under almost any circumstances-- and we don't really GAF about Larlette with the "green" New Hampshire Estates kids, who is confused and scared and kept her kids out of school last spring because she lives with her grandparents and she can't afford to get sick."

HTH[/quote]

Look, I get why you think that.  But if that were true, my kid would have gotten more than 20 days in school last year.  It's simply not true.

The only thing that has ever caused them to change course, or expedite anything, has been pressure from the state.

Hogan had to pressure them to return last year.

And this switch came after the State called out their BS about following state guidelines.[/quote]

I'm the PP, and none of the previous responses to you were mine.

I don't understand why you think that privileged, powerful people have no more effect on politics than poorer, less-privileged people? Especially local politics?

I'm not saying that you, personally made anything happen or not.

I didn't say "If you are relatively privileged, you can simply wish something were true, or maybe write one strongly-worded letter, and everyone will personally and instantly bend to your will."

That's ridiculous.

What I'm saying is that the more power a group collectively has, the more power it has.

Now, in MCPS, people who are usually kept firmly out of power have a LITTLE more support than in most places in society. But then I see people angry at this terrible perversion of What Should Be.

I would hope you're not the poster from that other thread last night who cried at how terrible wealthy people were being treated ("like dirt") and how the Title One schools get all the breaks. I'm sure you're not that person.

But you can't possibly be refuting that MCPS decisions-- even via state decisions-- are not influenced more by vocal, UMC-to-wealthy, law-conversant, white, well-resourced, highly-educated parents than the opposite, right? [/quote]

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