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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First day of PK was an unmitigated disaster for my kid this morning. She is getting absolutely nothing out of this. DL is a joke for this age group. Why won’t our worthless mayor close bars so we can open schools for small children? [/quote]

Honestly, they don’t need to. DC more than meets public health criteria to have elementary schools open and PK is the same age cohort as day cares and they are open. It’s unbelievably ridiculous that PK is distance learning. It absolutely not supported by any science or data that it is necessary.

I honestly don’t want to ever hear DC harp on about their goals to close the achievement gap ever again. They lost absolutely all credibility here for the rest of forever. [/quote]

Would you like some tarter sauce for your red herring? No one is arguing PK is best or preferable in DL model. And no one is arguing that achievement gaps are helped by DL. Reasonable minds can disagree as to whether those challenges outweigh the risks of COVID spread. Since you are such a data lover I assume you realize that the majority of public school kids are 10 or older (a population that spreads the disease at the same rate as adults), so the decision matrix here isn't grade by grade, it is a system-wide decision with shared and finite resources.

P.S. You don't give two sh*ts about the achievement gap. That part of your post is just silly. [/quote]

DP:  Why shouldn’t the decision be made grade by grade?  Seems quite reasonable to me to make decisions about elementary schools separate from middle and high schools,[/quote]

Because you can't staff and scale resources necessary to support in-person and DL grade by grade. [/quote]

Yes, you can.  First of all, the staff and resources are already there.  Opening elementary schools before middle and high schools is not wildly different operationally from opening them all at the same time.[/quote]

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