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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]African-American women are disproportionately like to a) get; b) die from COVID. There are also twice as likely as white people to be caring for elderly parents/relatives. Many white parents on DCUM use poor children (who they couldn't give zero effs about, normally) as a shield for their racist and misogynistic response to African-American teachers and the WTU. It is not laziness and a lack of caring for children that makes teacher skeptical about  DCPS/DCPCS back to in-person school plans. It's fear and distrust. You have to counter fear and distrust with confidence building-measures like rapid testing and isolating students within the school building like they do in Scandinavia. [/quote]

It also helps to focus on facts. Not very many people in DC die from coronavirus -- the numbers have fallen dramatically over the past six months. Only 14 people died in October, which is close to the number who typically die in car accidents each month. Of those who've died, they are disproportionately elderly. 60 percent were at least 70 years old. [/quote]

Well, you are culling facts that serve your agenda. Long-haul COVID is real and brutal: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/long-haul-covid-patients/2020/10/23/ab7c5324-0712-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html. Cases are surging in VA and MD where many DC teachers live: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/coronavirus-in-dc-maryland-virginia-what-to-know-on-oct

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so no public school till 2023?[/quote]

Henny-penny, much? When DC, NoVa, and MoCo/PG rates are not surging + a vaccine is available is not 2023. [/quote]

Ok, 2022. Per fauci widespread vaccine will not be available until late 2021. So that means (according to you) we could start phasing in around January 2022, over a year from now?[/quote]

If the school waits for a vaccine before reopening, i suspect a substantial share of its student body will leave. [/quote]

I'll humor you. And go where? Private? (Where are these magic spaces coming from? Where is the money coming from to pay for tuition?) Move from DC? (To where? With what job? How does that help if adjacent jurisdictions are all still DL (as they are now)? You moving to Alabama or Florida as part of a "cut off your nose to spite your face" protest?)

The same people who casually cite scientific data and infectious disease experts as the reason we should be open might want to explore many of the open areas before paying that moving truck; you'd be surprised to learn those jurisdictions are open not because of experts, but because they long ago decided to ignore and devalue experts.

Serious question: would you rather live in a place where they ignore science and your kid MUST go to school even with super high infection and transmission rates or a pace where schools remain closed even if some data would agitate for a voluntary in-person return.  Unless you home-school or own/run your own town you don't get to choose.  [/quote]

LAMB parent here. We are big fans of LAMB but if it doesnt open until a vaccine, then we're leaving. We've been going back and forth about leaving DC for awhile in order to be closer to family and maybe LAMB will make the decision for us. Distance learning has put an intolerable amount of pressure on our family. I don't know why you're obsessed with what's happening in Florida or Alabama. The reality is that schools are open across most of the country to various degrees and with various precautions. It's places like DC that refuse to open no matter what (and in defiance of what groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend) that are becoming the outliers. We are worried about what being out of school for so long is doing to our kids. Our jobs are flexible enough that we don't need to live here. Employers in general seem much flexible about working remotely. [/quote]

NP. Another LAMB family considering leaving as DL is a disaster for our 7yo. And that’s not the fault of the teachers but if a school with a fully renovated building with large open areas,  classrooms with windows that can open, top of line HVAC system and a spacious outdoors not to mention parents that would trip over themselves buying enough TP and cleaning products for the next year can’t make it work, I’m ready to move on. [/quote]

Right. This. I am another LAMB parent considering moving to my home state where schools are all open at least hybrid, after the holidays. So far they have almost no reported cases in any school (suburban area). I would try to maintain enrollment in LAMB via attendance at some of the daily classes.
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So how are you going to get residency in this other state for your kids to attend school there, but also keep attendance at LAMB?  Wouldn't this be residency fraud?  You can't be residents of two states and attendance is based on residency. [/quote]

This is a an interesting question this year. I have my K student enrolled in day care. She does all educational activities there and logs on to zoom once a day for her attendance at her charter. Obviously she goes to day care because I can’t leave her home alone but I wonder how it’s really that different to put your kid in school somewhere else like PP plans. [/quote]

Do you live in DC?   That’s the difference [/quote]

Tell that to the LAMB parents who live in Maryland. [/quote]

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