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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm fixated because private school and Catholic school kids have been in school ALL YEAR in DC and elsewhere.  There's no reason, other than politics, for public schools to be closed and private schools to be opened.

I'm also fixated because I can cite you name after name of public health experts, doctors, educators, who all say we need to reopen schools and prioritize schools.  Yet contrary to the grandiose claims to "believe science," parents and politicians in DC are now completely ignoring all of this science.

And finally I'm fixated on the incredibly hypocrisy of progressives in DC pretending to care about black kids and marginalized people, all the while refusing to engage with the actual facts in front of their eyes: rich white kids in DC are being educated; poor black kids are not.  [/quote]

Teacher here. I'm also a parent of a Catholic school student who is in school twice a week. I teach in public school. Public and private schools are like night and day with reopening. My district asked for volunteers to open for certain student populations. I attended the meeting and my main questions were about masks. I would go back if schools could send children home for failure to comply with mask rules. They said they couldn't do that. If a kid won't wear a mask properly, teachers are supposed to ENCOURAGE them to wear it the right way. Um, what? At my son's school, a few boys weren't wearing theirs correctly and they were immediately sent home and couldn't return to school at all. If I don't pick up my sick kid at school within 40 minutes of being called, he cannot return to school at all. They are serious and no-nonsense and that's why I allow him to go to school. Nobody is "encouraging" the students to follow the rules there. If they don't follow them, they go home permanently. No questions asked. [/quote]

Agree.  My kids are going to in-person private school and how they are set up to function safely is not possible in most public school districts.  1)  The extra staff hired just for cleaning and resources purchased to disinfect 2) We had to sign a contact that we are social distancing outside of school and we must notify school if any member of household leaves the state and may be subjected to a quarantine at the school's discretion 3) Masks MUST be worn, if not, child goes home 4) ALL illness needs a dr note to return to school  5) If you are called to pick your child up and you MUST be there within 30 min, if not, child is not allowed back at school 6)Kids are met at car by a teacher, get their temp taken before being allowed out of car AND parents have to take temp and fill out a form and submit it before arriving at school

Private schools have the authority to make their own rules and enforce them. Parents are more responsible at private schools because they are paying $$$ for their children to go and their children will not be able to attend if they don't follow the rules.  Public schools can't do this.  Kids get sick at public schools and sit in the office all day long because parents don't come get them.  Kids are set to school from home sick all the time at public school and they can't do anything about it.  [/quote]

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