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[quote=Anonymous]I’m somewhere in the middle of all this debate. I want schools open but with transparent safety measures that treat school staff with respect. I spend a lot of time (probably way too much) angry at both sides when I think most of us have more in common than not, but only the loudest voices are heard.

I will say this, my kid got covid in September. They had a huge class at the time, ate lunch indoors, and contact tracing was a joke (never heard from DC health and basically had to make our own return plan with our ped). Kid was given nothing to do for ten days. Nothing. (Yes, I asked both the teacher and the principal, but no I wasn’t a squeaky wheel about it). When my kid was sick I spent a lot of time mad at DCPS’s mitigation measures. But you know what? NO ONE ELSE GOT IT. Compared to other places (my SIL teaches in Utah), our mitigation measures are a dream.

I think DCPS central and the chancellor are a bumbling joke, and I would love for some oversight. But I’d like the council to start with the premise that kids should be in school and push for whatever it takes to keep them there. If that’s weekly testing, high sub pay, better masks, etc, sign me up. But an arbitrary threshold to close schools (but apparently nothing else?) when we have vaccines and treatments and know kids are low risk sends me right back to August 2020 with a pit in my stomach.  I can’t believe we’re here in 2022 and the progressive thing to do is still to put virtual learning on the table. [/quote]

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