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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to do shoulda coulda woulda on who opened schools and when, surely you also have to pull in the death rates, no?

DC has HALF the per capita death rate of Mississippi, Arizona, and Alabama.

I don't think anybody is arguing that virtual school is great. The choice was never "in person or virtual school, which is better." The choice was "virtual school or killing grandma, which is better."[/quote]

This has nothing to do with school openings. It has to do with vaccination rates, communal living, and adherence to masking / distancing. Look at the myriad Catholic, Episcopalian, and other independent schools that remained open to no ill effect. We had Elrich and his former health department trying to shut down these schools instead of applying lessons learned to public schools. It was and is a great tragedy.[/quote]

The kids in those private schools lived with their parents who worked from home. Their home bubble transferred to a school bubble. Not all kids have parents who got to stay at home. When my Title One school reopened last spring, we barely had any parents wanting to send their kids back in person. Why? They had a lot of deaths and Covid illnesses in their families. Covid was something to be scared of because they saw it firsthand. [/quote]

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