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In short, I really think you guys are kind of the worst:  a mix of sanctimony and hypocrisy that can't seem to make the obvious connections between the effects that what you are asking for would have on other people in our area.  Nobody in my family died, you say, as a reason why increasing Arlington's mortality rate would be okay by you.  You are saying that your kid's education is more important than a less fortunate kid's parents.  Oh, north arlington, my home, what a huge collection of douchebags we all are, I hope we can all agree on that.[/quote]

Hard agree on all of this, including the important douchebag issue. [/quote]

You are my people, and I am yours. Not sure what we do about our neighbors, who I think often have jobs that require analytical skills but who displayed roughly none of them when it came to figuring out how to get people *enough* of what they needed during a pandemic, rather than everything they wanted, including having school be the way it was a couple of years earlier, when they were complaining about different stuff.[/quote]

And to give a different perspective, I think people who can't understand why in-person school FOR CHILDREN should be prioritized OVER BARS BEING OPEN have no sense of the importance of caring for children in our society (which we generally do a crap job of).  My kids are fine, you say, as a justification for why no child should have even the *option* for in-person school.  Remember, no one was *forcing* *all* children back into the classroom.  We were asking for the *option*.

But hey, I'm just someone who has expertise in child development, exposure to trauma/stress in early life and associated long-term consequences, and mental health.  I'm not capable of braying &quot;kids are resilient&quot; and going about my day.[/quote]

In case you haven't noticed, the ARLINGTON SCHOOL BOARD is not the entity that is making decisions about bars and restaurants.  If Duran were, I'm sure he'd be closing those in favor of having schools open.  But this is not the way local government's work.  I understand that's not going to stop you from making up, in your own head, a scenario where everything going on in Arlington is Duran's fault.

I don't need you to hammer your perspective at again.  You have explained your perspective to me over and over, and I have explained mine to you.  Here we go:

One side:  APS is useless, this lack of school has taken a higher toll on kids than anyone even knows yet, my kids are suffering mentally and academically, other areas seemed to handle this much better than Arlington did, why aren't you more upset?

The other side:  Pandemics aren't normal, better alive and behind or sick than have lots more dead people which full time school would have caused, the pandemic is having a larger effect on the poor, non-white areas of Arlington that you care less about.

Your side doesn't think that it was reasonable to believe that keeping schools open would have led to a greater loss of life, and doesn't think that tradeoff was worth it in the face of the educational consequences you see now.  And even if you might have seen some benefit to that early on, you think the school board should have acted, when it seemed like covid was getting more under control, to allow younger kids to go back to full time school this year, even if some kids still stayed home.

I have heard you and I while yes, in the best of all possible worlds, it would have been better if younger kids could have gone to school for more days, I understand how we got what we got -- surely it's better that we protected LIFE over education.  For the record, my order is:  LIFE &gt; EDUCATION &gt; BARS

Not sure whether you have seen the Arlington County Dashboard maps on covid stats both by zip code and by race/ethnicity, but eyeballing them it's clear that twice as many people died from Covid in parts of south arlington vs. north, and also that covid hit Arlington hispanics about twice as hard as white people.  So I'm sorry you and your child have had a hard time with remote learning, but other families actually have had it worse.  &quot;Just let them stay home then&quot; you will certainly say.  And that is where I turn back to my douchebag argument.[/quote]

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