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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any family that supports schools to be closed or on a rotating schedule in the fall is absolutely privileged.  As one of the previous post already stated: The economic strain, the ever widening of the achievement gap, and the socioemotional damage cannot be overstated.

Only those (predominantly white middle class families) who are able to afford help, private tutors are pushing for this. Their privilege completely blinds them. These people don’t care about black, brown or any other underprivileged families without resources, and wants our kids to stay underprivileged while their kids get ahead with private help.

To those who continue to push for school closure due to Covid-19, look inside your hearts and souls when you go out protesting for BLM with your privileged children. You don’t really care about our lives, you just want to virtue signal that you are better than others and that you are not racists.[/quote]

Thank you social justice warrior.  I, however, am concerned about the HEALTH of those same groups. I don’t want their older family members to die.  I don’t want our African American teachers to die. I don’t want kids to experience more trauma surrounding deaths of loved ones. [/quote]

The risk of dying for the average individual is small. The overall increase in deaths from opening schools, according to presently available data, would be minimal. The harms from keeping schools closed, both educational as well as economic and social, are an absolute certainty, and will be added to the already existing and likely, even if we keep schools closed, continuing trauma inflicted by the virus.[/quote]

Can you find data from another country with our obesity and diabetes rate?  No?  Right, so your data from Germany and Sweden doesn’t relate here. Beijing just had to close schools again.  If you don’t think that is going to happen here you are nuts. [/quote]

Yes, we will likely have to close schools again, which should be done on a case by case basis when there is a local outbreak. It's not a reason to keep all schools closed preemptively.[/quote]

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