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I’m not going in with the mentality that DL will suck. It won’t be as good as in person, but it’s a pandemic. We are going to make the best of a crappy situation, and I’m going to hype my kid up and support FCPS. The only person that hurts if this fails is my kid, so I’m have no interest in it failing. I don’t get why so many people seem to hope it does. We aren’t getting in-person instruction at the moment. If it sucks, Brabrand is going to say it’s robust and keep it moving until he can get people back in buildings.[/quote]

I agree that FCPS will advertise that things are going great no matter what the product. So I consider it important to push for the maximum accountability we can get right now. I am so tired of the “it’s a pandemic!” posters. Suggests that we have to accept third rate stuff. No we don’t. We can and should expect FCPS to provide excellent education.  Without some level of holding the school district to the fire for bad implementation of DL in the spring, how can we hope for better?

Also, the decision to open/not open was not explained to people. [b]It was based on an assessment of risk[/b]. It seems (to me) that the metrics for reopening should have been part of that conversation.  We do have to hold the system accountable to the tax payer by asking how they are making these determinations and what will trigger a re-evaluation. [/quote]

That is not why FCPS is closed.  The health metrics support hybrid reopening.  It's staffing and logistics.[/quote]

There were no metrics. The health department said if they were to open at the time of the last meeting they believed it would be okay with social distancing, but that there would likely be an increase in community infections, which is what we are seeing in other areas. They couldn’t make an assessment based on September 8th because they aren’t psychic, but no metrics were released. [/quote]

Which begs the question of why? I get it’s a fluid situation, but why can’t the Health Department release metrics for a reopening? Aren’t they supposed to be the public health experts. My siblings school systems are all DL, but their areas have metrics released by either state or local health officials around reopenings and when to potentially close again. Not just positivity rates, but also, hospitalizations and availability of testing. I can’t understand why we don’t have those things.[/quote]

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