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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So for everyone all posted that the school boards must pay for closing schools during the pandemic. . .

Wasn’t it the school administration who made that call on in-person/hybrid/concurrent?

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What local school board insisted on opening schools that an administrator insisted on keeping closed? I realize this is a non-FCPS board, but the superintendent there wanted to open with hybrid in the fall, while the SB insisted on keeping their heads up their butts for political reasons. [/quote]

Continuation. To be fair, that same superintendent made opening impractical after handing out ADAs like Halloween candy.  [/quote]

But did the FCPS school board actually vote on it?

I don't think that school boards have the power to decide if schools are open/close/hybrid/concurrent. That's an operational decision. 
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I agree with you that I don't think the FCPS school board had a vote on it.  It seemed purely operational and almost completely dependent on whether they could staff a reopening.  Turns out they couldn't (as other school systems also experienced) so they moved to a hybrid option.[/quote]

So what would have a R governor done if a school system couldn't staff reopening in the fall?

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I dunno.  If they had tried to force it, would they have had enough parents who wanted to send in their kids?  We wouldn't have back when teachers weren't vaccinated.  And we definitely wouldn't have without masks and social distancing.  So for us the point would have been moot because we wouldn't have sent in our kids even if the schools had been reopened.[/quote]

Jason Miyares said he'd sue any school district that closed.  That's #1.   The AG could have started investigating too things like those disability waivers and the governor would have access to much more information.  It wasn't just ADA waivers.

There were tons of LOAs granted that did not have to be.  You want to take an LOA?  No, you have to quit.  That's what happens in the private sector and that's what happened in many red states' public schools.

Not vote on reopening the school? You can vote to disapprove of not operating the school.  Any board that elected not to vote on keeping schools closed was grossly negligent (and that includes Arlington's school board, who really doesn't vote on anything).[/quote]

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