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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't believe the people doubling down on "KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN IN THE NAME OF EDUCATION" crowd. There were so many kids who didn't get an actual education today just by being in the building bc they didn't have teachers. There were no bus drivers. Schools weren't cleaned because custodial staff have been out. Just because a school building is open doesn't mean kids are being educated. You all are the worst of the worst. [/quote]

Yup. This is what I've been saying all week.

The omicron writing was already on the wall.

People kept acting like there was a real choice between "send kids to school, and maybe they get COVID, but we have to live with it now" and "go virtual*."

And I kept saying the ACTUAL choice was between "go virtual now" or "send kids into a sh!tshow, watch as numbers climb and a bunch of them get COVID, only to be forced into virtual in a week or two anyway."

But out come the shocked and horrified parents who I guess had been in some sort of denial for the past few weeks.

*And many would not consider the possibility that was actually being offered-- virtual for 2-6 weeks max. They had to build up this strawman of an evil and untrustworthy MCPS that wants to keep kids out of school for the rest of the year and would use a few weeks of virtual as cover for their nefarious plan, because... uh... teachers just [i]love[/i] virtual, it's not a gigantic pain in their butts and... administrators eating Pringles and bonbons all day and.... reasons... yeah. [/quote]

Sorry, but trust has to be earned.  Our kids sat at home last year for months and months for no reason.[/quote]

Okay, cool, fine, that's like, your opinion, man, but the point of my post it DOES NOT MATTER

Because schools were never going to stay in-person, because omicron spreads.

The end.[/quote]

Nope, you went out of your way to complain about a straw man argument.  That most certainly was at least part of your point.[/quote]

No. Listen. I may have been unnecessarily snarky and I may not have been entirely clear. But it was not a straw man argument and it was relevant to my point.

Removing the sarcasm now. This is the argument I have been in all week in 100 threads. I'll call me "Me" and various DCUMers who strongly object to virtual school "Larlas" so as to be DCUM-neutral.

[b]Me:[/b] Listen, we may not love virtual, but we might as well pivot to virtual before schools reopen, because it's going to be a sh!tshow either way, and at least this way, all our kids won't get COVID ~all at once.

[b]Larlas:[/b] Virtual is awful. Kids have suffered so much. I can't take another virtual year! We should send our kids to school, and if they get COVID, they get COVID-- we're all getting COVID soon enough.

[b]Me:[/b] Okay, virtual is awful. But I'm not talking about a year. I'm talking about a preemptive, proactive 2-6 weeks.

[b]Larlas:[/b] Ha! You think if MCPS says it will be 2-6 weeks, it will ACTUALLY be 2-6 weeks? How can you trust them after March 2020?

[b]Me:[/b] But see... there is no choice. If MCPS sticks to this 5% metric they set, we will all be pivoting to virtual in a week or two anyway. Why not avoid expose all our kids to COVID at the same time before we do?

[b]Larlas:[/b] I'm not agreeing to 2 or 4 or 6 weeks, because if I give MCPS that inch, they will take a mile.

[b]Me: [/b]I don't feel like you're hearing what I'm saying. If you don't agree to 2 or 4 or 6 weeks now, they will take 2 or 4 or 6 weeks anyway, it will just be slightly delayed after every school shoots right past the 5% metric, while also spreading COVID, needlessly. If you distrust MCPS, that's fine. But by not "giving" them 2 weeks because you're sure they'll use the opportunity to keep schools closed for 6 months, you are doing nothing more than delaying that entire sequence of events.

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[b]If you firmly believe that MCPS will stay virtual for many months if you give them 2 [i]proactive[/i] weeks of virtual to slow the spread of COVID in schools, what's to stop them from staying virtual for many months when they take 2 [i]reactive[/i] weeks to deal with a school population that's now riddled with COVID? [/b]

Granted, for the most part our support or opposition to an MCPS plan isn't going to influence it. But I think I've made my point.

The straw man here was not one created by me. Rather, what I saw was a red herring. Or frankly, a bit of grasping. Understandable, maybe? But the fact that "MCPS can't be trusted" was being used as an argument against proactively going virtual. And I'm saying it's all irrelevant. It's not even an argument that supports your position.

The only way it makes sense is if you think MCPS wasn't necessarily going to go virtual based on case counts. That was the only reason to "take your chances" and maybe not end up in virtual vs (in some minds) definitely going virtual and definitely being forced to stay there. But my argument was always... there were no chances to take. There was no chance we wouldn't end up in virtual either way.

With the perpetual caveat that MCPS didn't move the goalposts to 7%, 10% or whatever. Which they might. But they will end up right back in the same position in another week, with even more trust lost.[/quote]

A+. PP For Superintendent![/quote]

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