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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents just want someone to blame. COVID is to blame.
Teachers have had no power to determine when school resumed. None. We have been told when to report and we are doing it. Full stop.[/quote]

I would say parents and staff actively working to APS virtual are to blame. COVID is not to blame - if it was than how come so many public schools around the country and private schools right here have been open successfully? [/quote]

Most kids in the US have been virtual this year. Stop acting like that wasn’t a reasonable, precautious approach.

In the fall, the virus was running rampant and numbers were skyrocketing. 500k++ people have died FFS.

Now numbers are dropping and we have the vaccine. And guess what? WE ARE OPENING.

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Fact check from the Burbio school opening tracker March 1 update ([url=https://info.burbio.com/school-tracker-update-mar-3/]here[/url]):

"The number of US K-12 students attending virtual only schools started at a high of 62% at Labor Day, dropped to just under 37% by early November, and rose back to 55% the first week after the New Year due to rising Covid 19 rates. Since then we have seen a near-universal return of schools that were in-person as of November plus a gradual return of parts of the country that had been "Always Virtual" (never had students in the classroom) and the national "virtual" number is at its lowest point since we began tracking at 27.5%."

* so while "most" were virtual at the start of the year, by November "most" were not, and "most" certainly ARE NOT now.

"Less than 25% of K-5 students now attend "virtual only" schools. We saw a big drop in 6-8 virtual-only - 34.6% to 29.0%, or 5.6% percentage points - which reflects the various phased approaches we are seeing where 6-8 goes into the classroom after K-5 begins. "

In fact if you take out DC/MD/VA and the West Coast from the Burbio data, only 15% of the country is now virtual-only. 15%.[/quote]

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