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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page[/quote]

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1421929291852390401?s=20[/twitter][/quote]

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else. [/quote]
Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.[/quote]

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?[/quote]
I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing. [/quote]

YOU may homeschool. Stop demanding everyone cater to you. [/quote]
After a year of DL, hybrid, concurrent, asymptomatic testing, smaller cohorts, it isn't ethical to tell families "Yeah, we're not doing any of that anymore, no version of it. We know the risks are far greater now, but we can't afford to mitigate them. So send your kids in with us or figure something out on your own." DCPS has a responsibility towards all of its students, including those whose families want their children vaccinated before going into a full classroom with delta circulating. [/quote]

So much this. 
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Agree 100%.  The delta virus is more contagious and[b] now it is also looking to be more virulent.[/b]  And hospitals are seeing more serious pediatric cases.  The only reason that this is not being talked about is that no politician wants to face these facts, and no public health official wants to receive death threats from angry parents.  Many schools in DCPS recognized that they could not possibly open up safely last year for 100% of their students 100% of the time, whether that was due to overcrowding or other issues.  Now we are supposed to celebrate 100% re-opening for everyone 5 days a week.  But the virus is more dangerous and it is more contagious, and nothing has changed about schools' ability to open safely at 100% capacity.  And, yes, they have dropped mitigation measures.  There is no longer random asymptomatic testing.  There is no longer quarantining close contacts (based on the CDC fiction that every child will be "properly wearing a well-fitted mask.")  There is no longer cohorting. 
 And distancing is encouraged only "when possible" (which, as previously mentioned, it is not at many schools).

As part of the pro-vax campaign, public health officials are basically now screaming from the roof tops that anyone left unvaccinated against covid will eventually catch the delta variant.  Of course this also applies to unvaccinated children.  I'm not sure why it is so much to ask to give parents a virtual option until their kids can be vaxed.   Distance learning worked very well for both of our children last year.  Not only did they not fall behind academically, they achieved MORE than they had in previous years because they had so much down time when we could add supplementary material.  If your child's needs to be in-school outweigh their health concerns, then that is a fine choice.  But why should we be forced into a dangerous situation when we have proven that we can excel at home, and the pediatric vaccine is on its way?  Then, of course, kids should all be back at school.

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It is not looking like it is more virulent for kids.

You notice that you are developing in your mind a large conspiracy about pediatricians and public health experts, yes?

Parents have been given a virtual option.  You have other options.

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Actually PP is correct. It is looking more virulent. 
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And asking parents to lose their spot in a school system that is built on the luck of the lottery is a ridiculous position to take.[/b] [/quote]

[b]I mean, the school could say "go ahead and homeschool for the semester and we will hold your spot."  Which is far easier on resources than every single school expending scarce resources on virtual options for a small percentage of parents. [/b] The OP doesn't suggest this, though, which is odd.  And the OP doesn't say what happened when they asked their school about their concerns.  Again...why?

Otherwise, seriously, the poster is putting their lottery spot above their kids' lives (at least in their own mind).  It seems a bit disingenuous.[/quote]

I am firmly against the public school system offering a virtual option for any but the most medically fragile kids, but this seems like a reasonable solution. Then again, I have no stake in the charter lottery game.[/quote]

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