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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks on this board underestimate how many parents do kit want to send students back yet.

My kid goes to a Title 1 charter. 90% of parents didn’t want them to return — huge concern about putting kids on public transit right now. A high percentage of families had relatives  members who became ill or died. They are wary.

Look at the neighborhood maps DOH puts out each day. The virus impacts vary a lot and have been high in Wards 7 and 8 since the beginning. Those are the places with both the most students AND the most students in charter schools.

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This post got my attention because it destroys the DCUM twin fallacies of reopening. (1) Everyone but the WTU wants schools to reopen and (2) we have to reopen because of all the poor brown kids. As PP observes, the communities most hard hit are actually most acutely aware of the COVID risks and of the limits of medical care available and least likely to want to take the risk.  [/quote]

No, it does not destroy any fallacy.

Of course there are parents that don't want to return - they were never going to be forced back before they wanted.

And of course it's the poor kids in DC who need to go back the most. I haven't seen any survey saying that 100% of minority parents in DC want to keep their kids home  - so you're making that up. Just as for white kids, all parents deserve the choice to send their kids back.  And more importantly, since DL is going to leave so many kids so far behind, what we need to do now is reverse the FALSE notion (pushed by WTU, indeed) that returning to school will be incredibly dangerous.  We have reams and reams of statements on this now, from Harvard epidemiologists to UNICEF to Nicolas Kristoff.  If you follow the [b]Twitter feed of Nikole Hannah-Jones (a huge champion and observer of the rights of black kids in public schools) [/b]you'll see that her position is that schools should reopen.  Arguing to maintain the fear in Wards 7 and 8 so that their communities can be impacted even MORE by COVID through the loss of schooling is the opposite of helping them. [/quote]

OMG! I missed the meeting where we all voted for her to speak for all black families and kids. When was it?

Did you really just type that? Seriously???!!![/quote]

She’s a well known advocate for black kids in public schools. I never said she spoke for everyone, obviously. The point is, an increasing number of scientists, journalists, advocates, experts, and public health organizations are calling for reopening. [/quote]

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