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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are poor and so are most of their students. And for whatever reason there seems to be a correlation between DL and low income.

Its apples to oranges with schools up here. [/quote]

“For whatever reason” actually there’s many and they’re well known. This isn’t a mystery. [/quote]

NP. So far I have read only a few direct quotes, and even those are purporting to sum up an entire group of people in a school district. I actually really, really want to hear it from the source - anyone who can point me to the actual data I'd appreciate it.[/quote]

I don’t have any data to link you too. sometimes the source is actually working with  these families and talking to them. My students families have multiple generations living at home, they work service jobs and cannot afford any paid quarantine or leave for being sick nor do they have good insurance. They’re in hardest hit zip codes. They cannot miss work or it’s a catastrophe. If a child gets sick and brings it home it could get elderly relative sick or working parents sick. They do not think school is safe because they see how bad the spread is in their area. And contrary to PP they are well aware of the ramifications of this choice. One mom told me yesterday “I know my son is struggling and I don’t know how to help him but I am scared to send my kids in the building with covid normalized.” They know the consequences because they feel them the most harshly. [/quote]

If you look at the Virginia Department of health information it is the Latino and African American families that are being the worst hit by COVID. whether or not you want to admit it these are also the lower income families. [b]They are trying to minimize the impact to their home life and have selected distance learning.[/b][/quote]

Do you believe low income people are teleworking and prefer to keep their kids at home?

There is an opinion piece in WaPo today quoting an area school official that said low income are least able to influence the politics around DL versus in person learning.[/quote]

Their little kids are home like yours. These parents don’t have nice salaried remote jobs like yours that allow them to work from home. They have hourly  jobs they must go to. So they need their older kids to stay home to watch the little kids. Like just say you don’t care rather than pretend this is brand new information or that people are lying about it. You don’t care and it doesn’t affect you so just move on but stop being insulting [/quote]

I'm not sure where you're getting that i'm being insulting.

I'm saying that poor people are probably not choosing to have their kids stay home as someone else asserted above. Because they have to work outside of the home. [/quote]

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