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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My house hasn’t caught on fire, but I don’t regret having working smoke detectors. I’ve never been in a serious car accident, but I don’t regret decades of wearing a seatbelt. I’ve never had an unintended pregnancy, but I don’t regret having used birth control. I took precautions to avoid covid. Maybe I wouldn’t have contracted it even if I wasn’t cautious, but that doesn’t make me regret the precautions. I make the best choices I can based on the information I have.[/quote]
Occasionally buying batteries for a smoke detector or buckling a seatbelt when you’re driving isn’t quite on par with asking a 5 year old to spend a year of learning sitting in front of an iPad and having no socialization with peers.[/quote]

Yes. Exactly and this attitude is exactly why schools stayed closed. What is the harm in buying batteries for your smoke detector or wearing a seatbelt? I only see upside. Closing schools has been disastrous for many, many children and some will never recover. [/quote]

I’m the poster you’re replying to. OP asked if those of us who agreed schools should be closed had any regrets. I don’t. That doesn’t mean that I don’t realize, with hindsight, that we could have safety opened last fall. Over the summer, I was on the fence about sending my kids to in-person school in the fall, but then the choice was taken away from me because MCPS went 100% virtual. By October, I wished we’d opened since it appeared to be safe for the schools that did open. Then in November, cases started rising sharply and I was thankful we were virtual over the holidays. In December, I filled out a parent survey indicating that I was interested in in-person instruction for my kids in the spring because there was no downside (you could change to virtual at any time). Due to my kids’ ages, they just happened to be in the very last group MCPS brought back. One kid chose to remain virtual to avoid a long bus ride to a magnet. That kid has been fine with virtual learning. My other kid has some special needs and really struggled with distance learning. That kid attends our home school, so has gone back in-person. It was easier to send dc back at the end of April because I was only a week away from my second shot.

I don’t regret how things worked out. It’s been a roller coaster ride and it sucked at times, but I’m high risk and I never got covid. My kids never got covid. Instead of regretting all the days they could have received in-person instruction and didn’t, I’m choosing to be thankful that we didn’t experience covid and any long term effects.[/quote]

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