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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just can't wrap my mind around you people who would rather have your kid getting disorganized, asychronous "education" in a cafeteria while almost certainly being exposed to several other kids with the virus while they're in there.  And you think this is better than having your kid get live virtual instruction for a week or two while safe at home?  Can you explain it to me?[/quote]

Simple, they don't want the responsibility.[/quote]

DP, and no, it’s mostly two things.  First, I have three elementary school kids and DH and I work full-time; between their ages and our schedules, “live virtual instruction” is stressful and worthless for them.

[b]Second, I don’t trust for a second that virtual will be for a week or two.  I literally cannot fathom how you (or anyone) can trust MCPS at this point to bring kids back in any kind of reasonable timeframe.[/b]

Third, I also don’t understand how people *still* do not get that plenty of kids are not “safe” at home.  Not from COVID, not from being left unsupervised, etc.  Are you that naive?[/quote]

Huh?  Are you kidding me?  Given how despite bad things are-- way worse than they've ever been-- they're still resisting letting kids go virtual at all, it doesn't make sense to me that people are serious worrying that it's going to drag on forever.  Is this just you guys having PTSD and learning the wrong lesson from their decisions last year?  Because if what you learned is "MCPS loves virtual" rather than "MCPS is poorly managed and caters to the parents who put up the biggest fuss," you're not paying attention.  It's obvious to anyone who's willing to look at the situation objectively that clearly they've massively overcorrected and have switched to be dead-set against virtual unless they get dragged into it kicking and screaming.

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The drama queen is back.

"Things" are not that bad and they are certainly not "way worse" than they've ever been. A few people are out with what amounts to a bad cold or the flu.[/quote]

[b]Cases are 5 times higher than they've ever been (probably worse because test positivity rates indicate we're missing tons of cases), hospitalizations are as high as they've ever been and climbing, and we're facing a variant which has been studied for less than 6 weeks, has had some dramatic changes in how it affects the body, and whose long-term effects we know almost nothing about.  Not sure how people can possibly manage to be casual about this unless they're scientifically illiterate or deep in denial.[/b]

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So, you two know more than (checks notes) literally every credible scientist out there?  Better than Fauci?  Ashish Jha?  Leana Wen, FFS?  You two have determined that virtual, and all it comes with*, is better for kids than COVID?

*claiming it’s “just virtual” is disingenuous AF, and you know it[/quote]

No legit scientist is dismissing covid/omicron as NBD.  There are disagreements on how to weigh the importance of virtual vs in-person school, which is fair, but the folks who advocate for kids being in school are doing it because they believe that [b]in-person school is important enough that it's worth the risks of covid (which, frankly, is not necessarily in their lane as a scientist, but it's fine, we all have opinions about this stuff.)[/b]

I can respect an argument that says "in person education is really really important, so kids should stay in person," even if I disagree.  But I will call out people who try to make the argument that "omicron is mild/not worth worrying about/just like colds or flu" any day of the week-- that is misinformation and not supported by the science.[/quote]

I think the bigger problem is that the calculation of “worth the risks of COVID” is very different for every family.  It’s beyond me how MCPS did not figure out how to conduct school so that people could go back and forth between in person and virtual for any reason at any time.  There are many ways to handle this and they had a year plus to figure it out, but they chose to believe that we just need more time and the pandemic will end and we can keep teaching as normal. That is not going to happen.  We will live forever with the threat of mutating viruses, not to mention climate emergency effects, etc.

The field of education has to adjust to the new normal and come up with new and effective ways to deliver education and any wrap around services in an environment where in person attendance is highly unstable.[/quote]

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