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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the kids voting?  If not, they should be in school.  It's a Tuesday.

(And we have lived in plentty of places where kids go to school at the same time as people vote at the school.  It's not an issue.)[/quote]

You seem to forget that we now live in a country that is incapable of regulating guns so we have to keep schools locked at all times. Accordingly, keeping the front doors open to any school in VA is against safety protocols. 
Remember, kids' safety comes last so this is the system that we live with. I think the guns are well taken care of, though, so no worries there. [/quote]

Why would the front doors need to be open?  Every school has a separate entrance to the gym.  Vote there.  Or, put the polling place somewhere other than the school.  This is the tail wagging the dog.
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[i]"Every school has a separate entrance to the gym Vote there.[/i]" You have little idea of how porous a school buiding is once you're inside. Do you plan on local jurisdictions spendng money to put police or other security in the hallways so no one can wander off (intentionally or unintentionally) into other parts of the building? This is not pollworkers' job, by the way.

Also: You seem not to understand how many cars are  constantly coming and going from a school parking lot on election day. If there are teachers' etc. cars there, school buses coming and going, kids arriving (voting starts early, before school begins, and some of the heaviest voting times are early morning when kids would be coming in to school)-- all that is a recipe for a kid to be injured or worse, due to the stream of cars coming and going. Do you not see that?

[i]"Put the polling place somewhere other than the school."[/i] Schools get used because virtually every community has one or is close to one. Not every community has, say, a community center or recreation center that could be used. Schools as polling places helps make it easier to vote for more people. It increases accessibility tremendously. Where do you suggest putting polling places so they are as accessible and widespread? [/quote]

As I wrote, tail wagging the dog.  You are looking to find reasons not to have school.  The better approach (for kids, parents, erc.) to it look for ways to have school.  [b]Once you take that perspective, the solutions are many and easy.[/b][/quote]

Name one that would actually work for every school in the state? I'll wait.
And sorry, with all the chaos surrounding elections right now, I have zero desire to have my kid be in school while the crazies come out. That's just asking for trouble.[/quote]

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