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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]for those that are livid about school finally starting to open up - keep your kids in DL. This doesn't need to be that hard. [/quote]

You are telling people who want their kids in person that if they’re not willing to do that in JANUARY, their kids shouldn’t get to go in person all year. You can’t just flip flop in and out of these choices. If they pick DL they can’t pick hybrid again later. But they WOULD do hybrid if it wasn’t starting in friggin January.  It makes MUCH more sense to wait til March when it will be safer so that people who chose hybrid based on school boards claiming they would use metrics get the choice they were presented with than to say “lol just kidding there’s no metrics, go in January when it’s the highest risk or you don’t go at all.” That is a ludicrous choice to force on people. [/quote]

+1. Especially considering teachers and staff should have the opportunity for the vaccine soon, which will not only help protect them but everyone else (yes I know the science is still out on whether you can transmit the virus if you've been vaccinated, but the more people are vaccinated, the more community spread will go down).

I chose hybrid, based on the published school metrics at the time of the survey. Maybe we'll switch to DL. Or maybe my kid will just be "sick" the two days/week they are supposed to go in person until the numbers come down to a reasonable rate. It won't be great from a consistency standpoint, but neither is being forced to choose now or never for the chance of some in person school for the entire rest of the school year considering we're at the height of the pandemic. But that doesn't help the teachers and staff being forced to go back into the building so close to when it would truly be safer for them to do so.

APS should have opened up hybrid a the beginning of the school year when they had the chance, and switch to full DL when the predictable surge hit, but they didn't. So now APS should pick a target date after teachers and staff get both doses of the vaccine, and in the meantime make a robust plan for remediation and hit the ground running.[/quote]

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