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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm so glad we bit the bullet at the start if the 2020 school year and enrolled our kids in an independent school that was open 5 days a week without a single interruption. The sky did not fall and nobody died and for the majority of the school year the entire school was unvaccinated.

We have none of these learning or behavioral problems you all are describing.  Love our bubble. Love my kids being in school with families who are not neurotic freaks. [/quote]

??? Many of us would have loved to have done this but could not/cannot afford it. Thanks for being an a$$hole though. [/quote]

Meh. Many people sacrifice to get their kids into independent schools. Also, they don't all cost $50K/year. [/quote]

Well we aren’t all comfortable with Catholic or evangelical Christian either, and those are the ones that are cheaper. How’s the view up there on your high horse?[/quote]

Nobody said religious school. Many parochial schools were hybrid, half as bad as the publics.

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Yes, and for those of us who can’t really even afford the tuition at such a school, “sacrificing” only to have the school go hybrid or pushing us into constant quarantine is not an option.

The idea that all parents had the option to send their child to in-person school last year if they had only been willing to sacrifice more is absurd. It was the same conversation around childcare. “Just get a nanny” as though that’s accessible to all families.

We screwed over families and specifically, children, last year. Full stop. And over and over again, [b]we’ve seen that open schools does not lead to uncontrolled viral spread, or dead kids (or dead teachers). People keep saying it does but over and over, all around the world, we have seen it does not[/b].

But closed schools result in learning loss, increased inequity, behavioral issues, mental health issues, family dysfunction. The OP isn’t the only one making these observations.[/quote]

Actually we’ve seen over and over all over the world that open schools without significant mitigation measures like masking, contract tracing, vaccination, distancing, airflow changes, etc does lead to spread, quarantine, and death.  The reason we’re not seeing that here is because of the high rate of teachers vaccination, mask requirements in schools, and an over abundance of well off people who are able to access good healthcare normally including testing for Covid to help limit spread.

That’s not to say that schools shouldn’t be open, but we shouldn’t minimize what’s its costing in term of dollars, people, stress, and virus management hours to keep this under control.[/quote]

actually no we have not seen that. most kids get covid at home, not school. [/quote]

That makes no sense. They are much more likely to get COVID at school. It is a droplet viral infection spread when people are in close contact with each other. Schools and school buses  are one of biggest common vectors.[/quote]

Our school was open all of last year. Not a single transmission of COVID occurred at school. All the kids who got it got it at home or somewhere else. [/quote]

Yes. All the contact tracing data gathered around the world in the past 18+ months indicates that schools are NOT major sites of transmission, and aren’t drivers of community spread. I don’t know why anyone is still trying to deny this, it’s not really controversial anymore. Rates found in schools tend to mirror caseloads in the surrounding community, but have often found to be lower, especially when mitigation measures were in place.[/quote]

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