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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]My kid's school has absences in the 25-50% range per class. I KNOW that is not the case at every school-- although at some schools, many more teachers are out than at hers. Even schools that feel normal-ish now, who never go over 20% absences, will be at least somewhat behind as teachers catch up kids who were out with COVID or exposed, quarantined and in a different class, etc. That's at a minimum.

As of this moment, kids have been in school for ~3.6 days since break. Surely conditions will only improve, right?

Like I said, none of this matters, because maybe (really!) you'll never have to deal with any of this! Good for you, you've earned it, by making the right choices![/quote]

You are engaged in some extreme projection here. I'm sorry your child's school is so badly impacted, but the discussion you are responding to is about how every school is different and how treated them as such is the correct policy decision.

A PP described in-person schooling using hyperbolic and flat-out untrue language that basically described prison. In response, some of us chimed in to explain that our kids were actually having a pretty normal year, other than masks. Then you came in with this rhetoric about how we are just heartless assholes, just for saying our kids actually like being back in class and doing things like cross country or in-person student government.

[b]Why is it so triggering to you that some kids are having a pretty normal educational experience this year? [/b]

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I am trying to figure this out.  My kids did fine distance learning, but are much happier and more engaged in person.  Essentially, from their perspective it does feel back to normal.  I have noticed that there are some people who are projecting their anxiety onto their kids (I am not talking about folks on this board) and its resulting in anxious kids who do not want to be in person. This essentially creates an echo chamber and parents only see an anxious child and not their unwitting role in creating the situation.  I typically see this in parents with older kids - late middle and high school.  [/quote]

People with older kids can read the news and look at numbers and understand how serious it is.  You may not be taking covid seriously, but then you have no  right to complain.[/quote]

PP here. I reread my post, I can’t figure out how that could be construed as complaining. I was just offering my observations in my own life about the kids who are having anxiety issues and the correlation to their parents own anxiety about Covid.

I also cannot figure out how my post could be interpreted as not taking covid seriously. Is it the statement that my kids are happier and more engaged in person ergo I don’t think Covid is serious? I take it quite seriously, my kids haven’t been in any friends houses since 2020. They do the weekly pcp testing at school so that I can ensure they can spend time with their 70-something grandparents on a regular basis - I could go on.

None of that has anything to do with the fact that my kids and many, many others are happier in school. The default is in person school for a myriad of reasons. If that doesn’t work for some children/parents there are other options available. [/quote]

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