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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 think PK-5 will be FT in person and that any school that struggles to handle that will be in trouble with parents and DCPS (including charters).

I think MS and HS are going to be tricky and that MS in particular is going to prove problematic because kids normally switch classrooms and participate in more specialized classes and none of those kids will be able to vaccinate by September. I could easily see MS and HS being hybrid in the fall but I think there will be enormous pressure to offer as much in person as possible.

I've heard a number of well-respected epidemiologists and virologists talk about how younger kids can be well protected from the virus before vaccination because if teachers and parents are vaccinated it creates an umbrella of protection for these kids who spend all of their time with vaccinated adults. It's a harder question with older children. 16 and up will be able to vaccinate by September, but no one else will. Plus kids this age are more social and independent and that's going to impact trust by the teacher's union as well as families who are happy with DL and reluctant to return. And you need those groups on board.[/quote]

But if the parents of middle schoolers are vaccinated, then why would they worry about their middle schoolers? The chances of Covid harming them are lower than the flu. How did these parents ever send their kids to school?[/quote]

I think the issue is they are in that brackish age of getting Covid and getting sick and not getting vaxxed. So 6th and 7th maybe no issue but 8th?

If the vax goes down to age 12 by the fall then I don't see why MS wouldn't open normally.

I do think we will see the pediatric vax sooner than we think.  I'm prepping my kid mentally to be jabbed.[/quote]

But middle schoolers' risk of getting severely sick or dying from Covid is lower than it is for the flu (despite the flu vaccine). So this is just not logical.[/quote]

Long term effects aren’t fully known. Doctors have seen increase in long term problems in healthy people (even teens) with mild covid. For example: https://www.lung.org/blog/long-term-covid-19-effects

You are so dismissive of the unknown.

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No, I am choosing to be rational and am weighing the risks (I do tend to be a worrier, but I have learned to fight that tendency when it really counts). "One teenager's story" (plus other anecdotal reports) is not going to make me decide that this potential but likely low risk outweighs the definitive and significant risks of further deprivation of in-person school for millions of teenagers. I'm also following the discussion of Covid risks in other countries, and notice that these kinds of stories and potential risks are not hyped nearly as much anywhere as they are here, and don't determine policy in other countries.[/quote]

No, you aren’t a worrier if you dismiss this as just “one teenager’s story.” You should know after doctors do not know enough about the long term effects. That’s not anecdotal! You got some serious Dunning-Kruger Effect going on![/quote]

Dunning Kruger right back atcha, if you think you can judge from my post that I must not be a worrier (trust me, I am), or how well I am equipped to assess risks (you know nothing about my professional background). And it sounds like you would diagnose public health experts around the world with the same limitations, as despite the existing unknowns, almost none of them are recommending that teens be denied access to proper schooling until they can be vaccinated.[/quote]

You don’t have a job. You’re an angry person. All you do is spend your days b*tching about your kids being home in the form of lashing out at teachers, unions, and politicians. You’re a tiny person with a lot of rage.[/quote]

DP. I think it’s pretty clear who the angry one is.[/quote]

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