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[quote=Anonymous]So I’m not sure this is responsive to the question because, in my mind, poses a false choice:  Either you were for schools being closed (and now perhaps regret keeping your kids home), or were for opening schools.  We are glad that schools reopened, but opted to keep our kids distance learning through the end of the year.  We have no regrets.

As one of the previous posters noted, many people sought a middle ground.  So did we.  Distance learning worked fine for us.  Our older (high school) child has special needs, and the transition back to school for just a few days a week would have been counterproductive for various reasons.  And our younger (middle school) child is doing just fine in distance learning.  With the vaccination of 12-15 year olds, both are now in the process of being vaccinated, and we are looking forward to having them both return to school in-person in the fall.  We thought about sending them back when Arlington schools reopened earlier this spring, but the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze for us—two days a week of learning, for about 1/3 of the year, wasn’t worth the risk to us, especially because we’ve managed to make distance learning work.  Even with where things stand now, we’d prefer to keep them DL until our younger child is fully vaccinated; two weeks after the second shot will correspond with the end of the school year, which will make for a nice transition into the summer.

To be clear, this was a close call in our situation, and I completely understand the decisions other parents made to send their kids back.  I supported reopening schools as much as was safe in order to accommodate those kids for whom distance learning wasn’t working as well, or those families who weren’t as risk averse.  And to be blunt, I wanted to see schools reopen so the schools could work out the kinks before next year.  But these decisions—and positions on these issues—is not as clear-cut as these discussion boards would make it seem.
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