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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop blaming foster kids and homeless and make this about you as that is what it is about.  We want our kids safe.  Those kids are in foster care to keep them safe.  [/quote]

What are you talking about?  It is indisputable that these kids (and underprivileged kids generally) suffered tremendously due to distance learning last year.  [/quote]

Then a virtual option would benefit them in so far as it would remove a number of students from the schools and thus reduce exposure for the ones who stay in-person.

See? None of you "In-person only!" horrors have a leg to stand on. A virtual option ultimately serves everyone's interests.

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You don't have to be a COVID-denying troll to be hyper vigilant about DCPS school closures as a possibility. The mayor and school officials did about as poorly as any system in the nation with regard to reopening schools last year (when it was safe to do so), caving at every opportunity to the demands of the WTU, unscientific and fearful parents, and generally punting decision making to individual principals, many of whom didn't lift a finger to come up with a plan to get IPL back for kids. Many, many kids suffered, and many parents (especially working mothers) bore the burden of trying to hold down jobs while effectively becoming our kids' educators.

Virtual 'options' are available to anyone who wants them -- there are plenty of online schooling programs for people who want to homeschool. Use those. Public education is meant to be in-person. If you want "options," either pay for private schools that offer them or apply for Friendship online academy. A virtual option for DCPS serves no one but the ignorant parents who refuse to get vaccinated themselves (or vaccinate their vaccine-eligible older children). For under-12s, Covid is extremely unlikely to kill kids. It's very unlikely to make them sick enough to need hospitalization. Stop listening to fear-mongering cable news on this. And stop demanding that public school parents cater to your demands for "options." IPL is the most effective way for kids to learn, and thanks to vaccines, the risk to them is far lower now than it was last year when most of the nation's kids were back in school in person in the rest of the country. [/quote]

I don't think you know your audience at all, PP. Virtual public school does not enable vaccine hesitancy. I fundamentally disagree with you there. I believe a virtual option in public school makes school accessible to more children with varying needs, and makes school buildings safer by decreasing the number of students inside.

You cannot seriously suggest home schooling and private online schools as a viable alternative to public online school: the costs of the former are prohibitive for many parents. [b]Yet organizing a virtual option for DCPS is not cost-prohibitive at all. [/b]Brick and mortar schools' most expensive line items are related to wear and tear on buildings, or paying for new ones, as well as salaries. Virtual schooling reduces building maintenance costs, and reduces hiring since in an online environment, you don't duplicates of posts that have few students. You can put together one class with one teacher, even if the students belong to different home schools.

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LOL.  Just loss of teachers if they have to teach concurrent, or extra staff to teach virtual, plus the cost of entirely new curricula that can be delivered virtually.  Man, didn't we already have this discussion?  For 43 pages?[/quote]

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