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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public schools provide in person education. If you want your kids at home, there are lots of options. Homeschool with an online program. Then you get an individualized education and you get to keep your kids home.

Don’t throw the rest of us under the bus. I have to work and my kids have to go to school. Last year was a disaster for us. [/quote]

Having a virtual option does not hurt you. In fact, it keeps you safer by getting kids out of the classroom. [/quote]

DP. Please go back and read the thread. There is plenty of explanation of how it does hurt everyone if every school has to provide a virtual option.[/quote]

There’s plenty of histrionics but no actual explanation. The bottom line is people are afraid to acknowledge the new threat that Delta poses or the responsible ways we should respond because they’re tired of the pandemic and they got a taste of freedom in June. The game has changed and this is a modest request in response to this new reality. [/quote]
Thank you. It feels great to hear someone else say this.

One of the reactive 'feel free to go away" comments became more sophisticated from being repeated ad nauseam. Eventually, the anti-virtual poster(s) stated that those concerned parents asking for a temporary virtual option until vaccines, will never actually feel safe enough to send kids back ("goal posts' etc), and will keep asking for virtual for the next 2-3 years, so those kids might as well go to a centralized virtual option and stay there. Well, for one, that's not true. But also, that would be quite problematic.

It would be terrible for the kids and it would be terrible for the neighborhood schools.

A temporary flexible virtual option with a link to a physical school increases the chances that students will not retreat forever from in-person school. It would be terrible policy to drive the healthy students of cautious families to a permanent centralized virtual school, because it runs the risk that some or many won't seek to go back to a physical school (particularly, as some sneered, if they lose the relationship with their lotteried slots), even when vaccinated and even when it's safe. Unless, that is, DCPS wanted to rush towards the 'learning of the future' and shed some kids from its physical buildings in the medium term, which I doubt.

Losing local students to a centralized virtual school would hurt the neighborhood schools' enrollment, and destabilize them in a deeper way than allowing some kids to be full-virtual, knowing that it's more than likely that the schools would have to set up and pivot some classes to virtual on and off anyway for a few weeks at a time.

So as you said, a lot of this disagreement is from some cautious parents believing, and the anti-virtual denying, that there will be inevitable back and forth to virtual anyway until kids are fully vaccinated.[/quote]

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