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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you are still having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that schools WERE closed for too long with disastrous results. That’s not even a controversial opinion at this point. [/quote]

You’re blinded by hindsight.

It was reasonable to wait until teachers had vaccines.

Bullying others was not reasonable. [/quote]

Except that many [b]red[/b] states had schools that were open before vaccines, and did just fine. Plus all the local privates. It was not reasonable. It was a disaster, still is, and will take years or possibly decades to recover from. (Thus all the focus on learning loss.)[/quote]

Your true colors are showing. [/quote]

I was skeptical when Florida, Georgia, etc. opened full time in person in fall 2020. It felt very risky. The thing is, nothing bad happened. We could have learned from that, but we didn't because politics. [/quote]

This 100%. I'm purple all the way. I was nervous about sending kids to school with masks in fall 2020 in Aug/September. By October it was obvious it was fine. By January I was dying inside at what a normal, non-traumatizing school year my red state niece and nephew were having while my APS kid was sitting in her bedroom by herself all year. And even now, when the data clearly show what an unmitigated disaster that was, still so many people in Arlington defend it like it was no big deal, completely out of touch with the reality of most of the rest of the nation. APS was in the bottom 10% of all districts nationally in terms of days of in person school. We were objectively worse. And it was a a bad call.[/quote]

People, this was not just happening in red states, [b]especially as teachers were vaccinated[/b]. You're just reinforcing the connection between republicans and open schools. Many democrats supported open schools, including President Biden and Democratic Governors. [/quote]

As teachers became vaccinated our kids did go back in the building.

We were very much in line with other blue areas.

The # of days may be skewed because VA has fewer school days in general. 
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