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[quote=Anonymous]I am so tired of this merry-go-round.  Can I just save us some time here?

- Some camps have been able to stay open.  Other camps have had to close.

- Some countries have been able to maintain in-person learning.  Others haven't.

- Some studies have shown that kids don't spread the virus, or spread it less.  Others have not.

- Teachers are not happy about DL - there are some bad apples, but in the main, if it were safe, they'd much rather be teaching in person.

- DL is not ideal for kids generally.  There are socialization concerns, although those can be addressed in other ways.  But kids absorb much less education from DL than they do in person, especially the younger ones.

- DL is difficult for parents, and a goddamn nightmare for working parents.  It's not because these parents "don't want to parent their kids."  It's because kids need technical and substantive assistance with DL, especially the younger ones, and parents are not trained or certified in MCPS curriculum standards and techniques.  And working parents cannot fully engage with their kids during the school day, because they need to work.

- DL is the safest option for now.

- DL will not be around forever.

- DL is the best of a truly shitty set of choices, and the fact that we're left with those choices is a direct result of the failure of the federal government to contain this pandemic in the first place or establish protocols that would have it under control now to allow in-school learning to be sufficiently safe.

- Everyone here, including the teachers and the parents and the working parents and the MCPS admin and the kids, are all dealing with an unprecedented set of circumstances that change weekly if not daily and are under enormous stress.

- Being an a$$hole helps no one.[/quote]

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