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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, duh. It's a pandemic. It will take a few years to right the ship.[/quote]

For some teh ship won't ever be righted - too much time lost.  Ships in most of the country, including NYC,  are being righted, just not here.  [/quote]

Let’s not overstate the case for New York - they’re doing better than we are but only about 25% of their public school students are back to in person school, which does not capture the percentage of kids who are at risk. And PG County, much of which has many of the same demographics as the less affluent parts of DC, is virtual until the end of January. It’s pretty hard to point to reading test results and tell a family that may have lost one or more members to COVID19, in communities with vastly disproportionate deaths from COVID19, that their first priority is putting their children back into school buildings that are hazardous or, at a minimum, utterly lacking in cleaning supplies long before the pandemic. It is a very real educational crisis, but I can’t blame parents for wondering if their kids are going to be exposed to and bring home a disease that will kill their family members.[/quote]

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