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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With all the bad news about Delta, there are enough parents that would prefer to keep their kids all virtual for the few months until they get vaccinated. Schools should offer this. It would get kids out of the classroom, making it safer for the kids choosing in-person. Parents should not be forced to choose to leave their school in order to keep their kids safe. [/quote]

I don't understand where this few months idea is originating. Perhaps in a few months YOUR kids might be vaccinated. But, that will mean nothing for the overall safety for the school community. (And, while I hope you are right, we have no idea when there will be approval.)

Also, you are not at your school when you are online everyday. There is no high quality virtual instruction. If it worked well for your family last year, that's because you have undeniable resources not available to many/most others. That's not bad ... they will serve you well at an online charter if that's what you want. But the idea that you're being forced to leave your school community when what you want is to not be there is a bit silly. (If this is a dual language school by any chance, even more so, because high quality dual language at home just doesn't happen.)

Finally, its not feasible. It may seem nice to you that kids in school would have fewer peers around but they would also have fewer teachers around and an administration trying to be two things at once. Which we saw last year, didn't work well at all. [/quote]

As has been the case since March 2020, many parents have tunnel vision and when they talk about "schools" or "students" or "families", they are really only talking about their school, their student, their family.

My child is under 6. She will not be vaccinated in a few months. There are strong odds she might not be vaccinated in a year or more. She also absolutely cannot do virtual school. Trust me, if we could we would have figured it out by now. I went part time this year to try and make it work. It didn't. She needs to be in school.

If someone has an older child for whom distance learning works and does not want to be in person because of fears of delta, I support them in exploring home schooling options. But if they try to change DCPS policy to accommodate their unique minority position while arguing for what "kids need" then I will fight tooth and nail to make sure they understand that not all kids are like their kids. Stop.[/quote]

+1 to these 2 pp's. Virtual was hell for many families with elementary school kids. If you have the resources to do it well for your kids, then just homeschool. You'll get even better results than trying to do virtual, which was essentially homeschooling on the teacher's schedule plus too much homework and technology.

Those of us with jobs and/or multiple kids and/or SN kids (all of the above for my family) CAN'T DO THIS AGAIN AND NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAD TO FOR THE 2020-2021 SCHOOL YEAR!!!!![/quote]

please check this space for my lawsuit if schools don’t reopen for SN kids in particular…[/quote]

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