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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder what percentage of people demanding a virtual option linked to their school (instead of a single option for the whole district) are primarily concerned with losing their spot in a highly-sought-after charter or OOB school.

I wonder what percentage of people demanding a virtual option want it because their work extended WFH to the end of 2021 and they want to be able to work from a vacation home and then send their kids back to school with minimal friction.

I wonder what percentage of people demanding a virtual option have a SAHP (or SAH grandparent) or can afford full or close-to-full time childcare/tutoring, and therefore do not feel they should have to weigh the risks of Covid against their need for school/childcare for their kid.

In other words, I am highly skeptical that the people demanding a virtual option at this point are people in high need of a virtual option. I think in many cases they are privileged families who don't want to take ANY risk regarding Covid (even a measured one) and/or who find virtual more convenient for a host of reasons that have nothing to do with the safety or well-being of their children.

If you have a high risk kid, there is a virtual option available to you. If you don't but are still uncomfortable with IPL, you can homeschool. These are imperfect but decent options. Those of us who both want and need IPL aren't getting a perfect option either, okay? Nothing is perfect with Covid. But I'm making the choice that is best for my kid and my family and meets most of our needs, and I'm grateful to have it. Please stop trying to take my mediocre option away (or make it much, much worse) so that you can get everything you want.[/quote]

These people demanding the perfect (virtual) solution for themselves are probably the same people who, when we complained about the vast inferiority of last year's educational offerings, told us that COVID forced us to compromise, and we needed to deal with it.[/quote]

"Learn resilience!  Teach your child resilience!"[/quote]

It's COVID! You won't have the perfect option, so just work with what you got. If you really cared about quality in-home education for your child, you'd suck it up and do homeschool, and not rely on a shoddy dc public school product slapped together in a couple of weeks.[/quote]

It's public school! We're entitled to our child receiving an education from it for free without the risk of chronic illness! 
Betsy, give it up already.[/quote]

In all seriousness, you've never been risk-free from chronic (or any) illness at school.  It's not actually a right/left issue.[/quote]

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