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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's winter time, vaccines are widely available for kids, and families having been dining indoors at restaurants since June 2020, but our kids are forced to eat outside at APS like prisoners.  It's really beyond absurd.

My family dines in at family restaurants throughout Arlington, and we often see other APS families (and say hi).  The vast majority of families are doing indoor playdates and birthday parties.  [b]Why is the burden being put on the least at risk members of this society (kids)?  This charade has to stop.[/b][/quote]

APS has to create policies that take into account the risk to the kids AND the risk to staff AND the constraints of physical space AND the constraints of budget AND liability of getting sued AND a ton of other factors.

Let's say that you are 100% correct about the actual risk of covid to a young child being less than other risks. OK, that is one factor. The cost of staffing two spaces with lunch monitors and the ability to hire double the staff on short notice so that your child can choose where to eat? Well, that's another factor, and maybe that one doesn't cut in the direction of making outdoor lunch optional. Did you even think of the costs of your proposal? The risk of infection to the adults in the building who have diabetes and haven't been mandated to get boosters so they are only protected at around 50% from hospitalization against the delta variant and so therefore may have a chance of dying because your child infected them? That's yet another factor to take into the equation. Did you think of health care costs to APS when many teachers are hospitalized on their employer's health insurance? Did you think about that? What about the disruption to the classroom with lengthy teacher absences as they recuperate? Where's that in your equation?

You are acting like the world revolves around just you. It does not. [/quote]

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