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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are extremely concerned about illness you have the option to homeschool. If you send your kids to school, you are accepting the risk. [/quote]

Man, what an exceptionally privileged thing to say. How’d that homeschooling work out for you during the shutdowns? I assume not well, given the absolute insistence that “education is so important that your kids can’t take a sick day to avoid getting others sick.” Would you like to pay my mortgage so that I can homeschool my kids because you chose not to care about anyone but yourself?

And re the comment that if we send kids to school, we’re accepting risk… I was accepting that risk in the apparently naive hope that people had SOME level of personal responsibility and an understanding that: 1) teachers getting sick hurts all kids 2) your snotty kid getting a kid sick whose parents DO practice personal responsibility and follows covid guidelines costs THAT kid and THAT family and 3) lots of people still live in multi-generational households where covid can create real risk.

And before you come at me saying Covid isn’t as serious as the flu—I’d say the same thing about the flu, strep, norovirus, etc. Keep your sick kids home, let them rest and recover. I’m sure you’d curse whatever parents sent their kid to school with a stomach virus when that same stomach virus hits your house. Don’t be that parent.[/quote]

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