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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah yes, another “I was ok with experimenting on teachers” thread.  Yes, the closures affected learning.  That’s because we had a pandemic that killed millions of people.  If you were advocating putting teachers back into the classroom prior to widespread vaccine availability and peak deaths (Jan 2021 in Virginia), I consider you absolute scum.[/quote]

My school district (DCPS) did not full reopen until August 2021, a full 8 months after teachers receive priority access to vaccines. Yes, some schools opened for some kids (not mine, to be clear) where teachers essentially volunteered to come back. But many schools, including ours, were closed from March 2020 until August 2021.

And don't forget all the school personnel who refused to get vaccinated even when vaccines were widely available, but also refused to return to work.[/quote]

Which school didn’t have kids in the buildings by March 2021? [/quote]

Full time?  Prince William county schools.   In March 2021 high school students were allowed to come in 2 days a week.   Most didn't bother.   My kids were typically the only ones in their classroom besides the teacher.   They were literally the only ones on their bus.[/quote]

Kids were back in classrooms at almost all schools by March 2021.  :roll: 
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Not full-time, and not all kids. Do people not know this?[/quote]

OK. Like I said, at almost all schools most kids who wanted to be back in the classroom were back in classroom by March 2021.  :roll: 
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Not around here and it was wildly inconsistent. In FCPS, some schools allowed 4 days a week in person  for anyone who wanted it, some allowed 4 days for K and/or kids with IEP’s or who were really behind and everyone else got 2, and some only allowed 2 days in person period.

Even then: 1) 4 days in person is not 5 days especially when the 5th day is “asynchronous” aka do what you want, 2) that’s a full year of very disrupted school, 3) it created an attitude shift in the parents that “school doesn’t matter that much” and now you’re seeing a lot more absenteeism in kids. And that puts kids at risk of being perpetually behind and even not graduating.

I think people were really in denial about the serious and long lasting negative effects of the closures. I think a lot of people are still in denial actually. [/quote]

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