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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I have trouble understanding how DCUM is so antiscreens, and yet also wants a plan where we go back to 1:1 devices that travel with kids.

Similarly, I have trouble believing that DCUM is up in arms that school, and school based closings present challenges for working parents, and is now advocating something that would be impossible for many families using group childcare or working from home while supervising to manage.

The costs of virtual days would be high.  To say that schools should do it because it might yield a tiny bit of learning, is absurd because it ignores those costs.

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I lean towards the anti screens side and also support virtual learning during long snow closures.  Just because you ensure that the fraction of kids whose parents don't own computers have a school computer to bring home before a big storm, doesn't at all mean that those kids need to be using computers on a daily basis in the classroom.  Totally separate issues.[/quote]

The question is who do we prioritize?  The fraction of kids for whom a few extra days of school lunch matters?  The fraction of kids who would be with grandparents or going to work with a parent or in a group childcare situation where virtual doesn’t work?  The fraction of kids with disabilities for whom virtual doesn’t work?

Or the fraction of kids in homes with extra computers and SAHP or WFH parents with jobs with enough flexibility to be able to help, or jobs that let them take annual leave, who have been so helicoptered that they can’t occupy themselves productively, and whose parents don’t want to be the bad guy and tell them to read a book, so they need virtual learning to learn anything?

If you don’t want days tacked on, then don’t send your kids those days.

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