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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not just about whether you will have teachers - it is about large numbers of people together in enclosed spaces for hours at a time day after day and their potential impact on the community at large. [/quote]

How about the potential impact on the community at large of kids missing months or even years of schooling?[/quote]
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First of all we are talking about the fall not years.[/b] Don't get ahead of yourself. I think that the deaths of possibly hundreds of thousands of people is a pretty big deal but let's say you are cool with old people and at vulnerable people dying. Covid doesn't have just two outcomes, fine or death. There is a large percentage of people who get this who are hospitalized for significant periods of time with this illness and then require additional time to recover.  This is a significant expense and it takes a toll on the health care workers and puts them at risk of serious illness and death. Second there is a significant contingent who are not sick enough to go to the hospital but are unable to work for weeks and weeks. Who will care for the children of the parents who are sick? Who will care for the people who are in the hospital? Who will deliver the food? Also since this is a novel virus there is still so much we don't know about it and the potential long term effects of it so I think an abundance of caution is wise. As an adult you have to have lived long enough to know that while this is suboptimal most DCUM kids aren't going to be sign spinners on Rockville Pike because they had online school for multiple semesters. I'd be in favor of something that brings back the most vulnerable kids. The FARMS kids and the IEP kids who truly cannot get by without the in person instruction while the rest stay at home. I'm not saying it isn't hard but what part of a pandemic did you think would be easy? [/quote]

We are potentially talking about years. And kids already missed half of the third quarter and all of the fourth quarter. Almost half a year of school, gone.

Everything you say about hospitalization and expense and health care workers and food delivery and clinical unknowns applies to EVERYTHING that is opening. It's completely unconscionable to open everything else but keep schools closed.

And yes, maybe it's hard to figure out how to open the schools, but what part of a pandemic did you think would be easy?[/quote]

This. We MUST be willing to take greater risks to open schools than to open anything else. They must be a priority.[/quote]

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