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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason we need a virtual option this year is to allow parents to make their own risk assessments.   Putting your child in a DCPS this year, given what we know about delta so far and what little effort DCPS is making to mitigate risk, is literally gambling with your child’s physical health, and perhaps the health of household members depending on their health status.  I understand that virtual learning also poses other non-physical-health risks to children, and in some or many cases these risks win out.  But for a school system to tell parents that the only way to receive a public education this year is by risking their kid’s health is unconscionable.  Especially when dcps is large enough to offer a district-wide option.

And before someone says it, yes I have asked my school for specifics and gave been met with silence.  Article after article written by public health experts advise us to weigh our individual risk factors carefully, and encourages parents of unvaccinated children to be particularly cautious.  Yet we are told that in order to receive a public education in dc we need to subject our children to more covid exposure in one day than a lot of us probably experience in a month or more.  [/quote]

There IS a virtual option. It's just not the one OP wants.

Also, if we decided things based on each family's risk assessment, I assure you my children would have been in school last year. But low and behold, we are all sbject to the district policies.[/quote]

+ a million.[/quote]

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