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[quote=Anonymous]Hello everyone,

FCPS (Brabrand and school board) aren't going to be making up the plan based on their own wits and whims!  That's about the only thing we can be thankful for!

Can you imagine how that would go if they were left to their own devining?  Megan would have read an article somewhere sometime ago about how the Air Force academy is doing education or a school in Bristol... and that would be her reasoning for X.  Another would claim that we can't do X b/c it will affect the pocket of lower "Chanprovidlandria" b/c they don't have the time/supplies/interest in X.  Then another person will say that his/her spouse is a teacher and shouldn't have to teach under those conditions, etc.

But, I digress...   The good news is that the state working group will have a plan with specific criteria for doing school one way and criteria for doing it another way.  For sure, the school board will be eager to follow that plan (after beating it to death with their opinions and "concerns" for multiple school board meetings.  That way, they can off-load responsibility to the state working group.  And that's really not a bad thing either, because no school board in VA is supposed to be an expert in virology or infectious diseases or epidemiology.  That's WAY above the pay grade of our FCPS school board members.

So, let's not get caught up in worrying about how the school board and Brabrand are going to figure this out.  The state knows that ALL the school districts are dealing with this and they (the local districts) don't have the expertise to handle it.  Even Northam knows he doesn't have the expertise to make the detailed roadmap that schools need.  He, like every governor, used a hatchet to shut things down to buy some time to figure out what this virus was all about.  But, now, he's leaving it to a group that can think about all the details of running schools to give much more nuanced directions.

At least for now, have faith in the state working group and the expectation that they will be dealing with a lot of the details -- just like other working groups have created detailed plans for Phase 1, 2, and 3.

And have faith that the FCPS school board would be HAPPY to off-load the workload and responsibility to someone else (i.e. the directives of the working group).  When hard decisions have to be made, most people are more than happy to rely on someone else to take the heat.  ;)[/quote]

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