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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Ultimately it's because parents (myself included) want the best for their kids, even at the expense of public health.[/b]  School gives kids a sense of normalcy, and the absence of school has been extremely hard on them.  I think it's easy for people who don't have kids to underestimate that.

But, my kids attend private school, and for 40K per kid, they were already in large classrooms with 12-15 kids per class.  So they are likely to return full time, or close to it, anyway.

The "wealthy" families who insist their kids "must" return to school (but apparently were not wealthy enough to send their kids to private school) should take a hard look at what public schools were offering in the first place.  They've long been overcrowded, and the pandemic is just highlighting that problem.[/quote]

Re: the bold: [b]If families would actually sacrifice for real, for a shorter but intense time, by doing serious isolation -- no grocery runs, no takeout, no distanced visits, no vacations to the beach "in a safe way," no playdates with neighbor kids because "they'll stay apart!" -- then we ALL could be returning to normalcy sooner. [/b]But because of "parents who want the best for their kids, even at the expense of public health," people insisted on a fake isolation with socializing, playdates, seeing the relatives, beach trips, restaurants "because we're in Phase Whatever now so it's safe" and "My kids NEED all this!"

And all over, cases are rising. Now it's all about school -- I must send my child to school because it's what's best for MY child and damn public health.

Before you say, "Well, people with kids don't understand all this," I have a kid. And i get that we are not the center of the universe.[/quote]

This is honestly the first I have heard this.  I have not heard that intensely quarantining for a short period of time will lead to returning to normalcy.  [/quote]

Because it's not true. And I'm on the more cautious side (have not been in a grocery store, have done takeout only once, have not gotten our hair cut, etc.). But this just isn't true.[/quote]

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