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I’ve just been so disgusted by the WaPo’s opinion pieces about reopening schools, and its unrelenting critique of public schools in our area. I’m a parent, not a school employee. WaPo needs to understand we cannot open schools during a catastrophic viral surge. It also needs to understand most public schools here have done an excellent job adapting to the pandemic. South Korea, with its exacting academic standards, has no live instruction for students! Same for Japan. They expect kids to learn by themselves asynchronously and you can bet no one is whining about it. Our kids are spoiled by our area’s school systems. We have it really good.

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Yeah, but not continuously since March. South Korean schools have reopened and closed a number of times since the spring. Kids did get a good amount of in-person instruction since the pandemic began, unlike US kids. We maybe shouldn't open the schools right now, but we should have been open for a lot of the time since March, just like all other civilized countries.[/quote]

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