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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of us *desperately* want schools to open.

And, presumably, most of us don’t want to contribute to a public health crisis.

Right now, we have a public health crisis staring down the barrel at us.  Opening schools in a way that suddenly makes a bunch of kids sick (ie, opening right into the Delta wave) is not something we would normally do.  It’s a little whacked when there are other options available (wait a few weeks before opening, open in hybrid mode, etc).

But none of us trusts our school leaders, especially, nor our fellow parents to manage this with rationality, creativity, and flexibility, so we all fear getting one of two polarized outcomes: (1) ridiculously prolonged school closures or (2) the equivalent of ‘emergency’ school closures in which half the kids are home sick and a handful of them are hospitalized, struggling for their lives.

Our experience of the past couple of years has everyone digging in their heels and failing to respond reasonably to an impending, visible threat.

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I think the part where you are wrong is the second statement.  Most want schools to open, but they do not care about the public health crisis.  This is not to say that closing schools is the only way to prevent the expanding health crisis, because it is not, but there are many on here who seem adamantly against smaller measures, such as quarantines, testing, etc.[/quote]

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