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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand this conversation about how we had to close schools because otherwise kids would get Covid and give it to vulnerable family members.

Perhaps you all can afford nannies/tutors/SAHPs so school closures mean your kids are not in group care? That’s not how it works for most families.

Our friends got Covid (as did their parents) because their kindergartener was in daycare (old daycare offered spots for older kids who needed it, and they both work so they needed it). Kid gave it to parents and grandparents. Fortunately everyone came through okay but school closures didn’t prevent anything in their case. They have to work. They need childcare. A full time nanny wasn’t an option.

We knew another family who did have a nanny, they still all got Covid (nanny caught it from her son who she lives with who got it from his in person job). Again, school closures didn’t help at all.

My kid was in group care through the entire 18 mo closure. We never got Covid, though there were a few outbreaks in my kid’s classes. Again, we work do we didn’t have a choice.

The thing I never understood was why it was okay for our daycare and camp teachers to risk possible exposure, but not teachers. Daycare providers generally make a lot less, plus they have really limited protection in terms of sick leave or other things.

We just shortchanged kids on school to protect one well-educated, higher paid group of people, by keeping kids with a lower-paid, less respected group of people. We didn’t prevent spread of Covid, we just shifted it to others.[/quote]

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