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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the mentality we are dealing with. A woman I know from my kids' school, (upper class wealthy white family with 2 kids in a charter)  relentlessly coopted ward 8 voices and claimed to be speaking for POC (even though POC would literally confront you on your page) about the harms to that population through school closing. Even when people would say "actually, POC are more at risk from this disease and actually are the ones who want the virtual option) would say all the reasons why her opinion on their needs was more right than the parents. Despite all this, same person just posted about "joy and relief" in the air with kids going back to school...when a friend said to the contrary, many of us were worried, this person doled out unsolicited advice to friends, telling them to avoid mainstream media and read  Emily Oster so they can be less anxious. I mean honestly, this is what we are dealing with, and this person has lots of free time and is organizing, organizing, organizing. Reason to post this is that, this is just one person. For every other person actively trying to limit the ability of scared parents (JUSTIFIABLY scared parents including the ones with medically vulnerable family members at home but also just any parent has a damn good reason to be wary given Delta's hospitalization rate for kids), just know we see you all in real life, and while we may not say something, we think so much less of you for what you're doing to take away OUR kids right to be safe - making us choose between their safety and their education. Literally ZERO people in the past 10 - 20 pages have advocated for  "no in person school." you're just not even willing to share the table scraps that Covid has left all of us, and truly, you should be damn ashamed of your greed. This is not a zero sum game, DCPS made a foolish, bad decision, propped up by all the petitions and letter writing of people like this, who are COVID kid impact deniers. Best wishes to your kids, truly, but as for you, you suck.  [/quote]

Sounds like you should defriend this person and stop worrying about it. Her point of view is totally valid.  Honestly sounds like you're angry someone you know is openly making cogent arguments for open schools instead of being cowed.  And kudos to her.  I'm not brave enough to do it with my name attached. [/quote]

The reality is that that person’s position is completely in line with what any expert in education or any social worker would tell you. Remember the RN case worker on this thread?  Just because you think your acquaintance doesn’t have the expertise or street cred to make this argument doesn’t mean she is wrong.[/quote]

I actually think I may know this person and they work in global health policy. So they have a base of applicable knowledge.

And she is very brave to be posting on FB. I had to withdraw from all mom's groups/school listservs last fall because I was so incredibly mad at the selfish people and crazy politics that created so much harm. Now we're so far down the hole that the Delta quarantines are going to be much more harmful than they would have been if we just kept the d*mn schools open.  [/quote]

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