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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you can just keep whining and having tantrums, insisting that it has to be in-person learning or nothing. THAT is your CHOICE.

I'm going to focus on doing what I can to make DL more effective.

And on finding other ways to use this time as a way to teach my children important life skills. And have more fun![/quote]

Nobody is insisting that.

If you just want to accept that kids won't get to go to school this year, THAT is your CHOICE. Others of us have not yet given up hope on advocating for a school option.[/quote]

I hope we can open up during this school year. I just don't think it looks likely for this fall.[/quote]

Having had no school in the fall, do you really think they'll say, "OK, now let's have school this spring!"? I don't.[/quote]

Okay, so you are saying schools have to open even though several hundred people are still being diagnosed daily in the state.[/quote]

I don't know how to tell you this, other than to say: people are not staying home anymore in Maryland. People are going to work, shopping, hanging out, eating out, having parties, going to the beach...all that is ok, but school isn't?[/quote]

No, those things are not OK. That’s why cases are starting to creep up again, and why many people are concerned about the possibility of all that outdoor activity being brought indoors.

If we (state and federal governments) had had given sufficient financial support to businesses and individuals affected by the stay-at-home orders, instead of opening “to save the economy,” we’d be much better positioned going into the fall. Failing that, if MD would institute and enforce a quarantine order for travel to/from hotspot states, I’d feel better about our chances for the coming months. But every idiot who can’t pass up a chance for shorter lines at Disney this month, or takes advantage of travel “deals,” increases the odds that even those to phased-in hybrid days can happen.

Look at the infection rates in the places where schools have opened—and stayed open—and really drill down into the details of their operating plans. In many places, their school doesn’t look all that much different from the hybrid model and masks-and-distancing rules that MCPS is proposing, and their numbers were lower even than MD’s when they fully implemented their plans. [/quote]

[[Sorry—“two” phased-in days...]][/quote]

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