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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would people feel differently if this were going to last 5 years? I certainly hope we get a vaccine, but there is every chance that it will take awhile, take longer still to distribute, be imperfect, last only for a year, etc. I get that there is a safety risk to teachers, but I just don’t think shutting down ES indefinitely can be the answer. The 2-9 age bracket is at almost no risk and seems to spread very little; they are also the bracket where the lack of childcare is going to end some moms’ careers forever and DL is basically a joke. Open schools for PK-2/5 (drawing the exact line based on science and educational research). I just don’t think we can ignore that this may go on for awhile and there are going to be decades’ long ripple effects to all the K-2ers who don’t learn to read or add and forget how to interact with peers. I’m entirely serious.[/quote]

Completely agree with you, PP.  Pandemics end when society says so more often than when the disease in question is vanquished.  There may never be an effective vaccine for Covid19.  We can't sacrifice the education of a generation of little middle-class and poor kids, handing upward mobility to private school students and immigrants from countries where covid didn't derail student learning.

The learning needs to go forward this fall, vs. simply pretending that kids in the early elementary grades can stay on top of academics via virtual instruction, particularly with minimal supervision while parents work on-line.

I don't care if my kid has to sport full PPE to attend school, standing in a sports field wearing ski clothes, listening to a teacher shouting instructions on a megaphone while a math lesson is taught on a jumbotron to attend school again.  Just figure it out, ed leaders.  Innovate.

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Mmm doesn’t work that way. The hiv/aids pandemic is actually ongoing but it is contained to a acceptable degree. COVID-19 however is not. No one is asking for a cure but as it stands now there’s not enough information.

Just a few months ago people were like ‘kids can’t get it,’ now we know that to be absolutely false. I do believe that for this whole year we will have DL and by the 2021-22 school year we will have some level of normalcy.[/quote]

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