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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is pro-DL. People are making the best of a bad situation and want all teachers vaccinated before returning.  And some families need the parents vaccinated before their kids return.

Homeschool teaching really only needs a few hours a day but school is 6 hours a day. A lot of school is get in line, cut this paper and wait while kids cut the paper, read in your small groups, etc. Direct instruction is not a lot of time.

DL still sucks but in a pandemic its the best option.

My teachers walk or bike to school. My teachers have walked or biked to see our kids from a distance.[/quote]

Wishful thinking. Teachers want distance learning to continue forever because they like the lifestyle. [/quote]

I mean, I know several teachers that hate DL because they find it joyless, awful, and more work than being in person.  They actually care about their students and hate that they aren't learning at pace.  Of course, they are all also eager to get vaccinated and go in person.  So I think that yes, perhaps there are some teachers who just like being at home, but I don't know if they make up the majority.[/quote]

Totally agree. I think one of the big issues will be that bad, unhappy teachers in failing schools with crappy leadership and facilities will fight tooth and nail to stay at home as long as they can, whereas good, generally content teachers in decent schools with competent leadership and adequate facilities will largely prefer to go back once they're vaccinated and certainly once their family members are vaccinated and/or as the return to "normalish" life becomes, well, normalized. This will mean that the kids in Ward 7 and 8 schools, already at a massive disadvantage in many, many ways will now be even more disadvantaged. [/quote]

ALL schools in DC are lavishly funded compared to schools in most of the rest of the country. Schools are far more decrepit in NYC or Chicago, and they managed to open. [/quote]

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