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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in the Midwest.  I do feel sorry for DC area kids, they have had a terrible time.  My kids were back in school in-person August 2020, we started hanging out with friends, eating in restaurants, etc. May 2020.  Their lives have been pretty normal for over a year (except wearing masks but adapted fine to that).

The people arguing that that COVID decisions are a personal choice are right, sort of, but if your entire community has chosen to lock down, who would your kids hang out with even if you wanted to be more open?  When I tell my DC friends the pandemic basically ended for my area a year ago, they act like I have 2 heads.  Ang guess what, our numbers are on par to slightly better than DC area.  What was it all for?

In hindsight, I do feel bad for you![/quote]

This is the thing that OP and a couple of others are refusing to accept. That there was no need for no school and activities to happen in the DMV. It was a choice and, in my opinion, a very poor choice by people in charge and no outrage from parents. Nor was there any need to close the libraries other than librarians being spoiled snowflakes. 
The fact that restaurants opened, bars opened, stores opened, but schools were kept closed for in-person never made any sense to me. Food factories were opened, car sales were open, and everything was open, and it did not cause spikes. If Indiana-based schools can manage the pandemic, this tells how our expensive budget school counties completely failed our kids. They are here to serve the kids, not the teachers but serve teachers' unfounded wishes they did at the expense of our kids.

In MoCo, that means saving the nasty grandma that flips you off every turn in traffic, yells at you at stores, but not our kids. The private schools were open too! I think this is what people in MCPS and FCPS are refusing to see, that it was not the pandemic. It was them.
And in OP's case and some other pp's case, not only did school administration fail our kids, but their parents failed their kids too! By locking them up inside. Remember, child cares were open.
Some parents found a way. In a subdivision next to mine, it is one of those close with parks and houses closer together, kids player together every day. It is a very diverse area, so you saw Indian parents sitting in nice chairs in driveways and their kids running the area and biking, you saw groups of parents of all backgrounds hanging out together too, and their kids playing football altogether. Kids signed up for childcare for kindergarten. I hate to say it, but there are cultures that put kids first. Sadly many in MoCo of all backgrounds did not put the kids first. Look at how many posts we had that a parent was half vaccinated and decided to lock everyone inside for 3 weeks before the second shot, just to be safe! And not just lock them up, as in no even going out biking! And similar insanities.
It allowed some parents with mental illness that was previously in check to let it run rampant! And they still think they did it for their kids' best interest! Look how it changed from saving the elderly to nothing is acceptable bcs now kids are not vaxed! Normal people were able to logically determine risks and were not debating the "plume" infection at the gas station and buying car funnels to pee during a short road trip![/quote]

Monday morning quarterbacking. Everyone forgets that we DIDN’T KNOW how seriously this was going to affect kids and frankly we still don’t. If ever a situation called for an abundance of caution it would be during a pandemic. Yeah looking back we probably could have had more schools open but that’s all hindsight. As we see more children being hospitalized with Delta it makes sense that there is a lingering concern. The places that kept schools open took a risk and did so out of an ideological devotion to Trump - not because they were concerned about kids well being. [/quote]

Could not disagree more. Schools were OPEN all over the DMV, US, and world. We kept them closed here because we prioritized adults over kids; and because the system has always expected that families (mainly women) can absorb the costs of caregiving with minimal support. School closures were a brutal combination of bad politics. [/quote]

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