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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every county, or at least he bigger ones have VA.  Googling to see it, even Baltimore City has one.  At some point, if you have 10-40K students in VA, you'd have to create a entire new school system, vs. separate schools like each county did now.  If that poster wants to go through the state, fine, however they can argue all they want but MCPS has been clear that they are committed to keeping VA.

Doing it through the state makes no sense except if you mandate each county use the same exact curriculum so kids can move in and out of VA to in person easily.  Although the state taking over the curriculum may not be a bad thing if they brought textbooks back.[/quote]

I get why it there might be substantial value to making it easy to go to/from virtual during the pandemic. But we're nearing the end-game on COVID, with the 5-11yo vaccines rolling out. Of the kids whose parents choose to keep them in virtual next fall, I think it is safe to assume *most* will never return to their old  in-person schools. So there's very little benefit to keeping the virtual curriculum aligned with the physical schools that happen to be geographically close to the  students.[/quote]

It is striking how little anyone here seems to contemplate the prospect of a vaccine-escaping variant.[/quote]

How so? If that does happen, that's only more reason to think the kids in VA will never come back to the physical schools.

I'm not sure where you're getting this idea that I want VA to end. I don't- I want it to be sustainable for all kids across Maryland. There's no reason to have counties manage seperate VA programs when the VA students aren't likely to go back to the physical schools.[/quote]

Every county has a VA.  Google can quickly tell you that.  By your comments, we should get rid of all counties and just make one school system for the entire state.   It is sustainable.  Even if only 1k are enrolled, that’s still a school in itself.

How do you know families don’t plan to return.  You are making sweeping generalizations about us.   It’s not just about vaccines for some of us.  You decided that was your safety threshold, but others of us have different thresholds.  We’d love to go back in person but we also cannot risk Covid.  [/quote]

If you can't risk COVID, then you're not going to be sending your kids to school anytime in the foreseeable future. That's my point. COVID isn't going away, so if the vaccine isn't enough for you, nothing will be. And that's fine- you can make that decision for yourself. But we shouldn't base virtual programs around the idea that those kids are ever coming back. We can save money on a statewide basis by generally managing VA at MSDE, likely through a contract with an online school company.[/quote]

You really don't get it do you. No, the vaccine isn't enough.  If it were, we wouldn't be seeing so many breakthrough cases.

You have no idea if my kids will go back or when as its not for you to decide.

Contracting out would cost far more to provide something equal to what MCPS is providing with live teachers.  And, there really aren't any programs that they could contract out to that are equal.  And, fi their are, please share as I couldn't find any.

You can rant about the state taking over VA all you want but MCPS has funded VA for the next several years.  Despite what you want, its not going away.[/quote]

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