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APS is actually created the stopgap issue by adding midweek instructional days. This simply creates a burden for working parents. No one else has mentioned all year schooling or making schools take care of sick kids. 
 
The point of this thread is not to ask teachers to "step up" and do more, it's imploring APS to maintain a more consistent schedule. I don't see why we can't support both families and teachers.

And for what it's worth, I would have walked over broken glass to vote for McAuliffe. Youngkin will be bad news for education, but he made a big deal out of open schools and lots of parents correlate open schools to better mental health for their children (for better or worse). I supposed that's a different thread. [/quote]

No, school as childcare has always been a stopgap. There needs to be care for children even if school is not in session for whatever reason. There needs to be a way that parents can meet the needs of sick children and not get fired over it. There needs to be readily available mental health care for everyone, including teenagers. Kids need to be fed even if they aren't eating at school cafeterias. There are a ton of ways schools cover for the lack of a proper social safety net, and a whole lot of parents never noticed until the pandemic hit. And now all they want is for things to be the way they were before the pandemic. But things weren't good then, either, for a lot of families. [/quote]

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