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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kid is new to private this year, and spent 18 mo of virtual in MCPS - with significant mental impact. How does one WEEK of virtual - to allow delayed testing on Weds or Thurs - impact our kids' mental health?[/quote]
Agree.  All the people whining about the supposed mental health harms of five days of virtual are either disingenuous or stupid or both.[/quote]

says someone who hasn't spoken to a psychologist or psychiatrist in the DMV.[/quote]

Five days is fine.[/quote]

I don't think most people are actually that worried about five days. Heck, I wouldn't even both with virtual for five days - just extend the break and call it good. They're worried that once you go virtual for five days, it's very, very easy to see the benchmarks get moved and five days become 15, become 25, become 50. Going virtual without clear metrics for why and for returning feels like the path to another virtual year. Whether it really is is obviously open to debate (and only time will really tell), but I think that's the real concern.[/quote]

This.

Then it will be virtual week with extra days off to prepare.
Then it will be virtual weeks after the BS 3-4 day weekends.
Then it will be virtual after the ludicrous two week March break.

Pretty soon your pampered private school kid will have 130 days of school versus its usual 150, meanwhile public is 180 and rest of work is 220.

But hey, not everyone gets the special Kumbaya Mission Centric curricula that Wash DC serves up Pk-8 especially.[/quote]

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