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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve heard it is going to be ALL.  Not yet announced. [/quote]

Yup seems like that’s what the plan is.. no way the red schools will be yellow or green after 14 days. If anything the yellow and green will be red soon. Its all virtual for everyone. MCPS ruins another year of learning for our kids. Especially the younger elementary and special needs students. [/quote]

What kind of looney tune wants to send a kid into a school with that much COVID? Weirdo. COVID is ruining things, not MCPS.[/quote]

What kind of idiot thinks COVID is more of a threat to kids than mental illness resulting from nearly two YEARS of chronic stress?

Clueless people are ruining our kids.  Not COVID.[/quote]

NP.

I don't know. What kind of big brain genius thinks that 2-4 weeks of virtual will do more long-term damage on a population level than even "only" an extra 10% of kids getting COVID because schools all stayed in-person?

What kind of beautiful mind thinks that we wouldn't soon all be forced to go virtual from staffing shortages alone, no matter what the policy is?

What kind of galactic superintelligent being thinks that everyone getting COVID all at once will be less stressful to the mental health of kids than a few weeks of home instruction?[/quote]

You can be as cute with the terms as you want, but I can't fathom how people still trust MCPS to return to in-person after two weeks only of virtual.  Come on, people.  I'm not even going to touch how cavalier you are about kids' mental health.[/quote]

I'm the PP who posted those "cute terms" (and would never blame families for lack of childcare, nor am I cavalier about mental health-- though it's true that I care less about it in a temporary situation with serious competing risks).

And [i]I[/i] can't fathom how people think that if only MCPS vowed never to utilize virtual instruction, we'd be just fine.

You are setting up a world in which, if MCPS pivots to virtual for any reason, they will "not be trusted" to return for months or years. Thus, if they want to keep your "trust" they should only pivot to virtual, when? Never? At 50% positivity? Or would it be acceptable to do so when there literally are not enough staff available to keep the school running safely-- which is not a metric we are far from meeting?

The thing is, even if you say there were an acceptable time in your eyes, I don't "trust" that [i]you[/i] would not move the goalposts if we reached them.

That's largely what's already happened. A couple of weeks ago, most pro-in-person folks seemed to think the 5% metric was reasonable enough. At least acceptable. Not all pro-in-person folks, but seemingly most.

Now all that has changed is that we're meeting or exceeding that same metric, and now it's unreasonable.

Literally no way to win.[/quote]

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