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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah yes, another “I was ok with experimenting on teachers” thread.  Yes, the closures affected learning.  That’s because we had a pandemic that killed millions of people.  If you were advocating putting teachers back into the classroom prior to widespread vaccine availability and peak deaths (Jan 2021 in Virginia), I consider you absolute scum.[/quote]

My school district (DCPS) did not full reopen until August 2021, a full 8 months after teachers receive priority access to vaccines. Yes, some schools opened for some kids (not mine, to be clear) where teachers essentially volunteered to come back. But many schools, including ours, were closed from March 2020 until August 2021.

And don't forget all the school personnel who refused to get vaccinated even when vaccines were widely available, but also refused to return to work.[/quote]

Which school didn’t have kids in the buildings by March 2021? [/quote]

Full time?  Prince William county schools.   In March 2021 high school students were allowed to come in 2 days a week.   Most didn't bother.   My kids were typically the only ones in their classroom besides the teacher.   They were literally the only ones on their bus.[/quote]

Kids were back in classrooms at almost all schools by March 2021.  :roll: 
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Not full-time, and not all kids. Do people not know this?[/quote]

OK. Like I said, at almost all schools most kids who wanted to be back in the classroom were back in classroom by March 2021.  :roll: 
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You can look at the numbers at the link below. I live in Maryland and don't consider hybrid offered to 64% of students in March of 2021 to be something available to "almost all" students. By May 2021, full-time in-person learning was still unavailable for 80% of Maryland students, and 36% weren't even offered hybrid instruction. You can see similar numbers for DC and Virginia.

[url]https://ies.ed.gov/schoolsurvey/mss-dashboard/[/url]

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I said “ most kids who wanted to be back in the classroom were back in classroom ”, not “almost all kids”.

Anyway, it was first offered to the people who selected the hybrid option, then expanded to more as the school year continued, as the numbers show. 
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It would be more accurate to say that most Maryland students did not have access to full-time in-person learning until the fall of 2021, which was my original statement.[/quote]

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