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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Maybe if you hadn’t been crying wolf for the past year and a half, you’d have some ground to be commenting. but the fact is the “it’s not safe!!” crowd dug us into a deep, deep hole by keeping schools closed when it was completely uneccesary. And now here we are with kids who have to go back to school to avoid social, emotional, and educational harms. You don’t just disrupt THREE YEARS of schooling. You don’t.[/quote]

+100

If my kid had gotten even a small amount of in person school in the last 18 months, I might be among the people raising alarms about Delta. I agree it’s a serious issue and it’s making sending my kid back to school very, very difficult for me. There are absolutely days where I just want to homeschool. Ask my husband: we’ve been 9 rounds on this and I am not taking Delta lightly.

The problem is that before Delta even emerged, we had alarm bells ringing all over our life, saying “This kid needs to be in school!!!!!” Before delta, we were hanging on by a thread, focused on the hope of IPL this fall to help us address what can only be called a crisis in our home. An ongoing, critical, five alarm fire. So for us, it’s not a simple question of “is it safe?” It’s a complex weighing of competing harms. In the end, the risks of staying home outweigh the risk if delta.

The people who advocated against in person school last fall and winter should be quiet now. Many of us explicitly said that a major reason we needed in person school back then was because we didn’t know what the future held and we feared Covid had surprises in store that would make school more difficult. Some of us advocated for starting the school year early last year and shutting down for an extended winter break/DL session to weather the winter surge. Some of us lobbied consistently for outdoor school and shortened school days. All we heard was that those things were logistically too difficult, that we didn’t know what we were talking about, that the smart thing to do was to start virtually and return to school when cases died down or teachers could be vaccinated.

We were right. You were wrong. And now we are all a little screwed together. It sucks, but it doesn’t make me inclined to listen to you this time.[/quote]

Give your kids delta to own the “is it safe” folks, that’ll show ‘em![/quote]

You were lobbying for things that WERE unreasonable and logistically impossible in a public school district. The people who told you that were correct. [/quote]

oh right … someone it was impossible for DCPS, but possible for [b]private schools, Catholic schools[/b], and plenty of other jurisdictions in the US and abroad.

until y’all deal with the piss-poor decisionmaking that closed schools, you can’t be trusted to weigh in on Delta. [/quote]

Yes exactly. Private and parochial schools have flexibility a city wide school district don’t have. Would love to see examples of other districts with 50k + students completing overhauling their schedules, their school buildings and infrastructure mid year. 18 months and You still don’t know what you’re talking about[/quote]

Oh ffs. Schools were open *everywhere*. Providence RI. NYC. Berlin. Paris. [/quote]

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