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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the poster saying “nobody is arguing against virtual, only against all schools having virtual” - please review the last 20 pages of this thread. Most virtual proponents and I think every one on this thread in the past few dozen pages want a virtual *option* and in some cases not to lose OOB spots (that’s not my position). So there are a few people including those with very high risk (vaccinated! But it doesn’t always take in immunocompromised and some cannot medically get) family members at home. And it’s been pages of vitriol from the IPL set here, so angry, blaming everyone who wants a virtual option now for school closures last year. I can tell you some of the people who want to ban virtual for everyone are getting their info from Emily Oster who is the science equivalent of Geraldo Rivera. The real sources tell us that much is not known about delta but what is suspected is that it is very hard on kids. It’s not anxiety to want a virtual option for the 5 or so months until the under 12 set can be vaccinated. Period. [/quote]

No.  You’re seeing what you want to see, but that’s not the case.  The title of this thread is that all schools should offer a virtual option.  And many of us strongly disagree.  But if DCPS had a central virtual option for anyone who wanted it, which they should have done from the start, many of us would applaud it.  Don’t get it twisted, and on every side of this issue, don’t let a very vocal minority drown out the voices of reason.[/quote]

Actually, many people do oppose a virtual option for anyone who chooses it, and that’s not an extreme or unreasonable position. In fact, it’s a position embraced by many experts and policy makers as well as DCPS and the mayor, because such an option would be abused by people who are not in a position to or won’t make their kids succeed in virtual school. There is a reason school - real, in person school - has been mandatory for a long time. Most other countries don’t even allow homeschooling as readily as the US. Kids need to be in school for their own good and protection. Delta is not a sufficiently dangerous virus to kids that it will break that long-standing principle, especially in the eyes of policy makers in jurisdictions with lots of vulnerable kids.[/quote]

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