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Anonymous wrote:I would expect DC to follow PG lead for publics. Will Bowser force all DC Privates virtual? What will MoCo do?

Moco said it is not going virtual unless forced. PG apparently just values school less.

They value their students, staff and their families. Clearly you don’t.

100 students out of 130,000 tested positive in PG county.

For an illness that is not that scary for this age group. And that age group can almost all be vaccinated as well.

PG just doesn't care about education.

You’re right. Or their public health officials are just inept.

How many of those 100 students are even seriously ill? Are they closing down schools for a runny nose and some congestion?

Yep! I mean, I’ve just come to believe that places that readily close have people in them that aren’t that interested in public schools. This includes the very rich and the very poor, for different reasons.

DC education is just a failure if they close. (I mean, it’s verging on failure most of the time anyway.). I’m happy MoCo said they won’t unless forced.

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Anonymous wrote:PG county to be virtual thru MLK day

This makes a lot of sense. Why can't we all have this option?

No, it doesn't. If you wanted your kid virtual, you had the opportunity to sign them up for the virtual academy.

I'm in DC. We don't have the option of a virtual academy. And that charter school is probably not accepting new enrollment after count day

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Anonymous wrote:I would expect DC to follow PG lead for publics. Will Bowser force all DC Privates virtual? What will MoCo do?

Moco said it is not going virtual unless forced. PG apparently just values school less.

They value their students, staff and their families. Clearly you don’t.

100 students out of 130,000 tested positive in PG county.

For an illness that is not that scary for this age group. And that age group can almost all be vaccinated as well.

PG just doesn't care about education.

You’re right. Or their public health officials are just inept.

How many of those 100 students are even seriously ill? Are they closing down schools for a runny nose and some congestion?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would expect DC to follow PG lead for publics. Will Bowser force all DC Privates virtual? What will MoCo do?

Moco said it is not going virtual unless forced. PG apparently just values school less.

They value their students, staff and their families. Clearly you don’t.

100 students out of 130,000 tested positive in PG county.

For an illness that is not that scary for this age group. And that age group can almost all be vaccinated as well.

PG just doesn't care about education.

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Anonymous wrote:I would expect DC to follow PG lead for publics. Will Bowser force all DC Privates virtual? What will MoCo do?

Moco said it is not going virtual unless forced. PG apparently just values school less.

They value their students, staff and their families. Clearly you don’t.

Anonymous wrote:I would expect DC to follow PG lead for publics. Will Bowser force all DC Privates virtual? What will MoCo do?

Moco said it is not going virtual unless forced. PG apparently just values school less.

Anonymous wrote:I would expect DC to follow PG lead for publics. Will Bowser force all DC Privates virtual? What will MoCo do?

You would? Why? PG and DC approached virtual school pretty differently last year, with PG basically announcing it would be virtual for full terms well in advance and then extending the plan, and Bowser repeatedly promising/trying to reopen. The result might have been the same for a lot fo families, but PG County was very conservative in their approach and Bowser's proposed approach (which she struggled to implement) was much more aggressive in favor of in person school.

I would expect DC to follow PG lead for publics. Will Bowser force all DC Privates virtual? What will MoCo do?

I have to think Bowser is thinking about the rise in youth crime and its relation to school closures, in thinking about closing schools again.

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Anonymous wrote:Md has been clear they will not go virtual. You should have done it all along if you wanted it.

except PG just did… until mid Jan.

PG schools are already so bad it really doesn’t matter anyway. I should know, I attended public school in PG.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect DC and MoCo will try to require virtual for all public and private schools for start of new year. Will Hogan overrule MoCo?

Gosh, how many times does this have to be repeated. The state has mandated 180 days of in-person. So if MoCo switched to virtual, those days would not count towards the 180 day mandate and need to be made up at the end of the year, which is not feasible, given teacher contract schedules.

This is simply not up to the local school boards anymore, thank god.

Also, critically, teachers don’t want virtual anymore. They have seen the results in their classrooms and don’t it getting worse.

Also correct. Almost nobody wants virtual beside a small group of people that have let their anxiety overcome though.

MoCo (and MCPS) needs to show faith in the vaccine and our vaccination rates and only respond to limit classroom closure due to outbreaks. This is the time for leadership, knowing the incredibly high cost of school closure and the effectiveness of the vaccine in a highly vaccinated area

This.

It's political disaster for anyone in office if schools close again.

Can someone in-the-know please tell me the likelihood (or how much power localities have) in regards to school closings in the DC area, including Virginia? We’re setting course to move there early spring but will not if schools are closed. Talk about anti-science.

Anonymous wrote:Md has been clear they will not go virtual. You should have done it all along if you wanted it.

except PG just did… until mid Jan.