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Anonymous wrote:My prediction is we will look back and the end result will be we have done far more damage to our kids than any benefit received from shutting down schools. Our society has been way too short sighted in all of this.

Actually, I disagree. I think this generation of kids may end up valuing things most of us took for granted.

I try to look at the upside and wonder if we'll stop over-scheduling our kids and families and spend a little more quality time together outside looking at bugs. but maybe that's my bias.

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Anonymous wrote:Proper ventilation. Such a roadblock. Next thing, parents will want arrangements to avoid indoor mask less dining. What is it with these parent primadonnas and their “safety requirements.” What’s next? Fire alarms? Sprinkler systems?

If the message is now “but we’re saving your children!”, then perhaps something to mitigate influenza and strep outbreaks. I don’t recall all this wailing and gnashing of teeth about the annual outbreaks that pose a much greater threat to the average child. Or is this all just performance?

Remember that time McK had to close because of Noravirus? I think it closed on a Friday for a weekend deep clean after having about 1/3 of its student and teacher pop out the two weeks before. I remember it well bc, well, it come home and that was terrible. I think it was roughly 3 years ago. Anyway, there were no hand sanitizer stations set up in the school after that. Also, I visited the McK nurses more than my fair share of times and after that, they didn't wear PPE when my child had a fever or was bleeding. He had strep...4 times in 3rd grade and two of those times were discovered by the school's nurse (my kid doesn't always get obvious symptoms with strep).

Anyway, I'm glad that we are learning all of these virus precautions and hope that we keep some of them for flu/strep season going forward. Like cleaning protocols, not necessarily masks all the time.

Anonymous wrote:My prediction is we will look back and the end result will be we have done far more damage to our kids than any benefit received from shutting down schools. Our society has been way too short sighted in all of this.

Actually, I disagree. I think this generation of kids may end up valuing things most of us took for granted.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL, the AEM brigade is here.

And you are the “All I do is insult people rather than taking concrete steps to make things better. It’s too hard.” Brigade

My goodness, that struck quite a nerve. You seem to be making a lot of assumptions here. Foundation, counselor?

NP. The "foundation" is your posts. It is pretty clear that all you do is insult and malign. If you've had anything positive to contribute perhaps you can identify it now? Otherwise you are the problem, not the other poster to whom you are making your remarks.

DP. I think you may want to take a step back and look at what you posted and what you were responding to. You personally attacked someone without any basis for doing so (since you don’t know what else they posted), because they made a joke. You don’t know that person, you don’t know what they’re about, but your first impulse was to lash out and verbally assault them.

I believe you are a better person than this, which means I also believe you should take some time to reflect on what this indicates about your mental health at the moment, and what extra supports might be helpful right now. There is no shame in that, and it’s not a personal insult. These are very trying times, and plenty of us are hanging on by a thread. Please take care of yourself.

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Exactly. She's been pushing to have reasonable measures put in place so that schools are safe for our students and teachers to return. If APS had put those measures into place several MONTHS ago when she started advocating, it's very likely they would have gone back hybrid earlier in the year.

Give us a break and sell that line back over on AEM.

If we had this all figured out over the summer & had everything in place in September we certainly could have gone back.

Why do you think people don't want to send their kids and teachers don't want to go in person? Because APS hadn't figured anything of this out yet. If we had safe technology and systems in place, the kids would be in school. Instead, we were floundering.

Sit TF unless you have something productive to add.

Sorry, but the moving of the goalposts from “no school until teachers are vaccinated” to “no school until EVERYONE is vaccinated” was a clear indication that all of the air quality talk was just talk. I assume that’s been walked back now that it got no traction?

People DO want their kids back, hence all the fighting.

Not seeing what you’re adding to the discussion, speaking of “sit TF”.

I am a NP and a parent. I want my kids back to face-to-face school but not until everyone is vaccinated. I don't think it is safe with the mutations. I'm not "fighting," I haven't even responded to you but I am asserting my position.

I don't see that you're contributing anything other than being obstructive and rude. But you should keep on doing you because you're turning off more people than you're convincing.

I think that’s perfectly fine. But what about parents who want their kids to go back? Are you against schools reopening at all?