Anonymous wrote:Everyone would be better off if the state provided a voucher + cares money to let parents pick a private school that they see fit. This would also cause public schools to open rather than doing nothing and hoarding the money.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, look, Germany is keeping its schools and daycares closed until mid-February along with a whole host of other measures: https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-extends-covid-lockdown-until-february-14/a-56277168

Dutch schools have been closed since mid-December: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-dutch-parliament-coronavirus-curfew.html

Those countries did a lot right in the part of the pandemic (their death tolls reflect that!) but .... we are in a new phase of it with even more contagious strains floating around and their leaders have bowed to reality.

We have many, many friends in Europe (UK, Netherlands, France, Austria, Slovakia, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Germany, etc) and when you talk about school closures and somehow think that supports your narrative, you simultaneously forget that most European cities do not require children to wear mask who are under ~10-11, varies by area, most places do not require masks outdoors- some big cities are changing this but for example, London has yet to, and school was always and continues to be prioritized. European schools were back in the spring when the DMV schools called it quits for the year. They were back all fall, even when infection rates were high. Sure, some schools are closing for a very short amount of time but as a whole Europeans have a much more rationale approach and have looked at mitigation efforts that actually make sense. Having a two year old masked is neither developmentally appropriate nor does anything to control the spread, neither does passing by someone outdoors without a mask- but go ahead and continue to make yourself feel better without actually doing anything that matters. So if you want to pull data to support your narrative- please do so in totality and not cherry-pick.

Are you advocating that we return to school buildings without masks like Europe? Do you want Bowser to get rid of the mask mandate? That is sure what this sounds like.

Browser will do whatever her ill-informed, lack of long-term strategic plan, bought by lobbyists advisors convince her of.

She's the absolute worst.

Given that she is trying to push ahead with reopening unlike many local school districts (looking at you all of nearby MD), I wouldn’t call her the worst. Just profoundly mediocre. And, in fairness, she has had a ton on her plate the last few weeks and has handled it pretty well in my opinion.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, look, Germany is keeping its schools and daycares closed until mid-February along with a whole host of other measures: https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-extends-covid-lockdown-until-february-14/a-56277168

Dutch schools have been closed since mid-December: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-dutch-parliament-coronavirus-curfew.html

Those countries did a lot right in the part of the pandemic (their death tolls reflect that!) but .... we are in a new phase of it with even more contagious strains floating around and their leaders have bowed to reality.

We have many, many friends in Europe (UK, Netherlands, France, Austria, Slovakia, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Germany, etc) and when you talk about school closures and somehow think that supports your narrative, you simultaneously forget that most European cities do not require children to wear mask who are under ~10-11, varies by area, most places do not require masks outdoors- some big cities are changing this but for example, London has yet to, and school was always and continues to be prioritized. European schools were back in the spring when the DMV schools called it quits for the year. They were back all fall, even when infection rates were high. Sure, some schools are closing for a very short amount of time but as a whole Europeans have a much more rationale approach and have looked at mitigation efforts that actually make sense. Having a two year old masked is neither developmentally appropriate nor does anything to control the spread, neither does passing by someone outdoors without a mask- but go ahead and continue to make yourself feel better without actually doing anything that matters. So if you want to pull data to support your narrative- please do so in totality and not cherry-pick.

Are you advocating that we return to school buildings without masks like Europe? Do you want Bowser to get rid of the mask mandate? That is sure what this sounds like.

Browser will do whatever her ill-informed, lack of long-term strategic plan, bought by lobbyists advisors convince her of.

She's the absolute worst.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, look, Germany is keeping its schools and daycares closed until mid-February along with a whole host of other measures: https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-extends-covid-lockdown-until-february-14/a-56277168

Dutch schools have been closed since mid-December: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-dutch-parliament-coronavirus-curfew.html

Those countries did a lot right in the part of the pandemic (their death tolls reflect that!) but .... we are in a new phase of it with even more contagious strains floating around and their leaders have bowed to reality.

We have many, many friends in Europe (UK, Netherlands, France, Austria, Slovakia, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Germany, etc) and when you talk about school closures and somehow think that supports your narrative, you simultaneously forget that most European cities do not require children to wear mask who are under ~10-11, varies by area, most places do not require masks outdoors- some big cities are changing this but for example, London has yet to, and school was always and continues to be prioritized. European schools were back in the spring when the DMV schools called it quits for the year. They were back all fall, even when infection rates were high. Sure, some schools are closing for a very short amount of time but as a whole Europeans have a much more rationale approach and have looked at mitigation efforts that actually make sense. Having a two year old masked is neither developmentally appropriate nor does anything to control the spread, neither does passing by someone outdoors without a mask- but go ahead and continue to make yourself feel better without actually doing anything that matters. So if you want to pull data to support your narrative- please do so in totality and not cherry-pick.

Are you advocating that we return to school buildings without masks like Europe? Do you want Bowser to get rid of the mask mandate? That is sure what this sounds like.

Browser will do whatever her ill-informed, lack of long-term strategic plan, bought by lobbyists advisors convince her of.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, look, Germany is keeping its schools and daycares closed until mid-February along with a whole host of other measures: https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-extends-covid-lockdown-until-february-14/a-56277168

Dutch schools have been closed since mid-December: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-dutch-parliament-coronavirus-curfew.html

Those countries did a lot right in the part of the pandemic (their death tolls reflect that!) but .... we are in a new phase of it with even more contagious strains floating around and their leaders have bowed to reality.

We have many, many friends in Europe (UK, Netherlands, France, Austria, Slovakia, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Germany, etc) and when you talk about school closures and somehow think that supports your narrative, you simultaneously forget that most European cities do not require children to wear mask who are under ~10-11, varies by area, most places do not require masks outdoors- some big cities are changing this but for example, London has yet to, and school was always and continues to be prioritized. European schools were back in the spring when the DMV schools called it quits for the year. They were back all fall, even when infection rates were high. Sure, some schools are closing for a very short amount of time but as a whole Europeans have a much more rationale approach and have looked at mitigation efforts that actually make sense. Having a two year old masked is neither developmentally appropriate nor does anything to control the spread, neither does passing by someone outdoors without a mask- but go ahead and continue to make yourself feel better without actually doing anything that matters. So if you want to pull data to support your narrative- please do so in totality and not cherry-pick.

Are you advocating that we return to school buildings without masks like Europe? Do you want Bowser to get rid of the mask mandate? That is sure what this sounds like.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, look, Germany is keeping its schools and daycares closed until mid-February along with a whole host of other measures: https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-extends-covid-lockdown-until-february-14/a-56277168

Dutch schools have been closed since mid-December: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-dutch-parliament-coronavirus-curfew.html

Those countries did a lot right in the part of the pandemic (their death tolls reflect that!) but .... we are in a new phase of it with even more contagious strains floating around and their leaders have bowed to reality.

We have many, many friends in Europe (UK, Netherlands, France, Austria, Slovakia, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Germany, etc) and when you talk about school closures and somehow think that supports your narrative, you simultaneously forget that most European cities do not require children to wear mask who are under ~10-11, varies by area, most places do not require masks outdoors- some big cities are changing this but for example, London has yet to, and school was always and continues to be prioritized. European schools were back in the spring when the DMV schools called it quits for the year. They were back all fall, even when infection rates were high. Sure, some schools are closing for a very short amount of time but as a whole Europeans have a much more rationale approach and have looked at mitigation efforts that actually make sense. Having a two year old masked is neither developmentally appropriate nor does anything to control the spread, neither does passing by someone outdoors without a mask- but go ahead and continue to make yourself feel better without actually doing anything that matters. So if you want to pull data to support your narrative- please do so in totality and not cherry-pick.

Are you advocating that we return to school buildings without masks like Europe? Do you want Bowser to get rid of the mask mandate? That is sure what this sounds like.

DP. It only sounds like that to you because of your preconceived notions about people who think schools to open.

To me, it sounds like that the PP is saying that if there was spread in European schools, it's because they didn't implement the strict hygiene measures that DCPS would be requiring, not even something as simple as masks. So they didn't do everything right about Covid, as the PPP argued, and school closures are not an inevitable consequence.

Anonymous wrote:We are having in person Feb 1st. If your kid didn't get it then your school sucks or you are high SES and not ELL or Sped, you can wait.

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Anonymous wrote:Education is NOT being provided. End of story.

Unless you are at a private, that just simply isn’t true. It might not be the form of education you want or how much you want, but it is being offered. Even after schools physically reopen, it still won’t look like pre-pandemic school.

Education implies both a teacher teaching and a child actually learning. Simply offering up something digitally is not in any sense the meaning of "education". We could close all public schools and just keep library opens and that would be an "education" under your definition.

Does health care imply both a doctor giving treatment and the patient recovering? If so, there’s a lot of doctors not doing their job right now!

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, look, Germany is keeping its schools and daycares closed until mid-February along with a whole host of other measures: https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-extends-covid-lockdown-until-february-14/a-56277168

Dutch schools have been closed since mid-December: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-dutch-parliament-coronavirus-curfew.html

Those countries did a lot right in the part of the pandemic (their death tolls reflect that!) but .... we are in a new phase of it with even more contagious strains floating around and their leaders have bowed to reality.

We have many, many friends in Europe (UK, Netherlands, France, Austria, Slovakia, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Germany, etc) and when you talk about school closures and somehow think that supports your narrative, you simultaneously forget that most European cities do not require children to wear mask who are under ~10-11, varies by area, most places do not require masks outdoors- some big cities are changing this but for example, London has yet to, and school was always and continues to be prioritized. European schools were back in the spring when the DMV schools called it quits for the year. They were back all fall, even when infection rates were high. Sure, some schools are closing for a very short amount of time but as a whole Europeans have a much more rationale approach and have looked at mitigation efforts that actually make sense. Having a two year old masked is neither developmentally appropriate nor does anything to control the spread, neither does passing by someone outdoors without a mask- but go ahead and continue to make yourself feel better without actually doing anything that matters. So if you want to pull data to support your narrative- please do so in totality and not cherry-pick.

Are you advocating that we return to school buildings without masks like Europe? Do you want Bowser to get rid of the mask mandate? That is sure what this sounds like.

Anonymous wrote:We are having in person Feb 1st. If your kid didn't get it then your school sucks or you are high SES and not ELL or Sped, you can wait.