jm94 said:
Gov. Inslee just extended the school shut down for the rest of the year.
Yep. My kids are in Tacoma school district. My senior has a ****ed up senior year, but has already essentially graduated, so aside from missing the fun of that time of her life, she's OK. But I'm not sure what happens to the 7th grader. Tacoma can't do required distance learning because of high percentage of the district without adequate resources (MUST be true for a vast majority of urban districts), so will she have to start next year in July to catch up? And I'm actually being a bit melodramatic for her specifically too - she's also honors and is several grade levels ahead in ELA and one in math (humble brag), but there are kids that are at grade level, you know, where they're supposed to be. What do those kids do?
The frustrating thing to me is that rather than make plans for how to act in school - add procedure masks to the dress code, hand sanitizer in every classroom, they give up. IF the curve continues to flatten and new cases continue a declining rate for the next four weeks (the old deadline), they will not be able to say "oops" and start up on a dime.
I absolutely agree with the "rather over react than under-react" thinking. 100%. My whole problem with this is the fact that there's ZERO exit strategy. When is this over? Nobody will define what it looks like. That's asinine to me. And it's not a democrat or republican thing. They've both punted and neither is actually leading.
