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Interesting discussion.  But one question- how long.  The simple point I’ll make is we can’t keep schools closed indefinitely.  So when?  Even when there is a vaccine, there will be some people getting Covid.  

At the latest, once a vaccine with adequate protection is available for teachers.

I’d be interested in hearing your ideas for fixing the problem with”conventional” schools and black and brown kids. We actually may find some common ground - improving schools (and scholastic options) in economically depressed areas is needed.  On that I think we may actually agree.  But I truly don’t think staying home is the better of the two current options.

Me too.  Schools routinely fail disadvantaged populations and especially racial/ethnic minorities.  However, I have seen no data to suggest that no school is worse for them than the flawed schools we have.  Again, it is a bit hard to disentangle the difference between suggesting that schools should stay distance learning because of COVID and saying that schools are stacked against black and brown kids, but the leap to "no school would be better" is surprising, so I'd like to hear the entirety of brevin's thoughts before jumping in.

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[BostonCard]

Interesting discussion.  But one question- how long.  The simple point I’ll make is we can’t keep schools closed indefinitely.  So when?  Even when there is a vaccine, there will be some people getting Covid.  

At the latest, once a vaccine with adequate protection is available for teachers.

I’d be interested in hearing your ideas for fixing the problem with”conventional” schools and black and brown kids. We actually may find some common ground - improving schools (and scholastic options) in economically depressed areas is needed.  On that I think we may actually agree.  But I truly don’t think staying home is the better of the two current options.

Me too.  Schools routinely fail disadvantaged populations and especially racial/ethnic minorities.  However, I have seen no data to suggest that no school is worse for them than the flawed schools we have.  Again, it is a bit hard to disentangle the difference between suggesting that schools should stay distance learning because of COVID and saying that schools are stacked against black and brown kids, but the leap to "no school would be better" is surprising, so I'd like to hear the entirety of brevin's thoughts before jumping in.

BC