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Sam3 wrote:
If you chose to be virtual at home, the school doesn't allow those kids to participate in sports???

That's horrible.

That's small-town "thinking." They just barely were able to respond at all to the pandemic and trying to figure it all out on their own (i.e. the school board). Nearby school districts didn't do it this way.

First, they offered a virtual option which we might have done except that the edu package the school district bought did not employ any of their own teachers and did not include any honors courses. Full stop ... we chose to homeschool and buy our own edu products.

For the kids its been good because there's no live instruction, which as someone who works with instructors in my job can tell you that's only a good idea when done right. And my kids are not compelled to stay glued to a screen all day long.

But what the District claimed was that homeschool kids were a risk, and not eligible for any extra-curricular activity. Let that sink in. We're here isolated, masked in public (not that they care) and yet we're the health risk, not the families desperate to send little sniffling Johhny off to the bus so that they can go to work or not be interrupted at home.

My daughter, still receiving the group texts from the team she earned a spot on but could not join, watched team mates contract Covid throughout the year. She's slowly agreeing to join an AAU team to help keep up her skillset. We'll see how that goes. I want her to play, even though my gasoline expenditure is now going to go through the roof driving her all over the region.