Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Department of Labor and Industry
 
Board
Safety and Health Codes Board
 
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1/4/21  4:17 pm
Commenter: Sue Sargeant

Safety for Students, Teachers/Staff in Public Schools
 

Not one person has ever experienced a global pandemic: There's no safe way 'in person' at this time in the viciousness of COVID19 because we're still in 'baseline' data rather than intervention and replication.  We're guinea pigs because It's opinion v. fact. Interpretation, Ideology, v. Science. Keep Virginia's public school folks SAFE by doing what Supt. Kamras in Richmond is modeling for this CommonWealth: 100% Distance Learning/DL, including virtual, learning packets and parent coaching. Even for those students with the most significant of Autism and the most 'medically fragile' with intellectual disabilities. They are not even being provided equal educational opportunities as per their general ed peers to engage in data-driven DL to prove progress or regression, or stabilization/maintainence. All students can learn in DL. As public school educators, sure, we want 'in person'. but #OnlyWhenItsSafeFORALL. 

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