What was also eye opening in the Massachusetts public schools - about a week after schools shut down in March 2020, our district auto-magically had procured Chromebooks and seat licenses for every single student for Zoom and a number of other software. Felt pretty coordinated.
Also of note - once school started back up again in September 2020, it was a limited schedule - only two days in the classroom a week. Our school had a weird policy where, if a student tested positive for COVID, all other students who came into contact with that student got phone calls home, informing the parents that they’d come in contact with someone who tested positive. At that point, parents had two choices - force your kid to take the shady PCR test (we never did), or keep them home from school for two days.
Then, came talk of mandatory Covid vax for all school-age children in Massachusetts. We left shortly after that for greener pastures.
What was also eye opening in the Massachusetts public schools - about a week after schools shut down in March 2020, our district auto-magically had procured Chromebooks and seat licenses for every single student for Zoom and a number of other software. Felt pretty coordinated.
Also of note - once school started back up again in September 2020, it was a limited schedule - only two days in the classroom a week. Our school had a weird policy where, if a student tested positive for COVID, all other students who came into contact with that student got phone calls home, informing the parents that they’d come in contact with someone who tested positive. At that point, parents had two choices - force your kid to take the shady PCR test (we never did), or keep them home from school for two days.
Then, came talk of mandatory Covid vax for all school-age children in Massachusetts. We left shortly after that for greener pastures.
You are smart. I left WA at about the same time also