I speak as a parent that completed the LCPS survey. I speak as a parent that watched the entirety of the school board meeting 7/27/2020. I speak as a person that understands there is no way to please everyone and that whatever decision was made would not have pleased everyone.

I have read many of the posts from happy parents and angry parents. I can see both sides however, the thing that truly bothers me about the decision made yesterday is that it took away choice. Parents were able to go into this meeting believing that they had some form of choice. If you didn’t want your child back at school you at least had the option of choosing to do all remote learning under Plan C. 

There was a choice. The parents that were comfortable sending their children back to school could choose to follow the plan B that the school board chose. Parents could have always chosen to do all remote learning if they didn’t want their kids back at school and parents could have chosen to do the hybrid plan if they were comfortable sending their kids back to school. There was at least some form of a choice. Now because of one school board member changing the plan at the last minute, and other members just going along with it, the choice is gone.

We are petitioning the school board to reconsider their plan and at least give parents a choice between Plan B or Plan C.