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Corrik7 posted...

Schools get something in my area (the number differs per school in each area but it's still a number of some sort) like 19k per student who attends in funding.

Schools lose that funding if a student instead enrolls in say PA Cyber instead of doing virtual in district. Schools hate that. PA Cyber sends you an entire new computer and pays for your online the entire time enrolled out of this funding they now receive instead if you choose there.

Schools that are not functioning in class have reduced costs which schools should not probably just bank to offset past budgets but should release in part back to the community.

Every school provides lunches and breakfast programs to kids but they are unwieldy and in some cases coronavirus risks themselves. We have cycled between pick up lines in schools and then bus stop deliveries. Etc. None really work that great.

Providing money back to the students to get their own food and lunches is good. Or if needed for online. Or if it helps even just a little a parent who cannot work now because their child needs watched or someone has to watch them.

The school's service in which it is provided money by the state is not being met, so why should they keep all the money if not in school meeting it? Why can't they help the student? If you think your school doesn't have this amount, you are wrong. It's a small chunk of what is provided to them.

I have no idea if these details are similar to how it works in Wisconsin and my district in particular, but I haven't heard any issues with the food pickup at least (the town I live in is only about 11,500 people, so it might just be a smaller area. We have 1 elementary school, and one high school, plus the Flex academy for half virtual and half in person. The meals here are free, you just have to order ahead and pick them up contact free. Having internet could be an issue though. I believe most people do based on the amount of satellite dishes I see installed on houses around here (I figure if they have satellite TV, they probably have internet too), but that's obviously just a guess. Each district seems to have a different setup from what I'm seeing, so it's probably better in some, and worse in others. Either way, giant clusterfuck and it sucks that this is our reality right now.

As far as what the board does here, they give parents the choice to do full in person or full virtual (unless you're in the Flex academy), and you have to choose which one you're moving forward with every 9 weeks, and once you make that choice you can't change it until that 9 weeks is up. The virtual option for non-flex students is apparently pretty simple though. They're not connected all day, and it seems more like something that would only work for families with one parent home all day.

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