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These kids want to go to school. The main obstacle? Paperwork (apnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by girlfreddy to c/[email protected]

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After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. Tameka was deeply afraid of COVID-19 and skeptical the schools could keep her kids safe from what she called “the corona.” One morning, in a test run, she sent two kids to school.

Her oldest daughter, then in seventh grade, and her second youngest, a boy entering first grade, boarded their respective buses. She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten. And her older son, a boy with Down syndrome, stayed home because she wasn’t sure he could consistently wear masks.

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. He was no longer enrolled, they said.

Around lunchtime, the middle school called: Come get your daughter, they told her. She doesn’t have a class schedule.

Tameka’s children — all four of them — have been home ever since.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My initial thought, in having worked with children and adults with developmental disabilities, was that either a) mom also has a developmental disability or b) has a disorder (maybe anxiety?) that affected her decision making.

Could a parent have done better? Yes, absolutely. I think this is still a societal failure, especially if my hunch is correct.

Edit: Just read the article in full. Mom lost husband in 2020 and was left looking after 4 children with no income. That could be enough to make someone have trouble with more than just day-to-day survival.