This Isn't The Chicken Pox!

Parents need to stop organizing mass meet-ups

As someone who's organized several homeschool groups, 4-H, Scouts and other groups over the years, I get the importance of our kids' need to meet up with real, live kids. Zoom is better than nothing, but this really isn't normal child development. I get it. My teen suffers and so do I, as I know you and yours do.

But that doesn't mean you get to set up massive meetups, join my homeschool groups to attempt to get over 100 families together at parks or the creek to play and refuse to wear masks while you're at it. It is beyond freaky to me that you would spread germs this way. Even for the people you snidely tell to "stay home if you're worried," you're spreading germs that still head to our spouses' places of employment, grocery stores and other places we can't avoid. I can't believe the parents joining groups that just expect us to continue meeting in person! My co-op is meeting mostly online and I suggest you do the same.

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