While popular, disproportionality-focused coverage like this runs the risk of distorting the situation, focusing attention on misleading percentages and downplaying the obvious benefits of in-person learning. http://ow.ly/NGAa30ruXgl 
The racial disparities over who is returning to D.C. classrooms puts equity spotlight on reopening...

Twice as many families rejected an offer to return in poorest ward than in the wealthiest one.

http://ow.ly/NGAa30ruXgl
Tucked into this story is the bottom line, which is that
"most students returning are students of color."

Raw numbers, not percentage comparisons, are key here.
Regardless, school systems should offer good options to everyone.

Arguing against an in-person option because of white participation rates is like arguing against offering vaccines because of white participation rates.
Arguing against offering in-person on equity grounds seems ridiculous to me, a reminder of last spring's topsy-turvy argument that schools shouldn't provide remote, serve SPED kids, or teach anything new.
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