Can we please stop with the “you don’t want to parent your kids” bs

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Anonymous wrote:^Give me my tax money back and I’ll educate my kids on my own. Dh and I each pay 10k+ in state taxes and more than half of that goes to the schools.

Well, sweetie, not everyone can do that.

Do you want to just shut down public schools entirely because you can homeschool?

DP here, but this is basically the argument the "you don't want to parent your kids" people are making, that any decent parent SHOULD be able to spend every day focused on hands-on involvement in their kid's education, and any flaws in DL are due to parental failure. I don't think they understand that this is an argument against public schools.

Right that’s my point.

The logical endpoint to their argument is shutting down public schools and putting them all out of jobs.

Ironic, eh?

You don’t need to spend 8 hours a day to keep kids up in school. A few hours every night will do.

And what, pray tell, will my child do during the day?

I do have a job, you know.

There is child care for parents that are required to go to work.

What do you do with them now?

Oh yeah of course — the teachers won’t teach now and call us lazy, but it’s fine for childcare workers to take care of the kids, right? Just offload what the teachers don’t want to do.

At least we’re all being honest now.

No we all are not being honest, where are your kids now?

Huh? It’s 11pm. My kid is sleeping. I have no clue what you’re getting at.

[Anonymous]

Come on. OP, anyone who says this is a dim troll and shouldn't be anywhere near kids. Done. We all know this. Don't give them the attention they crave.

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Anonymous wrote:I work out of the house full time. So does my husband. My kids are 11 and 14 - they handle distance learning by themselves. Every day. Even though they are “doing well”, I, like most, realize the material they are covering and their methods of assessment are pretty sub par with DL. I want my kids back in school ASAP.
I’m parenting them exactly as I would have during “normal” times, if they were in person in school. So please please stop with the nonsense that people only want kids in school because they can’t/don’t want to parent them, or are sick of them, or want someone else to parent them. It’s just a stupid baseless so called argument.

Sure, as soon as entitled parents stop calling teachers lazy and endlessly bleating that they just want to work in their pajamas.

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Anonymous wrote:As long as we can also stop the "teachers are lazy" posts.

You’re unwilling to do your jobs.

They are doing their jobs. But you already knew that.

Warehousing your kids for you is not their job.

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Anonymous wrote:As long as we can also stop the "teachers are lazy" posts.

You’re unwilling to do your jobs.

Teachers are doing their kids. Their jobs have change and instead of complaining, they adapted. You now need to adapt.

I need to adapt? No.

I’m an essential worker who has been working this entire time. Unlike you, her teachers have been working in person. That means she can attend school and I can earn money to put a roof over her head.

My job cannot be done from home.

What do you propose I do, since you apparently know everything and it’s all so easy?

Have your spouse or partner or family members or friends provide childcare. If you have made life choices not to live in proximity.with any of those people, use some of the money earned from your oh so important in person job to hire childcare. Reduce other expenses as needed to facilitate this. If you are truly low income (not house poor, etc by choice), financial aid options exist if you ivestigate them.

You're welcome.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the posters hatwho say "parent your kid" are teachers and administrators who want this DL vacation to continue. They have minimal work and a full paycheck. It's a dream job and they will do or say anything they need to to keep the gravy train going.

I am a parent and I support DL unless it is safe for school to open. I am sorry but I love my kids and my family. I don't want any one in my family to fall sick or die because of some lazy parents. These irresponsible parents rode the gravy train of free "childcare" provided by the school and gave not one thought about the education of their kids before the pandemic. They were disengaged parents and their brats were disruptive students before the pandemic.

No school opening unless it is safe for students and teachers. And if there is a pressing need, let the most vulnerable population return to school in a phased manner after full vaccination.

You can take your “lazy parents” BS and shove it up your a$$, sweetheart.

You can do the same with your "lazy teachers" BS.

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Anonymous wrote:As long as we can also stop the "teachers are lazy" posts.

You’re unwilling to do your jobs.

Teachers are doing their kids. Their jobs have change and instead of complaining, they adapted. You now need to adapt.

I need to adapt? No.

I’m an essential worker who has been working this entire time. Unlike you, her teachers have been working in person. That means she can attend school and I can earn money to put a roof over her head.

My job cannot be done from home.

What do you propose I do, since you apparently know everything and it’s all so easy?

Have your spouse or partner or family members or friends provide childcare. If you have made life choices not to live in proximity.with any of those people, use some of the money earned from your oh so important in person job to hire childcare. Reduce other expenses as needed to facilitate this. If you are truly low income (not house poor, etc by choice), financial aid options exist if you ivestigate them.

You're welcome.

Surely you understand that this is not always a matter of “life choices”. Is it a life choice to have parents who fall ill or die? Is it a life choice to have to move for a job offer when you are laid off? Or to have two working parents in an economy explicitly designed around two-income families? Have you met... people? I guess if you are middle income and made the bad choice of having one set of parents die and the other dealing with a chronic health condition, you just shouldn’t have kids. Then, of course, there would be almost no kids and those no need for schools at all!

Oh, and my friends can’t watch my kids because they also have jobs and kids and are in the same bind I’m in.

What planet do you live on?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work out of the house full time. So does my husband. My kids are 11 and 14 - they handle distance learning by themselves. Every day. Even though they are “doing well”, I, like most, realize the material they are covering and their methods of assessment are pretty sub par with DL. I want my kids back in school ASAP.
I’m parenting them exactly as I would have during “normal” times, if they were in person in school. So please please stop with the nonsense that people only want kids in school because they can’t/don’t want to parent them, or are sick of them, or want someone else to parent them. It’s just a stupid baseless so called argument.

Sure, as soon as entitled parents stop calling teachers lazy and endlessly bleating that they just want to work in their pajamas.

DP. You saying awful things because other people say awful things isn't a good look. My kids have more self-control than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread has helped me to understand that most of the people pushing for long-term DL (perhaps forever DL) lack the intelligence to have gainful employment outside of the house and/or are socially stunted, possibly sociopaths, for who isolation is welcome.

I love you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^Give me my tax money back and I’ll educate my kids on my own. Dh and I each pay 10k+ in state taxes and more than half of that goes to the schools.

Well, sweetie, not everyone can do that.

Do you want to just shut down public schools entirely because you can homeschool?

Yes. If this is the model you want us to have, it isn’t working. Shut them down. Give parents an education fund. And the can sign up for VAVA or home school supplies or private school.

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Anonymous wrote:^Give me my tax money back and I’ll educate my kids on my own. Dh and I each pay 10k+ in state taxes and more than half of that goes to the schools.

Well, sweetie, not everyone can do that.

Do you want to just shut down public schools entirely because you can homeschool?

DP here, but this is basically the argument the "you don't want to parent your kids" people are making, that any decent parent SHOULD be able to spend every day focused on hands-on involvement in their kid's education, and any flaws in DL are due to parental failure. I don't think they understand that this is an argument against public schools.

Well. They’ve convinced me. The time for public schools has past. Money should follow kids.

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Anonymous wrote:^Give me my tax money back and I’ll educate my kids on my own. Dh and I each pay 10k+ in state taxes and more than half of that goes to the schools.

Well, sweetie, not everyone can do that.

Do you want to just shut down public schools entirely because you can homeschool?

DP here, but this is basically the argument the "you don't want to parent your kids" people are making, that any decent parent SHOULD be able to spend every day focused on hands-on involvement in their kid's education, and any flaws in DL are due to parental failure. I don't think they understand that this is an argument against public schools.

Right that’s my point.

The logical endpoint to their argument is shutting down public schools and putting them all out of jobs.

Ironic, eh?

You don’t need to spend 8 hours a day to keep kids up in school. A few hours every night will do.

And what, pray tell, will my child do during the day?

I do have a job, you know.

There is child care for parents that are required to go to work.

What do you do with them now?

This is so weird to me.

Teachers: Kids will die in school. Teachers will die in school.

Also teachers: send you kid to to die and take a childcare worker out with them

If it’s not safe for kids in school, what makes it safe for kids in childcare?

If it’s not safe for teachers, what makes it safe for childcare providers?

Unless what you are saying is that teachers (80% white and who much more affluent) are more inherently valuable as human beings than black and brown childcare providers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^Give me my tax money back and I’ll educate my kids on my own. Dh and I each pay 10k+ in state taxes and more than half of that goes to the schools.

Well, sweetie, not everyone can do that.

Do you want to just shut down public schools entirely because you can homeschool?

DP here, but this is basically the argument the "you don't want to parent your kids" people are making, that any decent parent SHOULD be able to spend every day focused on hands-on involvement in their kid's education, and any flaws in DL are due to parental failure. I don't think they understand that this is an argument against public schools.

Right that’s my point.

The logical endpoint to their argument is shutting down public schools and putting them all out of jobs.

Ironic, eh?

You don’t need to spend 8 hours a day to keep kids up in school. A few hours every night will do.

And what, pray tell, will my child do during the day?

I do have a job, you know.

There is child care for parents that are required to go to work.

What do you do with them now?

Oh yeah of course — the teachers won’t teach now and call us lazy, but it’s fine for childcare workers to take care of the kids, right? Just offload what the teachers don’t want to do.

At least we’re all being honest now.

Actually, FCPS teachers are 80% white and by definition making a good salary, for all their whining.

Vs. childcare workers, who are often black and brown and get paid a fraction of teachers.

It’s much uglier than what you are suggesting. Teachers think their lives are worth more. Wonder why?

In related news, guess which group got the vaccine ticket?

It kinda makes me want to find a BLM March when I piece it together.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s weird that teachers kids are getting school four days a week for childcare if school isn’t supposed to be used for childcare ??????

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^Give me my tax money back and I’ll educate my kids on my own. Dh and I each pay 10k+ in state taxes and more than half of that goes to the schools.

Well, sweetie, not everyone can do that.

Do you want to just shut down public schools entirely because you can homeschool?

DP here, but this is basically the argument the "you don't want to parent your kids" people are making, that any decent parent SHOULD be able to spend every day focused on hands-on involvement in their kid's education, and any flaws in DL are due to parental failure. I don't think they understand that this is an argument against public schools.

Right that’s my point.

The logical endpoint to their argument is shutting down public schools and putting them all out of jobs.

Ironic, eh?

You don’t need to spend 8 hours a day to keep kids up in school. A few hours every night will do.

And what, pray tell, will my child do during the day?

I do have a job, you know.

There is child care for parents that are required to go to work.

What do you do with them now?

Oh yeah of course — the teachers won’t teach now and call us lazy, but it’s fine for childcare workers to take care of the kids, right? Just offload what the teachers don’t want to do.

At least we’re all being honest now.

Actually, FCPS teachers are 80% white and by definition making a good salary, for all their whining.

Vs. childcare workers, who are often black and brown and get paid a fraction of teachers.

It’s much uglier than what you are suggesting. Teachers think their lives are worth more. Wonder why?

In related news, guess which group got the vaccine ticket?

It kinda makes me want to find a BLM March when I piece it together.

This is really the whole irony of the whole thing!!!

Now I think the true people who care about BLM want both in person and virtual options.