Why are schools open in other parts of the country?

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Because they care more about children than we do.

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In the midwest and south...they just don’t care. Some districts even have optional mask policies. California is mostly virtual. In the northeast, some virtual, some open on a hybrid schedule with testing.

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Anonymous wrote:Because they care more about children than we do.

Uh huh. Move along, troll. Moving goalposts, evil teachers unions, follow the “science” blah blah - please take your tired one-liners elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not trying to get into the open school debate, but am more genuinely curious why schools in say suburban Chicago or suburban NYC/CT are open. These are also heavily democratic areas. I at first thought it was a red state/blue state thing. Just trying to understand what’s so different about our schools.

I am from NY. The districts are small. So less kids to deal with. Secondly, all of K-12 is not back fully. My home district they prioritized K-5. They saw only way they could make this happen was if enough people drove kids to school. Parents agreed. Middle and High School have been hybrid and DL. Very few middle and high school are back full time in those states. My cousins kids are middle and ES in upstate NY and both are in person 2 days a week.

When you have a smaller population, it is easier to problem solve.

That's doesn't explain why large urban districts like St. Louis, Dallas and Houston have all been operating in person for nearly 4 months. They take the kids' temperature, have them wear masks, the desks are separated by plexiglass, etc etc. All the normal precautions. Hence, no widespread illness and deaths. The same thing could be happening in DC, MD and VA if administrators weren't being held hostage to teachers unions' crazy demands.

The number of Covid deaths in Texas is 5x that of Virginia. You want to open up and live in 2021 like its 2019 - move.

Per capita or total deaths?

DP. According to Worldometers the per capita death rate TX is lower than it is in DC but higher than MD (but not by a lot). When compared to VA on the other hand TX is much worse. VA's per capita death rate is the 6th lowest in the US.

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I live in Kentucky. Schools in our area have not returned to in-person once this year.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not trying to get into the open school debate, but am more genuinely curious why schools in say suburban Chicago or suburban NYC/CT are open. These are also heavily democratic areas. I at first thought it was a red state/blue state thing. Just trying to understand what’s so different about our schools.

I am from NY. The districts are small. So less kids to deal with. Secondly, all of K-12 is not back fully. My home district they prioritized K-5. They saw only way they could make this happen was if enough people drove kids to school. Parents agreed. Middle and High School have been hybrid and DL. Very few middle and high school are back full time in those states. My cousins kids are middle and ES in upstate NY and both are in person 2 days a week.

When you have a smaller population, it is easier to problem solve.

That's doesn't explain why large urban districts like St. Louis, Dallas and Houston have all been operating in person for nearly 4 months. They take the kids' temperature, have them wear masks, the desks are separated by plexiglass, etc etc. All the normal precautions. Hence, no widespread illness and deaths. The same thing could be happening in DC, MD and VA if administrators weren't being held hostage to teachers unions' crazy demands.

The number of Covid deaths in Texas is 5x that of Virginia. You want to open up and live in 2021 like its 2019 - move.

Per capita or total deaths?

DP. According to Worldometers the per capita death rate TX is lower than it is in DC but higher than MD (but not by a lot). When compared to VA on the other hand TX is much worse. VA's per capita death rate is the 6th lowest in the US.

Oops I meant VA is 8th lowest

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Anonymous wrote:Because they care more about children than we do.

Uh huh. Move along, troll. Moving goalposts, evil teachers unions, follow the “science” blah blah - please take your tired one-liners elsewhere.

They certainly care about education more. NOVA is striving for third world (US style) education. Can’t wait for the educational data to come out to formally validate just how much the kids were victimized.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not trying to get into the open school debate, but am more genuinely curious why schools in say suburban Chicago or suburban NYC/CT are open. These are also heavily democratic areas. I at first thought it was a red state/blue state thing. Just trying to understand what’s so different about our schools.

I am from NY. The districts are small. So less kids to deal with. Secondly, all of K-12 is not back fully. My home district they prioritized K-5. They saw only way they could make this happen was if enough people drove kids to school. Parents agreed. Middle and High School have been hybrid and DL. Very few middle and high school are back full time in those states. My cousins kids are middle and ES in upstate NY and both are in person 2 days a week.

When you have a smaller population, it is easier to problem solve.

That's doesn't explain why large urban districts like St. Louis, Dallas and Houston have all been operating in person for nearly 4 months. They take the kids' temperature, have them wear masks, the desks are separated by plexiglass, etc etc. All the normal precautions. Hence, no widespread illness and deaths. The same thing could be happening in DC, MD and VA if administrators weren't being held hostage to teachers unions' crazy demands.

The number of Covid deaths in Texas is 5x that of Virginia. You want to open up and live in 2021 like its 2019 - move.

Some of us don’t want to live like it’s March 2020 when we didnt know much about the disease and how to manage it. We should be able to get kids back in school a year later.

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Schools in Montgomery, Alabama just had to close because SIX teachers have died. Three of them from the same school.

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Because they aren’t held hostage by lunatic teachers unions who don’t care at all about kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools in Montgomery, Alabama just had to close because SIX teachers have died. Three of them from the same school.

Jesus christ.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools in Montgomery, Alabama just had to close because SIX teachers have died. Three of them from the same school.

Jesus christ.

Oh, but don't worry. These idiots will tell you that she deserved to die, because she chose to be a yucky fat person. Nothing to see here!

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Admitted Dec 22 ..... she wasn’t teaching . She caught COVID outside of school.

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In APS, it’s because of politics. On AEM, there are people who blatantly say only Trump supporters want schools open, only conservatives want in person education because conservatives are stupid. Those AEM posters are disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:Admitted Dec 22 ..... she wasn’t teaching . She caught COVID outside of school.

Schools here went until December 23. You also don’t get admitted the day you catch it. Everyone knows hospitalization lags behind actually being confirmed as a case. She caught it at school and was admitted when it advanced a bit later. You’re a ghoul.