Either find a way to open schools, or send me a stimulus check so I can pay for childcare.
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Anonymous
Probably because they are doing two full-time jobs for the price of one? Oh wait. People keep telling me that "childcare" and "education" are totally separate and have nothing to do with each other. Scratch that. THREE full time jobs for the price of one. |
Anonymous
Hey we're all dealing with the pandemic, economic crisis, and political shitshow. I don't know anyone freaking out like the parents are and have been since week one. The crazy rants on Twitter in week three of March that schools MUST RE-OPEN were amazing to see. Coast-to-coast, parents were screaming for schools and it hadn't even been 10 days at home. Now its what...month six or so? Seems they're just zombies running on fumes or actively emotionally abusing their kids. The amount of times I've seen parents on DCUM saying they screamed or slammed the door on their toddler during the pandemic recently doesn't bode well for a winter indoors. |
Anonymous
Maybe we'll just get more and more threads like this until the problem gets addressed. |
Anonymous
No, it's until I have to take care of them and watch them 24/7, 7, while ALSO being their primary educator, while ALSO working 40-50 hours a week. If the child free and single are enjoying a pandemic where 200k of their fellow citizens have died in the past 6 months, simply so they can gloat that they aren't struggling like everyone else is, that makes them (you?) sound pretty bad. |
Anonymous
Your kids, your responsibility. Teachers are handling the education. |
Anonymous
Have you ever stopped to wonder WHY it's the parents who are "freaking out" more than anyone else? It's because we are now expected to do our jobs just as well as before, with just as much focus and intelligence, but now we have our children at home full time as well. So many parents have had to quit their jobs. Mostly women. So now those households are operating at 50% of their income. And the ones who didn't choose that route are- again- trying to work full time while also watching children full time. And you think parents are freaking out because they don't like their children? Screaming for schools because... they don't like their children? As opposed to, hey, they LOVE their children and want them to receive an education as opposed to watch TV all day while their parents grind out a full work day from the living room. |
Anonymous
Come back to me about 'sounds pretty bad' after parents stop demanding buildings that house over 800,000 individuals 8 hours a day in boxes and are a petri dish ready to explode the community infection rates be re-opened. Also google - White House Rose Garden Superspreader Event. Because that's exactly what happens when you get a confluence of children and adults in a room - Covid+ rates go up like a nuclear bomb went off. The D.C. infection rate increased by 66% because of that one day. https://dcist.com/story/20/10/06/dc-highest-coronavirus-cases-daily-count-data/ |
Anonymous
Hmmmhmmm. Keep that attitude as you age, and these children who you don't care about, don't want actual school for, etc etc are going to be your doctors and nurses in your old folks home. Good luck with that. Can't wait to have bypass surgery from someone who went to TV school. |
Anonymous
Its the SAHPs complaining just as much as the WOHPs though. So I'm not sure you can say its 'because of our jobs'. |
Anonymous
But you know that's not how society functions. Because school functions in our society not only to educate, but to keep children safe/ fed/ occupied so that their parents can be working members of society. So, don't be obtuse. If kids aren't in school, much of the workforce has to drop out. And as much as you think further economic collapse won't affect you, well, I can't argue with stupid. |
Anonymous
The fact that you assume your precious one is going to be my doctor is laughable. Do they have the skills? Do they have the intelligence? Its incredibly difficult to get the required courseload, pass the MCATs, go through residency, and then into specialties. There are far more interested parties than they are spots at the top programs. But keep believing we'll suddenly have a shortage of capable physicians and surgeons in a country where the medical profession draws some of the best applicants in the world. |
Anonymous
+1 We have an eviction moratorium and had enhanced unemployment for those who lost their jobs. Why can’t we help families with school aged children trying to make ends meet? |
Anonymous
Why does everyone keep writing. 24/7, 7? The first 7 refers to the number of days in a week, you Mensa rejects! |
Anonymous
I haven't heard a single SAHM complain about schools being closed except to , understandably, complain that their kids aren't getting a solid education because 6 year olds don't learn crap via Zoom for 5 hours a day. Or, complain that their kids are acting out and misbehaving due to the stress of the pandemic and they wish their kids lives could gain some semblance of normalcy. Like when all the restaurants and bars and stores were closed, and amazon wasn't shipping non essentials... remember how high the stress level was for adults? People were hoarding toilet paper like it was the apocolypse. But these are little kids, with even fewer emotional and intellectual resources at their disposal. So yes, some parents regardless of SAH or WOH are begging schools to open (like restaurants, malls, bars, gyms, and literally everything else an adult could want to participate in has) so their kids can start to see their lives return to normal. Like pretty much all adults have. |
Anonymous
Hahahahahahahaha. This week, in addition to my job, I also administered two different developmental assessments to my child so that her teacher could meet her administrative deadline. The files with the assessment questions arrived in my inbox locked and the teacher could not figure out how to unlock them, so I had to recreate the assessments in a separate document in order to fill them out. I also took videos of the assessment and converted them to a zip file so that the teacher could review them. When, on three different occasions, the DL lesson links did not function, I located the lesson plan for that day and class, reviewed the materials, and went over them with my child. For the DL sessions that did actually run on time, I sat with my child (who is too young to sit through any of these lessons alone) for the full lesson, and took notes of major concepts so that I could reinforce them during other parts of the day. I love my kid's teacher and I know that like me, she has been given an impossible set of parameters. But the idea that it is the teacher, and not me, who is providing my child with her education right now is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. That might be true for some older kids who can be self-directed. It is absolutely comical for children under the age of 6 or 7. |