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How is there not a thread about that lunatic dad who screamed at the Loudon school board?
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Anonymous
The squeaky wheel does, sometimes, get the grease. Desperate times call for desperate measures. |
Anonymous
I am too. I would never do this. Most parents wouldn’t. And that’s the problem. Going back to school is anxiety provoking. I sent my son back to a SLAC this fall and was terrified for the for the first 2 weeks. It was hard, despite the fact they had a great plan. Everyone on the campus community held its breath. But, they got kids back on campus, got them back in classrooms with good mitigation. They had virtually no community spread and less than .2% positivity. No outbreak, no pausing or pullback as numbers rose. And after a few weeks, it was fine. The new normal. They moved Jan Term virtual and just returned kids to campus. And I’m not terrified any more. I trust my kid. I trust the school. They’ve got this. Private K-12 has got this. Public colleges like WM and Purdue have got this. Many public schools are operating and have got this. I share this guys frustration, because returning to school is going to be scary at first. It’s a pandemic. Of course it’s scary. The whole school system will hold its breath and say a prayer. But, the longer you avoid something, the more anxious you get. We will be anxious if we go back next month. We will be anxious if we go back in a year. It’s scary. Something could go wrong. But, that will be true a year from now. No one can guarantee no COVID. No one can guaranteed my kid won’t die in an accident driving to school. If all you focus on is everything that could go wrong in life, you never left your house even before COVID. At some point you have to make a risk-benefit analysis and move. And there are very real risks to kids if we don’t open too. And every time we push reopening, it affirms people’s perception that this is very dangerous and they get more anxious and dug in. I resent teachers who say that I don’t care about their health and they are the ones at risk. I’m scared too. My health is on the line too, because if my kid gets sick, I get sick. And more importantly, my kids physical and mental health is on the line. I was scared in September. I am scared now. I will be scared a year from now. Everyone is scared. FCPS is a like a dear in headlights. It’s frozen by fear. Someone needs to smack them and tell them to move. Wake up. Do something. They can’t just freeze. It will be hard and people will be scared whenever we do it. People are applauding this guy because a lot of us feel this inside. The school system—- parents, teachers, kids, administrators have been staring at the headlights for a year. They have been dithering and looking for perfect for a year. They have been looking for risk free for a year. There is no perfect. There will never be perfect. If we wait for perfect, we are going to get hit by the oncoming car. |
Anonymous
Could he maybe try to squeak more coherently? Meltdowns don’t help comprehension. |
Anonymous
No one, including the school board, is confused about why he is upset. |
Anonymous
I think we all comprehended his message. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
+1 and the fact so that so man are so indifferent to his despair is the problem. |
Anonymous
Please don't pretent you ever had empathy for his and our situation. |
Anonymous
Oh heavens, we must shield the children from any negative emotions! It’s all sunshine and rainbows and that’s what I am teaching my kids. Negative emotions, and especially any yelling, must always always be suppressed. Just fake it till you make it! |
Anonymous
Really, you comprehend that a trash collector is the same as a teacher? |
Anonymous
We aren’t “indifferent to his despair.” Do you respond positively to your kids when they scream and tantrum? No. Would you respond positively to a spouse screaming at you like this, no. |
Anonymous
Teacher here . Let’s not do that. I am no better than a trash collector. (Nor are you for that matter.) We both work and provide a valuable service to society. One takes education and one doesn’t but one isn’t inherently better than the other. We don’t have to stoop to his level. |
Anonymous
I have empathy for people who feel badly about the Covid situation. I don’t have empathy for temper tantrums, blaming, false equivalencies, etc. Trythfulky I see a mss as n like this who just can’t parent his kids and blames others. |
Anonymous
We've been asking calmly for 11 months. It hasn't worked. |
Anonymous
I’m not talking down to trash collectors FFS, it’s a good job. But they are outside and they work with 2 people. Teachers are inside and around 100’s of people. |