Voting out politicians who support school closures

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the only issue I care about in the upcoming primaries. Did you support banning children from going to school? If the answer is yes, we are going to end your career. What happened in Virginia and New Jersey is coming to the D.C.

This is a disingenuous argument and you know it. No one wants to ban kids from school! And you know this. Stop lying

What are they lying about? They are stating an opinion.

YOU know no one wants to ban kids from school. So does OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:here is the problem - those who get angry about school closures won't support the strategies that we need to keep them open

Mask Mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc.

THIS. I'm not interested in voting out people who supported school closure. I am interested in voting IN people who will do what's necessary to keep schools open, which includes less crowding, improved facilities, more teachers, and masks or vaccine mandates if necessary. That's mostly not the R platform.

I agree schools should not have closed. But "open with zero chairs" wasn't the right move either.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, chairs = changes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A reality check for those of you who don't follow the news:

1. Omicron cases in places like South Africa are plummeting

2. All the available evidence indicates that Omicron is far less dangerous than Delta

3. The FDA just approved a new pill that reduces the risk of hospitalization or death in people with COVID by a whopping 90 percent.

Get vaccinated, and you will be fine. And there is absolutely zero reason to keep kids out of school.

All true bu when are local Democratic politicians going to see this? My biggest fear is that school closures and the pandemic theater in schools will become permanent even after the pandemic ends because it is too difficult to roll them back. People will just tolerate them in this area.

Your fear is not rational. Schools are open. They could close again in the near term for pandemic reasons but the idea they'd close after the pandemic ... Just because? Permanently? This is really your biggest fear?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A reality check for those of you who don't follow the news:

1. Omicron cases in places like South Africa are plummeting

2. All the available evidence indicates that Omicron is far less dangerous than Delta

3. The FDA just approved a new pill that reduces the risk of hospitalization or death in people with COVID by a whopping 90 percent.

Get vaccinated, and you will be fine. And there is absolutely zero reason to keep kids out of school.

All true bu when are local Democratic politicians going to see this? My biggest fear is that school closures and the pandemic theater in schools will become permanent even after the pandemic ends because it is too difficult to roll them back. People will just tolerate them in this area.

Your fear is not rational. Schools are open. They could close again in the near term for pandemic reasons but the idea they'd close after the pandemic ... Just because? Permanently? This is really your biggest fear?

It's not her biggest fear. Like all people who say "pandemic theater," she is a troll using the thread as an opportunity to push her politics.

[Anonymous]

Closing schools is the most consequential decision the mayor and everyone on the city council has made in their entire career.

It should not be surprising if their primaries amount to referendums on their decision to deny tens of thousands of children an education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the only issue I care about in the upcoming primaries. Did you support banning children from going to school? If the answer is yes, we are going to end your career. What happened in Virginia and New Jersey is coming to the D.C.

This is a disingenuous argument and you know it. No one wants to ban kids from school! And you know this. Stop lying

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A reality check for those of you who don't follow the news:

1. Omicron cases in places like South Africa are plummeting

2. All the available evidence indicates that Omicron is far less dangerous than Delta

3. The FDA just approved a new pill that reduces the risk of hospitalization or death in people with COVID by a whopping 90 percent.

Get vaccinated, and you will be fine. And there is absolutely zero reason to keep kids out of school.

All true bu when are local Democratic politicians going to see this? My biggest fear is that school closures and the pandemic theater in schools will become permanent even after the pandemic ends because it is too difficult to roll them back. People will just tolerate them in this area.

Your fear is not rational. Schools are open. They could close again in the near term for pandemic reasons but the idea they'd close after the pandemic ... Just because? Permanently? This is really your biggest fear?

PP is an irrational fear stoker

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fortunately it's not the only issue that most DC voters care about, as most DC voters don't have kids in the public school system. So you can go ahead and cry all you want, but your one-issue self-centered voting isn't going to make an iota of a difference.

Oh, and nobody "supports" school closings.

There's a hundred thousand kids in DC schools. Those kids have a couple hundred thousand parents and grandparents. How many people voted in the last off-year mayoral primary? Maybe 60,000? It won't take many pissed off parents to throw everyone out.

And we already know school closures are going to be a huge issue because they've been a huge issue in basically every election so far this year.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:here is the problem - those who get angry about school closures won't support the strategies that we need to keep them open

Mask Mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc.

This is blatantly now true. I’m in NOVA and know Biden-Youngkin voters, including myself. And May Ds who sat the race out. They all believe in masks and mandatory vaxx. Maybe less in social distance, because it’s impossible to keep a school open with kids 6 feet apart. But, plenty of folks think school should have opened much sooner and support strong mitigation to keep kids in school safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:here is the problem - those who get angry about school closures won't support the strategies that we need to keep them open

Mask Mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc.

+1,000

Come back to earth, sweetie. This is D.C. Everyone is vaxxed. Everyone wears masks. Everyone practices social distancing. And EVERYONE is pissed off about schools.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the only issue I care about in the upcoming primaries. Did you support banning children from going to school? If the answer is yes, we are going to end your career. What happened in Virginia and New Jersey is coming to the D.C.

This is a disingenuous argument and you know it. No one wants to ban kids from school! And you know this. Stop lying

What are they lying about? They are stating an opinion.

YOU know no one wants to ban kids from school. So does OP

You seem to have a hard time understanding that opinions cannot be falsifiable.

On the other hand, your statement that “no one wants to ban kids from school” is a statement of fact that is falsifiable and is most likely false, as all such equivocal statements are.

[Anonymous]

The school closures ticked me off, but so did the attempted coup on January 7. Until the conspirators are tried and hanged, and the appropriate loyalty pledges procured, I’ll never vote GOP for any office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The school closures ticked me off, but so did the attempted coup on January 7. Until the conspirators are tried and hanged, and the appropriate loyalty pledges procured, I’ll never vote GOP for any office.

+1

Yup.

Plus, voting R will only hurt students, not help them. They want to defund schools.

[Anonymous]

In a teacher. There is a mask mandate and vax mandate for stadd and vax mandate for students to participate in sports at my school. Stop with that.

I’ll vote straight R in the next election for many reasons. I’ll definitely vote for the opposite of our current school board when it’s time for that election to hopefully stop the continued decline of our schools in so many areas. They need to stay open and also need to bring back academic rigor.