Apparently its racist to hire tutors and form pods, we must all suffer equally?

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Anonymous wrote:The problem is that it’s a rich get richer phenomenon. Kids growing up with privilege are already far ahead of those without even before the pandemic. The opportunity to set up pods means that those kids will get even further ahead. There’s no easy solution to this as we’re in a society that promotes individual good rather than collective. But know in doing so you are furthering inequity. That’s the point

I nursed my children for at least 18 months, fed them organic food and read to them every day. Many women did not.

I will not refuse to do the best for my children because someone else can't or won't.

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Anonymous wrote:It is inherently privileged if these are same families actively pushing to keep schools closed which many are. Fake liberals all

Yeah, instead they should push for poor people (who have advocated for a continuation of remote learning at much higher numbers than people of higher SES) to go out and get sick. You do know that communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by COVID, right? Stop telling them that what's good for them is to be a mindless shill for capitalism. You are the problem.

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There are many different versions of pods being formed. Sure, some are super privileged, pulling kids from school and hiring a private tutor. Other pods are just a way for parents to split the cost of a babysitter so their kids can DL and so the parents can keep their jobs. Other pods have parents taking turns supervising DL. I would assume many families who aren't privileged fall in these second groups--everyone needs childcare and the only alternatives to a pod is to quit your job or to hire a nanny, and neither of those options are less privileged.

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In all of the low income schools I’ve worked at, most students have either a parent, grandparent, aunt, etc at home who doesn’t work. They often babysit for the fewer kids whose parents work (like single moms).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In all of the low income schools I’ve worked at, most students have either a parent, grandparent, aunt, etc at home who doesn’t work. They often babysit for the fewer kids whose parents work (like single moms).

Sounds like a pod to me.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure it's the same people trying desperately to put these pods together who pretend that they want schools to open because they are "so concerned" about "the underprivileged".

At least in my social group it’s the opposite - people who wanted distance learning for all, no exceptions. Ironically one neighbor even mentioned asking a teacher who was nervous about going back to school to take a leave of absence and teach her pod for $$. According to a Washington Post article on the subject, she isn’t the only one trying to lure teachers away from public schools for the year.

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This is yet another reason schools need to reopen. Let's make this a national priority.

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Sorry, I can't find an eyeroll emoji that's massive enough.

You'll just have to imagine it.

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Other countries have much larger inequality. The US has free public education for everyone for 13+ years. I guess that’s not enough anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure it's the same people trying desperately to put these pods together who pretend that they want schools to open because they are "so concerned" about "the underprivileged".

I keep hearing this statistic - that “underprivileged families” went for DL. Can you link to the breakout for that?

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Anonymous wrote:Now people are saying it's racist and privileged to hire a tutor or form pods. What's even more ridiculous is suggesting to make it illegal or force parents to include others for free to promote diversity of race and income. Lol good luck.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220656647060383&set=a.1168976058860&type=3&theater

The Facebook poster and the person tweeting are both idiots. This is not racism or even a race issue. It is a wealth issue. Do they not believe rich Blacks, Asians, LatinXs will be doing the same? Not everything is racist.

It comes down to parents wanting to do what is best for their children. If the schools would step up and teach this wouldn't be an issue. i guarantee most of these parents weren't forming special pods before the schools shut down. If they want to blame anyone for causing these "racist" issues they should blame and email the school board, superintendent, principals, and teachers who actually closed the schools.

There is a very simple solution to solve this problem the schools and teachers can actually provide the service they were created to provide. If parents thought DL was effective there would be no pods. If the schools and teachers cared about kids and their dual income households or single parents they would provide in person education.

Would using your resources to take your sick child to a medical specialist, potentially out of state to ensure they got treated and did not die from their disease be racist? According to the Facebook and Twitter poster it would. Which is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now people are saying it's racist and privileged to hire a tutor or form pods. What's even more ridiculous is suggesting to make it illegal or force parents to include others for free to promote diversity of race and income. Lol good luck.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220656647060383&set=a.1168976058860&type=3&theater

The Facebook poster and the person tweeting are both idiots. This is not racism or even a race issue. It is a wealth issue. Do they not believe rich Blacks, Asians, LatinXs will be doing the same? Not everything is racist.

It comes down to parents wanting to do what is best for their children. If the schools would step up and teach this wouldn't be an issue. i guarantee most of these parents weren't forming special pods before the schools shut down. If they want to blame anyone for causing these "racist" issues they should blame and email the school board, superintendent, principals, and teachers who actually closed the schools.

There is a very simple solution to solve this problem the schools and teachers can actually provide the service they were created to provide. If parents thought DL was effective there would be no pods. If the schools and teachers cared about kids and their dual income households or single parents they would provide in person education.

Would using your resources to take your sick child to a medical specialist, potentially out of state to ensure they got treated and did not die from their disease be racist? According to the Facebook and Twitter poster it would. Which is ridiculous.

Dismantle the patriarchal western nuclear family, for the sake of equity.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem is that it’s a rich get richer phenomenon. Kids growing up with privilege are already far ahead of those without even before the pandemic. The opportunity to set up pods means that those kids will get even further ahead. There’s no easy solution to this as we’re in a society that promotes individual good rather than collective. But know in doing so you are furthering inequity. That’s the point

It’s true but also true by reading a lot to my young kids and serving them healthy food I am widening the gap. I’m not being snarky it’s a terrible problem but I don’t think it is one where we will make much headway at the parent level.

of course you can make headway on the parent level. all you have to do is devote some time and resources to organize to make sure that the less privileged kids in your school or city get access to resources.

But at what cost? Am i supposed to pay the other family’s share of the tutor? Their transportation to the pod? The cost of technology so they can adequately participate? Spend my own time teaching them because their parents don’t have the time? All of that would be at a cost to my family. Why would I do that? I will lobby and speak out for change and organize events to help change, but I’m not going to put my family at a disadvantage to help another family, particularly during an epidemic. But it’s the same for a well-to-do family. I purposefully wild not pod with a family whose parent(s) is/are doctors or other essential workers who have to go into work everyday or who need to take public transportation. I’m simply unwilling to take that risk for my family. And I’m not alone in that...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem is that it’s a rich get richer phenomenon. Kids growing up with privilege are already far ahead of those without even before the pandemic. The opportunity to set up pods means that those kids will get even further ahead. There’s no easy solution to this as we’re in a society that promotes individual good rather than collective. But know in doing so you are furthering inequity. That’s the point

I nursed my children for at least 18 months, fed them organic food and read to them every day. Many women did not.

I will not refuse to do the best for my children because someone else can't or won't.

It’s amusing that you think extended breastfeeding and organic food was what was best. But kudos on the reading.

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Anonymous wrote:This is yet another reason schools need to reopen. Let's make this a national priority.

Nope. Not many people want this.