A word to Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post on 'Schools MUST ReOpen' - F off

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Anonymous wrote:The Nation's favorite pastime is vilifying white people. But let white people suggest they'd like to send their money and kids somewhere else and all hell breaks loose.

Except it’s not ‘their’ money. It’s the county’s money. You’re welcome to sell your house and move though.

If all the white people with some cheddar move to whiter counties, cities and states and make them even whiter people will cry and complain about the eroding of the tax base of the places they left.

If you think someone moving out of Arlington won’t immediately be replaced by someone with a higher income think again.

Anyone will leave if it's uncomfortable enough and they have a choice.

Cuomo is begging the rich to cone back to New York. But everybody wants to live in the Big Apple.

I hear plenty of well-off people live in Alexandria, they just send their kids to privates. They love the city, not the schools. As long as they keep funding the stellar public system it must not matter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

What’s stupid is you don’t recognize the data showing that the families of these “underprivileged kids” want distance learning because they don’t want to DIE.

Latinx children are 8 times more likely than white children to be hospitalized due to COVID-19. Black children are 5 times more likely. And then there’s the death rates.

I hate to break it to you, but keeping these kids out of schools won’t keep them safe from COVID. The reason for high rates of hospitalizations is high rates of infections. They are catching it in their homes from their own families. The same people who are working the meat lacking plants, cleaning your homes, working construction with no mask.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

What’s stupid is you don’t recognize the data showing that the families of these “underprivileged kids” want distance learning because they don’t want to DIE.

Latinx children are 8 times more likely than white children to be hospitalized due to COVID-19. Black children are 5 times more likely. And then there’s the death rates.

I hate to break it to you, but keeping these kids out of schools won’t keep them safe from COVID. The reason for high rates of hospitalizations is high rates of infections. They are catching it in their homes from their own families. The same people who are working the meat lacking plants, cleaning your homes, working construction with no mask.

Yes. Even many of those in jobs like meat packing plants probably aren’t catching it on the job, but instead in their living conditions. Very unfortunate but just shutting down activities where some of these populations are correlated wont catch some of the causation.

[Anonymous]

We need to recognize that for most of us schools being closed isnt a big deal.

But low income communities rely on schools and desporately need them to open. They need them open because they want their kids to get a better education then they did, and having in person, real classes is key not just for mastery of current material but also for their student's further educational advancement (scholarships, etc). They dont have the money for the extra tutors.

They also depend on schools for childcare, as many dont have the luxory to wfh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

+1 this may bust the teachers union in this country

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need to recognize that for most of us schools being closed isnt a big deal.

But low income communities rely on schools and desporately need them to open. They need them open because they want their kids to get a better education then they did, and having in person, real classes is key not just for mastery of current material but also for their student's further educational advancement (scholarships, etc). They dont have the money for the extra tutors.

They also depend on schools for childcare, as many dont have the luxory to wfh.

Subpar education and efficacy IS a big deal, to ALL students and society.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're saying public school parents would leave public schools en masse, given the choice, isn't taking away the choice the worst thing you could do?

LA and it’s unions tanked it’s once good district a couple decades ago. It had to offer charter school options or no one would have stayed.
Wash DC has some excellent charter school options as well. Or you can live in NW DC and pay $2k per kid PTA fees.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We need to recognize that for most of us schools being closed isnt a big deal.

But low income communities rely on schools and desporately need them to open. They need them open because they want their kids to get a better education then they did, and having in person, real classes is key not just for mastery of current material but also for their student's further educational advancement (scholarships, etc). They dont have the money for the extra tutors.

They also depend on schools for childcare, as many dont have the luxory to wfh.

Subpar education and efficacy IS a big deal, to ALL students and society.

+1 it’s a huge deal for everybody.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need to recognize that for most of us schools being closed isnt a big deal.

But low income communities rely on schools and desporately need them to open. They need them open because they want their kids to get a better education then they did, and having in person, real classes is key not just for mastery of current material but also for their student's further educational advancement (scholarships, etc). They dont have the money for the extra tutors.

They also depend on schools for childcare, as many dont have the luxory to wfh.

Subpar education and efficacy IS a big deal, to ALL students and society.

The problem is the amount of government creep over the decades. Rational adults understand the benefit of educating all children- or at the very least understand that we as a society have an obligation to fund their basic education. But schools have become depositories of every program government can imagine. Providing meals even when school is not in session, social workers and schools forced to deal with students who do not want/aren't capable of not disrupting the environment for others, run away sports programs.

School systems need to be paired WAY back. They need to return to only providing a basic, solid education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

The parents at our Title I school are almost all overwhelmingly supportive of DL. Because they have inadequate health care and coupled with their own work without adequate safeguards they don't want to expose their kids even more in schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need to recognize that for most of us schools being closed isnt a big deal.

But low income communities rely on schools and desporately need them to open. They need them open because they want their kids to get a better education then they did, and having in person, real classes is key not just for mastery of current material but also for their student's further educational advancement (scholarships, etc). They dont have the money for the extra tutors.

They also depend on schools for childcare, as many dont have the luxory to wfh.

Subpar education and efficacy IS a big deal, to ALL students and society.

+1 it’s a huge deal for everybody.

It's a huge deal for my first grader, and we're not low income. I'm not satisfied with him not being educated for 18 months, or whenever FCPS schools decide to reopen. Looking for ways out of the public system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need to recognize that for most of us schools being closed isnt a big deal.

But low income communities rely on schools and desporately need them to open. They need them open because they want their kids to get a better education then they did, and having in person, real classes is key not just for mastery of current material but also for their student's further educational advancement (scholarships, etc). They dont have the money for the extra tutors.

They also depend on schools for childcare, as many dont have the luxory to wfh.

I just posted a reply to someone else and I'll say the same thing to you.

Within the past 15 days I have spoken with 80-85% of the parents of the students I had last year at my Title I school. With the exception of 2 parents, they are all supporting DL and are very much anti-hybrid and anti-F2F. They would rather have their kids at home than at school.

The two primary reasons are that they feel that they themselves are over-exposed in their work environments and they do not have adequate healthcare for themselves or their families. They want to limit their kids' exposures to the things they can control and they don't want their kids mixing. A few of the parents I spoke with live in the same apartment building, not complex but building, and their kids are staying in their own apartments and not mixing with the other kids.

Obviously this is anecdotal but it is hard to believe that this one parent group is the exception. Just because families are poor doesn't mean that they are willing to sacrifice their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

The parents at our Title I school are almost all overwhelmingly supportive of DL. Because they have inadequate health care and coupled with their own work without adequate safeguards they don't want to expose their kids even more in schools.

Well that’s poor decision making right there. The kids are more at risk in their homes from their own parents they’d be if they were sitting at school socially-distanced in a mask. And let’s be real, most of these kids aren’t actually going to be able to sit at home in front of a computer for 6 hours a day because they won’t have adequate supervision, support, or technology. All DL is going to do is reinforce the cycle of poverty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We weren't fine no matter who won, although I'm sure you thought you would be. Now you're urging schools to re-open because I'm sure you're inconvenienced. Not a chance.

Covid-19 isn’t going anywhere. So schools must reopen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/covid-19-isnt-going-anywhere-so-schools-must-reopen/2020/08/07/8f2c2cde-d8e2-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html



Schools must #StayClosed.

Kathleen Parker . . . . LOL. As if I'd listen to anything from her mouth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

The parents at our Title I school are almost all overwhelmingly supportive of DL. Because they have inadequate health care and coupled with their own work without adequate safeguards they don't want to expose their kids even more in schools.

They also don’t typically support education as being important. Which is why there are huge dropout rates and a huge achievement gap.