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

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I am sorry, you need to suffer and quit your job and homeschool, that's the only way its fair, NO PODS FOR YOU!

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe its time to start marketing your pod, "Our pod offers a Harvard Graduate Tutor who loves kids and is fluent in 5 languages! Relax by the pool when you are on break between online classes or play ball with the two professionally trained hypoallergenic designer miniature Labradoodles. For lunch, we are offering a 3-course organic keto farm-fresh meal accompanied by various fresh hand squeed organic craft juices made on site by our amazing Michelin Star chef. Taking applications now! $500 non-refundable fee. Must provide 2 years of taxes and the last 2 paychecks showing an HHI of $750k a year. Minimum 4.25 GPA from a school rated at least 9 or higher on greatschool.com. Please also provide 4 personal and professional references, and a completed Myers–Briggs test of your child and at least one adult family member. Can't wait to meet you!"

That’s cute, but most parents already have a pool from their kids friends.

And yes, we will be having organic lunch (and breakfast too)

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Anonymous wrote:I think there’s it’s extremely risky (and morally bankrupt) to ignore the different effects distance learning is going to have on various community members/groups but I don’t know if this take on it is the most effective. It feels like it will put people stressed/frantic people who would be amenable/educable on the defensive about their very human efforts to work something out for their kids (which in the end helps no one.) Rich urban liberals can be powerful advocates, to put it diplomatically, and this doesn’t feel it’s poised to harness that potential.

+100. This kind of thing is actually harmful to the cause of real equality and eradication of racism.

It's not harmful. It's redefining "racism" as "actions that have a disproportionate impact on minorities due to race." If it's not racism (structural) that some of us in rich white zip codes can have our "pods" while we work from home, and kids from predominately black zip codes will just learn nothing while their parents are out of work or work essential jobs ... then what is it called?

You need to get past the idea that someone is telling you, specifically, Larla's mom, to cancel her "pod." We're not. We're saying - if you purport to care about BLM and racism, then NOW is the time to do something about this inequality that you are playing a STRUCTURAL role in.

And for those of us actually in economically mixed or Title I schools, then yeah, I think the moral responsibility does become a little more personal. Are you really going to cocoon at home and not try to help the other kids?

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No dog in this fight as no one has asked us to Jon a pod, but for those saying people should do more.

How does that work? Assuming you even find a way to connect with families who have kids at a different school. You don’t know them, do you have to establish with strangers the same social distancing rules and immediately trust one another? Who is transporting if the three other families are in the same neighborhood? Do all families share financial or time responsibility or is this just feeling charitable to the poor (I say that sarcastically, of course)? What if this child at another school isn’t doing the same work in terms of assignments as your child - who is responsible for managing the different schedules?

I see the social import, but those crying that it’s inequitable, at a practical level how does this work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No dog in this fight as no one has asked us to Jon a pod, but for those saying people should do more.

How does that work? Assuming you even find a way to connect with families who have kids at a different school. You don’t know them, do you have to establish with strangers the same social distancing rules and immediately trust one another? Who is transporting if the three other families are in the same neighborhood? Do all families share financial or time responsibility or is this just feeling charitable to the poor (I say that sarcastically, of course)? What if this child at another school isn’t doing the same work in terms of assignments as your child - who is responsible for managing the different schedules?

I see the social import, but those crying that it’s inequitable, at a practical level how does this work.

you can send money to groups supporting kids in need.

you can start a movement at your school to send a percentage of pta money to a poorer school or redirect more funds to at risk kids in the school

you can vote for better local representatives

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I am a white single mom but I most likely won’t have a pod, and if I get a job again I don’t know what I am going to do.
I don’t have close friends who are interested. I don’t have energy to organize anything, I don’t have money to pay for a tutor.
I will probably have to do my best supervising my kid’s learning and looking for a job.
It’s more of a social/class issue I think, but I don’t think it’s the fault of the “privileged”.
It’s the fault of the public schools that failed us all - private childcare facilities are opening, it’s the “free” ones that can’t adapt.

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Read When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America.

Come back and share about suffering 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

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...

I don’t know lady - I can’t tell you what to do. But if in this time of crisis that is disproportionaly hitting minorities you circle the wagons even more and don’t help others ... that’s a problem.

It's really not. I prioritize the kids that I chose to birth/adopt, and others get the energy and money that I can spare. If this situation means I have none to spare, so be it.

exactly.

+1

There are comments on every thread telling parents they chose to have kids and they need to take care of them. Now parents are trying to do that and they are being told it leads to inequity and it’s a problem. People cannot win.

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Anonymous wrote:If you look at the meme, it isn’t saying it’s racist.
It’s saying white people are giving lip service to BLM while ignoring struggles of black lives.

White people can multitask.

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I am AA Mom to two and have already mapped out our supplemental homeschooling. I have pulled my oldest and she has been accepted to Stanford online HS and I will be giving her either virtual or in-person field trips to support and doing a boom club with her so she gets her classics in. She is in 8th grade and I know she can increase her variety and depth of texts read.

My youngest is in Pre-K so I will be teaching her on days she does not have school in person in the morning. That way, I can insure she is reading, writing and able to solve math problems.

My children's education comes first so if I can do this, so can other's. This should not be a matter of race but priorities of parent's.

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Anonymous wrote:So tired of every damn thing being labeled racist. I’m desensitized and I just don’t care.

That's because you enjoy white privilege and are racist. Thanks for accepting your faults!

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Anonymous wrote:So tired of every damn thing being labeled racist. I’m desensitized and I just don’t care.

That's because you enjoy white privilege and are racist. Thanks for accepting your faults!

Well, even white people who think they aren’t racist are racist according to the latest woke revelations so everyone may as well live their truth and move along.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am AA Mom to two and have already mapped out our supplemental homeschooling. I have pulled my oldest and she has been accepted to Stanford online HS and I will be giving her either virtual or in-person field trips to support and doing a boom club with her so she gets her classics in. She is in 8th grade and I know she can increase her variety and depth of texts read.

My youngest is in Pre-K so I will be teaching her on days she does not have school in person in the morning. That way, I can insure she is reading, writing and able to solve math problems.

My children's education comes first so if I can do this, so can other's. This should not be a matter of race but priorities of parent's.

You are blaspheming against Wokeianity and must be excommunicated. Someone call Bishop Jones:

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Personally, I plan to keep my kids home. But I'm also reaching out to see where I can provide 1:1 or small group help to high school students who may have fewer opportunities. Maybe some fun science projects that can work in the material in a fun way.

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NP. Agree with the above that pods are a horrifying prospect for inequity of wealth.

Adding to it: They are also horrifying for SN kids. Easily, 10% of kids have SN that impact their learning and socialization: ADHD, ASD, learning disabilities, etc. Ten percent. That's not a small number.

DL was an across the board disaster for these kids. Now, our kids are across the board being excluded from pods. No one will let in the kid with learning differences or challenges. Or, like my son, exceptional academics but he is "weird". We are lucky that we have the money and i will probably hire a full time nanny/teacher. Obviously, 99% of SN kids don't have that luxury. But even with our 'good' solution, my son will likely go almost a year without interacting with another child because he is not welcome among them. This year has been a disaster for him and we are desperate to get him back into school.