Either find a way to open schools, or send me a stimulus check so I can pay for childcare.
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Anonymous
So, that aside- what do you think the response would be if those subsidized nursing homes for anyone who isn't UMC suddenly dumped the residents on the side of the road? And said their adult children should be the ones to take care of them, and should have expected this unexpected event to happen and should have thousands saved up and unlimited time off of work to care for their elderly parents? |
Anonymous
Good try! I’ve got three kids, 2 in school because you’re right, if I was childless I would have more of a life than to be on here, even in a pandemic. And I still stand by DC parents needing to calm the F down. It’s a PANDEMIC. It will not last forever. It sucks so much! And there are absolutely kids who need to be in school right now. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say 85% of the people who post here have children who will be jussssssst fine. Except they’ll be in therapy as adults because of their neurotic parents. |
Anonymous
Of course the real middle class can have health care. Do you really think teachers, factory workers, sanitation workers, social workers and the list goes on don’t have health care? What a ridiculous thing to say. |
Anonymous
I am OP. I am not fine. My kid is not fine. And you can't guarantee that we will be, because as you just pointed out -- it's a pandemic. Unprecedented waters. We have no idea what the longterm effects of all this might be. I can tell you today that I need help and so does my child, and for some reason the mere act of asking for it makes me selfish, entitled, stupid, and neurotic. I don't need to chill. I need childcare. |
Anonymous
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I don’t think anyone who wants schools open denies that Covid exists. On the contrary, these people are saying it exists and it will continue to exist and we can’t just shut down an integral safety net because of it. Whatever your views on what school is supposed to be, in modern times it is a place that provides childcare. School is where many kids get their only meals and where they are exposed to adults that care about them. We prioritized opening everything in this country, even concert venues (the absurdity of someone wanting to see a concert in a pandemic!), but we completely forgot about the schools. At least the public ones. It’s not a matter of funding, we already spend more per student than most countries in the world. It’s not a matter of safety, since PPE could have been donated and classroom configurations could have been reworked. It’s a failure of leadership. We don’t prioritize education in this country. To put it bluntly, are a nation of selfish morons who can’t see beyond the short term. Instead of coming together as a country to help our children, we have dummies who are sitting around thinking “but why should I pay for some kid?”. Because educating our children benefits all of us as a nation, that’s why. Meanwhile the disparity between the social classes grows. The wealthy kids are all back in the classroom in private schools, continuing their learning. While the poor kids fall further and further behind. |
Anonymous
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Dear OP,
I feel for you and your situation.This is a pandemic and unprecedented sutuation. I guess you never would have thought about begging for money so you can have childcare and continue working. At least you tried, but sadly, you know that it is highly unlikely. How about quitting job for your own sanity. Scale back. Stop spending. Help your children. Spend more time with your family. It can be done. We did. It sin't easy living off one salary. But FFS, do something to help your situation instead of waiting for others to help you. Signed by a JFK believer |
Anonymous
Haha- are you actually trying to suggest that a kindergarten/first grade child’s educational needs can be adequately handled via zoom? I guarantee you that for the very early elementary students either parents are the ones actually covering 75% + of the educational content or the kids are just being left behind. |
Anonymous
Why wouldn’t middle class people have health insurance in this area? The entire region has expanded Medicaid (and you are below middle class if you qualify), there are ACA subsidies available at middle class incomes, and many if not most middle class jobs come with health insurance especially in DC where there is a mandate on small businesses. Honestly, if you don’t have health insurance in DC and you are a citizen or legal immigrant, I feel like you aren’t trying. |
Anonymous
As a person who worked in disease prevention, schools and childcare are the secondary priority to getting an outbreak under control. The U.S. has done nothing, full stop, to handle the Covid-19 pandemic in an effective and suitable manner. If CDC officials had handled Malaria, Ebola, SARs, H1N1, Zika, Typhoid, and HIV/AIDs in foreign countries the way U.S. officials are handling the Covid-19 pandemic they'd be brought up on human rights charges. I'm sorry you're inconvenienced but education becomes secondary to a life-threatening disease that is swiftly working its way through a population. The fact that you keep bringing up the notion that education should be prioritized in the long-term when 100,000s of Americans are dying across six months in the short-term is precisely the problem. |
Anonymous
Exactly. I’m not sure why a PK3 DCPS teacher is getting paid right now. A day care teacher wouldn’t be getting paid for zoom class because parents would know it wasn’t worth paying for and they would basically be doing the same job except the day care worker would be getting paid less for more work but with fewer degrees. |
Anonymous
And yet, restaurants and bars, not schools, are the primary source of spread outside the home and large gatherings like parties and weddings. So, sort of irrelevant whether it’s a “tank” or whatever with hundreds of people in it. The epidemiological data doesn’t support your hypothesis. That’s sort of how science works. At some point, you need to change your views to match up with reality. |
Anonymous
Can have it but not everyone can afford it. A two teacher family in this area is not middle class. Sanitation workers who work private may not have insurance, county would. Factory workers. Depends on the factory. |
Anonymous
You're kidding right? The infection rate has skyrocketed among kids as schools have re-opened in the South and Midwest. There has been a 90% increase in Covid-19 cases in US children in the last four weeks, report says https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/11/health/covid-19-children-cases-rising-wellness/index.html https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/ Approximately 56 million school-aged children (aged 5–17 years) resumed education in the United States in fall 2020.* Analysis of demographic characteristics, underlying conditions, clinical outcomes, and trends in weekly coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) incidence during March 1–September 19, 2020 among 277,285 laboratory-confirmed cases in school-aged children in the United States might inform decisions about in-person learning and the timing and scaling of community mitigation measures. During May–September 2020, average weekly incidence (cases per 100,000 children) among adolescents aged 12–17 years (37.4) was approximately twice that of children aged 5–11 years (19.0). |
Anonymous
That's pretty typical during in person learning. Kids whose parents support and work with them at home do far better. |