It blows my mind that there isn't more agitation about the school issue

[Anonymous]

I am not "agitating" because I have the means to supplement my child's education to my standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it stems from a lot of people not actually believing suburban elites who insist that it’s unsafe to send kids to school for hybrid instruction. The pods smack of opportunity hoarding and gaming the system — or of privileged whites striving mightily to, well, maintain their privilege. It’s out of sync wit the times and the proper focus on inky it biases and systemic racism. So too are the articles about privileged people finding their=happy places in beach town second homes and baking sourdough bread. It has been a deeply sad and horrendous time due our country. Very few people knew how rotten elites have become.

Honestly, I don't GAF about inequality white people or people of color. I only care about my own children. Other people = not my problem.

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Anonymous wrote:I am mad as hell about this. I want heads to roll.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you're going to get a lot of bitter, resentful people criticizing you because they can't afford to hire a $75/hr tutor.

But, obviously, yes it's a huge deal that schools are not opening and we should ALL be upset about that as a society. We are hurting our children and the next generation with our choices.

This.

[Anonymous]

The SJWs have managed to make caring for your kids a sign of "privilege." We've jumped the shark on the entire movement, and there is a major backlash coming.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't it seem to you as if most non-parents (including teachers) expect parents to just suck it up and accept that schools can't open and that our children's educations is going to be lacking this year?

It blows my mind that the same people who rant against reopening schools because of safety ALSO rant against people hiring tutors because of privilege.

What do they want parents to do?! This is not a rhetorical question, I really want to know the answer to this. Pretty much everyone agrees that distance learning in the spring was a disaster for most kids. It certainly wasn't great for my own kids. IF they learned anything (big if), it's because my husband and I took time out of our workdays to teach them.

I hired someone for $75/hr and made the mistake of mentioning this on an online parenting group that I'm in when a question was posted asking how people are planning to work and do online schooling at the same time. Most of these people have younger kids than I do and they expect their daycare centers to be open. They also think public schools should be closed because "there's no way public schools can social distance." Such hypocrites.

We make decent money and we are good at saving. We should sacrifice our kids' educations because...why exactly? Because other people don't make as much money? What are you supposed to use your savings for if not in an emergency?

They think I should give up my job and home school my kids full time (which is what distance learning requires with them - full time supervision to make sure they are actually working and not goofing off) because I'm a woman?

I just want to know what the naysayers want us parents to do. Can't open schools because of Covid, even in states where cases are low (like ours in NY). But you also can't allow parents to hire private teachers because not everyone can do it? Why don't these people care about private schools then? WTF

OP, are you a single mom? If not, you and your spouse have to make some changes. You have to downsize. One of you has to go part time. Something has to change. This is life. You have to adapt. If you don't think you should be the one to go part time, talk to you partner about it. Someone has to make a serious compromise to make this work. Sorry that it is happening this way, but it is. Just accept it and do what you have to do. Life isn't a perfect straight line to the top.

No, this is BS! You know what happens in this situation, right? The woman, again, is expected to give up her career to care for her kids. For a temporary problem, she will give up a satisfying career?! No. This reeks of another way to keep women down and I'm so sick of it.

Public K-12 teachers in the U.S. are 76% women. So the white male president and the white male governors refuse to take meaningful action to stop the exponential spread of COVID and you demand another group of women swoop in and sacrifice so YOU can go back to work. Got it. That isn't feminism.

[Anonymous]

$75/hour is a deal right now for in-person tutoring. I know people paying up to $100/hour or more for multiple kids.

[Anonymous]

And this thread, ladies and gentlemen, is why missing a couple of years of school is irrelevant. OP is as dumb as rocks, and likely did not miss several years of school.
.....and is not even able to contemplate the answer that is right in front of her eyes! That, maybe, just maybe, there are parents who do not wish their kids, themselves and their loved ones, and their kids friends to get seriously ill and possibly die or cause someone to die. With that genetic potential, OP's kids are clearly not going to benefit from actually trying to learn anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't it seem to you as if most non-parents (including teachers) expect parents to just suck it up and accept that schools can't open and that our children's educations is going to be lacking this year?

It blows my mind that the same people who rant against reopening schools because of safety ALSO rant against people hiring tutors because of privilege.

What do they want parents to do?! This is not a rhetorical question, I really want to know the answer to this. Pretty much everyone agrees that distance learning in the spring was a disaster for most kids. It certainly wasn't great for my own kids. IF they learned anything (big if), it's because my husband and I took time out of our workdays to teach them.

I hired someone for $75/hr and made the mistake of mentioning this on an online parenting group that I'm in when a question was posted asking how people are planning to work and do online schooling at the same time. Most of these people have younger kids than I do and they expect their daycare centers to be open. They also think public schools should be closed because "there's no way public schools can social distance." Such hypocrites.

We make decent money and we are good at saving. We should sacrifice our kids' educations because...why exactly? Because other people don't make as much money? What are you supposed to use your savings for if not in an emergency?

They think I should give up my job and home school my kids full time (which is what distance learning requires with them - full time supervision to make sure they are actually working and not goofing off) because I'm a woman?

I just want to know what the naysayers want us parents to do. Can't open schools because of Covid, even in states where cases are low (like ours in NY). But you also can't allow parents to hire private teachers because not everyone can do it? Why don't these people care about private schools then? WTF

The schools should furlough and cut all staff and costs associated with inperson school (building, bus divers, janitors etc.) and take that money and give it to the parents who are doing the schools job in hosting school at their home or daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't it seem to you as if most non-parents (including teachers) expect parents to just suck it up and accept that schools can't open and that our children's educations is going to be lacking this year?

It blows my mind that the same people who rant against reopening schools because of safety ALSO rant against people hiring tutors because of privilege.

What do they want parents to do?! This is not a rhetorical question, I really want to know the answer to this. Pretty much everyone agrees that distance learning in the spring was a disaster for most kids. It certainly wasn't great for my own kids. IF they learned anything (big if), it's because my husband and I took time out of our workdays to teach them.

I hired someone for $75/hr and made the mistake of mentioning this on an online parenting group that I'm in when a question was posted asking how people are planning to work and do online schooling at the same time. Most of these people have younger kids than I do and they expect their daycare centers to be open. They also think public schools should be closed because "there's no way public schools can social distance." Such hypocrites.

We make decent money and we are good at saving. We should sacrifice our kids' educations because...why exactly? Because other people don't make as much money? What are you supposed to use your savings for if not in an emergency?

They think I should give up my job and home school my kids full time (which is what distance learning requires with them - full time supervision to make sure they are actually working and not goofing off) because I'm a woman?

I just want to know what the naysayers want us parents to do. Can't open schools because of Covid, even in states where cases are low (like ours in NY). But you also can't allow parents to hire private teachers because not everyone can do it? Why don't these people care about private schools then? WTF

OP, are you a single mom? If not, you and your spouse have to make some changes. You have to downsize. One of you has to go part time. Something has to change. This is life. You have to adapt. If you don't think you should be the one to go part time, talk to you partner about it. Someone has to make a serious compromise to make this work. Sorry that it is happening this way, but it is. Just accept it and do what you have to do. Life isn't a perfect straight line to the top.

No, this is BS! You know what happens in this situation, right? The woman, again, is expected to give up her career to care for her kids. For a temporary problem, she will give up a satisfying career?! No. This reeks of another way to keep women down and I'm so sick of it.

Public K-12 teachers in the U.S. are 76% women. So the white male president and the white male governors refuse to take meaningful action to stop the exponential spread of COVID and you demand another group of women swoop in and sacrifice so YOU can go back to work. Got it. That isn't feminism.

Also nurses. Hospital administrations are already worried that with the start of the school year, they will lose a lot of nursing staff. They have nobody to be with their kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You have a mental problem, OP. You really do. Most others don't agree with you. Those making the decisions also don't agree with you. What psychological issue do you have that you just can't accept that?

You have no way of knowing most others disagree with OP, and your over the top and nasty response does your position no favors.

Everyone I know disagrees with the OP. Those in charge of the schools also disagree with her. That's a lot.

I can't wait for the fringe nut jobs like Betsy DeVos to go back to being nobodys. January 2021 can't come soon enough. Let normal people reassert than majority say in how things are done, instead of the crazies.

You’re lying. You know you know a lot of people who agree with op. They’re just staying away from you because they know you’re crazy.

OK, Don Jr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Thinking about it, I think part of the answer is that at heart many people want to pull their kids out of school because they want absolute rigid control over all aspects of their children's lives, and simultaneously they don't care about educational outcomes for other kids. They don't want their own kids to have an experience that isn't totally mediated by them. The pandemic lets them put that into action.

Have you ever read the stories of homeschool recovery online? They are heartfelt and sometimes very disturbing stories from adults reflecting back on their homeschooling childhood. In ten years, we are going to see the same things about these DL years.

I don't feel that way. I'm a terrible teacher. I want my kids to go back to school. I want them taught by someone better at it than I am. But I'm not going to send them back until we get a handle on this pandemic. That's more important to me than having my kids in school.

Being a terrible homeschool teacher has very little to do with whether you want homeschool or not. It's about control, not about education.

Correct. I want someone else to be in control, not me. Can you even read?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't it seem to you as if most non-parents (including teachers) expect parents to just suck it up and accept that schools can't open and that our children's educations is going to be lacking this year?

It blows my mind that the same people who rant against reopening schools because of safety ALSO rant against people hiring tutors because of privilege.

What do they want parents to do?! This is not a rhetorical question, I really want to know the answer to this. Pretty much everyone agrees that distance learning in the spring was a disaster for most kids. It certainly wasn't great for my own kids. IF they learned anything (big if), it's because my husband and I took time out of our workdays to teach them.

I hired someone for $75/hr and made the mistake of mentioning this on an online parenting group that I'm in when a question was posted asking how people are planning to work and do online schooling at the same time. Most of these people have younger kids than I do and they expect their daycare centers to be open. They also think public schools should be closed because "there's no way public schools can social distance." Such hypocrites.

We make decent money and we are good at saving. We should sacrifice our kids' educations because...why exactly? Because other people don't make as much money? What are you supposed to use your savings for if not in an emergency?

They think I should give up my job and home school my kids full time (which is what distance learning requires with them - full time supervision to make sure they are actually working and not goofing off) because I'm a woman?

I just want to know what the naysayers want us parents to do. Can't open schools because of Covid, even in states where cases are low (like ours in NY). But you also can't allow parents to hire private teachers because not everyone can do it? Why don't these people care about private schools then? WTF

OP, are you a single mom? If not, you and your spouse have to make some changes. You have to downsize. One of you has to go part time. Something has to change. This is life. You have to adapt. If you don't think you should be the one to go part time, talk to you partner about it. Someone has to make a serious compromise to make this work. Sorry that it is happening this way, but it is. Just accept it and do what you have to do. Life isn't a perfect straight line to the top.

No, this is BS! You know what happens in this situation, right? The woman, again, is expected to give up her career to care for her kids. For a temporary problem, she will give up a satisfying career?! No. This reeks of another way to keep women down and I'm so sick of it.

That's between you and your partner.

[Anonymous]

The federal government should let anyone with kids at home during the pandemic collect unemployment with the guarantee of their job back when their kids go back. It would be just like family leave. They can pass eviction moratoriums and moratoriums on student loans, why not this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The federal government should let anyone with kids at home during the pandemic collect unemployment with the guarantee of their job back when their kids go back. It would be just like family leave. They can pass eviction moratoriums and moratoriums on student loans, why not this?

LOL that doesn't make sense, it barely covers anything, the schools should be giving that money back to the parents because they aren't using it