Either find a way to open schools, or send me a stimulus check so I can pay for childcare.

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Anonymous wrote:Still not sure why OP things people should send them a check.

Probably because they are doing two full-time jobs for the price of one?

Oh wait. People keep telling me that "childcare" and "education" are totally separate and have nothing to do with each other.

Scratch that. THREE full time jobs for the price of one.

Your kids, your responsibility. Teachers are handling the education.

Hmmmhmmm. Keep that attitude as you age, and these children who you don't care about, don't want actual school for, etc etc are going to be your doctors and nurses in your old folks home. Good luck with that. Can't wait to have bypass surgery from someone who went to TV school.

The fact that you assume your precious one is going to be my doctor is laughable. Do they have the skills? Do they have the intelligence?

Its incredibly difficult to get the required courseload, pass the MCATs, go through residency, and then into specialties.

There are far more interested parties than they are spots at the top programs. But keep believing we'll suddenly have a shortage of capable physicians and surgeons in a country where the medical profession draws some of the best applicants in the world.

How will ANY CHILDREN have the skills and intelligence going forward if THEY DON'T GO TO SCHOOL?

Your mocking x10000000000. You know what the real problem is? DC type A parents who need to calm the F down.

Easy to say that as a childless person who is, for some reason, frequenting a parenting message board at 11pm on a Friday.

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.

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.

Then, stop complaining and get child care and therapy. And, don't have any more kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how 2020 has exposed parents.

Its all hugs and rainbows and 'children fill a void' until you actually have to take care of and watch them 24/7, 7 days a week.

Now its 'I'm going to be hospitalized if you don't get them out of here'.

And you wonder why the child-free and single are enjoying the pandemic so much?

No, it's until I have to take care of them and watch them 24/7, 7, while ALSO being their primary educator, while ALSO working 40-50 hours a week.

If the child free and single are enjoying a pandemic where 200k of their fellow citizens have died in the past 6 months, simply so they can gloat that they aren't struggling like everyone else is, that makes them (you?) sound pretty bad.

Isn’t it the child free and single who are basically the primary drivers of COVID infections? Kind of wish a bunch of them would go ahead and get knocked up so they could enjoy the pandemic a little less.

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In one week there were 77,000 new cases of Covid-19 among children. But the 'science doesn't support' closures. Please. Maybe you all need to actually read what the scientists are telling you.

77,073 new child cases reported from 9/24-10/8 (608,718 to 685,791), a 13% increase in child cases over 2 weeks

https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/

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Anonymous wrote:Still not sure why OP things people should send them a check.

Np. Because our tax payer dollars are going towards open schools and teachers and none of that is happening. I agree that everyone pays taxes but this is mostly affecting school aged parents.

It’s as if nursing homes tossed the elderly on the sidewalk and told their kids to deal with it. Surely you budgeted for your parents care?!

Nursing homes aren't free.

Neither are public schools. They are paid for by taxes and so is the bulk of nursing home care via Medicaid.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s it. That’s the tweet.

Oh, and just to head this off: I’m extremely sorry that I am not rich enough to be able to pay for full time care for my school age child. Really! I feel terrible about it. But I can’t change that right this second, so I’m gonna need some alternatives. Otherwise, you’re just going to be paying for my healthcare when I finally completely lose it and have to be admitted to a mental hospital and my child becomes a ward of the state. Sorry for being middle class I guess?

Yes. And only the feds can send you a stimulus check. Because they’re the only level of government that can do expansionary stimilus.

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Anonymous wrote:Still not sure why OP things people should send them a check.

Np. Because our tax payer dollars are going towards open schools and teachers and none of that is happening. I agree that everyone pays taxes but this is mostly affecting school aged parents.

It’s as if nursing homes tossed the elderly on the sidewalk and told their kids to deal with it. Surely you budgeted for your parents care?!

Nursing homes aren't free.

Neither are public schools. They are paid for by taxes and so is the bulk of nursing home care via Medicaid.

Bulk of nursing homes are not medicaid. Some nursing homes take it most don't and the care quality is really bad (been there/done that). And yes, the can toss you out. The one my family member was at tried to toss her out after I filed a complaint after a series of unexplained bruises. We had to have an attorney and ombudsman fight it for us. They planned to send her to us without a care plan/nothing.

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It’s not that you can’t afford childcare. It’s that you can’t afford to live in DC. Go home.

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“Your kids, your responsibility. Teachers are handling the education.“

Such a tiresome argument!

1) DL is not “handling the education.”

2) That children go to school on weekdays was a well-established part of our economy and society for 100 years. Of course the abrupt end to that system is hugely problematic for parents.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that you can’t afford childcare. It’s that you can’t afford to live in DC. Go home.

Yes, it’s weird that OP didn’t factor in a global pandemic and indefinite school closures into their budget, like the rest of us obviously did. Clearly the problem here is that they irresponsibly did not factor in 2-4K/mo in surprise childcare costs, like everyone else in DC does.

Oh. Wait.

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Anonymous wrote:Going to post this every time parents say schools should re-open.

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.

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.

I don’t disagree with you but literally EVERYTHING ELSE IS OPEN BESIDES SCHOOLS. My suggestion is to close restaurants bars and gyms, and open schools in a limited capacity. But we are too selfish to close things that WE enjoy, so we will just continue to keep closed the one thing that our children need.

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Anonymous wrote:Still not sure why OP things people should send them a check.

Np. Because our tax payer dollars are going towards open schools and teachers and none of that is happening. I agree that everyone pays taxes but this is mostly affecting school aged parents.

It’s as if nursing homes tossed the elderly on the sidewalk and told their kids to deal with it. Surely you budgeted for your parents care?!

Nursing homes aren't free.

Neither are public schools. They are paid for by taxes and so is the bulk of nursing home care via Medicaid.

Bulk of nursing homes are not medicaid. Some nursing homes take it most don't and the care quality is really bad (been there/done that). And yes, the can toss you out. The one my family member was at tried to toss her out after I filed a complaint after a series of unexplained bruises. We had to have an attorney and ombudsman fight it for us. They planned to send her to us without a care plan/nothing.

And you fought that. Rightfully. With a lawyer, even! Kind of like how parents are fighting schools not taking their children.

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Anonymous wrote:“Your kids, your responsibility. Teachers are handling the education.“

Such a tiresome argument!

1) DL is not “handling the education.”

2) That children go to school on weekdays was a well-established part of our economy and society for 100 years. Of course the abrupt end to that system is hugely problematic for parents.

It’s problematic for everyone in society, not just parents. It’s just that the non parents haven’t realized it yet. But their society is crumbling. Once they get home from the bar they’ll see that.

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Anonymous wrote:Still not sure why OP things people should send them a check.

Np. Because our tax payer dollars are going towards open schools and teachers and none of that is happening. I agree that everyone pays taxes but this is mostly affecting school aged parents.

It’s as if nursing homes tossed the elderly on the sidewalk and told their kids to deal with it. Surely you budgeted for your parents care?!

Nursing homes aren't free.

Neither are public schools. They are paid for by taxes and so is the bulk of nursing home care via Medicaid.

Bulk of nursing homes are not medicaid. Some nursing homes take it most don't and the care quality is really bad (been there/done that). And yes, the can toss you out. The one my family member was at tried to toss her out after I filed a complaint after a series of unexplained bruises. We had to have an attorney and ombudsman fight it for us. They planned to send her to us without a care plan/nothing.

And you fought that. Rightfully. With a lawyer, even! Kind of like how parents are fighting schools not taking their children.

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PP you think your argument about nursing homes is counter to the one about parents needing childcare. It’s not. If your relative was kicked out of the Medicaid nursing home (which, side note, are not all roach and rat infested. Check your judgement there), you were upset and fought it because you couldn’t take care of that person and still work or whatever. Same as parents!

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Anonymous wrote:What do you consider middle class?

How did you pay for child care when they were little?

You need to figure it out and cut expenses or if you are low income there are vouchers.

Real middle class don't have health insurance.

We hired a babysitter and are spending about $2400 a month. Most people don’t have that in their budget.

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We need UBI and/or a child subsidy. It’s just a matter of how much unrest it takes to get there. I don’t think we’re all they close to the tipping point. It could be decades until this “bootstrap BS” finally meets its end.