"I support the teachers" people

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Anonymous wrote:Lol at this thread. The OP apparently didn’t enough satisfaction squabbling with teachers and whining about their disappointments in ALL of the similar threads created just today! They baited parents just to argue here, as if parents are the ones who are keeping their kids from in person school, and not this pandemic.

Sad!

OP here. I specifically want to nail down exactly how long the "support the teachers" crowd think they are willing to let this go on. And curiously, nobody (other than the few who said "as long as there is a pandemic") were able to put any limits on it. They assiduously avoid it. I think there are a lot of them who really don't understand that we may be doing this well into 2021 under the current notion of "not until it's safe."

We have answered your question over and over again and you don't like the wander. I am willing to support this for the next 10 years if I have to. We'll figure it out and make it work. This is the education we have available and we are going to make the best of a bad situation. How we can fix this is people acting responsibly and stop the travel, shopping, eating out, etc.

Ha I agree the posters were being annoying, but they were basically trying to get you to admit that "support our teachers" means that not only aren't we gong back in Feb, this year is completely out of the questions and maybe next fall 2021 is questionable. And you just called their bluff and said you were fine with your kids' next classroom being college. So Ok then. But I dare you to post this sentiment on your school facebook page. "Come on y'all - support our teachers! Even if that means zoom school for ten years, we can do it. YEAH!!!!!!" Double dare?

I have posted on facebook I'm fine with it and we should support our teachers. We've had some pretty crappy in person teachers so sadly, DL with good teachers is far better than bad in person teachers but that's just luck on who you get.

If we have to do this for 2-3 years, we'll make it work. There are lots of advantages and disadvantages to DL but its easier to make the best of a bad situation and stay safe. Others may be ok with getting covid but I am not nor is my family. I suspect we will not go back to fall or even a year from now in the spring the rate we keep going.

What is interesting to me is those screaming we need to go back aren't willing to make sacrifices needed and stay home to help us stop the spread.

If we go back now, what sacrifices are people willing to make as a compromise to lower infection.

CNN posted numbers in kids are very quickly going up. Interesting how that correlates with schools opening, indoor dining, larger social events and activities. Imagine if we open up large schools. Kids or adults will bring it in from the outside and spread it.

[Anonymous]

If we do DL for 2-3 years, the benefit of not opening schools will be lost. Families will flock to privates, homeschool, and create pods. Sporting events will resume and the museums will reopen. The number of students enrolled in public school will continue to decline and teachers will be declared redundant. Teachers will have to go back to work at lower-paying private school or go and work out in the real world where they will have to interact with the public. I guess this could be called a natural consequence.

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Germany doesn't require masking in schools, and aftee months has not had a spike from the schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Germany doesn't require masking in schools, and aftee months has not had a spike from the schools

No but they sure have a spike in the community. I wonder how long they will be able to keep the schools open in an environment like that

[Anonymous]

Ladies, why are you being like this. Obviously no parent wants to spend the next 5-10 years cooped up with their kids away from school. No one is advocating for it for the sake of it. But then none of us wanted to change diapers, nor cleanup someone else’s vomit, nor explain to someone why they can’t put their penis on everything (and then reexplain it to his son). I’d much rather be drinking a cocktail on the beach with my 25 year old body, but that ship sailed.

But as parents we often must find ways to endure and survive and if the pandemic doesn’t go away I’m willing to keep doing dl until my kids graduate for the sake of their health.

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Yesterday: “ Cases of Covid-19 in children on rise, with highest 1-week spike yet”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/health/children-covid-19-cases-spike-wellness/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ladies, why are you being like this. Obviously no parent wants to spend the next 5-10 years cooped up with their kids away from school. No one is advocating for it for the sake of it. But then none of us wanted to change diapers, nor cleanup someone else’s vomit, nor explain to someone why they can’t put their penis on everything (and then reexplain it to his son). I’d much rather be drinking a cocktail on the beach with my 25 year old body, but that ship sailed.

But as parents we often must find ways to endure and survive and if the pandemic doesn’t go away I’m willing to keep doing dl until my kids graduate for the sake of their health.

I’m not. Other schools are open, safely. There’s NO virtue in staying closed and exaggerating the risks. The pandemic is not going to “go away” for YEARS. It’s untenable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ladies, why are you being like this. Obviously no parent wants to spend the next 5-10 years cooped up with their kids away from school. No one is advocating for it for the sake of it. But then none of us wanted to change diapers, nor cleanup someone else’s vomit, nor explain to someone why they can’t put their penis on everything (and then reexplain it to his son). I’d much rather be drinking a cocktail on the beach with my 25 year old body, but that ship sailed.

But as parents we often must find ways to endure and survive and if the pandemic doesn’t go away I’m willing to keep doing dl until my kids graduate for the sake of their health.

I’m not. Other schools are open, safely. There’s NO virtue in staying closed and exaggerating the risks. The pandemic is not going to “go away” for YEARS. It’s untenable.

So move?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ladies, why are you being like this. Obviously no parent wants to spend the next 5-10 years cooped up with their kids away from school. No one is advocating for it for the sake of it. But then none of us wanted to change diapers, nor cleanup someone else’s vomit, nor explain to someone why they can’t put their penis on everything (and then reexplain it to his son). I’d much rather be drinking a cocktail on the beach with my 25 year old body, but that ship sailed.

But as parents we often must find ways to endure and survive and if the pandemic doesn’t go away I’m willing to keep doing dl until my kids graduate for the sake of their health.

I’m not. Other schools are open, safely. There’s NO virtue in staying closed and exaggerating the risks. The pandemic is not going to “go away” for YEARS. It’s untenable.

So move?

I may.

[Anonymous]

Schools will never reopen. Teachers will have it in their contract a right to refuse to get the vaccine because it is untested and might not be safe. Come back here in a year and I bet this turns out to be true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ladies, why are you being like this. Obviously no parent wants to spend the next 5-10 years cooped up with their kids away from school. No one is advocating for it for the sake of it. But then none of us wanted to change diapers, nor cleanup someone else’s vomit, nor explain to someone why they can’t put their penis on everything (and then reexplain it to his son). I’d much rather be drinking a cocktail on the beach with my 25 year old body, but that ship sailed.

But as parents we often must find ways to endure and survive and if the pandemic doesn’t go away I’m willing to keep doing dl until my kids graduate for the sake of their health.

I’m not. Other schools are open, safely. There’s NO virtue in staying closed and exaggerating the risks. The pandemic is not going to “go away” for YEARS. It’s untenable.

So move?

I may.

Good, if you go to Maryland would you teach them how to drive? Or just ask them to stay out of the district?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ladies, why are you being like this. Obviously no parent wants to spend the next 5-10 years cooped up with their kids away from school. No one is advocating for it for the sake of it. But then none of us wanted to change diapers, nor cleanup someone else’s vomit, nor explain to someone why they can’t put their penis on everything (and then reexplain it to his son). I’d much rather be drinking a cocktail on the beach with my 25 year old body, but that ship sailed.

But as parents we often must find ways to endure and survive and if the pandemic doesn’t go away I’m willing to keep doing dl until my kids graduate for the sake of their health

I’m not. Other schools are open, safely. There’s NO virtue in staying closed and exaggerating the risks. The pandemic is not going to “go away” for YEARS. It’s untenable.

The issue is that folks are conflating the risks of COVID (high) with the risks of in-person school in particular (pretty low). You can't just look at case numbers for the population generally and assume that indicates anything about elementary schools specifically. You need to look at how and where people are getting sick and who they are, and then take steps to keep them safe.

What we're seeing now is that open schools aren't causing community spread. You see cases in schools, but they tend to be isolated – meaning the students got it somewhere else. The main time we see spread in schools is without mask mandates and other obvious measures in place. For parents who have no choice but to keep working in person, bringing their kids to a school with established safety protocols might actually be better for public health than needing to leave them with a network for friends or family.

(Also: blaming teachers or principals is absurd. They've been put in an untenable position by the powers that be, and it's not fair.)

[Anonymous]

Remember to vote against Robert White. He's endorsed by WTU and fully supported WTU's refusal to send ANY teachers back. He was instrumental in taking away in person learning for homeless, special needs, and other at risk kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ladies, why are you being like this. Obviously no parent wants to spend the next 5-10 years cooped up with their kids away from school. No one is advocating for it for the sake of it. But then none of us wanted to change diapers, nor cleanup someone else’s vomit, nor explain to someone why they can’t put their penis on everything (and then reexplain it to his son). I’d much rather be drinking a cocktail on the beach with my 25 year old body, but that ship sailed.

But as parents we often must find ways to endure and survive and if the pandemic doesn’t go away I’m willing to keep doing dl until my kids graduate for the sake of their health.

For the sake of THEIR health? You really need to learn to evaluate risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean yes, but not when we are at the HIGHEST number of cases per day?

People whining about teachers abdicating their responsibility and needing to suck it up are blind to the actual realities of what is happening.

Fight for many more robust supports for at-risk and special needs children and families NOW. But don't insist we need to go the route of heading back just because "it's time" and you're sick of it.

Suck it up, harpies. Or suck it. Either is fine.

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