A word to Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post on 'Schools MUST ReOpen' - F off

[Anonymous]

We weren't fine no matter who won, although I'm sure you thought you would be. Now you're urging schools to re-open because I'm sure you're inconvenienced. Not a chance.

Covid-19 isn’t going anywhere. So schools must reopen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/covid-19-isnt-going-anywhere-so-schools-must-reopen/2020/08/07/8f2c2cde-d8e2-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html



Schools must #StayClosed.

[Anonymous]

This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

[Anonymous]

Drivel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

They talk a good game and then choose "elite" experiences and lifestyles for themselves and the those in their circles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

What’s stupid is you don’t recognize the data showing that the families of these “underprivileged kids” want distance learning because they don’t want to DIE.

Latinx children are 8 times more likely than white children to be hospitalized due to COVID-19. Black children are 5 times more likely. And then there’s the death rates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

They talk a good game and then choose "elite" experiences and lifestyles for themselves and the those in their circles.

charter and private schools provide a much better experience for a cheaper price than public. Even for many special ed kids. Public is totally corrupt especially for inner city kids.

5 years of vouchers and the public schools will have cleaned up their game. Private schools arent going to pay pedophiles not to teach, for example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

What’s stupid is you don’t recognize the data showing that the families of these “underprivileged kids” want distance learning because they don’t want to DIE.

Latinx children are 8 times more likely than white children to be hospitalized due to COVID-19. Black children are 5 times more likely. And then there’s the death rates.

600 children have been hospitalized for Mis C in the entire country. The risk is near zero. This isn't Ebola.

And Black children are the most likely to live in unsafe, unstable situations not conducive to Distance Learning. I heard from one teacher she had not heard from 1/3 of her underprivileged kids since March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

They talk a good game and then choose "elite" experiences and lifestyles for themselves and the those in their circles.

charter and private schools provide a much better experience for a cheaper price than public. Even for many special ed kids. Public is totally corrupt especially for inner city kids.

5 years of vouchers and the public schools will have cleaned up their game. Private schools arent going to pay pedophiles not to teach, for example.

The data says otherwise. Test scores are identical between charter and public schools, even with charters throwing up admissions roadblocks for the neediest kids. So, charter schools are allowed to select the most motivated kids with the best organized parents, often those who can drive their kids across wards, but still don't have better outcomes than the regular neighborhood public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

They talk a good game and then choose "elite" experiences and lifestyles for themselves and the those in their circles.

charter and private schools provide a much better experience for a cheaper price than public. Even for many special ed kids. Public is totally corrupt especially for inner city kids.

5 years of vouchers and the public schools will have cleaned up their game. Private schools arent going to pay pedophiles not to teach, for example.

The data says otherwise. Test scores are identical between charter and public schools, even with charters throwing up admissions roadblocks for the neediest kids. So, charter schools are allowed to select the most motivated kids with the best organized parents, often those who can drive their kids across wards, but still don't have better outcomes than the regular neighborhood public schools.

The point of vouchers for all is for the state to pay for religious schools and segregated private schools. Most people pushing vouchers don’t care about education.

[Anonymous]

She’s absolutely right.

[Anonymous]

Upper class whites just don't want black and brown people to have the freedom to choose. They might choose religious schools, and that would be terrible.

Give everyone a 10k voucher and watch what happens to the educational system. And a lot cheaper than PS prices per kid, too.

As a black kid in inner city DC public schools, you have little likelihood of ending up as a college graduate with a stable job. Just look at the results. Put the same kid in any private school, and voila.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Upper class whites just don't want black and brown people to have the freedom to choose. They might choose religious schools, and that would be terrible.

Give everyone a 10k voucher and watch what happens to the educational system. And a lot cheaper than PS prices per kid, too.

As a black kid in inner city DC public schools, you have little likelihood of ending up as a college graduate with a stable job. Just look at the results. Put the same kid in any private school, and voila.

This is a very facile understanding of the structural issues at the intersection of race and poverty, which maybe I should expect from someone still using the phrase "inner city."

Even though vouchers have a significant self-selection bias (parents who can navigate the system, petition the school, etc), outcomes for kids attending private schools on vouchers continue to be worse than their public school peers: https://www.brookings.edu/research/more-findings-about-school-vouchers-and-test-scores-and-they-are-still-negative/

Part of the reason for this is that $10K isn't enough to educate a student, so fly-by-nigh "private" schools pop up that are willing to accept the vouchers, but deliver a subpar education in return. Without any of the structure of a public school (infrastructure, curriculum, trained educators), they crop up, fail and then turn up again with a new name a few years down the road. In the meantime, kids have their education disrupted in the name of the free market, which does not work for education.

[Anonymous]

I agree with her, actually. We’re going to have to manage this virus for some time. Isolating yourself and your kids(if you don’t have a preexistong condition of some kind) isn’t going to be sustainable in the long run.

Now that doesn’t mean schools need to reopen right away or without modifications but it will happen. Plan for that and get used to wearing the masks etc. teach your kids how to live in this world.

[Anonymous]

Agree that some charters are a good idea - mostly because they are smaller. The public’s are too big and getting bigger every year (so far). Maybe this will change all that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with her, actually. We’re going to have to manage this virus for some time. Isolating yourself and your kids(if you don’t have a preexistong condition of some kind) isn’t going to be sustainable in the long run.

Now that doesn’t mean schools need to reopen right away or without modifications but it will happen. Plan for that and get used to wearing the masks etc. teach your kids how to live in this world.

This is how it is going to be. The quarantine fanatics just haven't come to grips with the truth yet.