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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I do notice. I have noticed before. [b]In normal times public education offers a lot to help close the gap. [/b]Without it our society will become even more divided. Distance learning cannot provide the same bridge.[/quote]

Obviously the rest of society doesn’t agree because public schools have been grossly underfunded for decades. How many threads about the common good of public schools did you start before the pandemic?[/quote]
This is the problem. We have allowed public schools to fall apart for years-it has been particularly bad since the Great Recession in 2008, when education funding was slashed. That funding was never restored. Flash forward to today, 12 years later, with over 2 million additional public school students we have to provide for. The money just isn't there. School infrastructure is crumbling. There is lead in the pipes. No air conditioning, even as our climate gets warmer. Teachers have to beg on Donors Choose to fund basic supplies for their classrooms. Staff stocks the bathrooms with soap and toilet paper, or everyone goes without. Now, people are demanding that schools magically create outdoor classrooms, upgrade air filters (most schools don't even have HVAC systems to be upgraded, in the first place), set up tents, provide computers and internet access, provide PPE, provide counseling for all the kids whose lives have been uprooted by COVID and our country's abysmal response, make class sizes smaller by hiring more teachers and/or renting out public spaces, etc. - and the money is not there. I don't understand why people think that somehow, this is something individual schools or districts should be able to control. 
We can not "do more with less". We have been at the bone for years. If this crisis hadn't happened, people would continue ignoring the issue and complaining about how teachers are just "lazy". [/quote]

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