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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent here.
I don't want schools open right now, for the obvious reasons you stated.
But it is beyond dumb to shut down schools while keeping bars and casinos open. It’s just near-sighted greed.
My kids are lucky to have great teachers who are really trying hard, but there is NO DOUBT that most kids, including mine, are missing out on important education. And that’s not even starting in on the profound stress and loss of income that having them home all day is putting on parents (I work from home and husband has to work out of home, so my work is suffering. Like many families, we aren’t rich enough to hire help and are just doing our best with it all).
OP, parents are angry that kids are at the bottom of the priorities list and that our society has been making choices that lead to the current situation. I wouldn’t ask a teacher to work in a school with the current metrics. But we didn't have to be here.
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I don't usually wade into these endless arguments because it never changes minds, but why do you think that closing the bars/casinos etc. wouldn't impact kids? Don't you realize that the workers in those places have kids that need shelter and food (which is more important than education, which is happening, although not as effectively). I'm not arguing whether we should close or open the bars/casinos/restaurants or schools, even, but I just don't get why people think that closing people's jobs is automatically better for kids. Better for your YOUR kid, maybe, but certainly not all of them, and certainly not all the poor kids that the wealthy DCUMers want us to believe is the real source of their frustration about closed schools. I mean, are you guys so eager to open schools, and close down jobs that you are willing to pay higher taxes to make sure everyone receives enough financial support? Because right now the homelessness crisis is increasing by a huge magnitude and it's only going to get worse when evictions start happening again en masse, as the evictions stopped but the rent obligation has not.[/quote]

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