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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, 11 pages later and nobody cares about this lady who was shouted down by a bunch of white parents anymore; instead it's just these selfsame parents shouting some more about how their kids need full time school 5 days a week.  Better not get in their way.  This is what they want, and what other people want is immaterial to them achieving their goal.

To be clear:  These two speakers talked about having bigger problems in the current environment than full time school for their kids.  They talked about food insecurity and the potential to go hungry.  They talked about job loss.  They talked about fear for their lives because the virus hit the latino community harder than it hit surrounding white areas and caused more death.  They talked about needing to provide comfort and care to kids who had lost family members -- cousins, aunts and uncles, and even parents during this epidemic.

They also talked about the difficulties of managing childcare.  the second speaker in particular talked about not being able to send a pre-K child back to school because both of those parents worked and neither had been vaccinated, so that if the child was exposed at school and needed to be quarantined at home, that would not be possible because it would endanger the parents (moreover they would be working).

So all these white ladies have the ability to sit with their kid in front of the ipad all day and complain about it (or at least some do), but none of them seem to understand or care what about the much more significant problems their southern neighbors are feeling.  I'm not saying that iPad burnout and hyperactivity aren't bad, but these can be alleviated somewhat with a babysitter, outside time, playing games with mom and dad, etc.  You don't solve a dead dad or insufficient food or homelessness with that.

It didn't take long for the focus to turn back to what (I mean who) really matters, right?

You guys sure are something.  I won't say what.[/quote]

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