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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is ridiculous. Is it really unsafe to go forward with the voting while schools in session? 
-teacher [/quote]

This reminds me so much of people trying to come up with alternative solutions during COVID and just being told that nothing was possible, there are no solutions other than schools remaining closed.

At my kids’ school (elementary), voting is done in the cafeteria in the front of the school and voters use the main front entrance. There is no real reason why they couldn’t use the gym toward the rear of the school, which has its own entrance/exit (an emergency exit, so would have to be disabled but I know this is possible as events are sometimes set up in the gym and can be loaded directly from the blacktop outside). Close the doors from the gym to the school hallway. People come in to the gym directly from school grounds and leave out the same door. Cancel PE classes for that one day, or have them meet outside, weather permitting, or have them do health activities in the classroom. Kids can still eat in the cafeteria which I know is important as we have about a 20% FARMS rate. An elections official can monitor the entrance and exit, and elections officials could use dividers and signs to point the way as it will be different than usual.

There are solutions - they just don’t want to do the work to do them because it’s far easier to close the schools. With most people voting early these days, turnout at these special elections is quite low anyway. I checked and for the 2025 general election - obviously a much larger election than the one coming up in April - we had less than 1000 votes cast on Election Day. The ballot measure will probably have half that. [/quote]

This!!  Thank you!!  Yes, there are solutions!  But for some reason, nobody wants them!!  We as Americans cannot adapt; we cannot accept any *risk*; we cannot evolve and find solutions.  The problem of our era is the mindset that we cannot deal with a change or interruption except to just shut down. Do we really expect everything in life to be planned perfectly a year in advance? We cannot deal with adversity?  We cannot handle any perturbation?  Are we that weak?  As a society, this is crippling. Our youth (without a voice) are paying the price with their education, our parents (heavily mothers) are paying the price of a chaotic schedule.  We are setting an absurd example that any ripple in the water should be met with shutting down.  How does this serve our kids??[/quote]

If you teach your children otherwise, it serves your kids really well. Because they will be competing against people who cannot cope in the real world.[/quote]

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