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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the democrats did closing schools was terrible and I'm basically an independent now because of it.[/quote]

Yup. My husband jokes the school debacle turned me -- the liberalist liberal who ever libbed -- Republican. That's not exactly true. But it's not exactly false either. [/quote]

This fascinates me, because I would argue that anyone who identifies as liberal would have identified the systemic issues that the pandemic revealed. If you take the TAL episode, Neah suffered in part because her mother did not have access to affordable childcare. What is the Republican plan to support working single moms, or to ensure that the have affordable high quality childcare?

The other story also reveals systemic issues. What is the Republican platform to protect renters? How would they have helped a child who needed to be out of school to support grandparents? 
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Not the PP.  Eh, there was a very obvious solution to the problems, and that solution was to reopen schools and keep them open.  Which is what the Republicans (and much of Europe) were doing.  You don't have to solve the bigger issues of lack of affordable child care (also closed during the early pandemic) if you just open the schools.

Indeed there are bigger issues, but aside from stop-gap measures, neither Rs nor Ds attempted to solve them in the early pandemic.

At this stage, I certainly don't think Ds give a crap about education, and I don't think they care about widening gaps in achievement by SES; they've shown as much for 2 years.  I don't necessarily think R's care either, mostly.  It hurts more that the Ds don't care, though; I never had expectations for the Rs.[/quote]

This is how I feel too. I’m also not the PP. [/quote]

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