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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Absurd that people are still sending kids in to school in these conditions anyway. Serves them right. [/quote]

Yes, crazy want their children to go to school. Insane![/quote]

My 7th grader was in tears at the thought of having to go virtual last night. Virtual school is really tough on MS aged girls. This age is all about friends and socializing![/quote]

I agree, since I have a 6th grade girl, but I also think it's a messaging and financial issue that comes from the top and trickles down everywhere - I've told my children from the beginning that we need to protect the most vulnerable, and sometimes schools will have to close. We expected schools to close sooner, in fact. Public health response has never been great, because this country does not offer enough economic compensation for workplaces who close. In some European countries, governments pay businesses who need to close, and pay parents who need to stay home to look after kids who cannot go to school because they're in quarantine! It's obvious that in a country that has bungled its aid packages to small business (the chain stores got a lot of the money and a lot of small businesses got absolutely NOTHING), and parents aren't given much at all, and nothing for childcare, individuals would be resentful of closures that are actually necessary for public health. But since people here aren't used to government stepping in to help, they turn on each other, point fingers and argue about who should close first, when it shouldn't be this way. Europe has a long history of better social safety nets, and most European countries have helped their populations through these hard times by giving them compensation for lost business/employment income and childcare, so that people can see past their immediate need to accept restrictions and closures.

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