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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s a poignant article about what happens with remote learning. Everyone should read it.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-students-left-behind-by-remote-learning
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Meanwhile doctors are quitting. We need to give on something or the spread will gut the medical profession. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/health/Covid-doctors-nurses-quitting.html[/quote]

Don’t people get it?? Covid isn’t being transmitted in school. I know teachers are freaked out, but all the protocols work. Masks. Spacing. Controlled lines. Desks apart. Special dismissals. Etc.

People need to check their anxiety because it is absolutely the reason children are not getting educated. And these aren’t affluent kids whose mom or dad can tutor them or help them. They’re children living in poverty. It’s unbelievable that we are letting this happen. [/quote]
There are 2,306 people who have gotten sick in NYC schools in the six weeks we’ve been open. Not sure why you think no one is getting sick in the schools. If masks work, then why do people insist they only work in schools but no other places? How can you say indoor dining is treacherous but the two meals a day my students eat unmasked in our classroom is fine? It’s such ridiculous moralizing of something that has no morals. The virus doesn’t care if you’re a restaurant, a school, a bar, a supermarket, or a gym. Spread is caused by distance plus time. Kids have people in close proximity for seven hours a day. Of course transmission occurs. People do not need to “check their anxiety” in a city that has lost 24k people to COVID. We respect the limitations of positive thinking. [/quote]

Be kind to the trolls.

Conservatives and the DeVos crowd see their influence is melting away and this is likely their last chance to destroy public schools and break up teacher unions before the country shakes off minoritarian rule and our center-left majority asserts itself.

DeVos and her greedy friends are pushing like crazy to force schools open and there are trolls everywhere on Twitter; this could be one of them.
Even if PP actually believes it, they may be hearing the conservative hate-for-profit machine demonizing parents/teachers/schools and playing down the virus.  (Also effective trolls always lie about being liberals.)

Just stick to your principles.  Let them yell.  We’re going to fix the schools and the country.  Let’s just ride this winter out— and make sure the criminals in the Trump administration who did this to us face consequences.[/quote]

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