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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, these are extreme stories.  There are kids who thrived in distance learning (their parents have posted on here) who are also at the other extreme.  Most kids fall somewhere in between.

I get that parents are upset.  For fricks sake, we've been through two years of a pandemic.  It has sucked.

But the irrational anger has to stop because IT HELPS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.  In fact, it hurts forward progress.  You all want apologies and blood (SOMEONE MUST PAY!!! I WILL NEVER FORGET!!!) and that doesn't do our kids one dang bit of good.

What you need to be putting your energy into is lobbying for the remediation we all know needs to start happening ASAP.  The whining and tearing out your hair and looking for scapegoats is a WASTE OF FRICKIN TIME.

We need to be lobbying at the state and county levels for summer programs to help kids catch up or whatever other ideas people might have.   It will cost money but the kids need the help.  We should be trying to work with school boards and teachers to make remediation happen.  IF you keep screaming at the sky and stamping your feet you aren't helping your kids.

And think carefully about who you vote for for the school boards.  Knee-jerk voting for GOP RWNJs who are using the angry parent thing and cries of "parent's rights" to push their scary agendas will NOT help all our kids move forward.  They don't want to fund anything for schools, no matter what they say.  We may need new blood, but we need to think about who that could be.  [/quote]

I disagree. People should be angry about what happened to their kids. And usually when it’s your kid who was harmed, the anger is irrational. So I don’t even care if it’s irrational. If the anger goes away and people like some of the PPs rewrite history, we risk this happening again.[/quote]

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