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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get all the people screeching hysterically that kids have to be in school.  It is like the virus hasn't affected their lungs but their brains instead.  Until 70-90 years ago large school settings wasn't even the norm.  Think about that...for over 2,000 years most people learned in small groups at home.  These are the same groups of people who built pyramids, built elaborate cathedrals, built ships used to cross oceans, explored and mapped newly discovered continents, built airplanes and developed penicillin.  History is not bunk.

The most significant difference in households from 70-90 years ago is that many middle class households have 2 parents who work and there are a lot more single parents.  It's those two groups who you hear screaming, the people who need childcare.  I'm sympathetic because both of us work, too, but I think we've been able to satisfy our needs so that it isn't an issue.  Logic and common sense will always prevail over hysterical running about like chickens with your heads cut off.

In the meantime it is important to watch the science.  We are in the early stages of discovery about the virus, the way it mutates, and its long-term consequences on the health of children and young people who are carriers or become ill with the virus.  It behooves us as a society to take our time and get this right.  The long-term health consequences for kids, as yet undetermined, far outweigh the need for children to be in school.[/quote]

It’s different now because previously only the elite could get an education. The other people did unskilled labor.[/quote]

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