Reply to The prospect of kids not going back to school until 2021

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "The prospect of kids not going back to school until 2021"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a matter of three months, we as a society have become totally myopic when it comes to COVID. COVID now trumps all other issues, including education (permanent learning losses, especially for disadvantaged kids), the economy (devastated small businesses, hotels, airlines, mass layoffs, etc.); mental health (suicide, addiction); health other than COVID (skipped vaccinations, tests, well visits, operations), and happiness. This shift in mindset happened extremely quickly, and all of those who dared question it--stating the perhaps tradeoffs between health and these other issues might at least be considered--were shamed. Now, thousands of parents are realizing that their children are being permanently damaged by a lockdown of increasingly dubious value, and thankfully these parents are starting to slowly whisper "no, not this Fall." And you would think that these parents are monsters by the reactions of some of the truly virtuous woke posters on this board. I truly hope for the future of our society that we as parents start to find our voice and demand that our children receive a quality, in-person education this fall. And for the teacher's unions, County officials, Principals, and various others who will aggressively push back by citing the risks, let us remind them that, yes, in fact, they work for us, the taxpayers, and we demand that they do their jobs and figure it out. Of course there are risks. There are *always* risks. What we do know is that we now have a functioning contact tracing infrastructure, plenty of tests, plenty of PPE, and *six months* of time from March to September to figure this out. MoCo simply must figure out an in-person schooling approach; if they punt and go to another semester of Zoom wasted time, I can think of another organization that should be defunded.[/quote]

Another honest question: who do you mean by "we as a society"? [b]Because this is happening on the entire planet[/b].[/quote]

No, it's not. Some countries dealt with it competently. Unfortunately, our country did not.[/quote]

Ok, which is it? [b]Did the US focus exclusively on COVID with an air-right lockdown and contact tracing[/b], or did the US not focus enough on COVID and that’s why it’s getting out of hand? I can’t keep track of everyone’s complaints except they all seem to think it’s better elsewhere. But I would challenge anyone to find a place in the world where everything is normal.[/quote]

Who on earth is saying that? Nobody. Air-tight lockdown, ha. Contact tracing, triple ha.[/quote]

Poster at the top here said COVID now trumps all other issues in the US, that we have “lockdown of increasingly dubious value,” i.e. that we’ve done too much. Then a poster said we did not deal with it competently, i.e. that we’ve done too little. Nobody seems to agree on what we’ve done wrong but they all think other countries all did it better.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics