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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not going to say our schools name here because it’s a Title 1 school and outing it does more harm than good. But it’s got fewer than 40 students in person in grades PK-5. And I think some of those are technically CARES students. But the vast majority of students have never even been offered a CARES spot.

I get tired of the “it’s a pandemic” explanation because it only gets applied to school closures.

It’s a pandemic, but I still have to work for a living in order to pay my bills.

It’s a pandemic, but that doesn’t magically mean there are daycare slots available for kids who can’t go to school, or that I can magically afford a nanny.

It’s a pandemic, but that doesn’t mean people can’t go eat indoors at restaurants, fly on airplanes, go to sporting events, etc.

The pandemic explanation only applies to schools. The “suck it up” attitude only applies to working parents who rely on schools for childcare (and especially working moms). I can’t complain about the fact that I’ve had to scale back at work to care for my 4 yr old, while languishing on waitlists for four different daycares, because “it’s a pandemic!” But my childless neighbors have traveled all over the country, eat out at restaurants three days a week, and gather with friends whenever they want, even before they were vaccinated.

Apparently it’s more like a mom-demic or, at best, a parent-demic. We are expected to make our sacrifice and shut up about it, but no one else has to.[/quote]

The wining from adults is just extraordinary. [/quote]

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