Reply to So realistically, when do you think somewhat normal full time f2f education will resume?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "So realistically, when do you think somewhat normal full time f2f education will resume?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m thinking Spring 2022 will be the earliest if the county/teachers want a vaccine to go back to school.  If a vaccine is out in early 2021, the manufacturing process and distribution to the community will be a full year to implement.  With the way things are landing with the state and county decisions and teachers not being considered essential front line employees, people should start adapting to this new norm for the next 18 to 24 months which means finding childcare, cutting discretionary costs like Netflix, cell phone plans for the family (only having a family cell phone or land line), changing car insurance levels, looking at cheaper housing, accepting that you will be your child’s Interim teacher, guidance counselor Etc.  For single household families, working to build a network of support of “it takes a village” will be key even if that means reaching out to other single families to create a cohort of support for each other and pooling shared resources etc.

Assuming that things are going to go back to normal anytime soon instead planning for this new normal will be a detriment to many families.[/quote]

100% agree.  Adjust both your expectations and your logistics now.[/quote]

Wow. Your privilege is showing. You clearly have no idea how hard this has been and will continually be for single parents, esol students, immigrants, low income families etc...

My prediction is that once school starts back we are going to see news stories of kids dying Or being seriously hurt from being left Home alone when Their parents had to make the difficult choice to go to work to be able to afford food or stay hike with their kids and starve.
The fact that you think these families are worried about their Netflix accounts and insurance levels is laughable. People who are already struggling don't have those things to cut back on. Try to look beyond yourself and realize that school closures are causing much more than an "inconvenience". [/quote]

This is the norm.  We can keep talking about privileged and the unprivileged.  The reality is the virus doesn’t care.  People are expecting to get back to the way things use to be but that’s not going to happen.  Living in this delusional realm that things will go back to normal will hurt more people.  Folks need to adapt.  What folks don’t want to hear is that this virus will cause a larger division between the haves versus the have nots.  Social programs are not going to be able to lessen the gap as revenue for these programs (ie taxes etc) will be taking a huge hit as the economy slides into a Great Depression error.  Folks need to start arranging for their own support systems if they want to try to survive this without relying on social programs and yes that means numerous sacrifices that people don’t want to accept.   This is our Great Depression era and people need to start to face this head on a figure out how they can make it work for their families.  [/quote]

Ok so basically you don't care how it effects the less fortunate because you are able to prepare and cancel your Netflix account. Got it.

You clearly have no idea how people less privileged than you live.[/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