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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn't it seem to you as if most non-parents (including teachers) expect parents to just suck it up and accept that schools can't open and that our children's educations is going to be lacking this year?

It blows my mind that the same people who rant against reopening schools because of safety ALSO rant against people hiring tutors because of privilege.

[b]What do they want parents to do?! This is not a rhetorical question, I really want to know the answer to this. [/b]Pretty much everyone agrees that distance learning in the spring was a disaster for most kids. It certainly wasn't great for my own kids. IF they learned anything (big if), it's because my husband and I took time out of our workdays to teach them.

I hired someone for $75/hr and made the mistake of mentioning this on an online parenting group that I'm in when a question was posted asking how people are planning to work and do online schooling at the same time. Most of these people have younger kids than I do [i]and [/i]they expect their daycare centers to be open. They also think public schools should be closed because "there's no way public schools can social distance." Such hypocrites.

We make decent money and we are good at saving. We should sacrifice our kids' educations because...why exactly? Because other people don't make as much money? What are you supposed to use your savings for if not in an emergency?

They think I should give up my job and home school my kids full time (which is what distance learning requires with them - full time supervision to make sure they are actually working and not goofing off) because I'm a woman?

I just want to know what the naysayers want us parents to do. Can't open schools because of Covid, even in states where cases are low (like ours in NY). But you also can't allow parents to hire private teachers because not everyone can do it? Why don't these people care about private schools then? WTF

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OP, are you a single mom? If not, you and your spouse have to make some changes. You have to downsize. One of you has to go part time. Something has to change. This is life. You have to adapt. If you don't think you should be the one to go part time, talk to you partner about it. Someone has to make a serious compromise to make this work. Sorry that it is happening this way, but it is. Just accept it and do what you have to do. Life isn't a perfect straight line to the top.[/quote]

No, this is BS! You know what happens in this situation, right? The woman, again, is expected to give up her career to care for her kids. For a temporary problem, she will give up a satisfying career?! No. This reeks of another way to keep women down and I'm so sick of it. [/quote]
Public K-12 teachers in the U.S. are 76% women. So the white male president and the white male governors refuse to take meaningful action to stop the exponential spread of COVID and you demand another group of women swoop in and sacrifice so YOU can go back to work. Got it. That isn't feminism. [/quote]

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