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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah yes, another “I was ok with experimenting on teachers” thread.  Yes, the closures affected learning.  That’s because we had a pandemic that killed millions of people.  If you were advocating putting teachers back into the classroom prior to widespread vaccine availability and peak deaths (Jan 2021 in Virginia), I consider you absolute scum.[/quote]

If you are ok with destroying children [b]for political reasons[/b], I consider you absolute scum.[/quote]

The schools were trying to protect lives, not play politics. Sit TF down. [/quote]

:lol: You actually believe that? You'll fall for anything apparently.[/quote]

What “politics” do you think school systems were playing? [/quote]

My kids were for sure pawns in the Trump battle.  A broken clock is right two times a day and it was right to have the kids in school starting in fall 2020.  [/quote]

This. A lot of people decided the way to suck it to Trump and the Magas was to simply take the opposite position from what Trump or Magas said. So if Trump said schools should reopen, or red states reopened schools, a lot of mindless liberals were like "we will keep our children home forever! only when it's safe!" Which is actually much more extreme position than the reopenings you saw in red states. Some of which were poorly handled and not done in keeping with public health guidelines -- I didn't want that either.

But there was a group of people who were like "hey what if we prioritize kids and education, but do so in the safest possible way with masking and measures used in other countries, like schedules with more built in outdoor time throughout the day (studies show that chances of spreading Covid go way down if you don't sit in the same place to long), hybrid or abbreviated schedules (perhaps two days in the classroom a week, or morning class only, to reduce exposure), mandatory testing. Many of these are things that were ultimately adopted by schools when they finally reopened.

But there was this vocal group who decided that the response to Trump and Magas had to be the opposite, even if it made no sense. Even if it was worse than some kind of compromise choice that might actually have acknowledged that hey, kids should probably be in school,, or hey, a lot of middle and working class families don't have the resources to just educate their kids at home for a year and a half. If you said these things, you were a Maga, probably also racist. It was a crazy time.

Yes, kids were pawns in a political game. No question about it.[/quote]

I didn’t see any of that AT ALL. There were people working to make a safe environment and then there were people who said F it.

Trump made it political at the national level, but schools weren’t virtual out of spite. So ridiculous. 
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DP. Where do you live? I'm not saying that schools were virtual out of spite, but keeping kids out of schools became the "virtuous" position for the left. Virtue was keeping schools closed to minimize the spread of COVID AND refusing to consider and plan for the consequences of that strategy for far too long.

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Northern VA. With friends up and down the east coast and many on the west coast. Maybe the spiteful schools were on the Midwest?

Here, we had people who wanted kids to SAFELY go back in the buildings asap vs people who didn’t GAF and the vast majority of those people were totally clueless about the schools/education and irrational about the whole situation.

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DP. Oh miss me with the “safely” nonsense. This was always a distraction technique. [/quote]

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