Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Studies show it is about 1) politics (bluer voters means more likely to stay closed, but NYC and others can make an exception) and 2) power of the teacher’s unions.

In FCPS’s specific case the school board being utter novices has to be a factor.

How do you figure that blue states being cautious is politics and red states is not?

Also, how do you figure the problem is unions when FCPS is closed and NYC is open?

NYC has surveillance testing and a VERY SMALL percentage of its students back. Nothing like what FCPS and APS and the like are attempting WITHOUT TESTING.

Anonymous wrote:In Dallas they are fully open and they're at 20%+ positivity. We're not in to actively killing people to prove how 'Murican we are.

Right. All of my friends in other states where schools buildings opened either have bad infection numbers in school or had to shut back down. I don’t call that “working”. Yikes!

Anonymous wrote:Can you name one of these mythical states where things opened up and community spread didn’t get out of control? It would be easier to sort out why this this is happening with a specific example, but no one ever gives one.

I am from NY and have friends in NY, NJ and CT and all have kids in school.

I am from Long Island and kids have been going back 5 days per week.

Chicago hasn’t figured it out yet: https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2021/1/24/22247280/chicago-teachers-union-votes-in-person-work-defy-chicago-public-schools-reopening-plan-strike

Anonymous wrote:

And FCPS can’t. Is it the teachers?

It is just so upsetting that we are last to open and it isn’t just hybrid, it will be concurrent.

Why don't you just move to one of those states?

Same reason they don’t go private
Or homeschool

They can do any of these things. They don’t want solutions or other options. They want to stew in misery and victim hood like they’re the only people who have been affected by any of this.

And FCPS can’t. Is it the teachers?

It is just so upsetting that we are last to open and it isn’t just hybrid, it will be concurrent.

Why don't you just move to one of those states?

In Dallas they are fully open and they're at 20%+ positivity. We're not in to actively killing people to prove how 'Murican we are.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Studies show it is about 1) politics (bluer voters means more likely to stay closed, but NYC and others can make an exception) and 2) power of the teacher’s unions.

In FCPS’s specific case the school board being utter novices has to be a factor.

How do you figure that blue states being cautious is politics and red states is not?

Also, how do you figure the problem is unions when FCPS is closed and NYC is open?

Most won’t understand your post. There are unions in NY. There are not any in VA.

That’s her point. If unions are to blame for school closures, New York would be closed since they are unionized and we would be open since we are not. We understood her just fine.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Studies show it is about 1) politics (bluer voters means more likely to stay closed, but NYC and others can make an exception) and 2) power of the teacher’s unions.

In FCPS’s specific case the school board being utter novices has to be a factor.

How do you figure that blue states being cautious is politics and red states is not?

Also, how do you figure the problem is unions when FCPS is closed and NYC is open?

Most won’t understand your post. There are unions in NY. There are not any in VA.

Anonymous wrote:Studies show it is about 1) politics (bluer voters means more likely to stay closed, but NYC and others can make an exception) and 2) power of the teacher’s unions.

In FCPS’s specific case the school board being utter novices has to be a factor.

How do you figure that blue states being cautious is politics and red states is not?

Also, how do you figure the problem is unions when FCPS is closed and NYC is open?

They didn’t make it work. They accepted schools rotating constantly in and out of remote and in person, staff and students constantly quarantining, increased viral spread. Teachers have died, oh well. If you’re interesting, rent a house in Tennessee for 2nd semester and enroll your kids.

I think in FCPS it’s also poor leadership, on top of being a gargantuan school system. Braband is buffeted by the winds, as evidenced by his midnight closure last spring because he got yelled at on Twitter. Schools should have opened for hybrid in the fall when numbers were low, and gone DL when they increased over the winter. Instead they’re trying for the opposite.

Can you name one of these mythical states where things opened up and community spread didn’t get out of control? It would be easier to sort out why this this is happening with a specific example, but no one ever gives one.

Studies show it is about 1) politics (bluer voters means more likely to stay closed, but NYC and others can make an exception) and 2) power of the teacher’s unions.

In FCPS’s specific case the school board being utter novices has to be a factor.

And FCPS can’t. Is it the teachers?

It is just so upsetting that we are last to open and it isn’t just hybrid, it will be concurrent.