Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:here is the problem - those who get angry about school closures won't support the strategies that we need to keep them open

Mask Mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc.

If you truly think this, you are going to be shocked at the results of upcoming elections.

Voters who are deep blue, vaccinated, boosted, not eating indoors, etc. are also very angry about school closings. You want to believe it's just Trump supporters. You could not be more wrong.

Angry? Yes.
Dumb enough to listen to GOP propaganda? No.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:here is the problem - those who get angry about school closures won't support the strategies that we need to keep them open

Mask Mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc.

If you truly think this, you are going to be shocked at the results of upcoming elections.

Voters who are deep blue, vaccinated, boosted, not eating indoors, etc. are also very angry about school closings. You want to believe it's just Trump supporters. You could not be more wrong.

Yup

Anonymous wrote:Fortunately it's not the only issue that most DC voters care about, as most DC voters don't have kids in the public school system. So you can go ahead and cry all you want, but your one-issue self-centered voting isn't going to make an iota of a difference.

Oh, and nobody "supports" school closings.

Good Christ, there’s a cohort of upper SES white Twitter moms that have a petition going to close DC schools. Of course there are people supporting school closings in DC.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I'm a single issue voter and mine is climate change.

Schools should close when a huge Covid wave crashs into our region, yes, that's a no-brainer. Same for businesses. It's to keep our hospitals from saturating, so it's worth it. We can haggle over details, but in the main, that's my feeling. I have 2 kids in public, 1 with special needs, but their needs aren't more important than keeping open beds in hospital.

This.

Every major medical association in the United States said schools should have stayed open because the benefits outweighed the risks. They said it was safe for schools to be open even before any vaccines were available. We ignored all the science and the best advice of experts and surrendered to demagoguery. Every doctor I know thinks it was ridiculous to close schools.

That wasn’t the case in fall 2020.

Anonymous wrote:here is the problem - those who get angry about school closures won't support the strategies that we need to keep them open

Mask Mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc.

At least in DC, this is patently false.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:here is the problem - those who get angry about school closures won't support the strategies that we need to keep them open

Mask Mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc.

+1,000

Come back to earth, sweetie. This is D.C. Everyone is vaxxed. Everyone wears masks. Everyone practices social distancing. And EVERYONE is pissed off about schools.

Yup.

Anonymous wrote:Fortunately it's not the only issue that most DC voters care about, as most DC voters don't have kids in the public school system. So you can go ahead and cry all you want, but your one-issue self-centered voting isn't going to make an iota of a difference.

Oh, and nobody "supports" school closings.

You are wrong on all counts.

Anonymous wrote:Fortunately it's not the only issue that most DC voters care about, as most DC voters don't have kids in the public school system. So you can go ahead and cry all you want, but your one-issue self-centered voting isn't going to make an iota of a difference.

Oh, and nobody "supports" school closings.

How is pp self-centered?

I don't have kids in DCPS, my youngest graduated from HS last spring (and was in private anyway, so school was open in hybrid form all of last year).

School closing is not the ONLY issue I care about as a DC voter, but it is still *A* issue I care about. Because I'm not self-centered and recognize the enormous negative impact of school shutdowns on children. Believe it or not, it is possible to care about issues even if they do not directly impact you. Just like how I'm past my child bearing years, but I still care about abortion access. I'm not gay, but I still care about marriage equality and equal rights protection for those who are. Shocking, I know.

(Actually, it does kinda impact me. On a societal level, we ALL feel the impacts of kids being kept out of school. An uneducated society is not a promising one.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:here is the problem - those who get angry about school closures won't support the strategies that we need to keep them open

Mask Mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc.

+1,000

Come back to earth, sweetie. This is D.C. Everyone is vaxxed. Everyone wears masks. Everyone practices social distancing. And EVERYONE is pissed off about schools.

Anonymous wrote:here is the problem - those who get angry about school closures won't support the strategies that we need to keep them open

Mask Mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc.

+1,000

Anonymous wrote:I will vote for whichever candidates hate the teachers union the most.

Grow up.

Anonymous wrote:here is the problem - those who get angry about school closures won't support the strategies that we need to keep them open

Mask Mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc.

If you truly think this, you are going to be shocked at the results of upcoming elections.

Voters who are deep blue, vaccinated, boosted, not eating indoors, etc. are also very angry about school closings. You want to believe it's just Trump supporters. You could not be more wrong.

My priority local issue is probably rising crime. My child is finished with DCPS, but I think there are serious arguments both for and against keeping schools open. No easy answers and I would lose a lot of respect for any local politician who pretended there was an obvious and simple right answer.

here is the problem - those who get angry about school closures won't support the strategies that we need to keep them open

Mask Mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I'm a single issue voter and mine is climate change.

Schools should close when a huge Covid wave crashs into our region, yes, that's a no-brainer. Same for businesses. It's to keep our hospitals from saturating, so it's worth it. We can haggle over details, but in the main, that's my feeling. I have 2 kids in public, 1 with special needs, but their needs aren't more important than keeping open beds in hospital.

This.

Every major medical association in the United States said schools should have stayed open because the benefits outweighed the risks. They said it was safe for schools to be open even before any vaccines were available. We ignored all the science and the best advice of experts and surrendered to demagoguery. Every doctor I know thinks it was ridiculous to close schools.