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Anonymous wrote:I'm fixated because private school and Catholic school kids have been in school ALL YEAR in DC and elsewhere. There's no reason, other than politics, for public schools to be closed and private schools to be opened.

I'm also fixated because I can cite you name after name of public health experts, doctors, educators, who all say we need to reopen schools and prioritize schools. Yet contrary to the grandiose claims to "believe science," parents and politicians in DC are now completely ignoring all of this science.

And finally I'm fixated on the incredibly hypocrisy of progressives in DC pretending to care about black kids and marginalized people, all the while refusing to engage with the actual facts in front of their eyes: rich white kids in DC are being educated; poor black kids are not.

What about poor white kids? What about rich black kids, or spanish kids, rich and poor? Etc.

My kids are "poor white" and doing well with DL. Statements like yours, PP, are pure evil. You are using disadvantaged kids to try to win your argument and get your way. Nasty person, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:because my ES kids are basically treading water as far as learning new material. That means we either turn family time into supplement time or just accept it. Meanwhile their friends in catholic school are back full time and moving at a normal pace. It infuriates me that an adequate education is now wholly dependent on the ability to pay

Well, this is the reality of many involved parents who consider themselves an equal partner with the school system and sit and go over the day's lesson with their children and supplement. Education also needs to happen at home. Else, you will be raising brain-dead losers like Trump, Rudy and Proud Boys.

Anonymous wrote:I'm fixated because private school and Catholic school kids have been in school ALL YEAR in DC and elsewhere. There's no reason, other than politics, for public schools to be closed and private schools to be opened.

I'm also fixated because I can cite you name after name of public health experts, doctors, educators, who all say we need to reopen schools and prioritize schools. Yet contrary to the grandiose claims to "believe science," parents and politicians in DC are now completely ignoring all of this science.

And finally I'm fixated on the incredibly hypocrisy of progressives in DC pretending to care about black kids and marginalized people, all the while refusing to engage with the actual facts in front of their eyes: rich white kids in DC are being educated; poor black kids are not.

Anonymous wrote:Because it's easier to tilt at windmills than it is to deal with the very scary reality that we are living during a pandemic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:because my ES kids are basically treading water as far as learning new material. That means we either turn family time into supplement time or just accept it. Meanwhile their friends in catholic school are back full time and moving at a normal pace. It infuriates me that an adequate education is now wholly dependent on the ability to pay

Well, this is the reality of many involved parents who consider themselves an equal partner with the school system and sit and go over the day's lesson with their children and supplement. Education also needs to happen at home. Else, you will be raising brain-dead losers like Trump, Rudy and Proud Boys.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:because my ES kids are basically treading water as far as learning new material. That means we either turn family time into supplement time or just accept it. Meanwhile their friends in catholic school are back full time and moving at a normal pace. It infuriates me that an adequate education is now wholly dependent on the ability to pay

Well, this is the reality of many involved parents who consider themselves an equal partner with the school system and sit and go over the day's lesson with their children and supplement. Education also needs to happen at home. Else, you will be raising brain-dead losers like Trump, Rudy and Proud Boys.

Anonymous wrote:Because it's easier to tilt at windmills than it is to deal with the very scary reality that we are living during a pandemic.

Anonymous wrote:because my ES kids are basically treading water as far as learning new material. That means we either turn family time into supplement time or just accept it. Meanwhile their friends in catholic school are back full time and moving at a normal pace. It infuriates me that an adequate education is now wholly dependent on the ability to pay

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are depressed. They are learning very little, one has regressed so much academically he's now several grade levels behind.

There was a British study about what teachers saw when schools reopened. Huge academic regression, children forgetting their numbers and letters, forgetting how to read. Huge social and emotional regression, mental health problems and lack of physical conditioning.

OP, your fears about the pandemic are less important than our future generations. Look outside of yourself.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-pandemic-kid-regression/

Dumb and inaccurate. Kids are going to respond according to how their parents handle this. Many parents just cannot- it's not the kids. Teach resiliency during a crisis not panic.

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much every school that "opened up" to in-person had to shut down again. Why? Because the majority of the U.S. Population doesn't understand the difference between High School math (bell curves) and the science of Coronavirus propagation. Folks, there is no "curve".

As long as you have one infected person, and a large number of uninfected people; that one person will infect the others. The cycle just restarts over and over again. This is what happened in Europe and in the U.S. Go research it yourselves. Play the game called "Plague" and maybe the math and science will make more sense. It's a math thing. The virus doesn't care about public opinions or politics. The science of transmission doesn't change from testing or wishful thinking.

The only way to totally stop this cycle is either to fully immunize the population (fewer deaths) or achieve "herd immunity" by infecting the entire population (which is bad news for anyone over 60 or with health conditions - sorry but you're written off as collateral damage).

This doesn't even include the human factor that teachers will become the new "front line" of Covid. You're asking them, without medical training, to become a "super-spreader defensive line"? If even one kid sniffles or coughs, what then? How many parents and their families will you infect? What if they live with family or have close contact with people with medical conditions or elderly? What if the child has a medical condition himself/herself? Are they all expendable?

I can understand if a kids home is already infected (e.g. parents that didn't understand the impact early in the pandemic), or if the kid is developing mental health issues from the isolation - but some parents were just complaining they didn't have daycare. For those parents, I do empathize that you do need some sort of help or solution - and maybe the school can assist in some way; but to force your will on other parents and other families is going too far. Find a solution for your own children, but not by creating issues for others.

To all those parents pushing to re-open, work with the schools to find a solution to your issues, but leave the rest who want to save lives alone.

Anonymous wrote:My kids are depressed. They are learning very little, one has regressed so much academically he's now several grade levels behind.

There was a British study about what teachers saw when schools reopened. Huge academic regression, children forgetting their numbers and letters, forgetting how to read. Huge social and emotional regression, mental health problems and lack of physical conditioning.

OP, your fears about the pandemic are less important than our future generations. Look outside of yourself.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-pandemic-kid-regression/