Anonymous wrote:This is written from a San Francisco/Oakland viewpoint (the author lives in the Bay Area), but a lot of it applies to DCPS. The author, a self-described "progressive" who has marched in picket lines with public-school teachers, takes teachers' unions to task for their stance about school reopenings during the pandemic.

"I have never felt so alienated from the people I usually align myself with politically. I will never understand how the left in this country has decided that advocating for putting kids first is somehow right-wing," she writes.

https://rmbodenheimer.medium.com/a-progressive-parents-rant-about-the-politics-surrounding-school-reopening-a816cae963fd

Empty words until the author and fellow "progressives" follow-up with actions and with voting.

Anonymous wrote:The luxury of being able to "vote red" everything else be damned, including the rollback of voting rights...must be a great place.

The luxury of not caring that your kids are getting no education or supervision or enrichment or social interaction for 2 years is the real issue. Most of us don’t have it.

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Anonymous wrote:I could have written this. And if VA goes red in November, which I’m starting to suspect it might, it will be because of exactly what she says.

Telling me I need to choose between party lotyalty and my child is a mistake.

This x 1000. Voting in the best interests of my child, thanks. I’m not some mindless robot.

Just remember that the Trump administration and the GOP so shamelessly botched the early response to this pandemic. From the beginning, they gave short shrift to all working families and parents.

You can advocate for your child and your community at the same time, but the GOP is always going to screw you over.

Don't worry. Anyone who seriously says they are voting red in November never did anything but. Youngkin is a nut. I can see people looking more closely at primaries in School Board races and no longer voting just party line though. And that can make sense.

I guess this post did not age well.

LOL yep. And let’s see what happens next year!

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Anonymous wrote:I could have written this. And if VA goes red in November, which I’m starting to suspect it might, it will be because of exactly what she says.

Telling me I need to choose between party lotyalty and my child is a mistake.

This x 1000. Voting in the best interests of my child, thanks. I’m not some mindless robot.

Just remember that the Trump administration and the GOP so shamelessly botched the early response to this pandemic. From the beginning, they gave short shrift to all working families and parents.

You can advocate for your child and your community at the same time, but the GOP is always going to screw you over.

Don't worry. Anyone who seriously says they are voting red in November never did anything but. Youngkin is a nut. I can see people looking more closely at primaries in School Board races and no longer voting just party line though. And that can make sense.

I guess this post did not age well.

The luxury of being able to "vote red" everything else be damned, including the rollback of voting rights...must be a great place.

Anonymous wrote:I could have written this. And if VA goes red in November, which I’m starting to suspect it might, it will be because of exactly what she says.

Telling me I need to choose between party lotyalty and my child is a mistake.

Yep. This goes for CRT is schools as well. Just ask Terry McAuliffe.

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Anonymous wrote:I could have written this. And if VA goes red in November, which I’m starting to suspect it might, it will be because of exactly what she says.

Telling me I need to choose between party lotyalty and my child is a mistake.

This x 1000. Voting in the best interests of my child, thanks. I’m not some mindless robot.

Just remember that the Trump administration and the GOP so shamelessly botched the early response to this pandemic. From the beginning, they gave short shrift to all working families and parents.

You can advocate for your child and your community at the same time, but the GOP is always going to screw you over.

Don't worry. Anyone who seriously says they are voting red in November never did anything but. Youngkin is a nut. I can see people looking more closely at primaries in School Board races and no longer voting just party line though. And that can make sense.

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Anonymous wrote:I could have written this. And if VA goes red in November, which I’m starting to suspect it might, it will be because of exactly what she says.

Telling me I need to choose between party lotyalty and my child is a mistake.

This x 1000. Voting in the best interests of my child, thanks. I’m not some mindless robot.

Just remember that the Trump administration and the GOP so shamelessly botched the early response to this pandemic. From the beginning, they gave short shrift to all working families and parents.

You can advocate for your child and your community at the same time, but the GOP is always going to screw you over.

Easy solution:

Everyone goes back to work and to school. All teachers must be vaccinated. No exceptions. All parents of students at the schools must be vaccinated- no exceptions. All persons in any home of any student at the school who are 12 and older must be vaccinated- no exceptions. All persons in contact with any student on a regular basis - coaches, friends, grandparents, must be vaccinated- no exceptions. Parents sign agreements confirming all this.

If any child at the school thereafter contracts covid, and any teacher, administrator or other employee thereafter contracts covid, then the family of the child agrees to: 1. Pay the affected teacher their salary, all costs and expenses associated with the illness, of every type and nature, until the teacher fully recovers. If the teacher suffers any long term continuing effects - the family will continue to pay, and one parent of the affected child agrees to provide personally all needed services for the teacher and his/her family until full recovery is achieved. In the rare event, the teacher were to die from covid and/or related causes - then the family agrees to pay say $5,000,000 to the teacher’s estate, and one parent agrees to also be executed. Death of the teacher = death of the parent whose kid caused the teacher to die.

Seems fair.