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    The government knows very little about what’s good for me and mine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tapate50 View Post
    The government knows very little about what’s good for me and mine.
    You're not a leftist, and can thus critically think

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Leftists will do whatever the government tells them to do.
    yeah

    thus why we all know only republicans are in prison
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    Can anyone on this board give a reasonable, rational explanation for this that is in favor of children's ability to get back to school?


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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Can anyone on this board give a reasonable, rational explanation for this that is in favor of children's ability to get back to school?

    They are still collecting pay. Cut that off and let them try another job.
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    https://reason.com/2021/03/23/teache...-influence-it/

    They got their vaccines, they got their $200 billion federal stimulus, they got $122 billion of that stimulus fast-tracked, plus an additional $12 billion out the door for coronavirus testing, but now the teachers unions that have been the single biggest obstacle to reopening K-12 classrooms in Democrat-run cities and states have come up with yet another reason to stay home from school: They do not much care for the dominant global scientific view that 3 feet is enough distance between students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    "We are not convinced that the evidence supports changing physical distancing requirements at this time," American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten declared in a letter Tuesday to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, in response to the CDC last Friday revising its school-distancing guidelines from 6 feet to 3.

    Among the institutions that do not share Weingarten's lack of conviction: The American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Walensky herself (prior to joining the Biden administration), most of the 50 states, the vast majority of school districts in the industrialized world, plus one of the research teams whose work the CDC had erroneously sourced when formulating guidance for the agency's controversial February 12 recommendation to keep the 6-foot rule intact. Opined those latter scientists at the time: "No science supports mandating 6 feet of distance with children wearing masks. A 6-foot distance between students creates space constraints for schools to open in entirety. There is data supporting at least 3-foot distancing."

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    Is there a more insufferable and lazy group of people in this country?

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    Weingarten saves the most brazen bit of her letter for last. Even after dragging their feet on reopening, leveraging parental anger into gobs of federal cash (don't forget the extra $69 billion from 2020 COVID relief bills), all while bewildered families leave the public school system in droves, teachers unions still have the stones to plead a lack of resources:

    “What is the expected timeline for implementation of these changes? Many school systems are just returning to in-person instruction right now, after significant planning—for bus routes, staggered schedules, etc.—based on 6 feet of physical distancing. Even with the significant investment of American Rescue Plan money, districts lack the human resources and institutional planning ability to make changes like this quickly. Is this something that can be implemented in the fall, or perhaps the summer?”

    If public school districts in the United States lack the human resources and planning ability to do what their private school counterparts have long managed, then maybe it's time to recognize that those monopoly systems no longer deserve automatic taxpayer funding.

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    We really need direction on what school will look like next year when making the decision to enroll. Which means they need to be rolling an idea of that around now...and nothing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tapate50 View Post
    We really need direction on what school will look like next year when making the decision to enroll. Which means they need to be rolling an idea of that around now...and nothing.
    If you are relying on public schools, you are setting your child up for failure

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    If you are relying on public schools, you are setting your child up for failure
    Our neighborhood school is quite above average for elementary. It was the main reason we moved to this neighborhood. We enjoyed our first years there.

    They get to take some really good trips as accelerated students and learn off campus once a week.

    BUT- last year we couldn't home school them virtually unless my wife or I basically took a year off so we went private. Its been fine. Kids have really done well adjusting to that and the mask and all.
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    which underlines the fact all public schools are not equal
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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    If you are relying on public schools, you are setting your child up for failure
    which would lead others to assume you had a bad experience.

    you giving advise on schools is like me giving advise on French cooking

    go to a library
    or some other such socialist gathering place
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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    which would lead others to assume you had a bad experience.

    you giving advise on schools is like me giving advise on French cooking

    go to a library
    or some other such socialist gathering place
    Lol

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    Many kids right now are denied education for going on two years because they are relying on public schools.

    Leaving your child's future up to the whims of lazy teacher unions is a poor parenting choice

    Not to mention the complete and utter failure of the education itself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    which underlines the fact all public schools are not equal
    What fool would assume this nonsense?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Many kids right now are denied education for going on two years because they are relying on public schools.

    Leaving your child's future up to the whims of lazy teacher unions is a poor parenting choice

    Not to mention the complete and utter failure of the education itself.
    Micro schools.

    Those of us that actually work hard and contribute to society will stop contributing to a failed education system.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tapate50 View Post
    What fool would assume this nonsense?
    You moved to a certain neighborhood for " quite above average... " school
    Sheesh

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    You moved to a certain neighborhood for " quite above average... " school
    Sheesh
    Lol. Like you never did **** like that.

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    We raised our children in the forest.
    There were no schools

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