Posted on 09/03/2020 1:37:48 PM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
If there is one good thing to come out of Covid it is education.
Or lack of it. People's eyes are opening. Even the generations after mine.
First, everyone can see that anyone under thirty is a dingbat.
Everyone over 30!
second, that is a very low bar.
Third, Every parent has noticed that their kids are not learning but also they haven't been! Anything
The kids are zombies. No really..........
Myocarditis
Suburban parents realize they are high paying property taxes for NO school, union rage, and crappy on-line learning.
There are so many on-line and local homeschool options, its a simple next-step to leave government schools entirely.
I say it’s people are discovering who is essential and who isn’t.
We don’t need actors and athletes. We do need truckers and workers to keep the shelves full.
For a long time I’ve believed this is one unintended consequence of the RAT’s Covid hoax and shutdown. They aren’t going to be happy to lose all those revenue-generating little butts in schoolroom chairs.
The kids today did not grow up after World War II or even Vietnam. Peace has a price, and in this case it is complacence.
Fantastic reply.
I am hoping people will learn one important lesson from this.
Being a Governor or a Mayor IS actually a pretty important job. You need to pay attention to who you are voting for, and their character.
We’re basically stuck with Wolf here in PA because people were having a hissy fit about his RINO predecessor slapping us with a fifty cent per gallon gas tax.
Wacky Dems get elected as Mayors because the GOP does not even bother to field candidates. So the 20,000 most insane activists always choose the Mayor in the Dem Primary.
Other lesson is that we need to set constitutional limits on emergency powers at the state level. We learned much to our chagrin that they did not exist, because prior generations never conceived that anybody would push the envelope to this level.
i hope people i don’t know will stay 6 ft away from me at a store/restaurant forever. Movie theatre, too.
I first read this a few months ago, and it makes so much sense about how history and societies work:
Hard Times make Good Men
Good Men make Good Times
Good Times make Weak Men
Weak Men make Hard Times
......and the cycle keeps repeating. You can tell where we are, now.
Funny
“First, everyone can see that anyone under thirty is a dingbat.”
The dingbats are typically the older people who wear masks everywhere and support the destruction of their country.
I stopped watching movies at the theater decades ago. Never did enjoy sports, of any kind. Time with family is formost priority. Working hard, hunting and fishing are much more satisfying.
Are we in Good Times make Weak Men?
I think the rest of us are catching up with you, LOL.
I say it’s Weak Men make Hard Times, President Trump notwithstanding.
But I think we are certainly headed for some rough times. And out of it, new leaders will emerge, but it’s not going to be fun.
Teachers used to be basically respected as well.
Now, when the going gets tough and as long as they are getting paid, they are using every excuse in the book not to go back to work. While I largely blame the unions, the rank and file are exactly fighting back. Kids come a distant second.
Thank God the doctors, nurses, police, firefighters, grocery store workers and all essential workers who worked through the worst of COVID weren’t in the teacher’s union!
Teachers should be essential, but I guess it is easier sitting at home. They are all in the ‘rubber room’.
Now people become teachers for the same reason become journalists, “To Change the World”
Most of my kids are under thirty. None of them has drunk this kool aid. So not not everyone under 30
Nice. 1 other Good thing about this is I made a small fortune in the last downturn hope to repeat with this one.
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