A progressive parent’s rant about the politics surrounding school reopening

Medium.com ^ | 2-13-21 | Rebecca Bodenheimer, PhD

[DeweyCA]

This article is written by a San Francisco Bay Democrat lady who was tearful because Elizabeth Warren didn't get the Democrat nomination. That is how leftist she is. She also is a PhD gal who is bitter because she couldn't get a tenured college teacher position. So if anyone is a stereotype of a raving leftist, she is. Yet she is talking about how some of her leftist friends are considering recalling Governor Newsom and even switching parties! They must really be angry. Maybe, just maybe, there may be enough of them who will want to join the Green Party of some other radical leftist party and thus weaken the Democrat party in CA.

[Dr. Sivana]

PhDs should have a vocabulary that is extensive enough to allow them to avoid dropping f-bombs in their discourse if they want to be taken seriously. I bet you don’t hear Dr. Jill Biden speaking like that!

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Organic Panic]

All the kids can get a job at a solar panel factory and learn to code.

[kenmcg]

Ha ha! Does she miss him yet?

[Da Coyote]

Does she have a real PhD or one in eddikashun, sociology, political “science”, studies?

[mikey_hates_everything]

Suck it, lady. You voted for this because Orange Man Bad, Russia! and he wasn’t doing enough, remember?

[Pollard]

insert Simpsons kid saying Haa haa.

[hanamizu]

“... It’s not only learning loss among public school kids (mostly in urban areas)...”

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And there’s the tell. Gotta get those ‘urban area’ kids back in school.

[PGR88]

All the kids can get a job at a solar panel factory and learn to code.

They’d first have to pass a drug test….

[srmanuel]

This shows you the absolute bankruptcy of the Republican Party.....

School reopening should be priority #1 and Republicans should be screaming about it, but what is Mitch McConnell doing ?? Denouncing Trump and being totally silent on this issue...

The Democrats have given the Republicans a gigantic political opening, School reopening and personal freedom combined with low taxes and a healthy business environment should be issues they could capitalize on, if they had anyone with balls and courage to stand up and fight....

Without the Trump influence the Republicans and totally worthless...

[Jim Noble]

“ How can we think it’s ok for urban districts with majority Brown and Black kids to abandon their duty to these kids for going on a year and possibly much longer”

If they were white kids, would it be OK?

[The people have spoken]

You can always tell when someone is a failed academic: They append Ph.D. to their name. Successful academics consider it in bad taste to announce one’s educational achievements in that way.

[MinorityRepublican]

They have to solve the problems themselves. In meantime, Trump is golfing in Florida. Maybe that’s a blessing. Now they have to actually govern.

[simpson96]

I’m glad she’s upset. I hope she is enjoying reaping what she and her know-it-all libtard friends have sown. Maybe she’s seeing the light, but somehow I doubt it. Her kind are seriously hard-wired.

[MinorityRepublican]

If they were white kids, would it be OK?

Yes.

[MinorityRepublican]

[Ten Beers Gone]

Does she have a real PhD or one in eddikashun, sociology, political “science”, studies?

Her Masters and PhD are from UC Berkeley, and they are in "ethnomusicology". I'm certain it's a worthwhile field of endeavor.

[lastchance]

She never implied that it was. But the truth is that Black and Brown students from urban districts are the ones most likely to fall even further behind because of the change to remote learning.

[5th MEB]

EXCEPT IN PRIVATE, when there are no microphones around.