Posted on 02/03/2021 10:05:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
You silly person, you thought that since the kids were sitting at home, glued to their COVID Chromebooks for something like three hours a day that snow days would be a thing of the past.
In fact, we were assured in September by no less an authority than the thought leaders over at The New York Times that snow days – days off school, whee! – were a thing of the past because no one would have to make a perilously slippery step into a brick-and-mortar school. No school buses or their charges inside would be harmed in the making of the journey to school on snowy roads.
As the weather cools and winter looms, many school leaders in snow-prone states are preparing teachers, parents and students to say goodbye to snow days. This month, New York City, the nation’s largest school system, canceled them for the year, citing the pandemic, which has forced districts everywhere to look for ways to make up lost days.
New York’s decision followed moves that other administrators have been making since March, when schools were forced to transition to online learning and officials realized they could do the same during hazardous weather.
Boy, oh, boy, nothing gets past these people.
They realized it didn’t matter if it was snowing because the student avatars were still stuck at home staring at their COVID Chromebooks!
[In September], New York City, the nation’s largest school system, canceled [snow days] for the year, citing the pandemic, which has forced districts everywhere to look for ways to make up lost days.
[…] New York’s decision followed moves that other administrators have been making since March, when schools were forced to transition to online learning and officials realized they could do the same during hazardous weather.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Among all the awful things happening in the world right now, this doesn’t even rank Top One Billion, but… HOW DO YOU POSSIBLY JUSTIFY A TWO HOUR SNOW DELAY FOR VIRTUAL SCHOOL THAT IS ALREADY ONLY FOUR DAYS A WEEK?!
Among all the awful things happening in the world right now, this doesn’t even rank Top One Billion, but… HOW DO YOU POSSIBLY JUSTIFY A TWO HOUR SNOW DELAY FOR VIRTUAL SCHOOL THAT IS ALREADY ONLY FOUR DAYS A WEEK?!
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) February 2, 2021
This makes too much sense. We’re sure she’ll get shouted down at any minute.
Elsewhere near the Beltway, near the fenced-in, yet oddly unsupervised seat of power, virtual public schools will be closed or have reduced hours due to snow.
Snow? Obviously the snow is an illusion. It’s impossible to snow due to the intense heat cause by the climate change. Joe recognizes what an extreme emergency it is, even though alarmists have been claiming emergency literally since 1910, so I can see why Joe destroyed 4 millions jobs, destroyed US energy independence, and moved $30 billion marked for US farmers screwed by China to climate chance although nobody knows just what the hell that $30 billion will do. Is he going to pay people not to drive?
Unhhhh, they need time off to go out and shovel?
Same as summer vacation so the kids can help out on the farm.
CLIMAGEDDON!!!! Bodies stacking up yet? 😱😂🐂💩
Must have something to do with common core reasoning
RE: Unhhhh, they need time off to go out and shovel?
Did they mention this as one of the main reasons?
“It’s Snowing in the East So Naturally Virtual School Is Canceled”
No so fast. I have been working from home in FL for over 9 years and whenever it would snow up north and our offices were closed for a snow day. I would go surffishing or take the boat out.
Now, it’s although the offices are closed, we will still all be working from home.
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Seriously, at some point we cannot continue to blame teacher’s unions, we must blame the teachers.
> Did they mention this as one of the main reasons?
Nope, that would require them to set up a tracking program along with standards for shoveling, along with special programs and counselors hired to work with students that aren’t able to shovel as well as privileged students that can.
Anyone who, by this point, doesn’t realize that public “schools” are a massive scam run by the mafia that is the government, and isn’t trying their darndest (if they have school-aged kids) to get their kids out of these third world sh!tholes is either incredibly stupid, insanely evil, or a brainwashed leftist.
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The teachers are the unions. Teachers have destroyed two generations so far with their self-righteous anti-God “changing the world” and “I want to make a difference” BS instead of teaching the three R’s.
Communist government employees.
Actually they need to cancel classes. Here in the 20k ppl. per sg. mile city, all i see in every snow storm are adults shoveling (myself included, but thank God i can). I ask, “where are the kids?” and the answer is that they are in class (online)!
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