Posted on 07/22/2020 10:17:28 AM PDT by madprof98
The dominos started to fall. Atlanta Public Schools was among the first: schools will open with no face-to-face classes. This news was shortly followed by updates from DeKalb, Fulton, Cobb, Clayton, Henry, and most recently, Gwinnett, as well as others. I suspect we’ll see many more.
For some, this is a frustrating, bewildering turn of events. What’s wrong with these educators?
Georgia put its school districts in a position of not having a real choice. We chose distance learning in how we chose to handle the COVID-19 pandemic in our state.
In April, as you may recall, the governor decided to reopen the state far earlier than experts recommended, which most now believe led to a steady increase in new cases all summer long. We were the first state in the nation to reopen.
It’s not only the government, of course. When you see a restaurant crowded with people not wearing masks, you see people who chose not to reopen schools. When you see folks boasting on social media about how they snuck into Kroger without a mask on, you see people who chose not to reopen schools. When you see images of people gleefully having huge parties, you’re seeing people who chose not to reopen schools.
It’s bigger than the pandemic itself, of course. When we chose to underfund our schools for years, especially in high-poverty areas, we also chose to have an education system that doesn’t have the resources to shift to safe in-person learning during a pandemic. When we chose to cut the education budget for Georgia this year -- a year when we supposedly wanted our schools to open safely -- we made the decision not to reopen schools.
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Leave them closed.
The public schools are menace.
Let Artificial Intelligence teach the kids and lay all these f krs off...end of problem.
Time for homeschooling. Especially now since government bureaucrats have abandoned any sense of responsibility for “education.”
Homeschooling is needs far less time for the child, is nearly costless, has unlimited options and configurations for learning, is much more effective, and with no sexual-pervert or leftist propaganda.
I want my school taxes back. Where are the conservative lawyers writing up class action lawsuits? If this was a leftist issue the lawyers would have this done already.
Gwinnett will offer the OPTION of at school or digital AND a hybrid.
I know this because two of our neighbors work IN the Gwinnett school system. They will return full time to their facilities for planning AND instruction.
Good. Let the schools remain closed. The public school system is a travesty and a threat to freedom. For too many families, they are only free daycare anyway.
“...When you see a restaurant crowded with people not wearing masks...”
The new Chinese electronic import --- Maobot 3000 teaching edition.
themselves obsolete. Don't need a teacher when you can online deliver to thousands of students with 1/10th the staff to answer questions and direct.
The ride "Terminator 4D" predicted it:
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A great sidelight: Fewer examples of false accusations against teachers for bumps called assault and students assaulting teachers.
Hall County [contiguous to Gwinnett to the north] is OPEN. Parents may choose in person or distance.
The schools have teachers that are really good at the distance learning doing all distance courses.
Lesser of evils. Kudos Hall Co. Edging closer to school choice. I bet a ton of gwinnett kids will appear in south hall schools paying a reasonable tuition.
In Walton County the schools set out a questionnaire asking how many would be interested in online classes. About 38% responded that they would. When the same question was asked if masks were made mandatory in the classroom, that number jumped to over 80% in favor of online classes.
Clearly the parents, myself included, do not want our kids wearing masks. As of now the schools are scheduled to open here on August 4th with masks being recommended but not required.
Meaning that if "educators" distance themselves from actually showing up to work, I'm going to "distance" myself from paying the education portion of my property tax bill...
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