Posted on 08/02/2020 5:33:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
I’m sad that I missed the prom last spring. I’m sad that I missed my final day of 11th grade and saying goodbye to my graduating senior friends. I’m even sad that I missed studying for finals and taking AP tests in a crowded gymnasium and experiencing the exhausted feeling of relief that follows.
But that doesn’t mean I think we should have kept schools open. Unhappy as I may feel, I know the momentary joy of a school dance, even one as momentous as prom, was not worth the accompanying danger to public health. I know that school closures and self-quarantines were necessary measures to keep our community healthy and safe.
We know that to return to school, we need detailed plans to protect students and school employees, ones that follow health recommendations. We know we can’t simply go back to life as usual. So why doesn’t our government?
Over the past weeks, White House officials have called for a return to a pre-pandemic education system. Last week, Trump threatened to withhold federal aid from schools that do not reopen fully, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began recommending that schools return to in-person teaching.
These directives are infuriating. With COVID-19 cases continuing to rise, the administration’s efforts to force me and my peers back into crowded buildings without protection reveal just how little they care for our well-being and for the well-being of our at-risk friends and relatives.
The inability of our policymakers to grasp a concept that a fifth grader could understand is highlighting something students have known all along: Our voices matter.
We won’t go back to a school that’s unconcerned with our health and safety. We won’t listen to the mandates of a school system that won’t listen to us.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
I didn’t see mention of this article in the media when released a few days ago. What a shame!!
It’s President Trump to you b!tch.
Yup, NBC is Comcast
Why do I get the sinking feeling that this is an attempt at a set up?
-Pandemic closes schools
-Trump does everything to minimize fatalities
-Trump haters do everything to maximize fatalities so their allies can blame Trump
-When that doesn’t work, riots, with Trump to blame
-When that doesn’t work, criticize Trump’s wanting schools to reopen
-Enemedia complies with plan and puts out multiple articles condemning schools reopening
-Ramp up the anxiety, some people go unhinged over it all
-Enemedia starts narrative of kids terrified and not wanting to go to schools because of Coronavirus
-Schools reopen
-Tragedy strikes (Think Sandy Hook or Columbine except with BLM and/or ANTIFA causing)
-Trump blamed for opening schools too early
This just walked through my head when I read the article.
If I can come up with this scenario, the bad guys can, too.
Perhaps I play too much chess.
“Perhaps I play too much chess.”
Impossible.
That was something that struck me also. As a writer, her political biases became clear. Because her information was feelings based, and ignorant, she is just as astute politically as Brittany Spears. She is writing for people that already agree with her. Not a discriminating nor tough audience, and her prose is not meant to sway or persuade.
She should get a job on the committee that invited William Barr to sit at a table.
DK
Mom: Professor of English
English
Gender and Women’s Studies
Social Theory
“...My wife pulled our kids out of public school 5 yrs ago...”
That is the ideal, but the average family is not able to do that either because of employment, home situation or part of the 50% Americans who can’t read at the 8th grade level.
So stay at home, stupid kid. Let OTHERS go back and get an education. Or let OTHERS take their school dollars elsewhere to get an eduction.
The world doesn’t REVOLVE AROUND YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am pretty sure this will serve as her admission essay to Harvard. Perhaps they will take her now.
It is annoying that people go on and on about “school” and “COVID-19” as though school was a single entity with every classroom presenting the same challenges (if any) in having pupils return.
The truth is that teachers are more interested in making sure Trump is seen as wanting children and teachers to fall down the moment their feet cross the school threshold than they are in actual teaching.
Stay home.
Stay tarded.
Whatever.
Depends very much on who is defining "common good".
I’m just saying that we should be ready for anything, considering how desperate the democrats and their thugs have become.
No matter who wins the election, the other side will be screaming fraud.
The US is headed in a very dangerous direction.
Combine anger with 50 million unemployed, and you have a perfect recipe for civil unrest on a grand scale.
Those are the pros. Or the chicken####s that a) gang up b) pick on a weakling or c) go after cops because they know their hands are tied?
While I’m thinking about it, anybody see totals (or any numbers) on rioters, protesters, businesses destroyed or closed, cops injured, etc.? as a result of this? Just wondering what the percentages are.
Agree 100%
They might even throw an early curveball if RGB kicks the bucket.
Breyer is no youngster, Alito talked of retiring, Sotomayor is a obese diabetic...
Also... Budesonide (to prevent an inflammation cascade, per Dr. Richard Bartlett)
She is probably right about one thing. The teachers and administrators running US government schools are mostly incompetent in useful, practical things. They are good are funneling money to politicians, but probably won’t be effective at protecting students. Let’s just call off the whole government school concept.
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