If the state didn't TAKE this money to begin with...
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.
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If the state didn't TAKE this money to begin with...
When ‘educators’ CONTROL this much of a states budget; it is no WONDER they are in control!
LOL, I was just thinking that this kid reminds me of Pippi Wrongstocking.
With technology the way it is ... it has to be.
My wife, 1 20 yr special ed teacher (severe & profound) got out of public teaching - immediately pulled our 2 and has not looked back.
The local home school group is planning a meeting to generate a sustainable plan to help out working parents.
I live in Virginia - my county is small - and has 450 missing students that have not registered for the upcoming school yr ... that’s ALOT in this county. I think parents are starting to realize public school is not so hot anymore... and kids are happier learning online or through virtual classrooms.
It can be done — it just has to start somewhere...
...a bridge at Concord...
I home-schooled my 4 alone with help and worked full-time afternoons and weekends.
I had friends distance learning individual classes coputer classes. Workbooks and lots of reading.
I still have the annual descriptive reports of what i did if anyone is interested.
Bribes for votes work for hacks every time.
State theft in action the game is rigged.
Any schooling is better then public schools they are just a expensive baby setting event.
CBS this morning did a story on a healthcare software form with thousands of employees. EPIC Heath, they spent hundreds of thousands improving the campus and CBS found 1 employee out of thousands who would interview and say he didn’t want to choose between a paycheck and certain death if he returned to work.
This is the extremes the media is going to to scare people. If I were the CEO I’d say come back to work or your fired and stop complaining and grow up.
50-60 years ago it was a different story. America needs to recapture excellence in the school system for all American children. Accountability needs to return to our Nation in so many areas. Right now the Tennessee Valley Authority Board is rediscovering that concept.
The statistics say that if 100% of us contracted covid; there'd only be 99.7% of us left to tell the tale.
Accountability needs to return to our Nation
AMEN
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