Posted on 08/11/2020 7:25:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Demonrat haven’t started to cave one bit. They see that people are driven by numbers in this so-called pandemic and as such, apparently school aged children have mysteriously have spiked in testing positive for the virus because OMB syndrome. If the tests results on adults tested are not 100% accurate, then how on this god’s green earth can the 9% be an accurate portrayal of children with it.
Exactly.. there’s actually concerns from one teacher that “conservative” parents may listen in during online classes and hear what’s being said.
Their political calculus was badly wrong. Any person capable of objective thought and observation can see that the polling numbers for them were brutal.
I take all polls with a grain of salt, but recently we have seen polls where 4 out of 5 people oppose the democrat stance on schools and police issues. Schumer is not dumb. He can read the same polls thus the reversal in position.
They have deluded themselves to the point where they believe the fringe of their party is the mainstream of their party. Ironically, the focus on big liberal cities and the dysfunction and draconian policies is providing the mushy middle with a real picture of where the democrats want to take the country and I think more people are refusing.
I was hoping that they would continue to double down on dumb for another month or two.
The following formula can be used to describe the back-to-school experience: Education = (learning + socialization + extracurricular activities) - indoctrination. As much as I dislike the indoctrination aspect I think the positives outweigh the negative. Schools need to re-open.
Lot of moms have been cooped up with their brats for seven months....I would not want to stand before them and say “How about another year” !!!!
That’s nine thousand dollars per year per child for babysitting at a great gym. Perhaps impoverished students may get a discount. For that money, however, in ordinary times, you can get a good private school.
And if schools will not open reliably, then you can build a home-school curriculum. If designing your own curriculum as a parent sounds too daunting or impossible, then most states have a statewide cyber charter school already, or you can use prepackaged materials from the home-school services industry. Seton Home Study for example offers a distance-learning high school experience for $880 per year.
Another reason is that parents, teachers’ unions and politicians are seeing that, with so many courses online, all those teachers and administrators are superfluous, and government jobs are on the line.
Word I’m hearing is that Catholic schools in Wisconsin and Indiana have been deluged with applications out of Illinois, and especially Chicago. Between that incentive to leave, and the recent riots/raiding parties downtown and through River North, Chicago is facing the same pressure from its wealthy and affluent as these other cities.
Trouble is, the Chicago Teachers’ Union has already bent Mayor Groot to their will (having threatened to strike almost immediately upon her accession), so even if she were competent she’s stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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