Posted on 09/09/2021 1:53:28 AM PDT by RandFan
A fight broke out Tuesday evening after a Missouri school board unanimously approved a mask mandate as students return to classrooms.
ABC affiliate KMBC reported that Pleasant Hill Police Department officers responded to a fist fight involving several people in a parking lot following the vote by the Pleasant Hill Board of Education. One individual was handcuffed.
The school district has reported 21 coronavirus cases in the first nine days of the school year, more than all of last year, according to KMBC. The news station also reported that 180 students and faculty are quarantining. Overall, 7 percent of the Pleasant Hill population is quarantining.
The fist fight outside the school board meeting marks the latest violent outburst over local officials imposing mask mandates for schools to help guard against the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19.
I think there are a lot of us who are involved in this process, and trying to pull other Patriots in.
If you are interested, you can dig around and find them in your area - when you do, "find a need and fill it", then pull other Patriots in.
2nd article this morning about Missouri. The other about a restaurant reopening as a mask free private club. Both articles are about places in metro KC. Suburbia KarenLand.
Boy...you don't see any articles written by 'Bob Smith' any more...
They should mandate wearing plastic bags over your head. That will help even more.
The Vax and masks don’t work.
It’s not that hard. We started homeschooling in FL and then moved to MO. In FL all you have to do is send a letter to the county edu superintendent announcing your intent to homeschool. In MO, you don’t even have to do that.
If you can surf the web, you can learn to homeschool. I’m just an old blue collar guy with a GED and I figured it out. Now if the parents are methheads then they’re probably not capable but most everyone else is.
EdTech is the coming thing. They want the remote learning to be permanent and they’ll use the same behavioral tech as facebook/google uses for advertising for indoctrination purposes.
The school district has reported 21 coronavirus cases in the first nine days of the school year, more than all of last year
There was some verbal sparring between parents and a bunch of Karen’s at our last school board meeting. There was a large angry crowd outside.
The verbal sparring was all recorded and occurred in front of police. That didn’t keep the communist Karen’s from claiming physical assault.
The sissy’s on the school board just declared yesterday that as punishment, all meeting henceforth will be virtual so as to limit public involvement and comment.
Sadly, for some utterly stupid reason, most of the school board is Governor appointed and not elected. Our RINO Governor is absolutely no support at all.
Your first paragraph isn’t really a good argument. There are millions of homeschool families, nearly all willing and able to help.
There are also tons of us who have graduated all of our kids.
Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA.org) has an incredible amount of get started materials, online seminars etc and also guides to navigate state regulations.
It requires a mindset and a bit of perseverance. If you love your kids, you will do anything you can to remove them from the indoctrination system.
Sorry you disagree but I’m right. The system is completely rigged against your family.
Good post and I agree with you. Last year after a decade in public school I removed one teen from public to private, and the other from public to homeschooling. But I fought and continue to fight: I’ve been to 9 reopen school rallies, 2 reopen sports rallies, and 3 signature gathering events to recall the school board. I also gathered signatures to recall the (CA) governor.
I have the resources and wherewithal to both homeschool and pay for private (Christian) school but many parents in the United States don’t.
They actually do have that option. They just don’t like the sacrifices it would entail. People put money and career first. It’s a hard fact, but it is a fact.
It will consume you, to be successful. They've got you either way. Just pull out.
Easy for you to say.
My wife, a former early elementary years school teacher at a highly regarded private school home schooled our daughter until middle school, but at that point my wife judged she had neither the experience or training to properly continue. Instead, my wife went back to work at a parochial school, and we put our daughter in the middle school of the same church. Wifey’s pay is beans and parochial schools in lowish income areas are tightwads in other ways, too. Teachers end up pulling money from their own pockets quite a bit. My wife considers it part of her obligation to God. At least we do get a bit of a discount on tuition. It helps pay for the gas: School is 25 minutes away when the work zones are not too clogged.
I would add, too, from some observation, not to mention my own H.S. experience, teaching well, esp. a high school curriculum to a highschooler(s), requires real skills, and a temperament not necessarily the same as typical parenting. These do not come naturally or well to everyone.
Anyway, fast forward a few years to today: My business is in tatters (Covid damage), and while my wife’s income is a little better (moved up 3 grade levels, which pays a bit better) it is still far below public school pay. The workload is tough: She gets up @ 5:15 am, gets home around 5 pm most days, takes an hour break, eats supper, and is usually doing lesson prep, grading, etc., until 10 pm or so.
Most people have better incomes — if they only have 1 or two kids, both parents working and putting the kids in private school probably makes more sense than home schooling. Arguably, we should have done that. We’d have been money ahead during those elementary school years, and with more years’ experience, my wife’s pay would be somewhat better now. Retirement would be looking better, also.
OTOH, quite a few people are hurtin’ too. Many are in transitions where they need schooling or training to take on new jobs: A lot of the good jobs available out there require up to date / specialized training. I thought about dumping my business, a move that’d lose me a couple hundred thou in inventory, at least. And then I get to retrain at over age 60 and start at the bottom, competing against 23 y/o’s. Righto.
“Do away with the grown-up toys and cushy vacations, shop for bargains”? Well, I’ve always done the latter. Our best car is 12 y/o, with almost 220k miles on it, and I do as much of the maintenance as I can. My biggest “grown up toy” is a pretty decent stereo that I built much of myself, and took me 40+ years to get where it is now. Market value is maybe $2.5k. Maybe. (The speakers alone are much, much better than that, but, self-built stuff is hard to re-sell for a lot.) Cushy vacations? I suppose you refer to our 20 y/o pop up camper (bought used, still in fairly good shape) which we take to a state park about 70 miles away, hopefully twice a year for 3-day stints. Except that our 13 y/o (purchased used at a steal) SUV got totaled by an inattentive driver pulling out in front of my wife, and the insurance nowhere near covers the currently bloated price of a replacement. So, when fall break arrives, maybe we’ll do a short day trip.
This is not a complaint. Our daughter is a good kid & gets good grades. We are warm in winter and cool in summer (mostly), own our home outright, no debts, eat good food (my wife and I are both decent cooks), the stereo sounds great, etc. I’m just pointing out that a lot of people have real constraints. Not everything is tidy and fits into a certain perceived box in the real world.
Who controls the money?
And now that we have resources like Khan academy there’s no excuse for parents to not be home schooling their kids except that they need to work because they sold themselves into indentured slavery and have to use the schools as daycare for their children.
Agree that there are exceptions - esp. in a nation of 330+ million people.
If gub'mint wasn't so intrusive we could take better care of each other, like we used to.
But we still have a better chance here than anywhere else on earth.
Home school bump.
Public schools are child abuse.
# someone in the ‘system’ will ask why are we still taxing people at such-and-such rate,
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Thanks! That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all week.
Chose a different foxhole buddy.......
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