Posted on 11/24/2021 11:42:37 AM PST by EBH
Two weeks' notice: Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in North Carolina voted on Oct. 28 to close schools on Nov. 12 for a "day of kindness, community and connection."
Five days' notice: On the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 17, Ann Arbor Public Schools in Michigan announced that schools would be closed the following Monday and Tuesday, extending Thanksgiving break for a full week. The district cited rising COVID-19 cases and staff shortages.
Three and even two days' notice: On Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 9 and 10, three different districts in Washington state — in Seattle, Bellevue and Kent — announced schools would be closed that same Friday, the day after Veterans Day, due to staff shortages.
Schools and districts around the country have been canceling classes on short notice. The cancellations aren't directly for COVID-19 quarantines; instead schools are citing staff shortages, staff fatigue, mental health and sometimes even student fights.
Burbio, an organization that tracks school district websites, says these closures are an accelerating trend in the month of November, affecting 858 districts and 8,692 individual schools so far. At least 20 districts have added days to their Thanksgiving break this week, as happened in Ann Arbor, according to a report by CNN.
Sudden changes to the calendar leave families scrambling to make alternate arrangements.
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The kids are burned out 🤪
They destroyed themselves...and are unworthy of parents tax dollars anymore
“… it appears public schools are not sustainable.”
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Never ending mandatory masking is certainly not sustainable. END ALL MANDATORY MASKING NOW.
Why are we still paying for these things?
I raised 5, including twins with 3 in diapers at the same time.
Suck it up, buttercup.
They take my money and I don’t even have kids.
Kids went back to school in rural MO last fall and have been back ever since. No masks, no distancing, no plastic cubicles.
...for kindness..., awwww ain’t that sweet.
I had kids but always sent them to private schools. So I paid twice!
Exactly.
Any taxpayer should have the right to tell these school boards where to go. Any.
It’s not fair your money is taken even if you never had children, been long since or they’re in private school. All of us still paying.
Refund tax dollars?
It seems these people have no internal fortitude. Previous generations dealt with far worse and just rolled with it. Today they get tired of “adulting” and want to camp at home in their pajamas. This behavior is un healthy and society is wrong to tolerate this softness and weakness.
Public Schools-Marxist indoctrination centers.
Every single child could be pulled from public schools, and the public school bureaucrats would still receive the same $$billions as before. Public schools are increasingly not about education - they are about a maintaining the stability of large leftist political bloc, and ideology.
This is insane. There are millions who mined coal six days a week, 10 hours a day 12 months a year, in the worst conditions imaginable to support their families. But some pampered teachers are complaining of burnout? We are turning into a nation of pussies.
I and my brothers and sisters went to the same private Christian school and ALL our nephews and nieces go to the same private Christian school run by a church. It’s a generational thing.
My awesome parents made sure not to send us to the public school in that area which was horrible then and must be 10 times worse now. I repaid my parents in some ways because us siblings knew they sacrificed a lot financially for our education. Kudos to your great choice.
“Oh, is that inconvenient?”
The only people affected by government schools doing this crap are the IDIOTS who still force their kids to go to those schools. So, thankfully, it doesn’t affect people here, since we understand those ‘schools’ well enough to keep our kids out of them.
For many, having to wear a suffocator, aka mask, all day will quickly lead to burnout.
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