PhineasC

I have a feeling that some school boards will use COVID as an excuse to cut staff and centralize/generalize/dumb-down the curriculum. I have already heard about layoffs for specialized teachers such as art/music teachers, special education teachers, and speech pathologists. Regular teachers could be next. It makes sense from a budget perspective, and the investments made in remote learning infrastructure will be hard to abandon even when they are no longer needed (sunk cost fallacy).

There is only so much you can do. I have seen some teachers basically begging for schools to close and insinuating pretty heavily that having schools open could literally cause them to die, but the majority of teachers are doing everything they possibly can to carry kids forward through this as well as possible.

Especially since kids are really not at risk from COVID. The global data is clear on this. The flu and car crashes while being driven to school are deadlier to kids than COVID. Shutting down schools is NOT about keeping kids safe. It is basically a conscious choice to trade children's education and mental well-being for a small, possibly dubious increase in "safety" for adults...

We pulled our kids for many reasons, but a big one was the fear and paranoia they were being taught in this "new normal." Teachers told them to not share with others, don't talk to others unless in predetermined ways at a distance, don't pick up the pencil your friend dropped, don't pick up that ball at recess, don't even turn your head to look back at students behind you (happened in our former school), and tattle on the rule breakers. It's pretty sick, if you ask me. Basically teaching them to be prison inmates. These are not good lessons. There is going to be a noticeable dent in the graph of future success for this generation of kids. It'll show up down the line. Losing a year and a half of school and social interaction is not good. I do not blame the teachers, I know they are trying within the confines of the rules. But remote learning just puts many kids further behind unless they have very diligent parents, and I'm sure you know those parents are in short-supply in many communities that historically struggle even with ample school programs and support structures in place. We are just totally done with it.

Some kids are probably doing fine. Everyone reacts differently. It also helps that you live in a fairly rural area too. My kids have been doing very well since we pulled them from the school/jail environment and brought them up to rural NH. They were OK before but I have noticed an improvement since then. An only child from a poorer family in NYC, Chicago, or other urban environment? Likely terrible for them.

Too many people are selfish and more concerned about themselves than kids. Keeping kids out of school and isolated has zero to do with keeping them safe. It is all about the adults. I feel really bad for the only-children who are doing all remote learning. Just crushing isolation since March for them.

Think twice before begging for lockdowns. https://mobile.twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1326984370842906625

The support wouldn’t end under certain conditions, IMO.

What a mess that must be. Yikes.

Wouldn’t be so sure these days.

Yeah, the extended is definitely looking snowier up here again.

Operation Warp Speed.

That’s why I said once the government starts paying them to stay home they will never work again.

@ORH_wxman is like... LITERALLY Hitler. Ugh!

Food truck burger flipper is furiously dropping emojis in this thread.

You have been super deep in the kool-aid tank since March and it may take years for you to swim back out. A real shame. But the case numbers!!!

Most taxpaying rational Americans think this way. Despite what some say, you can put a price on human life. Insurance companies, doctors, and governments do so all the time.

Once they start paying people to stay home and not work, they are never going to go back to work. That isn’t fear or hyperbole, just a fact. All people begging the govt to shut it all down need to understand this fact. Society will be radically changed forever.

How many of those are “with COVID” versus “due to COVID”?

Once they lock people down and start paying them to be unemployed, they will never go back to work. The socialist paradise will have arrived. Hope people see where this is headed. I realize people are scared of the ‘vid.

Don’t tons of people die in nursing homes from respiratory illnesses all the time? Kinda just what happens there.

Ok that is closer to what I was figuring. Big jump over age 54, as expected. This virus just isn’t a major risk to healthy adults until you hit 55+ and have major underlying health issues.

Where did you get that number? I am guessing that most of those deaths are clustered 60 and up.

Shady corporate CEO doing shady corporate CEO stuff. Just another day in the dystopia.

People definitely die. Especially those 80+ with major underlying diseases. Jury is out on long term effects, since the virus hasn’t been around that long.