Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

We had a kid who tested positive show back up to school and say her dad told her to come because it wasn't anything to worry about.
I pulled into the parking lot one morning about 6:30. It was in the 20s outside. There was a kid sitting on the front porch. I asked what she was doing there because she knows the doors don't open until 7:15. She said she told her mom, who dropped her off, but her mom didn't care because she had things to do.
This Friday is a 2-hour day for us. It's the last day of the semester. It officially counts as a school day, but it's essentially for teachers to wrap up paperwork. Buses don't run. We don't serve meals. There is no instruction. We tell the kids and their parents do not come. We always a handful whose parents drop them off at the front door anyway. When asked what they are doing there, they say there parents told them if school was open, they had to come.

Are those extreme examples out of a large population? Sure. But the idea that teachers are free baby sitters and everyone knows more about education than teachers. Oh yeah, don't forget, teachers are lazy and don't want to work.

 

This is worrisome.

 

The real problem is the glut of stories about what nurses are seeing at work.

 

I guess it's being used to make a point about the number of projected deaths from COVID-19, but I had this exact same thought.

The two "events" were/are both horrible, in different ways and for different reasons. To only compare deaths seems, somehow, unequivelent and disingenuous.

 

If your argument is parents aren't as good at teaching personal responsibility, and kids are less well-behaved, I agree with you.

Why do you think that is?

 

There is a common conflation of unions "taking advantage" of a crisis situation as opposed to "protecting the vital interests of their members," particularly among the right wing screech machine and also particularly in regards to teachers unions.

 

Sometimes it's more advantageous for the majority to carve out a district to leave the minority (Black or Hispanic) its own enclave, lest the minority threaten to take two or more seats. That has happened in just about all the deep southern states (except Arkansas, where the delta has severely depopulated where most Black folks live).

In areas where Democrats hold the majority, a peckerwood ghetto is often the solution as well. It's just different shoes on different feet.

 

I don't think it's an issue of "not as good" but an issue of willing to be parents. Anyone can teach personal responsibility, but you have to have personal responsibility yourself before you an instill it in others.

 

Alma, why isn’t everyone in church a good Christian?

Everything you post about education, I’ll flip it.

Church is teaching.

 

FWIW, I went to see my doctor today. She is a personal friend; I was in her wedding; she sees me off the books when nothing clinical is required.

My BP was fine. My heart sounded good. My lungs were "crystal clear" she said.
Everything I have going on is documented post COVID long haul issues. That was reassuring. Who knows what that ultimately means, but it seems I can quit worrying about having cancer or something.

 

So many parents simply want to “party” during this global viral pandemic.

It is truly shameful.

 

Yep. So where'd personal responsibility go?