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Post by michaelw on Jan 26, 2021 9:30:29 GMT -5
I'm not a New Yorker (obviously), but I can't remember a worse mayor in recent memory than de Blasio. He's a complete failure on pretty much every level. Am I forgetting someone? They can always go back to Giuliani, I guess.
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Post by robeiae on Jan 28, 2021 8:36:26 GMT -5
www.npr.org/2021/01/26/960885936/cdc-makes-case-for-school-reopeningSo...follow the fucking science or keep kowtowing to powerful teacher's unions who don't give a shit about the children? The Biden admin is sticking with the latter, it would seem: Newsflash: in one hundred days, the school year will be practically over, most of the damage (to the kids) has already been done, and any chance to mitigate even some of it is disappearing rapidly. Also, the schools don't need $130 billion to reopen safely. We know this because of the schools that have already reopened safely without help from the federal government.
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Post by robeiae on Jan 28, 2021 8:45:21 GMT -5
Here's the NPR piece on twitter:
The comments are a hoot. Look at this one:
Lol. Because no one else has been required to go back to work, certainly not postal workers, sanitation workers, and police officers, not to mention private sectors workers at grocery stores, drugstores, and so on.
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Post by robeiae on Jan 28, 2021 16:33:04 GMT -5
Textbook goalpost moving:
And if she keeps flicking that hair, I'm gonna cut it off...
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Post by robeiae on Jan 30, 2021 9:10:12 GMT -5
So, here's a good piece at a local CA outlet: missionlocal.org/2021/01/the-san-francisco-school-districts-renaming-debacle-has-been-a-historic-travesty/It's about whether or not kids return to school AND the renaming project of the San Fran school board that I brought up here. From it: He goes on to rip the board for the renaming process, where it got its facts wrong and didn't even bother consulting an historian. But I really like how he compares this flawed process that sucked up so much of the board's timer to the lack of consideration for students and the consequences of remote learning.
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Post by robeiae on Feb 4, 2021 9:19:48 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Feb 5, 2021 20:08:39 GMT -5
Here's a thread about schools in Minnesota--which are closed for in person learning--that is really sobering and sad:
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Post by Optimus on Feb 10, 2021 1:31:01 GMT -5
Why would anyone want to live in places like San Francisco, Seattle, or Portland, let alone raise children there? They are literal woke shit holes.
Gaze upon this dumb fuckery:
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Post by Optimus on Feb 10, 2021 2:12:44 GMT -5
Another person who listened to the meeting:
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Post by robeiae on Feb 10, 2021 8:02:55 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Feb 10, 2021 13:32:56 GMT -5
They'll either have to dumb down their curriculum and make it less rigorous, or a lot of the new kids who aren't at the same level as the kids who actually had to pass the merit tests will fail out quickly. Either way, their status as an elite school will tank.
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Post by robeiae on Feb 12, 2021 8:25:55 GMT -5
Biden used school closures as cudgel in the campaign, argued that the Trump admin was failing in this regard and had no plan, said he had one (for the record, I don't think the Feds should have much say here), and this is what we get??!? Having schools "open" one day a week would be essentially pointless. If it's too risky to open schools, opening them for just one day doesn't really limit risk significantly, so what's the point? And I can't believe that the teahers' unions fighting reopenings would go along with such a stupid plan, though maybe they will, since they don't give a shit about anything other than politics...
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Post by Optimus on Feb 12, 2021 13:35:34 GMT -5
Seems to have been a nearly imperceptible * at the end of all of his campaign promises that leads to a nearly invisible footnote that says, "Just kidding."
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Post by robeiae on Feb 15, 2021 8:45:58 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Feb 15, 2021 14:32:54 GMT -5
Uh...high schools ARE secondary schools.
*scratches head*
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