In all the heated arguments about sending kids back to school, one thing I've noticed:

[unblock]

Republicans suddenly decided kids going to school was really important.

They hate everything about school, at least public school anyway.

They hate real estate taxes that fund schools.
They hate any tax hike that maintains or improved schools.
They hate paying teachers a reasonable wage.
They hate paying for supplies.
They hate the department of education.
They hate teaching actual science like evolution.
They hate diversity in school.
They hate non-Christian religions or secularism in school.

But oh, damn, apparently they really, really hate having to watch over their kids as they try to "distance learn"!

[dawg day]

1. And this again is one of those pandemic issues where there are no good options!

Distance learning isn't great for more schoolchildren (and I'm a distance teacher, and try to make it as good as it can be).

But Covid isn't good for them either.

Banning eating indoors in restaurants isn't good for the businesses, socializing, the economy, the waitstaff.

We know that. It's just that we also know that the only way to control the pandemic long enough to get back to normal is to control things NOW.

Rightwingers can't deal with uncertainty. They have to hate on one option, and passionately scream for another-- without any acknowledgment that any option, to succeed, needs more than screaming.

[spinbaby]

2. There is give and take in everything

My grandson is going back to school full time because distance learning just doesn’t work for young autistic children. Fortunately his school district recognizes this and arranged for him to be in school every day in a small class, even though most children will be learning from home, attending school two days a week or not at all. The trade off is that he can no longer visit his grandmother because we worry about COVID spread at school.

[Hekate]

3. More than anything they hate having no babysitting for their workers...

They want those workers back at their desks and stations — to hell with their kids.

[magicarpet]

4. They only like pre-born fetuses, when they are born,...

... they have litte time or patients with them. The school shootings and massacres are a case in point. They could enact tighter gun control and red line dangerous people from gun purchases but no. Saving the lives of children and protecting them from the trauma of school shootings is secondary and protection of the 2nd Amendment in unrestricted gun purchases is primary.

At that point it becomes fuck the children and yay NRA. Because that is the way macho men in Merica respond.

[snowybirdie]

5. Back in the day

Evangelicals extolled the virtues of home schooling, and fought legal battles to allow them to keep their kids out of public schools. It was considered way superior to sending kids to a big, noisy, ungodly school. What happened? They now are so very concerned about the poor children needing education

[NNadir]

6. Rather brilliant. Thanks. KnR.

[IronLionZion]

7. The RNC spewed forth a lot of BS about school choice, vouchers, etc.

how it saves kids from the horrible dangerous public schools that Democrats want to force on everyone.

[dchill]

8. The dichotomy is not observable to cretins and cultists.

[wiggs]

9. They love grievances and whining and getting over on others. That's about it. nt