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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCOVID school policies set me adrift from my tribe.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/democrats-botched-public-school-covid-policy/621183/Until recently, I was a loyal, left-leaning Democrat, and I had been my entire adult life. I was the kind of partisan who registered voters before midterm elections and went to protests. I hated Donald Trump so much that I struggled to be civil to relatives on the other side of the aisle. But because of what my family has gone through during the pandemic, I cant muster the same enthusiasm. I feel adrift from my tribe and, to a certain degree, disgusted with both parties.
I cant imagine that I would have arrived herenot a Republican, but questioning my place in the Democratic Partyhad my son not been enrolled in public kindergarten in 2020.
Late that summer, the Cleveland school system announced that it would not open for in-person learning the first 9 weeks of the semester. I was distraught. My family relies on my income, and I knew that I would not be able to work full-time with my then-5-year-old son and then-3-year-old daughter at home.
Still, I was accepting of short-term school closures. My faith in the system deteriorated only as the weeks and months of remote-learning dragged on long past the initial timeline, and my son began refusing to log on for lessons. I couldnt blame him. Despite his wonderful teachers best efforts, online kindergarten is about as ridiculous as it sounds, in my experience. I remember logging on to a gym class where my son was the only student present. The teacher, I could tell, felt embarrassed. We both knew how absurd the situation was.
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Interesting article though both the original title Democrats botched public school covid policy and the revised title Why I Soured on the Democrats.... seem a bit harsh and clicbatey... esp for The Atlantic
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COVID school policies set me adrift from my tribe. (Original Post)
cinematicdiversions
Jan 2022
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Scrivener7
(50,773 posts)1. Such a crap article. And this is the third posting of it here by my count.
Angie doesn't seem to understand that plagues are hard and the Democrats couldn't do anything to make that not so.
Emile
(21,881 posts)2. Been a democrat their entire life and bam this pandemic comes and now it's
all the fault of democrats! What bullshit!
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)3. Noce propaganda there.
WTF is going on at the Atlantic lately?