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In reply to the discussion: Biden: Schools should 'probably all be open' in the fall [View all]alphafemale
(18,497 posts)33. I think the people who realistically have that option should be able to exercise it.
If you have that broadband Internet and a great space and equipment for your kid/s GREAT!
So many kids in Internet deserts have lost an entire year. Just over a summer kids not in enriched environments lose so much instructional ground.
And kids old enough to have a job near graduation may be making $15 an hour in a warehouse and supporting their family.
There are going to be so many long term consequences from this.
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I think the people who realistically have that option should be able to exercise it.
alphafemale
Apr 2021
#33
I noticed, but you don't know my district. At least in mine, NO ONE would show up
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2021
#28
Parents want their free babysitters back so they can neglect their duties as parents
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2021
#13
Social Studies always get that because people think it's all facts and not anything else
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2021
#25
So are us teachers, but we can always adjust and be the "free babysitters" parents think we are
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2021
#11
That's the same idea the Chinese government had in the 1990s towards HIV
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2021
#12