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"school pods are unfair to poor kids"
easy fix:
1. open schools
2. re-allocate funding from closed schools to the parents of affected children to let them shop for education/pods
if you support neither, you've forgotten what education budgets are for https://reason.com/2020/07/24/the-media-wants-to-guilt-trip-parents-over-school-pods/
easy fix:
1. open schools
2. re-allocate funding from closed schools to the parents of affected children to let them shop for education/pods
if you support neither, you've forgotten what education budgets are for https://reason.com/2020/07/24/the-media-wants-to-guilt-trip-parents-over-school-pods/
it's really that simple.
vilifying those who can afford to hire a tutor/create a pod is stupid. who wouldn't if they had the means?
they did not create this situation. they did not choose this. they are victims here, just like everyone else.
vilifying those who can afford to hire a tutor/create a pod is stupid. who wouldn't if they had the means?
they did not create this situation. they did not choose this. they are victims here, just like everyone else.
for schools and local/state governments to close schools and to demand to keep school budgets is classic "have your cake and eat it too" public sector thinking.
who would accept this in any other sphere?
provide the service or return the money.
simple as that.
who would accept this in any other sphere?
provide the service or return the money.
simple as that.
and to argue that it's "unfair" and "advantages rich kids" for parents to adapt to this malfeasance is just blaming the victim.
there is a system to educate all the kids. you guys closed it.
now you want to hector people for adapting to the harm you did them as best they can?
there is a system to educate all the kids. you guys closed it.
now you want to hector people for adapting to the harm you did them as best they can?
this is like vilifying someone in a shipwreck because they had swim lessons as a kid.
it's the schools doing this. it's the state doing it. and it's anti-science and anti-sense.
schools pose no covid risk to kids, families, or teachers.
none. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1284481092528017408?s=20
it's the schools doing this. it's the state doing it. and it's anti-science and anti-sense.
schools pose no covid risk to kids, families, or teachers.
none. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1284481092528017408?s=20
kids do not get serious covid, they do not develop high viral loads, they do not spread covid to teachers, and they do not spread covid to parents.
children are at greater risk of death from falling down the stairs than from COV. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/school-closures-a-mistake-as-no-teachers-infected-in-classroom-gpppq8r7k
children are at greater risk of death from falling down the stairs than from COV. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/school-closures-a-mistake-as-no-teachers-infected-in-classroom-gpppq8r7k
this is being driven by rapacious teacher's unions w/ political agendas. the LA teacher's union is demanding that charter schools be closed as a condition to re-open
they are not on the side of kids. they are on the side of their own power/monopoly https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/l-a-teachers-union-says-schools-cant-reopen-unless-charter-schools-shut-down-and-police-are-defunded/
they are not on the side of kids. they are on the side of their own power/monopoly https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/l-a-teachers-union-says-schools-cant-reopen-unless-charter-schools-shut-down-and-police-are-defunded/
the US spends ~$15k/student/year, the most in the world, on public schools and we get less and less for it every year.
it's a failing experiment run by unions that have a hammerlock on the system and play political kingmaker by being the biggest political donors in the US
it's a failing experiment run by unions that have a hammerlock on the system and play political kingmaker by being the biggest political donors in the US
this results in a grotesque and crooked situation common in public sector unions:
unions make huge donations and wield vast electoral influence to select the boss that they then negotiate with for contracts.
that boss gives them more money, more power, more monopoly.
unions make huge donations and wield vast electoral influence to select the boss that they then negotiate with for contracts.
that boss gives them more money, more power, more monopoly.
it's an endless circular gravy train that entrenches power on both sides but leaves the educational standards and the kids themselves begging.
school budget bloat is all in administration, not in teaching. we're funding union and admin fat cats, not education.
school budget bloat is all in administration, not in teaching. we're funding union and admin fat cats, not education.
and they will lie and cheat and steal to keep it going.
they will claim they need more money to teach when what they really need to do is spend the money they have ON teaching instead of on admin and politics.
and it's EASY to spot.
they will claim they need more money to teach when what they really need to do is spend the money they have ON teaching instead of on admin and politics.
and it's EASY to spot.
just ask the simple questions above
if they are pro closing schools AND pro keeping all the budget, you know where their priorities lie (and it's not with the kids)
what gives them a right to demand to be paid while not providing a service?
what gives them a right to monopoly?
if they are pro closing schools AND pro keeping all the budget, you know where their priorities lie (and it's not with the kids)
what gives them a right to demand to be paid while not providing a service?
what gives them a right to monopoly?
you'd never support a monopoly for grocery store or a gas station.
you know you'd get bad service and selection at high prices.
competition breeds competence and consumer surplus.
so why support it here?
you know you'd get bad service and selection at high prices.
competition breeds competence and consumer surplus.
so why support it here?
let's stop allowing the very people muckraking for and inflicting the harm to then flip the script and politicize the harm they did to serve their own partisan and special interest agendas
that way lies tyranny
wake up and smell what's being shoveled before they bury you in it.
that way lies tyranny
wake up and smell what's being shoveled before they bury you in it.
