I saw something on Twitter where a person posted "Anyone who thinks the children won't lick their hands and chase each other around screaming corona has never met children"
@@thecargotsold not true they have higher chances of surviving but that doesn't mean they won't spread it and it doesn't mean that kids with underline health conditions or have issues like obesity and asthma will be fine either.
Far too many. Alongside the anti-vaxxers, who overlap, but not completely. It is my opinion that the US will never, ever be done with this virus without a significant change in attitude from over 30% of your population. Or.. too many to EVER have a vaccine actually work. Also science. That is too high a percentage. A population needs 80% plus (95% is far better) in order to do what it is intended to do. And it will never happen in the US without significant societal change. Any bets on the odds of that happening before massive death counts happen? Along with the resultant chaos?
That's the very first thing I thought about when he insisted on opening the schools. If the parents won't wear a mask, how are you going to get the kids to go against their parents? What are you going to do with that child, put him outside? lol This is sooooooooo crazy. Nationwide strike time!
One of the real reasons for their rush to reopen schools is they fear The People will realize they can school from home. One way or another, the system will have to update to the new "normal". Before putting the new generations at risk. They can run a pilot, same as they deploy Feds abroad to protect property, they can group all their kids and grands in any school, and run a one month simulation, so they may learn what needs to change beforehand.
@@rebeccapresti9650 Aw, I'm just being a jerk. Everybody's mocking me for my solution which is to send children back where they belong: factories and coal mines.
Take 50% or more. The majority of the money goes for overpriced items by overpriced defense contractors in the MIC. Add to that, political kickbacks and gross mismanagement of funds. In Iraq, we had overpriced Hummers, with mediocre reliability, and without ballistic armor. They wasn't as reliable as the Toyota trucks used by the insurgents. The prices paid by the taxpayers for military weapon systems are a ripoff. Made in USA is no longer synonymous with high quality. The money spent on a high quality education for everyone, especially in the STEM fields will promote innovation and overall high standards that we need to progress and evolve.
@@ECA2 Forgot how politicians approve military spending when the military says that they don't need the stuff as they have more than enough of it. But politicians need to keep factories in their states going... Oh and how about dividing up production between multiple states to make closing the line even harder as more politicians would see jobs disappear from their voters... Free market promoting efficiency isn't a thing for military industry apparently...
@@ECA2 _"Made in USA is no longer synonymous with high quality."_ When was it? 1870? ;-) (Sorry, could not resist. As a non-American, I have no right to make such remarks.)
I didn’t realize how bad the public education system was until my daughter started attending a private university. My daughter has always been AP with a GPA above 4.0 with her extra credits. Her first semester at a private university she just lost her mind, she had to learn how to learn. Sounds like a weird thing to say, but she says that the curriculum and methods of testing are nothing like public school. With 13 years of public education under her belt, she didn’t feel challenged until she went to university. Not trying to degrade public education, just saying that it should be competitive with private schools.
So I'm driving my bus route and I overhear an older lady tell a "disheveled" middle aged man that he should be wearing a mask for everyone's safety(disregard the fact that it's required in Indiana). Upon exiting the bus, the middle aged man screams "I don't have to wear a mask dammit, this is America!" We're screwed.
It may be terrible, but I believe in poetic justice; and can't wait for them to suffer from COVID. Is death from ignorance too much to hope for? Is selfishness so rampant in this country that we have no hope of containing this virus? I am sorry to say, but the answer to that is yes.
As I was grocery shopping at a store where masks were required, a lady walks in with her mask down under her chin. Makes a comment to a produce clerk. 'It just says I have to wear it, not that I have to wear it right.' Definitely a Karen.
Yeah, Chris. Exactly. I didn't have my first kid until I was 40. She's 7 now. And I cannot imagine what my life was after she came. There is no way in fucking hell I'm sending my kid back to school. If you are ever blessed to have one, they can be a handful, but I guarantee when you do, you won't be able to imagine what your life was before it.
Charles Austin well I don’t see it in the cards being 54 almost and I don’t feel the need to have kids , not to mention I can’t afford even one ,I have no debt and I want to keep it that way
It's not that parents are tired of their children. In my area which is low income, its about not being able to work and afford childcare. So literally risking illness or paying rent and utilities. So impossible choices.
@@rebeccaholcombe9043 which is another facet in re-imagining the schooling program as we know it. So that kids of every circumstance are on equal footing.
I’m a carpenter for the school district and I’ll tell you that we get called in to help disinfect schools when we have a large number of children out with the seasonal flu, I don’t know how it’s possible to do that every day!🤬🤬🤬
For anyone who thinks it’s too stressful for their kids to stay home: think about how stressful it would be for them to go to school under those conditions.
Yup. You want my Kindergartener to be in a classroom full of children that he can't play with? That's not going to make them all feel like they're a pariah, or anything. On top of no recess, or lunchroom time. I'm lucky enough to be in a position where we can homeschool.
Think about the fact that previously HEALTHY children HAVE died. Yeah, it's rare, but it's happening. Think about the fact that almost 20% of anyone, and that includes the young, who contracts SARS-CoV-2 has permanent damage to vital organs. Let's be honest, most of us aren't equipped to teach, but in the grand scheme of things, all of life is a learning experience to a child. They may not learn the same things as they would in school, but they WILL learn. I'll be caring for my ADHD nephew and helping my brother with homeschooling. It'll be a learning experience for all of us. It's just not worth the risk. I know some may have to work and have no other options for their kids..like my brother. If you can help out family/friends/neighbors so they dont have to risk this, I'd urge you to at least try.
@@karmafride1237 Thank you, but I can't take full credit. I'm paraphrasing another comment I saw somewhere. You're right though - good bumper sticker. But be prepared to come back to a keyed car. These Never Masks'ers, Back To School'ers are crazy!!
@@md61211 ..... yeah..... you'll be lucky if it's just keyed. We're seeing some extraordinarily idiotic behavior on the part of trimp cultists. Think: what would "humptydumbty" himself like to do to your car.
Imagine a country with a strong emphasis on education, commitment to repairing our communities, decent access to mental health care and prisons whose goal was to rehabilitate prisoners and help them not to reoffend.
@@feleciawalberg646 Oh, but the States can't do that, because those countries are homogeneous coughallwhitecoughnotaracistcoughcough and apparently sharing is bad.
I was a teacher. I love this. Just one thing (and there are so many): Open windows. Many schools don't have windows that open any more. A lot of rooms are interior and don't have windows at all. lol!!!! Every time they come out with more "guidelines," I wonder if these people have ever been in a school or around a child or been a child or can spell the word, "child." Thank you for this. I needed a laugh today.
As a child I grew up in Maine. Open a window there in the fall and you'd have to spend so much money on heat you'd use the annual budget in two months.
Remember that some schools did this and included software that allowed them to video kids at home there were lawsuits but schools admitted no fault or guilt and said no one viewed the footage , sure and the moon is made of green cheese
Andre Diaz: it would be cheaper than all the measures having to be paid for to try to prevent kids from being kids and then all the funds needed to care for all the kids and family members who end up in hospital. Kids stay home, learn on-line and everyone is safer.
Even if they had the money (which is an impossibility the way public schools are funded in the US), they are already out of time for September. This should have been funded, planned, and worked on MONTHS ago if they were serious about opening schools without a resulting death toll. I think the actual plan was to do nothing and hope the virus 'just goes away' by September. Now that it is clear that 'plan' will result in catastrophe, the 'leadership' has no Plan B. PS - I wish your wife, you, and your family the best of luck, I don't know how this will play out, but at the very least it's going to be super stressful for everyone involved.
How could they lay off custodians: they are essential and needed, they have to empty trash, sanitize, sanitize, clean restrooms, hallways fix issues. This is a horrible nightmare.
I retired May 2019 after a 39 yr career as a classroom teacher - my last classroom was an ‘inside classroom’ so no windows to outside air just a view of hallway and some classrooms had no windows at all. Most of the teachers, I worked with bought their own tissues and sanitizer for their classroom as there was no school budget for that. We had approximately 1300 middle school kids - there was 1 bathroom sink for each grade level - a semi round sink with three faucets which usually only 1-2 worked at a time. Subs - my district has been short subs for years and it is only going to get worse.
@Doomsurfer oh yeah, and then all those people dropped dead after he said it! Clearly, there are more pressing matters at hand, so go troll somewhere else. No one cares what you have to say.
@@derrickburwell7777 he is not..BUT...BUT Joe Biden was not the president 2 other times. In 1980s,Biden dropped his presidential aspiration because he committed fraud through 'plagiarism' Joe Biden got caught using a British Labor Party leader's speech as his own. Biden was caught 9 times in his career as a lawyer plagiarizing other author's material...Great fucking guy,the Romans
Spoke to three separate teachers this week and they all agreed that schools should remain closed till we get things under control. Two of them were union.
@Antoine dauphinais I guess it does for some but I believe it comes down to just making the decision to quit. Then they say that AA "cured" them. For me, I woke up one day, made the decision and I haven't been a naughty boy since. That was almost four years ago. It'll be Sept. 16. Man, I couldn't stand the constant war stories. Sometimes it seemed as if ppl were seeing if they could win a competition for who could tell the better storyon how they hit rock bottom story. I couldn't handle it. Gotta admit the one I was forced to attend, that's another story, had dang good coffee. Enuf money hitting the collection basket they could afford the good sh*t and they didn't skip on the amount they put in the pot either. ; )
In our area the public school opened a summer athletic camp and had to close it within a week when 10 kids got COVID. They tested them on Tuesday. The results were out on Thursday and the camp was closed Friday. That was the end of that.
Lost Hero I hear they spread to many other families and so we won’t really know the death toll. 😞 I was glad I had kept my kids locked up inside. I could never handle them giving this thing to another person.
The message I get is Trump could not tell the truth to save his life. Virtual education requires that you have internet connection and some kind of device to access it.
Also consider families of multiple kids, you need an adequate device for each, and the bandwidth to support it all - in the US, one of the countries with the worst coverage in the developed world because they erode proper oversight ...
Well that's interesting news. I expected he was being held to a different standard. His mother would have the good sense and leverage to ensure that. Other mothers won't have the same opportunity for their children. Baron shouldn't have to go back, but neither should any other child. Especially if he doesn't have to.
The argument that schools are the way society deals with hunger and domestic violence is appalling to me. Thank you for bringing it up. Love your channel.
I started teaching in 1979 and retired this past March when school shut-down. You are "spot-on" with your comments. Even though I am not returning to the classroom, I am having my regular back to school dreams- with obvious new fears. Support your teachers! They want to teach. They don't want to die to do it.
Brad Sherwood I fear our government views teachers as glorified babysitters instead of the important role they truly play in molding our children’s futures. They need teachers so mom and dad can resume making trillions of dollars for some people who already have too much. Teachers need to step up and show them their middle fingers. Sorry, my socialism is exposed on this topic.
“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.” ― Konstantin Josef Jireček
I really can't wrap my head around this argument that the amount of people potentially dying from suicide and the depression of lockdown is large enough to ignore the actual number of infected and confirmed dead from covid 19. The first thing I thought when Trump canceled his primary event was, "Well, at least now our kids are safe." I couldn't even conceive of a circumstance when someone could be so openly hypocritical as to assert that coronavirus is too contagious for holding a Republican campaign event lasting three days but inconsequential with regard to sending kids to school five days a week. Then again, kids don't vote and their parents can't go back to work if the kids aren't back in school. I've never heard Trump worry much about the suicidal depression caused by those parents working two or three minimum wage jobs (offering no benefits) and still lacking the resources to provide their kids an adequate breakfast or lunch money.
You have to inlude the children (and parents driving them) that are not dying in accidents, and those who do not commit suicide because they are bullied, or those who do not die an mass shootings. But add those who are in more danger becasue they are aldready being abused at home and now the nerves of their parents are even more blank. But that is a gradual scale ... and maybe it would be a good idea to not add more stress.
Jamedra A: What worries me is there is one teacher for every thirty or forty kids. If you take out five or ten teachers you have no school and this is likely what will happen.
@@npknscrb I think we're returning to a time when that was the norm. My mom was Navy. When she was out to sea, I spent my days with my paternal great grandmother & then my (paternal) grandparents picked me up after work. It does take a village.
"Maybe we can do a science experiment and make hand sanitizer in school..." "No, you didn't make hand sanitizer kids, you made vodka, again. Put it in the trunk of my car with the last batch."
6:35 ...yeah, if your school has a nurse. I know mine doesn't. I don't think any school in my district does either. And, if we did, they likely would have quit two weeks ago.
You ARE RIGHT!! We couldn't take a small amount of discomfort for a short time to give our nation a chance to heal long term. I've worked construction for years doin hard manual labor wearing a mask. Different masks for different dangers. Some like dust you can see. The most dangerous you can't see. Wear the mask. If we didn't we didn't get paid. If caught in some areas we were marched to the gate and lost our job. WEAR THE MASK !!
A colleuge of mine from China was telling me about when the gov sent kids back to school, they each had a different color mask. Funny thing was that parents became worried when their kids came home with another color, turns out kids were trading them.
Bahahaha. I know...its not funny...but one can only imagine the innocence in how cool, genious & loving that was in their young, sweet lil noggins...and the "very serious" conversation & multi-level negotiations that took place. 70's Trading marbles, 90' pokemon, 2020...masks. "Here...it's clean, i only chewed on it alittle"
To your point, Our church has “adopted” six (underfunded) schools in our neighborhood. Paper towels, paper etc. in the winter coats, gloves socks hats and gift box for teachers lounge. We have been doing this for years, long before a pandemic.
@@mathewkelly9968 I'm going to take a leap here and guess that this is a mainstream denomination, if they are actually doing something useful for the schools. I'm an atheist, but I grew up Lutheran, and this is the kind of thing our church got involved in, with no quid pro quo. You need to learn the distinction between the evangelical fundamentalists/dominionists, who are so loudly trying to insert themselves into our politics and the lives of others, and the more liberal churches that practice their beliefs quietly, with good actions. Charlet, I hope you'll respond and clarify it for us.
First real comment. Not ‘safe’ to have a convention in Florida with Trump Present. Not safe to open schools with him present in the White House either. See what I did there?
Anthony M It’s a good question. I think this government should have enough money to help keep it’s citizens afloat until this crisis is over. But no, the money is in the pockets of the wealthy who don’t have these concerns.
The money for this and everything else is in the pockets of rich people who feel they shouldn’t have to pay taxes. If the wealthy were taxed at the rates that were present up until the early 1960s, America would be great. And, you know what? Rich people would still have buckets of money.
Remember Trump's war on food stamps? He proposed food boxes, with canned fruits, pasta and other shelf stable processed foods. Maybe that will come to light again.
I spent 30 years trying to keep an Elementary School of about 350 students clean and safe for students. Adminstration could never provide enough staffing to do the cleaning properly. I don't know how they can keep a school safe now. I am glad that I am retired
Dave Armstrong Thanks for your service! My school janitor looked to be 70, and could barely get around. My graduating class in 1971 was 365. Don't know how he managed. (Maybe because most of us were taught at home to pick up/cleanup after ourselves?)
Dave Armstrong. Thank you for all your sacrifices and hard work. I was a teacher in hard to staff schools. I. tried to help keep the classroom and hallways clean. I know first-hand that the administrations don't all they should for a clean and safe environment. I'm so glad to be retired.
My Dad suggests that every television station air a minimum of 1 hr. educational programing daily. Even if some folks may not have computers many still have a television in house.
Having a tv does not mean they have access to live network programing. How many would have cable in order to get the 1 hour of educational programs? [Would hour 2 ... 3 ... or 4 ... require payment? If all young humans needed is an hour of educational programing a day to function intelligently in society, we should be a nation of geniuses because of the 6-7 hours we have been accustom to.] The so called free network stations are very hard to pick up in a lot of regions in this country. My area, for example, because of mountains or trees, very few households can "catch" free signals. Most that can are limited to the time of year when there aren't leaves on the trees. I have not watched free network programing at least 15 years. Despite buying state of the antennas, mounted higher and higher. A lot of cable providers also require internet access to get their packages of network programing. With all the unemployment we have now, people are going to have to give up something to help with finances. What's the most expendable? Food? Rent? Water? Electric? Cable/internet? I applaud your dad for thinking he came up with such a simple solution to a very complex problem, I think he limited it to a narrow view of everyone having the same living conditions he has. I also applaud that he raised a kid who believes so much in their father they don't question whether or not his ideas are feasible. If dad says it, it is feasible.
I must be a rotten human being.. I caught myself laughing at how impossible this tragic situation actually is..! But then I remembered that Kayleigh McEnany has our backs..!
I quit teaching and found a job I could do from home because I wasn’t going to put myself in danger. Schools are so unprepared for this it’s embarrassing.
Maybe that should be the new norm. Give the schools the money the police get and the police the money the schools get. Let the police throw themselves a carwash.
And for our first arts and crafts project this year we"ll be making coffins, maybe for yourself, your parents, grandparents, teachers or their families, better hurry or you'll be too late.
@Al Egator That is nesscairly not ture. Where I live it cost roughly $14 grand for an apprenticeship. Then you need to figure in tools and everything else. It is useful but not free.
@Al Egator Im not aguring that a 4 year degree is better than a trade . Nor is a trade better than a 4 year. Im just saying it is not free. And not everyone is able to take the path you took. Everyone should pursue what they feel is their path in life rather than a path based on yearly salery or what soceity saids is best. That why we have so many misrable people in this country.
Yeah, I'm so high risk that I'm 'putting my affairs in order' now. I'm glad that I don't have any grandkids now, but I feel sorry for all my friends who do.
I cannot fully understand how frightening this time is for those at greater risk. My heart goes out to you, and I wish you robust health that carries you through to happier days in our country.
@@jzthompson9598 The hardest part is not over talking our concerns. We don't want to depress them. We had Russia and nuke attacks clogging our young minds. Like getting on a bus and seeing that poster of Krusvhev threatening to bury us every day. I can still see it clearly.
@@JTuaim And don't forget hiding under the desks. That's when I decided to run outside. I had seen the pictures of Nagasaki and I was not going to live post nuclear bomb. With the sanitization of the news, (no war coverage allowed) kids don't know about wars. Or sacrifice. They do now, though. I hope they all stay at home. No bus or schoolroom will be safe.
Australia had on line learning for most of term 2 (April/May/June). Most kids did not learn as much (at least not as much of the regular curriculum) as they normally would in a classroom, but the teachers were teaching. Kids, and teachers, have also learnt a lot more about software, adaptability, social connections (and how to maintain friendships), and many have been asking in depth questions about viruses, health, the economy, politics, and all sorts of other things. Many are seeing that life is not a set of subject pigeon holes, but that everything is connected. I have hopes that gen Z will bring a fresh way of integrating work and life.
Kids are like petri dishes for germs. They stick everything in their mouth. They then roll that object in their hands. Then, they give their parents a hug. For real, this isn't going to work.
But our leader is a genius who can remember 5 words... Extra points for remembering them in order. Person woman man camera tv If only our teachers were that smart...
The World, I'm still trying to get my head round why USA still calls itself the leader of the free world! All that when teachers" has to figure something out" WHAT!
That’s actually a good idea. Test every student every day using inexpensive paper tests. Keep those testing positive home. Teachers always wear masks. The only problem is that this would take governmental effort which Trump is unable to do. He is good at lying though so all he has to do is get enough people to believe his lies.
"They're all supposed to wear masks. We've got grown adults who won't wear their masks. and when they don't and they throw a temper tantrum and end up on CZcams what do we say -- they're acting like a ... child. But we're expecting actual children to do what they're supposed to."
Man, it sounds like the schools and Teachers really need funding. It's too bad there isn't some other tax funded group that we could shift some of the needed funding from. Like, if there was some group that was under really, heavy national criticism. And we could reduce the amount we spend on them, like if they were abusive and corrupt let's say, and then give that to the schools.
“(The kids) are supposed to be 6 ft apart even in lines, and I don’t know if you’ve ever watched children in a line but that seems ... ambitious.” I was going to say miraculous, but add quite a few adjectives that aren’t rated G.
Right!! I can't get mines either 😄 the saddest part about it, is there's so many videos showing some parents can't follow simple guidelines by simply just wearing a mask when your out in public 🤔
@@DM0M0 PLEASE stay safe if your state force's you and your students to be put in an unsafe environment. Letting you know concern parents stands with you!!!
I hope the never maskers keep their children home. Heck I hope all the parents tell the government to go F OFF! For whatever reason. One thing that I have been thinking about is that since hand sanitizer is in such short supply. I bet somewhere that some school district is gonna end up with the stuff that the FDA says is bad for you, and make a bunch of children sick.
"Open the windows" Not only were the windows in my elementary school not openable, there were 100+°F days with 80%+ humidity. That whole list is a wild pipe dream.
Guidance Counselor here 🙋♀️ Nobody has any f#@king clue what schools are charged with UNDER NORMAL circumstances. My entire day, every day of every year is filled with putting out emotional and behavioral fires. I literally do not sit down...at work. It is ludicrous to think that students of any age will comply with social distancing, mask wearing, hand sanitizing etc. It👏isn't 👏doable!!!
High school teacher here. I agree with D. T. 100%. Keeping kids away from each other is not possible under normal circumstances. After these months of isolation, kids need human contact more than ever. Putting them together on campus and then telling them they can't hug or touch each other is cruel and can't be enforced.
@@ChrisPage68 in time, most kids rebel against their parents, society or authority. To differing degrees, to be sure, and most make their own way back to societal norms, but kids are not drones or replicants and think and chose for themselves even if their thinking is influenced and some of their choices are bad.
@@KellyS_77 Not the kind of fires resulting from significant numbers of ones family dead or dying. In Florida a mayor had one young person get covid. (teen), Family gathering. Two weeks later, 23 out of 25 positive.
"This is going to be really hard". Ummmmm......I'd use the words "utterly and completely impossible", and this is coming from a substitute teacher who has taught from preschool to high school. Have these people been inside a school for even five minutes? You can't get 10 year olds to stay in a straight line and stop touching, shoving and hugging each other under the best of circumstances. You turn your head for just a second and Johnny has pulled Susan's hair, Billie has jumped in line in front of Bob and they're shoving, Lucy has her mouth in Bettie's ear whispering an urgent secret and John is letting Joseph take a bite of his candy bar. They have the attention span of nats and that's completely normal for our species. Have they completely and totally forgotten what is normal behavior for young human beings? And they expect them to stand in line six feet apart wearing mask. Yeah, good luck with that. The little kids are not capable of sustaining any consistent behavior for any stretch of time. They are flighty and easily distracted because they're little kids. The older kids see bending the rules as upping their cool factor. Good luck there too. No one is this stupid. They just don't care.
Already decided to do virtual learning for at least the first semester. I feel bad my child has to isolate, and blame not only the lack of intelligent leadership, but the lack of responsible citizens. This thing should have been contained by now.
You may have already thought of this, but you may want to Check for free online events. Also, using zoom for "friend fests", "story time", & music jam sessions with friends.
So the guidelines indicate MOST CLEARLY: we CANNOT safely return kids and teachers to school. THEREFORE: focus attention and resources on doing it VIRTUALLY. WE CAN DO THIS. The question is, will we?
Yes, but we shouldn't kid ourselves. Parents who care about their kids education will make sure they do their work but many other parents will just let them play games all day. But given the situation, that's probably the best we can do.
Lynne S My kids are grown. One is going into her senior year in college, and I’m feeling a lot of angst for her. Just when she needed an internship, and to culminate her higher education, along with us wondering what kind of world we are sending her into, it’s just heartbreaking. If I had little kids today, plus my own (currently insane, overtime - ok no complaints glad I have work I can do at home) job? I’d be desperate for simply organized, basically compelling, even just functional, online school for them. I’d work like crazy to supplement, to help with homework, etc. But I’d be relying on those teachers for sure. Teachers have to have the training and technology to teach kids online. I’m also so worried for kids without wifi, or school lunches, or a quiet space to focus. Putting all the energy into “going back to the classroom,” when we all know that won’t be happening, is taking it away from planning or investing to make this year even possible for most kids. What a total mess.
@@lcflngn It can be done, but it takes a government willing to do it. In Australia for most of term 2 (April/May/June) school was done on line. Schools closed a few days before the Easter holidays were due to start and went back a few days late, so teachers had a week to learn how to use the chosen app (my kids' school used microsoft teams, but others are using discord or zoom), rewrite classes for working from home (science experiments, cooking, trade classes especially had to be completely rethought), call the families of all their students to check that they had a laptop/tablet for the kids to work on, and internet access. It is far from ideal and both teachers and students are finding it difficult. A few very motivated kids have done well, having peace and quiet to just get on with their study. Others (mine included) have lost all motivation and despite logging in to the meeting at the start of each class, have not done much else. It is what it is, and is much better than them all being at school and spreading disease.
I find it mind boggling that your teachers are expected to pay for supplies and safety equipment out of their own wages rather then having an actual separate budget. On the other hand, over here, good old Boris has decided that children won't need to social distance!
Social distancing in schools would be unworkable in reality but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the reason Doris decided it wasn't needed. Let's see what kind of reception he gets on his "Keep Scotland in the Union" tour. I'm convinced he knows full well that visiting Scotland will only strengthen the Independence movement, he cannot be so blind to his being almost universally hated there.
I don't do social media except CZcams, but my wife read me a post that a teacher $100 out of pocket buying pvc pipes and clear plastic to create partitions for each student. THEN, the fire marshall declared it a fire hazard, so at least there, plastic partitions can't be done to slow the spread. 7 24 2020.
That's what they want. They understand that most working class people can't afford full-time daycare if the schools are closed. So the schools go back to be makeshift daycare, the parents go back to work, the stock market rises, and tRump crows about how "great" he's made things. These people are not morons, well tRump is, they are evil. This is all triangulated.
@Scott Parents throughout history have relied on daycare... Just most of that time it was family and community. That isn't an option for a lot of us anymore... Myself as example, we have had to move far away from anyone we know for work. Also, socialization is extremely important education. If it were just academics I be fine with homeschooling. Anyways... It is a rock and a hard place situation.
@Scott Spoken like someone who doesn't know jack shit about childhood development. Also, ever heard of "special needs"? As I said, there's no good option here.
The local school district here in Tacoma, WA, has already decided to do 100% remote learning this fall. Clearly no one here is taking Trump or his failure of a federal government seriously.
I saw something on Twitter where a person posted "Anyone who thinks the children won't lick their hands and chase each other around screaming corona has never met children"
Melee Stormbringer or coughing on each other as a game.
Kids are immune
@@thecargotsold not true they have higher chances of surviving but that doesn't mean they won't spread it and it doesn't mean that kids with underline health conditions or have issues like obesity and asthma will be fine either.
@@thecargotsold A nine year old without any known preconditions died from Covid recently in the State of Florida.
@@thecargotsold not all of them. Teachers aren't. Neither are parents.
3000 millionaires aren’t comfortable meeting for a weekend, but millions of children should be ok meeting daily for eight hours.
well said.
"I don't know if you've ever watched children in a line, but that seems... Ambitious" Made me laugh.
Lol, extremely ambitious.
It makes herding cats seem feasible :-)
His delivery was perfect.
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I was dying. His look of disgust is too funny. I understand.
It's almost comical when adults act like children and not wear masks, and then expect their children to wear masks.
America is basically a bunch of two years olds screaming "MIIIIIIIIIIIINE!" It's already too late.
They don't expect their children to wear masks, these are the same people who STILL don't think COVID-19 is that bad.
Well some people in the WH are CLOWNS a sad state of affairs
How many parents are gonna show up without a mask demanding that their kid doesn't have to wear a mask??🤔
Far too many. Alongside the anti-vaxxers, who overlap, but not completely.
It is my opinion that the US will never, ever be done with this virus without a significant change in attitude from over 30% of your population. Or.. too many to EVER have a vaccine actually work. Also science. That is too high a percentage. A population needs 80% plus (95% is far better) in order to do what it is intended to do.
And it will never happen in the US without significant societal change.
Any bets on the odds of that happening before massive death counts happen?
Along with the resultant chaos?
@@MrDaChicken I wouldn't bet against you.Millions will die here before this is over at the rate we're going.
That's the very first thing I thought about when he insisted on opening the schools. If the parents won't wear a mask, how are you going to get the kids to go against their parents? What are you going to do with that child, put him outside? lol This is sooooooooo crazy. Nationwide strike time!
@@MrDaChicken Until they are fined AND imprisoned these people won't change. If everyone had done masks months ago kids could be going to school.
Karens, Karens everywhere. . .
It's an upside down kind'a world.. Adults acting like children, and children expected to act like adults.
One of the real reasons for their rush to reopen schools is they fear The People will realize they can school from home. One way or another, the system will have to update to the new "normal". Before putting the new generations at risk. They can run a pilot, same as they deploy Feds abroad to protect property, they can group all their kids and grands in any school, and run a one month simulation, so they may learn what needs to change beforehand.
@@robertodiaz9680 Single working parents don't have the option of homeschooling, Richie Rich.
@@jasperbirdcycle2024 no, but if we re-imagine what school is, or can be, who's to say that some inventive school share options can't happen?
@@rebeccapresti9650 Aw, I'm just being a jerk. Everybody's mocking me for my solution which is to send children back where they belong: factories and coal mines.
that's how it has always been since as long as I can remember.
Imagine what could be accomplished if we took even 20% of the military's obscene budget and put it toward education.
Take 50% or more. The majority of the money goes for overpriced items by overpriced defense contractors in the MIC. Add to that, political kickbacks and gross mismanagement of funds. In Iraq, we had overpriced Hummers, with mediocre reliability, and without ballistic armor. They wasn't as reliable as the Toyota trucks used by the insurgents. The prices paid by the taxpayers for military weapon systems are a ripoff. Made in USA is no longer synonymous with high quality. The money spent on a high quality education for everyone, especially in the STEM fields will promote innovation and overall high standards that we need to progress and evolve.
Kids would be smart enough to not join. Then we'd have compulsory service to keep the MIC afloat.
@@ECA2
Forgot how politicians approve military spending when the military says that they don't need the stuff as they have more than enough of it. But politicians need to keep factories in their states going...
Oh and how about dividing up production between multiple states to make closing the line even harder as more politicians would see jobs disappear from their voters...
Free market promoting efficiency isn't a thing for military industry apparently...
@@ECA2 _"Made in USA is no longer synonymous with high quality."_
When was it? 1870? ;-)
(Sorry, could not resist. As a non-American, I have no right to make such remarks.)
I didn’t realize how bad the public education system was until my daughter started attending a private university. My daughter has always been AP with a GPA above 4.0 with her extra credits. Her first semester at a private university she just lost her mind, she had to learn how to learn. Sounds like a weird thing to say, but she says that the curriculum and methods of testing are nothing like public school. With 13 years of public education under her belt, she didn’t feel challenged until she went to university. Not trying to degrade public education, just saying that it should be competitive with private schools.
So I'm driving my bus route and I overhear an older lady tell a "disheveled" middle aged man that he should be wearing a mask for everyone's safety(disregard the fact that it's required in Indiana). Upon exiting the bus, the middle aged man screams "I don't have to wear a mask dammit, this is America!" We're screwed.
It may be terrible, but I believe in poetic justice; and can't wait for them to suffer from COVID. Is death from ignorance too much to hope for? Is selfishness so rampant in this country that we have no hope of containing this virus? I am sorry to say, but the answer to that is yes.
As I was grocery shopping at a store where masks were required, a lady walks in with her mask down under her chin. Makes a comment to a produce clerk. 'It just says I have to wear it, not that I have to wear it right.' Definitely a Karen.
I don’t have children and I feel like nobody in their right mind would want their kids to go back to school under those conditions, just a thought
Yeah, Chris. Exactly. I didn't have my first kid until I was 40. She's 7 now. And I cannot imagine what my life was after she came. There is no way in fucking hell I'm sending my kid back to school. If you are ever blessed to have one, they can be a handful, but I guarantee when you do, you won't be able to imagine what your life was before it.
Charles Austin well I don’t see it in the cards being 54 almost and I don’t feel the need to have kids , not to mention I can’t afford even one ,I have no debt and I want to keep it that way
Everyone is tired of dealing with their Children
It's not that parents are tired of their children. In my area which is low income, its about not being able to work and afford childcare. So literally risking illness or paying rent and utilities. So impossible choices.
@@rebeccaholcombe9043 which is another facet in re-imagining the schooling program as we know it. So that kids of every circumstance are on equal footing.
I’m a carpenter for the school district and I’ll tell you that we get called in to help disinfect schools when we have a large number of children out with the seasonal flu, I don’t know how it’s possible to do that every day!🤬🤬🤬
I am a teacher. I am so glad someone understands because when teachers complain they are labeled trouble makers.
No one who's worked with children in a classroom can honestly say it's safe to reopen. It's not safe. No way to keep masks on and socially distance.
For anyone who thinks it’s too stressful for their kids to stay home: think about how stressful it would be for them to go to school under those conditions.
maybe they shouldn't have had kids
Yup. You want my Kindergartener to be in a classroom full of children that he can't play with? That's not going to make them all feel like they're a pariah, or anything.
On top of no recess, or lunchroom time. I'm lucky enough to be in a position where we can homeschool.
@@garyhicks9506 This is satire, right?
@@garyhicks9506 maybe your parents shouldn't have.
Think about the fact that previously HEALTHY children HAVE died. Yeah, it's rare, but it's happening. Think about the fact that almost 20% of anyone, and that includes the young, who contracts SARS-CoV-2 has permanent damage to vital organs. Let's be honest, most of us aren't equipped to teach, but in the grand scheme of things, all of life is a learning experience to a child. They may not learn the same things as they would in school, but they WILL learn. I'll be caring for my ADHD nephew and helping my brother with homeschooling. It'll be a learning experience for all of us. It's just not worth the risk. I know some may have to work and have no other options for their kids..like my brother. If you can help out family/friends/neighbors so they dont have to risk this, I'd urge you to at least try.
I will keep my kids home until it’s safe. No one can force me to. I won’t sacrifice my children to the almighty dollar. Forget it.
GOOD FOR YOU! Everybody needs to keep their children home! This is downright INSANITY!
Thank you. You are one smart and tough cookie❣👍
Better to be 6 months behind than 6 feet under
@@karmafride1237 Thank you, but I can't take full credit. I'm paraphrasing another comment I saw somewhere. You're right though - good bumper sticker. But be prepared to come back to a keyed car. These Never Masks'ers, Back To School'ers are crazy!!
@@md61211 ..... yeah..... you'll be lucky if it's just keyed. We're seeing some extraordinarily idiotic behavior on the part of trimp cultists.
Think: what would "humptydumbty" himself like to do to your car.
We spend way too much on incarceration.
Way more than schooling.
A third world country with an ego problem.
Imagine a country with a strong emphasis on education, commitment to repairing our communities, decent access to mental health care and prisons whose goal was to rehabilitate prisoners and help them not to reoffend.
👏👏👏
@@feleciawalberg646 Oh, but the States can't do that, because those countries are homogeneous coughallwhitecoughnotaracistcoughcough and apparently sharing is bad.
@@feleciawalberg646 You don't have to imagine it...look at Scandinavian/nordic countries, most of Europe, really.
I was a teacher. I love this. Just one thing (and there are so many): Open windows. Many schools don't have windows that open any more. A lot of rooms are interior and don't have windows at all. lol!!!! Every time they come out with more "guidelines," I wonder if these people have ever been in a school or around a child or been a child or can spell the word, "child." Thank you for this. I needed a laugh today.
Well you know if the dems get in there won't be any windows....
As a child I grew up in Maine. Open a window there in the fall and you'd have to spend so much money on heat you'd use the annual budget in two months.
@@garyhicks9506 If Trump stays in there won't be any America. Just another facist dictatorship.
@@garyhicks9506 yeah like Shitsy deVos is democratic, you are just spouting what you are told, like a parrot
@@gamesman0118 well, you need less heat if you let the children huddle.
Oh wait...
They need to spend the money on LAPTOPS for our kids to do home schooling.... DEMAND THIS IN YOUR CITY
beats spending it on hand sanitizers and brick and mortar buildings.
And hot spots
Remember that some schools did this and included software that allowed them to video kids at home there were lawsuits but schools admitted no fault or guilt and said no one viewed the footage , sure and the moon is made of green cheese
Andre Diaz: it would be cheaper than all the measures having to be paid for to try to prevent kids from being kids and then all the funds needed to care for all the kids and family members who end up in hospital. Kids stay home, learn on-line and everyone is safer.
better laptops then coffins
Another perk of remote learning: children do not need to fear being murdered in a school shooting.
They don't in Britain. Since the Dunblane massacre there has been 0 school shootings. We brought in legislation OVERNIGHT.
Now that's a headline I haven't missed seeing.
My thoughts exactly. Plus bullying goes way down. :)
Al Egator...or maybe we could try teaching empathy, compassion, and respect for others. As well as self confidence and self defense.
@@cjbell7126 not so sure about that, but it does make it more remote.
My wife is a school nurse. This is an impossibility without more money and resources. They cut funding to education in Ohio. They laid off custodians.
I bet Ohio built more prisons in that time...
Even if they had the money (which is an impossibility the way public schools are funded in the US), they are already out of time for September. This should have been funded, planned, and worked on MONTHS ago if they were serious about opening schools without a resulting death toll.
I think the actual plan was to do nothing and hope the virus 'just goes away' by September. Now that it is clear that 'plan' will result in catastrophe, the 'leadership' has no Plan B.
PS - I wish your wife, you, and your family the best of luck, I don't know how this will play out, but at the very least it's going to be super stressful for everyone involved.
@@andregolden5902 no. They did manage a crooked one billion dollar bailout got a power company though so there's that.
How could they lay off custodians: they are essential and needed, they have to empty trash, sanitize, sanitize, clean restrooms, hallways fix issues. This is a horrible nightmare.
@@sa-iw4dr Good question. The answer is: they did it.
“Doesn’t seem feasible” has to be the understatement of the year, and this is 2020.
I retired May 2019 after a 39 yr career as a classroom teacher - my last classroom was an ‘inside classroom’ so no windows to outside air just a view of hallway and some classrooms had no windows at all. Most of the teachers, I worked with bought their own tissues and sanitizer for their classroom as there was no school budget for that. We had approximately 1300 middle school kids - there was 1 bathroom sink for each grade level - a semi round sink with three faucets which usually only 1-2 worked at a time. Subs - my district has been short subs for years and it is only going to get worse.
Yes, Paul, my district has been short subs for years too. Seems they want to be paid more than enough to cover gas to get to the school. Fancy that.
Anyone else hit like right away ‘cause you know it’ll be good?
Every time but only on Beau's videos.
Ofcourse. It’s a must If you are a Beaugle.
Same here 😁👍
Yes. Haven't disagreed with anything he has ever said.
#ALWAYS 😉
Did you read that trumps son is not going to. School. But yours Must.
@Doomsurfer Let's talk about the fact that Joe Biden is not the President.
@Doomsurfer oh yeah, and then all those people dropped dead after he said it! Clearly, there are more pressing matters at hand, so go troll somewhere else. No one cares what you have to say.
I figured he was still in the bunker.
@@derrickburwell7777 he is not..BUT...BUT Joe Biden was not the president 2 other times. In 1980s,Biden dropped his presidential aspiration because he committed fraud through 'plagiarism'
Joe Biden got caught using a British Labor Party leader's speech as his own. Biden was caught 9 times in his career as a lawyer plagiarizing other author's material...Great fucking guy,the Romans
Trump's son is a pet - your kid is a warrior.
Spoke to three separate teachers this week and they all agreed that schools should remain closed till we get things under control. Two of them were union.
Quote of the day: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
I've been to several treatments for my addictions and that is commonly heard there and in AA&NA I suppose other 12 step programs too. : )
@Antoine dauphinais I guess it does for some but I believe it comes down to just making the decision to quit. Then they say that AA "cured" them. For me, I woke up one day, made the decision and I haven't been a naughty boy since. That was almost four years ago. It'll be Sept. 16. Man, I couldn't stand the constant war stories. Sometimes it seemed as if ppl were seeing if they could win a competition for who could tell the better storyon how they hit rock bottom story. I couldn't handle it. Gotta admit the one I was forced to attend, that's another story, had dang good coffee. Enuf money hitting the collection basket they could afford the good sh*t and they didn't skip on the amount they put in the pot either. ; )
Given how badly schools cope with an outbreak of head lice, I don't see this playing out well.
Head lice itch. They don't kill.
WELL SAID!!!!!
In our area the public school opened a summer athletic camp and had to close it within a week when 10 kids got COVID. They tested them on Tuesday. The results were out on Thursday and the camp was closed Friday. That was the end of that.
Exactly, if something as innocuous as headlice can't be dealt with how are they expected to manage a pandemic.
Lost Hero I hear they spread to many other families and so we won’t really know the death toll. 😞 I was glad I had kept my kids locked up inside. I could never handle them giving this thing to another person.
The message I get is Trump could not tell the truth to save his life. Virtual education requires that you have internet connection and some kind of device to access it.
And all of these are problems for low income students.
Yes,not all kids have access to internet. and if they do,it still requires some adult assistance in early age groups
Internet connection and devices might be cheaper than buses, fuel, new brick and mortar buildings, utilities, hand sanitizer and soap.
@Lost Hero Yep
Also consider families of multiple kids, you need an adequate device for each, and the bandwidth to support it all - in the US, one of the countries with the worst coverage in the developed world because they erode proper oversight ...
Baron's school, that, I read this morning, has 11 students per classroom, isn't opening for in-person classes.
Well that's interesting news. I expected he was being held to a different standard. His mother would have the good sense and leverage to ensure that. Other mothers won't have the same opportunity for their children. Baron shouldn't have to go back, but neither should any other child. Especially if he doesn't have to.
Private
Paul Muggins Genius kid, probably
Obviously. I doubt if Trump understands the concept of "what's good for the goose..."
Beau: " They're acting like a ....."
Me: Karen!
Beau: Child.
Me: Hell, close enough.
I thought the same thing!
No children are generally better behaved.
Same! 😆
As an official Karen, I approve of this comment. Lol
@@Moogiereads Lol. You Miss Karen, have a fantastic sense of humour. ☺☺
The argument that schools are the way society deals with hunger and domestic violence is appalling to me. Thank you for bringing it up. Love your channel.
They would rather the school covered up the fallout from poverty than educate children beyond what they will need for low income work.
High school teachers don't get supplies donated, we pay for them ourselves. We also buy food for our students too.
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Preach on that! Yes we do.
This is about as sensical as banning starvation to end world hunger.
Trump Is the kind of person to yell "FIRE" after the house has burned to the ground, and THEN expect a "thank you" for his efforts.
I started teaching in 1979 and retired this past March when school shut-down. You are "spot-on" with your comments. Even though I am not returning to the classroom, I am having my regular back to school dreams- with obvious new fears. Support your teachers! They want to teach. They don't want to die to do it.
Brad Sherwood I fear our government views teachers as glorified babysitters instead of the important role they truly play in molding our children’s futures. They need teachers so mom and dad can resume making trillions of dollars for some people who already have too much. Teachers need to step up and show them their middle fingers. Sorry, my socialism is exposed on this topic.
They won't. The science bears this out. Investigate for yourself.
Kent Lange Quick! Get your head back in the sand before you get hurt!
@@marypritchett115 concur 100%- I spent my career in a "right to work " state- thus teacher salaries?? yeah, lousy.
@@kentlange5338 You couldn't be more wrong.
“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”
― Konstantin Josef Jireček
My mantra.
Boy ain't that the truth!!
I actually have this quote on a small magnet, hanging on the -20 freezer in our virology research lab. It’s been there for the past 3 years.
I really can't wrap my head around this argument that the amount of people potentially dying from suicide and the depression of lockdown is large enough to ignore the actual number of infected and confirmed dead from covid 19. The first thing I thought when Trump canceled his primary event was, "Well, at least now our kids are safe." I couldn't even conceive of a circumstance when someone could be so openly hypocritical as to assert that coronavirus is too contagious for holding a Republican campaign event lasting three days but inconsequential with regard to sending kids to school five days a week. Then again, kids don't vote and their parents can't go back to work if the kids aren't back in school. I've never heard Trump worry much about the suicidal depression caused by those parents working two or three minimum wage jobs (offering no benefits) and still lacking the resources to provide their kids an adequate breakfast or lunch money.
You have to inlude the children (and parents driving them) that are not dying in accidents, and those who do not commit suicide because they are bullied, or those who do not die an mass shootings.
But add those who are in more danger becasue they are aldready being abused at home and now the nerves of their parents are even more blank. But that is a gradual scale ... and maybe it would be a good idea to not add more stress.
God bless you once again! I’m a retired teacher and you “ hit all of the nails on the head”. Thanks so very much!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I love children, but they are petri dishes. I'm worried about the teachers & the households they go back to.
And the kids who’s parents diligently wear masks and are cautious going to the stores and kids parents who refuse to wear masks in public.
@Janet Baker Imagine Pigpen from Charlie Brown.
More and more grandparents are primary caregivers or guardians of school age children too.
Jamedra A: What worries me is there is one teacher for every thirty or forty kids. If you take out five or ten teachers you have no school and this is likely what will happen.
@@npknscrb I think we're returning to a time when that was the norm. My mom was Navy. When she was out to sea, I spent my days with my paternal great grandmother & then my (paternal) grandparents picked me up after work. It does take a village.
"Maybe we can do a science experiment and make hand sanitizer in school..."
"No, you didn't make hand sanitizer kids, you made vodka, again. Put it in the trunk of my car with the last batch."
I want to thumbs up this comment but it's at 69 thumbs ups
May I add that one third of all public schools don't even have a school nurse .
School nurses screening students, teachers, and staff? You mean the one nurse who has to float to multiple schools?
And isn't allowed to actually treat any children or give even over the counter medication.
6:35 ...yeah, if your school has a nurse. I know mine doesn't. I don't think any school in my district does either. And, if we did, they likely would have quit two weeks ago.
What nurse? I haven't seen a nurse in my school ever!
Schools reopening would've been great, but WE DIDN'T EARN IT.
You ARE RIGHT!! We couldn't take a small amount of discomfort for a short time to give our nation a chance to heal long term. I've worked construction for years doin hard manual labor wearing a mask. Different masks for different dangers.
Some like dust you can see. The most dangerous you can't see. Wear the mask. If we didn't we didn't get paid. If caught in some areas we were marched to the gate and lost our job. WEAR THE MASK !!
Facts I love this
A colleuge of mine from China was telling me about when the gov sent kids back to school, they each had a different color mask. Funny thing was that parents became worried when their kids came home with another color, turns out kids were trading them.
Kids trading things at school? No. Really?!
That's the most expected outcome to anyone who's around kids! 😆
Bahahaha. I know...its not funny...but one can only imagine the innocence in how cool, genious & loving that was in their young, sweet lil noggins...and the "very serious" conversation & multi-level negotiations that took place. 70's Trading marbles, 90' pokemon, 2020...masks. "Here...it's clean, i only chewed on it alittle"
@@zinaj9437 bahahaha!!! The only reason they go to school without a inciting major household meltdown some days. Bahahaha!!!
@@anthonynorman7545 ABSOLUTELY!!!!!
To your point, Our church has “adopted” six (underfunded) schools in our neighborhood. Paper towels, paper etc. in the winter coats, gloves socks hats and gift box for teachers lounge. We have been doing this for years, long before a pandemic.
So you force said schools to teach creationism and other such BS ? You Christians don't do anything without caveats and conditions
@@mathewkelly9968 I'm going to take a leap here and guess that this is a mainstream denomination, if they are actually doing something useful for the schools. I'm an atheist, but I grew up Lutheran, and this is the kind of thing our church got involved in, with no quid pro quo.
You need to learn the distinction between the evangelical fundamentalists/dominionists, who are so loudly trying to insert themselves into our politics and the lives of others, and the more liberal churches that practice their beliefs quietly, with good actions.
Charlet, I hope you'll respond and clarify it for us.
trump places a VERY high value on education - don't forget: he even started his own university!
It was a very high value that enabled Fred Trump to buy his son's business degree.
😂😂😂😂😂
😆the university that didn't exist 😂🤣you funny 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@nozecone #BESTCOMMENT!
First real comment.
Not ‘safe’ to have a convention in Florida with Trump Present.
Not safe to open schools with him present in the White House either.
See what I did there?
Curve - Well done! 👍🏼😂
Julian Crooks
I consider her more a ‘Secretive of education’.
She seems hell bent on ruining public schools.
Sit and spin. Pull your head out. You can do it! We have faith in you! ;)
Dan Lewis
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FLINTS still waiting on clean water.
The more you seek clarity on this it exposes even more toxicity .
It will be like PPE and ventilators.. schools will be bidding against each other and the rich schools will win..
They already are with Devos in charge!
Where's the money for this unfunded mandate?
If kids are going to bring water and food from home, their families need guaranteed food.
Anthony M It’s a good question. I think this government should have enough money to help keep it’s citizens afloat until this crisis is over. But no, the money is in the pockets of the wealthy who don’t have these concerns.
The money for this and everything else is in the pockets of rich people who feel they shouldn’t have to pay taxes. If the wealthy were taxed at the rates that were present up until the early 1960s, America would be great. And, you know what? Rich people would still have buckets of money.
And also wouldn't closing down the cafeteria put lunchroom workers out of work? Whom happen to be parents of a lot of the students too.
Remember Trump's war on food stamps? He proposed food boxes, with canned fruits, pasta and other shelf stable processed foods. Maybe that will come to light again.
I spent 30 years trying to keep an Elementary School of about 350 students clean and safe for students. Adminstration could never provide enough staffing to do the cleaning properly. I don't know how they can keep a school safe now. I am glad that I am retired
Dave Armstrong Thanks for your service! My school janitor looked to be 70, and could barely get around. My graduating class in 1971 was 365. Don't know how he managed. (Maybe because most of us were taught at home to pick up/cleanup after ourselves?)
@@sophierobinson2738 Yeah, those days are over.
Dave Armstrong. Thank you for all your sacrifices and hard work. I was a teacher in hard to staff schools. I. tried to help keep the classroom and hallways clean. I know first-hand that the administrations don't all they should for a clean and safe environment. I'm so glad to be retired.
My Dad suggests that every television station air a minimum of 1 hr. educational programing daily. Even if some folks may not have computers many still have a television in house.
Having a tv does not mean they have access to live network programing. How many would have cable in order to get the 1 hour of educational programs? [Would hour 2 ... 3 ... or 4 ... require payment? If all young humans needed is an hour of educational programing a day to function intelligently in society, we should be a nation of geniuses because of the 6-7 hours we have been accustom to.] The so called free network stations are very hard to pick up in a lot of regions in this country. My area, for example, because of mountains or trees, very few households can "catch" free signals. Most that can are limited to the time of year when there aren't leaves on the trees. I have not watched free network programing at least 15 years. Despite buying state of the antennas, mounted higher and higher. A lot of cable providers also require internet access to get their packages of network programing. With all the unemployment we have now, people are going to have to give up something to help with finances. What's the most expendable? Food? Rent? Water? Electric? Cable/internet?
I applaud your dad for thinking he came up with such a simple solution to a very complex problem, I think he limited it to a narrow view of everyone having the same living conditions he has. I also applaud that he raised a kid who believes so much in their father they don't question whether or not his ideas are feasible. If dad says it, it is feasible.
@Paul Muggins nice one dad
I know all the schools in Buffalo, NY are going to have all their windows wide open in January and February for that airflow.
Yeah, great, there's no pollen to worry about then!
@@chezmoi42 I think they more talking about the below zero temperatures and the snow than pollen
@@Aishaoaktree1122 Yes, I know, but just a little snark, as the original recommendation to open windows was for the summer.
I must be a rotten human being.. I caught myself laughing at how impossible this tragic situation actually is..! But then I remembered that Kayleigh McEnany has our backs..!
She clearly is not a mother!
Pronounce Heck-of-a-Ninny?
😪You're right; that's F&#*$ up.
Then you got a side ache from laughing even harder, huh?
I quit teaching and found a job I could do from home because I wasn’t going to put myself in danger. Schools are so unprepared for this it’s embarrassing.
Today class, our word of the day is "Attrition." Also, hello I am your new teacher, #42.
“Now children, your first science project, how to make PPEs.”
Nah, that'll be Home Ecc - the first science project will be making hand sanitizer. Shop will be making plastic barriers and coffins...
"Everyone is to mix up one drum of sanitizer by the end of class today. Seriously, the other buildings in the district are almost out."
Lol! This is sooo funny but it's sooo true.
My "thoughts" exactly. There's NO WAY back-to-school will work.
Trump is looking more and more like Nero, playing golf as america burns.
@@davidxiwenwang3133 after nero there was a civil war, 4 emperors in 1 year
@Joakim von Anka Of course he fiddles...around.
Well, i think Nero was more honest about it...
kendell glock
Nero Played the fiddle.....
While Trump fiddles with himself.
😉🤭😊
Scott Sloop
Nice burn! 🤣🤣
So, here is PA one school nurse is spread out over multiple buildings... So that's helpful.
Same here is some school districts in CT
Thank you Beau. We really need you. Again, thank you.🇺🇲 Best one yet, Beau.
Have cops ever had to do a car wash to get $ for supplies?
They certainly never had to carry sweets around to sell to friends and family.
@@fkujakedmyname they had a fire sale...not a bake sale.
Nah, here in Yell county Arkansa they sale Meth on the side
Maybe that should be the new norm. Give the schools the money the police get and the police the money the schools get. Let the police throw themselves a carwash.
@@somebodyzpearl - Oooh, that makes you part of Team #DEFUNDTHEPOLICE.
Consider it cross leveling.
And for our first arts and crafts project this year we"ll be making coffins, maybe for yourself, your parents, grandparents, teachers or their families, better hurry or you'll be too late.
sad, but true
@Al Egator That is nesscairly not ture. Where I live it cost roughly $14 grand for an apprenticeship. Then you need to figure in tools and everything else. It is useful but not free.
@Al Egator Im not aguring that a 4 year degree is better than a trade . Nor is a trade better than a 4 year. Im just saying it is not free. And not everyone is able to take the path you took. Everyone should pursue what they feel is their path in life rather than a path based on yearly salery or what soceity saids is best. That why we have so many misrable people in this country.
But Beau, you're forgetting - he ALONE can solve it.
@Paul Muggins :...NOT!!... seriously, that was funny. 😆
@Paul Muggins ;) :)
"Open the windows for fresh air" My classroom has no windows
Are they going to require parents to sign a waver to not sue the school when their kids get sick?
David Frank Some schools have already sent them out expecting parents to sign them.
I feel like a bad time is knocking on our door. I'm in my seventies and had a fair run. I worry deeply for our children.
Yeah, I'm so high risk that I'm 'putting my affairs in order' now. I'm glad that I don't have any grandkids now, but I feel sorry for all my friends who do.
I cannot fully understand how frightening this time is for those at greater risk. My heart goes out to you, and I wish you robust health that carries you through to happier days in our country.
For the last couple 3 generations our kids have gotten softer .... End of the privileged kid era ... Yup it's going to get rough I reckon.
@@jzthompson9598 The hardest part is not over talking our concerns. We don't want to depress them. We had Russia and nuke attacks clogging our young minds. Like getting on a bus and seeing that poster of Krusvhev threatening to bury us every day. I can still see it clearly.
@@JTuaim And don't forget hiding under the desks. That's when I decided to run outside. I had seen the pictures of Nagasaki and I was not going to live post nuclear bomb.
With the sanitization of the news, (no war coverage allowed) kids don't know about wars. Or sacrifice. They do now, though. I hope they all stay at home. No bus or schoolroom will be safe.
Can`t imagine when they are gong to actually teach any thing poor teachers.
Australia had on line learning for most of term 2 (April/May/June). Most kids did not learn as much (at least not as much of the regular curriculum) as they normally would in a classroom, but the teachers were teaching. Kids, and teachers, have also learnt a lot more about software, adaptability, social connections (and how to maintain friendships), and many have been asking in depth questions about viruses, health, the economy, politics, and all sorts of other things. Many are seeing that life is not a set of subject pigeon holes, but that everything is connected. I have hopes that gen Z will bring a fresh way of integrating work and life.
Kids are like petri dishes for germs. They stick everything in their mouth. They then roll that object in their hands. Then, they give their parents a hug. For real, this isn't going to work.
Do you think that describes the tRump household?
First view? Love from Scotland 🏴 keep on bonny lad 😁😺🏴🐙
I like how everybody else has to “ figure something out” nice leadership.
Trump did say he takes no responsibility.
"federal medical supply stockpile isn’t meant for states"... here have some federal secret police.
That's called leaving room for "Yankee ingenuity." Another exceptionalist myth right up there with "rugged individualism."
But our leader is a genius who can remember 5 words... Extra points for remembering them in order.
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If only our teachers were that smart...
The World, I'm still trying to get my head round why USA still calls itself the leader of the free world! All that when teachers" has to figure something out" WHAT!
You're right, it's not the fault of the teachers or administrators. But they'll get the brunt of the blame.
We need something new at every level, Beau. It's the 21st century and we're living in the 19th!
Let’s make each school like the White House, testing just to get in. Each child’s life is equally important as Trump’s.
I would argue more important because we don't yet know who they will grow up to be. In Trump's case, we do and it ain't pretty.
That’s actually a good idea. Test every student every day using inexpensive paper tests. Keep those testing positive home. Teachers always wear masks. The only problem is that this would take governmental effort which Trump is unable to do. He is good at lying though so all he has to do is get enough people to believe his lies.
Moreso
Marcia A. Parker Same words that came to my head, pretty much
Just about every person in the world's life is more important than Trump's life. Children are significantly more important than Trump.
Classrooms have windows that don't open because of possible school shootings.
Yep, impossible to enter also means impossible to exit. And all the locked doors create funneling of bodies into specific spaces.
And who wants to open the windows when we're in the middle of a heat wave!
Florida where Beau is, maybe. Michigan, Maine, North Dakota are going to get pretty cold in October and later. They can't have windows open.
That is 🦇 💩 crazy. 😱
All our little school system schools have tall, narrow, single pane windows, one in each corner of the classroom outside wall.
"They're all supposed to wear masks. We've got grown adults who won't wear their masks. and when they don't and they throw a temper tantrum and end up on CZcams what do we say -- they're acting like a ... child. But we're expecting actual children to do what they're supposed to."
Man, it sounds like the schools and Teachers really need funding.
It's too bad there isn't some other tax funded group that we could shift some of the needed funding from. Like, if there was some group that was under really, heavy national criticism. And we could reduce the amount we spend on them, like if they were abusive and corrupt let's say, and then give that to the schools.
“(The kids) are supposed to be 6 ft apart even in lines, and I don’t know if you’ve ever watched children in a line but that seems ... ambitious.”
I was going to say miraculous, but add quite a few adjectives that aren’t rated G.
Do you have the nagging fear that we have a collapsed society and just don’t realize it yet?
Failed state
Joe Mancini I’m moving to Denmark! Oh yeah, they don’t allow anyone from the USA to enter the country.
I’m a teacher. Most schools I know don’t have a full time nurse on staff every school day. Some schools share the same nurse. This is impractical.
Thanks for remembering Flint.... that city has had an enormous amount of hardships the last 40 years....
I can’t get my 13 year old to do the dishes now she’s going to wear a mask all day. For get about it
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You just watch, when all YT influencers start wearing them...
Right!! I can't get mines either 😄 the saddest part about it, is there's so many videos showing some parents can't follow simple guidelines by simply just wearing a mask when your out in public 🤔
I am a teacher and I'm already exhausted at the amount of students that I will be arguing with to wear their masks properly, or at all.
@@DM0M0 PLEASE stay safe if your state force's you and your students to be put in an unsafe environment. Letting you know concern parents stands with you!!!
I wonder how anti-mask parents will react to schools trying to force their children to wear masks, or deny them entry into the school if they don't?
I hope the never maskers keep their children home.
Heck I hope all the parents tell the government to go F OFF! For whatever reason.
One thing that I have been thinking about is that since hand sanitizer is in such short supply. I bet somewhere that some school district is gonna end up with the stuff that the FDA says is bad for you, and make a bunch of children sick.
I have spoken to three “never mask” and they are keeping their kids home because they refuse to force their kid to wear a mask
Most kids will take that shit off only kids that like mask is teens cause it’s a fashion trend
"Open the windows"
Not only were the windows in my elementary school not openable, there were 100+°F days with 80%+ humidity.
That whole list is a wild pipe dream.
Keep it up Beau, love your breakdowns. Thank you.
Hope the right people are watching.
Guidance Counselor here 🙋♀️
Nobody has any f#@king clue what schools are charged with UNDER NORMAL circumstances. My entire day, every day of every year is filled with putting out emotional and behavioral fires. I literally do not sit down...at work. It is ludicrous to think that students of any age will comply with social distancing, mask wearing, hand sanitizing etc. It👏isn't 👏doable!!!
High school teacher here. I agree with D. T. 100%. Keeping kids away from each other is not possible under normal circumstances. After these months of isolation, kids need human contact more than ever. Putting them together on campus and then telling them they can't hug or touch each other is cruel and can't be enforced.
It's doable if the parents show the right behaviour. Kids copy their parents because they seek approval.
@@ChrisPage68 in time, most kids rebel against their parents, society or authority. To differing degrees, to be sure, and most make their own way back to societal norms, but kids are not drones or replicants and think and chose for themselves even if their thinking is influenced and some of their choices are bad.
You’re a guidance counselor, emotional and behavioral fires are kinda of in your job description.
@@KellyS_77 Not the kind of fires resulting from significant numbers of ones family dead or dying. In Florida a mayor had one young person get covid. (teen), Family gathering. Two weeks later, 23 out of 25 positive.
"This is going to be really hard". Ummmmm......I'd use the words "utterly and completely impossible", and this is coming from a substitute teacher who has taught from preschool to high school. Have these people been inside a school for even five minutes? You can't get 10 year olds to stay in a straight line and stop touching, shoving and hugging each other under the best of circumstances. You turn your head for just a second and Johnny has pulled Susan's hair, Billie has jumped in line in front of Bob and they're shoving, Lucy has her mouth in Bettie's ear whispering an urgent secret and John is letting Joseph take a bite of his candy bar. They have the attention span of nats and that's completely normal for our species. Have they completely and totally forgotten what is normal behavior for young human beings? And they expect them to stand in line six feet apart wearing mask. Yeah, good luck with that. The little kids are not capable of sustaining any consistent behavior for any stretch of time. They are flighty and easily distracted because they're little kids. The older kids see bending the rules as upping their cool factor. Good luck there too. No one is this stupid. They just don't care.
Image is EVERYTHING. He can't have another Tulsa.
I am a teacher. We aren't even getting 6 feet social distancing.
Already decided to do virtual learning for at least the first semester. I feel bad my child has to isolate, and blame not only the lack of intelligent leadership, but the lack of responsible citizens. This thing should have been contained by now.
You may have already thought of this, but you may want to Check for free online events. Also, using zoom for "friend fests", "story time", & music jam sessions with friends.
Too bad WE don't have a social contract.
Our school offered a choice of remote learning & that’s what we are doing. I was so thankful!
You're a splendid human being mate.
So the guidelines indicate MOST CLEARLY: we CANNOT safely return kids and teachers to school. THEREFORE: focus attention and resources on doing it VIRTUALLY. WE CAN DO THIS. The question is, will we?
Also this takes time, tech & support. Should have started months ago.
Yes, but we shouldn't kid ourselves. Parents who care about their kids education will make sure they do their work but many other parents will just let them play games all day. But given the situation, that's probably the best we can do.
Lynne S My kids are grown. One is going into her senior year in college, and I’m feeling a lot of angst for her. Just when she needed an internship, and to culminate her higher education, along with us wondering what kind of world we are sending her into, it’s just heartbreaking. If I had little kids today, plus my own (currently insane, overtime - ok no complaints glad I have work I can do at home) job? I’d be desperate for simply organized, basically compelling, even just functional, online school for them. I’d work like crazy to supplement, to help with homework, etc. But I’d be relying on those teachers for sure. Teachers have to have the training and technology to teach kids online. I’m also so worried for kids without wifi, or school lunches, or a quiet space to focus. Putting all the energy into “going back to the classroom,” when we all know that won’t be happening, is taking it away from planning or investing to make this year even possible for most kids. What a total mess.
@@lcflngn It can be done, but it takes a government willing to do it.
In Australia for most of term 2 (April/May/June) school was done on line. Schools closed a few days before the Easter holidays were due to start and went back a few days late, so teachers had a week to learn how to use the chosen app (my kids' school used microsoft teams, but others are using discord or zoom), rewrite classes for working from home (science experiments, cooking, trade classes especially had to be completely rethought), call the families of all their students to check that they had a laptop/tablet for the kids to work on, and internet access.
It is far from ideal and both teachers and students are finding it difficult. A few very motivated kids have done well, having peace and quiet to just get on with their study. Others (mine included) have lost all motivation and despite logging in to the meeting at the start of each class, have not done much else. It is what it is, and is much better than them all being at school and spreading disease.
Fiona Anderson Exactly my point. Teachers need more support with the tech and the process, otherwise it won’t really be a thing.
I find it mind boggling that your teachers are expected to pay for supplies and safety equipment out of their own wages rather then having an actual separate budget.
On the other hand, over here, good old Boris has decided that children won't need to social distance!
Social distancing in schools would be unworkable in reality but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the reason Doris decided it wasn't needed. Let's see what kind of reception he gets on his "Keep Scotland in the Union" tour. I'm convinced he knows full well that visiting Scotland will only strengthen the Independence movement, he cannot be so blind to his being almost universally hated there.
I laughed when I heard Boris is going to be heading a plan to reduce obesity in Britain. Has he looked in a mirror?
PageMonster He was much fitter when he rode his bike to the office instead of taking a car. C’mon Boris.....back on yer bike!!!
My son's school has ipad's. We still have them from the previous school year. It's doable to do virtual learning.
Bro you get major props for supporting Flint the 810 with your shirt!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bravo and thank you.
Not only is this not feasible, it's insane. Stay home. Stay safe. Trump's threats to withhold funds for distance learning is another quid pro quo.
I don't do social media except CZcams, but my wife read me a post that a teacher $100 out of pocket buying pvc pipes and clear plastic to create partitions for each student. THEN, the fire marshall declared it a fire hazard, so at least there, plastic partitions can't be done to slow the spread. 7 24 2020.
Can't partition school busses for the same reasons...safety concerns.
You know, I saw a photo and I see no way that they could have been a fire hazard. Stupid fire martial.
Wow, what a mess, please vote in November, we need the madness to stop
Does educating come in there somewhere? Sounds more like "babysitting".....
As a former teacher, it's been 'babysitting' for years. Teachers do their best, but lack support
That's what they want. They understand that most working class people can't afford full-time daycare if the schools are closed. So the schools go back to be makeshift daycare, the parents go back to work, the stock market rises, and tRump crows about how "great" he's made things.
These people are not morons, well tRump is, they are evil. This is all triangulated.
It HAS been "babysitting" for decades now. Most learning was incidental.
@Scott Parents throughout history have relied on daycare... Just most of that time it was family and community. That isn't an option for a lot of us anymore... Myself as example, we have had to move far away from anyone we know for work.
Also, socialization is extremely important education. If it were just academics I be fine with homeschooling. Anyways... It is a rock and a hard place situation.
@Scott Spoken like someone who doesn't know jack shit about childhood development. Also, ever heard of "special needs"?
As I said, there's no good option here.
I wish I could love this a million times. Thank you for speaking the truth, Beau!
The local school district here in Tacoma, WA, has already decided to do 100% remote learning this fall. Clearly no one here is taking Trump or his failure of a federal government seriously.