Why Do We Have Public Schools in Virginia? For the Children or for the Adults?
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27 responses to “Why Do We Have Public Schools in Virginia? For the Children or for the Adults?”
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Not “adults,” but “voters.” Children do not vote. They don’t pay taxes, either, but that is less important to the rulers than votes. You watch how quickly things open up in November….
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Have some fear porn…
Strike two, you’re out?
Factor in the risk to a growing number, 7+ million so far, is it time to spin up the petri dishes?
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Trust NOTHING in the Guardian. Really. And you are the first to point to the problems with some of the tests. False positives happen too, right?
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Hoist on me own petard!
Yes, and given what type of test, and the rarity of infection in the March to June timeframe, could account for quite a large number of the “asymptotic” cases.
And the Gaurdian DOES indicate nothing can be assured if the genome of the infections are not compared. So, they ain’t THAT bad, e.g. NY Post, Washington Times.
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If you include parents, yes.
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Public education is really _not_ for the kids. It’s an inherently sociaistic concept for the betterment of society and the nation and is actually one of the core tenets of the Communist Manifesto.
Who knew? Apparently not Conservatives! 😉
Some never tire of invoking the “for the kids” canard… also when talking about government spending and debt and the environment… “the kids”.
Sherlock is all hot to trot about Fairfax but many public schools throughout Virginia and the Nation are operating similar to Fairfax.
Of course, then that makes the issue yet another gigantic conspiracy where teacher unions are “hurting” kids and all that idealogical rot.
And of course, in yet an even further fit of fear porn – ” Hundreds Of New York City Schools Closed In Neighborhoods With Coronavirus Upticks October 6, 2020 at 1:15 pm
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Fewer than 28 days now….President-elect Biden will be the one saying “we have nothing to fear but fear itself” in a few weeks, suddenly interested in restoring the economy and salvaging the school year.
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Have you bought your “Trump Defeats COVID-19” commemorative coin with a 5 micron layer of real gold yet?!
I have. Irony sells.
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I’m saving up for the IPO – TRUMP K-12 Public Schools – “we never close and certaintly not for no stinking viruses”. Guaranteed to have no “woke” or union instructors.
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With a 100% graduation rate and a 99% transition to the new and improved Trump U where they will learn “the Art of the Deal” specializing in tracing of birth certificates…
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Mandatory Diversity Training: ” Good people on both sides” ?
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In some of the school systems, it is not diversity training, Larry, it is anti-racism training. If you have been paying attention, there is an enormous, dare I say “critical” difference.
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I hope you paid a lot for that….
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Not as much as the 211,000… and counting.
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“Virginia law demands they be fired for that offense.”
Under Virginia law they would not need to be fired. The way the law reads, they would have automatically terminated their employment if they had gone on strike:
§ 40.1-55. Employee striking terminates, and becomes temporarily ineligible for, public employment.
Any employee of the Commonwealth, or of any county, city, town or other political subdivision thereof, or of any agency of any one of them, who, in concert with two or more other such employees, for the purpose of obstructing, impeding or suspending any activity or operation of his employing agency or any other governmental agency, strikes or willfully refuses to perform the duties of his employment shall, by such action, be deemed to have terminated his employment and shall thereafter be ineligible for employment in any position or capacity during the next twelve months by the Commonwealth, or any county, city, town or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth, or by any department or agency of any of them.-
Yeah, right — they’ll be in court right after the rioters and right before the people caught filling out dozens of absentee ballots.
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You are probably correct.
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The kid next door goes across the street to Warrenton Middle for the free school lunch everyday. Her most positive contact with a school employee is the cafeteria manager not a teacher. Only 1 kid is eating lunch yet they are preparing hundreds of hot meals everyday. In the afternoon it all hits the dumpsters. It explains the legion of bears roaming the school grounds in the early morning. Don’t even get me started on the dozens of empty school buses rolling around Fauquier everyday. When will common sense and simple logic return?
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“Only 1 kid is eating lunch yet they are preparing hundreds of hot meals everyday. In the afternoon it all hits the dumpsters.”
A perfect metaphor that describes today’s Democratic regime in Virginia: how the regime’s policies and its actions have collapsed effective delivery of the most basis government services to the citizens of Virginia. How the regime has collapsed the public safety of citizens on the streets. How the regime has collapsed the public’s health in nursing homes and hospitals. How the regime has collapsed the mental health of citizens by its fear mongering, lies, and intimidation. And how the regime has collapsed the public education of children in Virginia as it attempts to indoctrinate Virginia students, preaching division and hate that pits group against group, while it erases students’ history, legacy, and culture.
And, at the same time, the regime wastes vast sums of public money and public social capital, as it allows intimidation on the streets, shuts down free speech in public, and hands outs every increasing arrays of money and privileges based on race and political alliance to aggregate its own power, while it refuses to enforce long established laws solely for its own political advantage, including its intimidation of its political opponents. Virginia today is nothing more than a banana republic.
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Bears? Wow. Warrenton Middle School is pretty much in the middle of the Town of Warrenton, isn’t it? If I remember correctly it’s only a couple of blocks from the Fauquier County courthouse.
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Mr. Wayne I counted 3 bears this morning in town dumpster diving the thrown out lunches from yesterday over at the school. In town you can find bears, foxes, coyotes, deer, racoons, and the dreaded ground hog. Makes gardening tough.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cf/ec/d6/cfecd6e18c895346279d5d3a0369dc79–wild-animals-s.jpg-
Wow. We have all of those animals on our property but we live in the boonies.
By the way, if you live where I think you live, you have a very nice house.
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From Mayo Clinic:
“Research suggests that children younger than ages 10 to 14 are less likely to become infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 compared to people age 20 and older. Hospitalization rates for children are also much lower than for adults.”“Research also suggests disproportionately higher rates of COVID-19 in Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black children than in non-Hispanic white children. Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black children also have had higher rates of hospitalization.”
Because the schools were closed in March, the few children who have contracted the disease contracted it outside of school. Same holds for the disproportionately high rates for Hispanic and black children.
I am going to go out on a limb and suggest the children who caught COVID 19 outside of school were not hermetically sealed in closets when they caught it. Nor were the teachers who were infected. So much for the “safe at home” theory.
In contrast, when children go to school, the schools practice and supervise the children in the four best practices of COVID prevention: hand washing, clean environments, social distancing and face masks. Readers will have to admit that schools enforce those rules better than the average home.
Finally, those who oppose my assessment are cleared to explain the in-school success of Virginia’s Catholic schools. The news outlets certainly will not.
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I thought James short experience in teaching in a private school – “in person” was interesting.
Did not sound like it worked for him.
Maybe he can share again what was involved and why it ended up discouraging him from teaching in-person.
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I you mean me, which from the position of your comment it appears you do, I taught in public school, not private school in 1966 – 67. I left to enter the Navy, not because I was discouraged from teaching in-person.
I returned to teaching in person in the public schools for five years after nearly 30 years in the Navy and ten more years in private industry. I did that as a volunteer remedial math instructor.
I loved it. I left because I thought had aged out of being as effective as I thought I should be.
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oops, sorry… no , THIS James:
James Wyatt Whitehead V
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