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Originally Posted by TheBig3
What's also weird here is that we're equating food and healthcare, which are required to live. And education which is very important, but people aren't going to die in the short-term without it. The major issue here is that we've built up an aparatus around the American Career that has rendered education to a baby sitter and now the Corporate paymasters are demanding people stop looking after their kids and do more work to make them more money. But you cna't say that, so it's "open the schools."
As someone said at the start of the pandemic, I guess COVID showed us which jobs are truely essential and which jobs we just pay a lot for. Grocery store works, nurses, and teachers don't get paid enough and we need them to survive so hedge fund managers can't make six-figures a year. The problem with not opening schools is partially child development, and mostly the corporate engine of the U.S. showing how far they've pushed American society. While it's all terrible, I am glad they are getting their come-uppance for their endorsing of Trump.
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Good post
Also concerning lip service to the dire importance of schools from Bill Gates to the CDC - since it’s suddenly so ****ing important- is there going to ever be any effort to tackle how goddamn dysfunctional so many schools are and very frankly schools populated with black students?
Classrooms that are constantly noisy, chaotic, mean-spirited, rife with bullying (oh but you gotta look at both sides), and even real fists on faces violent - are NOT promoting healthy child development.
There may be exceptions but in general schools in poor black communities haven’t been properly educating students probably since integration. They’ve never allowed for there to be anything but a white suburban education model forced on urban black youth who respond by decimating it.
If black people were allowed to govern their own schools grandmothers would patrolling the halls and classes and the students would be shutting the **** up and learning to read and do math.
Bill Gates and Hillary Clinton are classic examples of people with big opinions who don’t have a ****ing clue what’s going on in the trenches.
Suddenly school is so important. Then why wasn’t it important to correct the problem that about half the kids never learned ****?