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neonfalcon99 said:So, what’s the deal with this kid who refuses to wear a mask? They aren't letting him into school, yet the deputy from the CDC said there wouldn't be sanctions for children. On what legal grounds are they barring him from class?
vividstag6 said:It is quite difficult to just "resume normal life" when, for instance, you lose two family members to Covid, or colleagues end up suffering from severe symptoms and long-term complications. How can one then suggest that masks aren't necessary, or that we should skip vaccinations and act as if things haven't changed since before the pandemic? Who is going to shoulder the risk of endangering someone else's health? I have been personally overcome by this virus—twice, in fact, and I certainly wouldn't wish it on anyone... I am still dealing with neurological symptoms to this day.
neonfox11 said:Sure, maybe... but on what actual basis, though? And honestly, why even push this school thing right now, given everything else going on?
neonfalcon99 said:Under the law, an employer isn't allowed to ask an employee about their vaccination status since that's private information. If that's the case, how are directors supposed to know who has been vaccinated?
Samuel Turner2 said:Wait, you mean those two students playing security guard?
Seriously, Professor, even if the scan works, you still can't get into the school—which pretty much makes today's exams totally pointless! 🤣
Nicholas King said:But honestly, who is actually going to determine—and how, exactly—which professor is vaccinated and which one isn't? 😬
Ashley Kelly65 said:Thanks. 🙂 H. Handl supposedly works with adult patients.
Alex Roberts4 said:It’s all about the approach, isn't it? Honestly, giving everyone a mere two or three days' notice is just bottom-of-the-barrel behavior. It really drives home how much they think they're the center of the universe. Like, apparently, the entire world is supposed to just hit the pause button whenever they feel like it? If they had given us a heads-up a reasonable amount of time ago, I might have been able to wrap my head around it, but they didn't. In fact, they did the exact opposite.
Alex Roberts4 said:Seriously... So, classes start, but there’s actually no instruction on day one because??? Did they seriously fail to organize book pickups even a week in advance? How many vacation days does a parent even get? We stretched our time off out—me first, then my husband, then my godmother—we even paid for a sitter for a week, and suddenly school starts and we're just expected to pivot? Out of nowhere, three days before the notice, we find out the first day ends at 9:25 AM. And at the last PTA meeting, we specifically asked, and they told us everything would be back to normal, including after-school care, just that there wouldn't be lunch provided on the first day so we should pack something.
I’m not talking about kindergarteners, where it’s totally fine if they don't stay long during those first few days. But everyone else? What gives? They haven't even started yet and they're already cutting things short. It feels like this whole COVID-19 situation is being used as an excuse way too often.
Honestly, I am so done with this lazy, "work-shy" mentality.
Summer break and all the other holidays are for the kids, and obviously, the staff uses their vacation time, but otherwise, they’re supposed to be working. If you run a school, act like a professional and realize parents can't just stop working whenever it suits your schedule. Why is it so hard to organize things so that parents with fewer kids aren't left scrambling? It's just ridiculous. Bravo. I didn't have any choice but to beg for a day off, and I'll probably get chewed out for it, even though my family and I asked about this well in advance.
And don't even get me started on picking up books. Give me a break! If 6th grade starts, then school starts. We could easily grab the books beforehand, and honestly, it would be nice to know what supplies are needed, which notebooks to buy, if we need extra art supplies, the class schedule... but no, they call us at the last minute expecting us to deal with it right after work because everything needs to be ready "by tomorrow." I'm not doing it. I'll just order everything online and wait for it to arrive—if they even bother to notify me. Should I really have to cause trouble at my job because of these idiots? Seriously, I’m going to ask some pointed questions, because this is pathetic.
Then there are the COVID-19 vaccination records. I have mine, but if they’re making a thing out of it, I’d be the first to demand they require them for the school staff, too. I’m considered high-risk, so if I need proof because of you, you should need it because of me. Talk about double standards... If vaccination isn't mandatory, then it shouldn't be required for parents either. It’s just pure audacity, incompetence, and laziness. Total zero.
James Phillips92 said:The government will end up picking up the tab with our own money—they’re already claiming they’re short on funds and need to hike up health insurance premiums.
jadetinker85 said:Because she spent a few days living with people who have since tested positive. She moved out once the first person in the house started showing symptoms. They're all positive now, and while she has a fever, her home test came back negative.
Kenneth Brown5 said:COVID-19 certificates for parent-teacher conferences:
Man, I’m actually kind of bummed that I won't be making it to those school meetings anymore.
It’s like, if they want to show their proof, I should be able to just pull mine out too, right?👍
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jadetinker85 said:Are you sure those tests actually work? My niece is in isolation right now with a fever of 99.5, she took one, and it came back negative. We're pretty skeptical about them.
boldotter2 said:Why don't we just start letting kids do self-testing, like they do over in Canada or Mexico? You get results in 15 minutes, it’s just a quick swab in the nose, way less invasive than a PCR, and I guess the accuracy is more than enough. They only cost about 50-$20.
Instead, they'll probably just let everything spiral out of control so we can have that classic showdown again—the geniuses in the emergency headquarters versus the geniuses on the internet. Just endless nonsense and pointless arguments.
If they would just test the kids who show up to school with symptoms, I think they’d actually see better results in slowing down the spread than all those other measures combined.
I honestly get the feeling they want to trigger maximum chaos over the next month just to ramp up the fear factor for people who aren't vaccinated. It's happening through the kids again.
David Palmer5 said:I don't know about that. To me, a kid who's doing well in school while simultaneously learning foreign languages and playing a sport is definitely successful.
And obviously, you have to work for success. Honestly, I think the idea of kids who "don't study at all but somehow pull straight A's" is nothing more than an urban legend. Kids who are demonstrably high achievers—the ones winning various Olympiads or crushing it in national and international competitions for things like coding, robotics, or math—put in massive amounts of practice and study. That goes for anyone successful in sports, music, or anything else; there is always a huge amount of hard work behind them.
That's why I used the phrase "highly successful."
As for the national exams, I assume they're meant to be some kind of objective way to gauge knowledge levels, maybe as a precursor to introducing some sort of junior graduation exam. It worked similarly before the high school graduation requirements were implemented. Or perhaps it's for bringing entrance exams back to all four-year schools. I'm guessing, though, I really don't know.
jadetinker85 said:Most kids panic before any kind of test or oral exam.
Even when they've done all the prep work.
coastalorca43 said:I’m genuinely confused here.
Who on earth gave the CDC and the Department of Education the authority to issue these
GUIDELINES FOR PREVENTING AND CONTROLLING THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC
REGARDING THE OPERATION OF PRE-SCHOOLS, ELEMENTARY, AND HIGH SCHOOLS DURING THE 2021/2022 SCHOOL YEAR?
See, we are talking about epidemiological measures here, and those kinds of guidelines can only be legally issued by the Emergency Task Force (see post 143). In their last decision, they clearly stated that mask mandates don't apply to schools since they are exempt, yet here these people are, imposing masks through their own guidelines without any legal standing to do so.
To top it off, nothing in this document is even signed or officially verified.
Who is actually running this circus?
Jason Ortiz5 said:I think I just heard this on the radio, and honestly, can you believe it? That absolute disgrace of a human being from Fuchs actually said he doesn't think we need to introduce civic education because students supposedly pick it up through other subjects.
🤦
If online learning was considered harmful, then what on earth are we supposed to make of our "brilliant" former ministers?