with the level of castigation that i’ve seen it’s hard not to take it as being against. would be less negative if the question was “” how do we use this to help more or all children”, the prevailing attitude is *only the public system will/should work* which seems very hard
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Replying to @DanielleFong
I don't think most people can conceive of a way homeschooling is going "to help all children." If you have an answer to that question I'd be happy to hear it, but it seems too far removed from the actual problem to be raised in a serious way.
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homeschooling lessons seem pretty relevant to a zoom based classroom
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Replying to @DanielleFong
I can see why these people are castigating you. There are parents who need to work, and who can't feed their kids. Suggesting they homeschool is "let them eat cake." It's "move to the summer home." They're probably thinking "eat the rich."
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Replying to @nairbv @DanielleFong
"Zoom is challenging so we should do more homeschooling" isn't an answer to a working-class (American) parent thinking "my 6 year old can't be left alone at home and if I send him to school I might die, but if I don't go to work I can't pay rent and he loses health insurance."
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Replying to @nairbv
it’s a coherent political position to support: taxes public school the right to home school the right to private school universal basic income masks a vastly better public health response rent relief knowledge that public school in person is a vector the right to
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Replying to @DanielleFong @nairbv
it’s not a coherent position to support: public school is the only way forward, either we’ll suffer the epidemic losses or we’ll in an uncoordinated way make school (which frankly was not good for many) as a monolithic entity, good over the internet also nobody can microschool
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Replying to @DanielleFong
I can't speak for Canada. In the US, school is compulsory, public schools remain dangerous, and the politicians requiring schools to reopen will homeschool to keep their families safe. Homeschooling isn't illegal, but for a policy maker to talk about it is to dodge responsibility
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Replying to @nairbv
who's the policy maker that's talking about this that is forcing a reopening? ... you're speaking about the president? idk man he's a lost cause i was subtweeting about jason calacanis
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Replying to @DanielleFong
Not just the president. People like Rick Scott pushing Florida schools to reopen, but who's grandkids will be able to do distance learning. I found tweets you must be referring to. I don't think exploring options is a bad thing, but I can also very much understand the criticism.
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i'm not talking about the well formed critique, i'm talking about the violent stuff
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Replying to @DanielleFong
I don't understand subtweets. Seems like it'd be easier to quote what you're actually criticizing.
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