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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Replying to @nairbv @DanielleFong
e.g. he says "most families can afford to spend $12-24/day." A big part of what slowed school-closures in NYC was that kids got lunch at school, and many parents couldn't afford a child's lunch. This thinking certainly feels out of touch with the root of the problem families face
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Replying to @nairbv
that kind of tradeoff feel innumerate imo. i respect the reality that means people are going to not want to face hard facts, but every day earlier that closed saved lives and the economy, or what's left of it. i'm still stunned that the us hasn't supported its citizens more
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i thought it would be apparent by now that people have to move forward with every effort to get by without the state. i don't know what to say, the government is hugely failing. but maybe if enough people try things at small scale something good can emerge from this
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