People finally understanding NO SCHOOL & NO SPORTS

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Unless of course you think it's a president's responsibility to lead and that a leadership vacuum such as the one we has cost a significant amount of lives. I blame him for that.

So, praise him for every person who didn't get it; or who got it and had little to no effects and recovered fine.

You can't have it both ways.

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Soccer, especially played by kids, is one of the safest things we could possibly do this fall. We should absolutely be prioritizing safe recreational activities even if we have to be creative about where and when they happen. Most rational parents know that school is perfectly safe for kids and older teachers that are afraid to do their jobs are welcome to retire.

Agreed, but most public hacks are not creative thinkers and hardly problem solvers. We are stuck with their woeful leadership

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Exactly why all these Moonbats praising Fauci or blaming Trump are agenda driven.

Any excuse to deflect with the complete lack of national leadership will do. Absolutely anything. Nothing is EVER Trump's fault. He is always innocent.

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Exactly why all these Moonbats praising Fauci or blaming Trump are agenda driven.

Have another shot of bleach

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Have another shot of bleach

Wake up, you fool:

ORLANDO, Fla. - After FOX 35 News noticed errors in the state's report on positivity rates, the Florida Department of Health said that some laboratories have not been reporting negative test result data to the state.

Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates. FOX 35 News found that testing sites like one local Centra Care reported that 83 people were tested and all tested positive. Then, NCF Diagnostics in Alachua reported 88 percent of tests were positive.

How could that be? FOX 35 News investigated these astronomical numbers, contacting every local location mentioned in the report.

The report showed that Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health's positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.


The report also showed that the Orlando Veteran’s Medical Center had a positivity rate of 76 percent. A spokesperson for the VA told FOX 35 News on Tuesday that this does not reflect their numbers and that the positivity rate for the center is actually 6 percent.

FOX 35 News went on to speak with the Florida Department of Health on Tuesday. They confirmed that although private and public laboratories are required to report positive and negative results to the state immediately, some have not. Specifically, they said that some smaller, private labs were not reporting negative test result data to the state.

"The Department immediately began working with those labs to ensure that all results were being reported in order to provide comprehensive and transparent data," a spokesperson for the Florida Department of Health said. "As the state continues to receive results from various labs, the Department will continue educating these labs on proper protocol for reporting COVID-19 test results."

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Pretty clever for them to rent refrigerated trucks for the overflow from the morgue, so they can make it LOOK like they are real dead bodies that need refrigeration.

And those funeral guys are making BANK with all the fake funerals.

GENIUS how they came up with all those fake obituaries for Houston. How the money just ROLLS IN.


The Houston Chronicle, the country's third-largest Sunday newspaper, has printed a standalone obituary section paying tribute to those who died this year, including deaths from COVID-19.

"Today's @HoustonChron (3rd largest Sunday paper in the US) has a standalone obituary section. It is 43 pages long. #covid,"

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Agreed, but most public hacks are not creative thinkers and hardly problem solvers. We are stuck with their woeful leadership

Haven’t you heard? Being a creative thinker is now considered to be a negative quality in today’s collectivist culture. Do as you’re told.

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Now you just sound jealous AND misinformed. I actually served on a school committee and to be honest most teachers aren’t that well paid compared to people in the private sector with equivalent education and qualifications. And the only thing crazy about their pensions is how underfunded they are. Student results aren’t bad when you consider how many are coming from poor homes, have disabilities, are English language learners, etc. Probably 30-40% of students have one of those issues in every classroom in MA.

And please tell us how many times YOU have taken a pay cut? Do you voluntarily offer big cuts in your paycheck when your employer has tough times? I wouldn’t and doubt you would so why expect a teacher to do it?

America is full of lazy ass people in every profession. Stop talking sh*t.

Fellow school board (12 years) person. The problem is there are truths in both positions; it's not black and white.

Entry level teachers - way underpaid and don't get enough training on teaching and too much emphasis on content area.

My experience (and I'm a college professor) with a medium sized district (4500 kids) is the seniority and bumping rules are too restrictive.

Pensions - good and bad. Yes, underfunded. Yes, should have been migrated to a 401K system years ago - create a golden handcuff that keeps bad or burned out teachers in the classroom too long and have become problematic for both taxpayers and recipients.

A 401K with an early generous match and a phased lowering would allow for some more mobility both in and out - what we need are experienced professionals (not lifelong teachers) who come in as a second career (the best teacher in my district's high school was a retired corporate executive) or let teachers who know it's not their lifelong calling to get out with some retirement benefits.

Unions - needed, but often dominated by the vocal minority who feel they have to grieve over everything. But truth in lending - unions aren't there to help kids; it's not their mission - they serve the members. I also felt it was wrong the union leadership got reduced teaching loads to do *union* business!

I also don't think the public knows how much $$ are spent on useless litigation - only the lawyers win..

Test scores - teachers are only 1 part of the triad. Good curriculum (including content and pedagogical support) is another. The *student* and their family structure are the 3rd. You need all 3 or something gives. Good seed that falls on bad soil and the like.

Be honest - did you read every page? Do your best on every assignment? Engage in the class discussion every time? Test scores are highly correlated with family income for a reason.

Sports and co-curriculars are an integral part of education. If we wanted truly *safe* schools, we wouldn't have physical schools. Take college - more kids die and get assaulted (physically/sexually) in a year from drinking (almost always illegally) on campus than I suspect will every die from COVID. Hmm..do we ban residential living - heck, we mostly turn a blind eye to college partying because it's part of the "college experience."

It's hypocritical to freak out over the possibility of some kids dying by going back to school when over a thousand die (NIH statistics) from illegal alcohol and drug use and tens of thousands are physically/emotionally injured from assaults - yet, there is no national call to enforce drug/alcohol laws on campuses, let alone even call for them to close and go online.

My point - this notion of wanting everything to be risk-free is simply a fool's errand.

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In my industry, when they are losing money, they fire people ... happens every few years .... all of the time .... how many times have school districts done this? How many times have their budgets ever decreased even? NEVER!!

You really don’t sound very educated. The difference between your industry and elementary/secondary education is schools don’t normally shutdown. Do school-age children get fired and sent home? No, that’s never happen before. And if you want to fire all the teachers, then prepare to quit your job so you can stay home with young kids and teach them yourself.

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You really don’t sound very educated. The difference between your industry and elementary/secondary education is schools don’t normally shutdown. Do school-age children get fired and sent home? No, that’s never happen before. And if you want to fire all the teachers, then prepare to quit your job so you can stay home with young kids and teach them yourself.

Or hire new ones.. you didn’t think of that? Earlier poster was right, no creative thinking

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Or hire new ones.. you didn’t think of that? Earlier poster was right, no creative thinking

And where will you find this endless supply of available teachers?

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Agreed, but most public hacks are not creative thinkers and hardly problem solvers. We are stuck with their woeful leadership

In considering how to safely reopen schools, administrators have dozens and dozens of decisions to make. If they are determined to get the highest % of students physically back in classrooms and follow guidelines to maximize safety of students, faculty, etc., they must consider:

1) class room utilization. how many people fit "safely" in a room? How many additional rooms they now need. How many additional class periods will be needed to have each room handle the same # of students as before?

2) teacher capacity. Sure, the teacher still may be teaching 100 students/day, but now might be delivering 8 lectures vs. 4, and working an 7-12pm shift followed by a 1pm-6pm shift. What happens when some students are remote? Will there be separate zoom classes held for them?

3) testing. How often? What will be the policies regarding positive tests? What are the quarantine rules?

4) food, bathrooms, nurses offices, student lockers (human logistics): what needs to be built or retro-fitted? what will the rules / policies be?

5) policies for visitors, buses, shut down in the event of an outbreak, teacher absences, assemblies, common areas, etc. All need to be thought through, pressure tested for reasonableness, compiled into manuals, approved, etc.

6) classes: what must be changed, dropped etc.?

7) PPE? masks? hand sanitizer?

8) funding???????

The list goes on from here, with each decision impacting other decisions. Where do you think your daughter's crappy soccer team shows up on the list? I'll tell you: somewhere between item 100 and item 150. That's why there won't be fall sports - because there are way too many more important things to consider first.

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And where will you find this endless supply of available teachers?

In the fairyland that exists in these posters heads.

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And where will you find this endless supply of available teachers?

Who are willing to earn masters degrees and pass state testing and work 70 hour weeks the first few years for $40,000. They can waitress all summer to pay back grad school loans and get judged by people like the op. Oh, and be told by half the state that if they don’t go back to school and put their own life or families lives at risk, they are in teaching for the wrong reasons. Sounds great. Sign me up!

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Who are willing to earn masters degrees and pass state testing and work 70 hour weeks the first few years for $40,000. They can waitress all summer to pay back grad school loans and get judged by people like the op. Oh, and be told by half the state that if they don’t go back to school and put their own life or families lives at risk, they are in teaching for the wrong reasons. Sounds great. Sign me up!

I may be naive...but how are teachers working 70 hour weeks? School starts at 7:30 and ends at 2:30. Maybe they leave at 3:30...that's an 8 hour day. 40 hours per week.

Then they have every holiday off (that most private businesses do not get off).

They also get their summers off.

The thing that bothers me the most is that teachers have the summer off but my kids get days off for the teachers to be trained during the school year. Why wouldn't they get trained during the summer or vacation periods? Because of the teachers union!