Headline from a rich white town’s “school committee update”:
We are among only 3% of MA school districts to hold in-person classes all year 5-days-per-week!
Of course one would not want to imagine that the government could lie to us, but, as part of his 68 (so far) orders, Governor Baker delayed the start of school here in Maskachusetts until mid-September. Therefore, the “all year” part of the above should be “almost all year” (also, the school day was shorted to end at 1:45 pm instead of 2:50 pm, except on the days when teachers already were entitled to a free afternoon (Wednesday), in which case school ended around 12:30 pm).
Flipping this around, we learned that 97 percent of school districts (and the bigger ones were in this group so it would be more than 97 percent of students) denied children at least some of what previously would have been considered their right to an education.
The same newsletter, prepared by white people who administer a school in a nearly all-white town, contains a section titled “Facing dual traumas of racism and inequity” and we learn that “School Committee members have committed to our own anti-bias training,…” and “Middle school students organized a Black Lives Matter group.” Nowhere is it mentioned that the probability of a young Black life being educated in a school in Massachusetts has been extremely low for the 2020-2021 year.
Related:
- states ranked by COVID-19 death rate (compare to countries ranked and see that science+masks+shutdown would have landed Massachusetts near the very top of the world’s countries in COVID-19 death rate, if MA were its own country)
- “Wellesley School District Faces Civil Rights Complaint From Parents Group” (WGBH, an NPR affiliate): In March, the [almost-all-white] Wellesley schools hosted a Zoom session described as a “Healing Space for Asian and Asian-American students” and other students of color in grades six through twelve. Attached to the complaint was a screenshot of the invitation, which stated: “*Note: This is a safe space for our Asian/Asian-American and Students of Color, *not* for students who identify only as White.” .. “If you identify as White, and need help to process recent events, please know I’m here for you as well as your guidance counselors,” the invitation read. “If you need to know why this is not for White students, please ask me!” … “The goal was to provide a safe space in which students and staff could reflect, share, and be supported as members of our school district,” the email said. “At the same time, we can also understand the discomfort that some members of our community have shared when learning of a practice that they perceive to be discriminatory. It’s important to note that affinity spaces are not discriminatory.”
I still don’t care about Black Lives Matter!
philg, You should move to Vancouver, Canada. Public schools have been open since September 2020. Public schools in high income areas are excellent, most of them offer AP courses and IB programs. You will not need to send your kids to school with an armored backpack. The air quality is excellent, with the exception when smoke from forest fires can cover the city in the summer. Warmer winter weather, and dryer summers compared with Boston. Should be relatively simple to find a hanger for your airplane at one of the local airports. And most importantly, no Black Lives Matter groups.
A note to readers. Patel is a foreigner who has admitted to stealing the election and installing a fellow northerner as president. You have been warned!!!
Comrade Toucan Sam, I am no longer much of a threat, as you have two very capable guards, Comrade Trotsky and Comrade Ivan who will defend the US against invaders from the North.
So… the kids got a year of respite from relentless brainwashing. Oh, woes.
Even if I wanted to be charitable (which I don’t) the only thing I could say about all of this virtually mindless groupthink is: “You could have avoided most of it, you cost everyone hundreds of millions or more dollars and years of time, with countless opportunities wasted during the most important years of these kids lives, you failed in your primary jobs as educators, you took the money, and you did it largely because you were listening to Randi Weingarten, who is a Juris Doctor, not an MD/PhD., or any other kind of doctor, except that she has enormous control over the way your minds don’t work.”
They make me sick. They should ALL be fired.
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It’s gotten much worse. And it’s nowhere near as funny.
With the covid hoax winding down the poor teachers are going to have to go back to work. Oh well. Maybe they will close school for the next fear hoax. Spoiler: it is going to be UFO/Alien invasion. You must obey, they have your leaders captured. If it wasn’t for the pain stupid people cause all of us these fear hoaxes would be fun to watch.