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Shocking. This will also inevitably negate much of what's to follow: You have zero clue what my teaching or management skills are. Frankly, I'm not even explaining anything more about my classroom to you because clearly you believe whatever world you've created for yourself without the need to interact with kids is everyone else's world. What's disappointing is that I was hoping you'd engage in a civil discussion as I answered a question you asked and I answered with zero hostility. You didn't. I don't know you personally--or care to know to--but that says something about you. Task was explained well and is written concisely and clearly on the whiteboard. I really question how much you interact with people and how much you actually pay attention to them. High levels of empathy and patience. You're 100% right. You're missing what else a teacher really is, though. And I'm more and more surprised as I read your posts. You coddle too much. But then again, you work with adults. I work with kids ages 15-18. Big difference. I'm not even going to judge that you always think that question warrants an answer.

Maybe you meant something different from what you said. Maybe you just don't communicate your thoughts very well. You directly state that, and I quote "we are doing great at limiting Covid" if not for those damn liberals--last part was my own interpretation, admittedly, but was it wrong? You're talking in the present. You're talking about how well we're controlling a disease that gripped our country. For that reason, the overall numbers matter much less than the recent numbers because of the present participle you chose to use. Are you with me so far? Did you mean something else? If so, let me know. But because of that statement, I responded because you've apparently been sleeping under a tree. It's simply a fact that MORE Republican states are seeing steady to alarming rises of both Coronavirus cases AND deaths over the last couple months than Democratic states. So your initial implication--if this is what you actually meant because it's what you said--that Republican states have everything under control while liberal states have let things fall apart is patently false. But keep doubling down. As do you, my friend

Seriously? Sure seems that's what you imply I do with this little rant that follows the initial question. If the people you work with are snowflakes, maybe you need to work harder solidifying your relationship with them so you can be more intellectually honest with them if they say or ask something dumb.

Depends on the student or situation. Sometimes it's the simple roll of the eyes. Sometimes I'll tell his/her neighbor to tell him/her. Sometimes I will simply say "stupid question." Let me ask you something. I challenge you to answer honestly rather than make a personal attack: If you provide instructions on a task to be completed both orally and in writing on a whiteboard and modelled an example of how to do said task with the class, do you think the question "wait, what are we supposed to do?" from a capable learner without any learning disabilities warrants an answer?

Red state Covid increases don't support this claim. As for your initial claim that I first responded to. Since you seem to have forgotten it and others didn't even bother reading it, here's what you said: If you take out of the deep blue sections of country we are doing great at limiting Covid This is what you said. And it's incorrect, plain and simple. Again, as an example, I don't think ANYONE believes Mississippi, Alabama or South Carolina are liberal Bastilles by any definition. Those 3 states had a combined 159 deaths yesterday, which is almost 5 times more than NY, NJ and Massachusetts combined despite those 3 states being liberal and MUCH more populated than the 3 aforementioned deeply red states. Florida, Texas, Arizona and Georgia combine for over 1 million cases and 16,668 deaths. Only 9 countries in the world have more deaths since this Pandemic began than those 4 states. Feel free to admit you were mistaken about your false statement at any point

You're doing the exact same thing @Chef Jim did. I won't call you an idiot, but I will say very nicely: Please go back and look at the conversation and particularly at what @Buffalo Timmy stated rather than imply that I don't get that the virus is non-discriminatory. I swear to God some of you are just all over the place.

Now look at the last month. Why did you move thr goalposts? You said this is a liberal problem and that red states have it under control, yet in the last couple weeks NY, NJ and Massachusetts (all mentioned by you) have seen daily deaths below 30 for a few weeks whereas places like Florida, Texas and Arizona are consistently seeing deaths 3, 4, 5 times that amount daily for weeks now. Today there were 202 deaths in Texas, 56 deaths in Arizona, and 81 deaths in Georgia, 64 deaths in South Carolina, 61 deaths in Alabama, 34 deaths in Mississippi. That's 498 deaths in pretty clearly red areas historically. And I don't have the specific death rate in front of me over the last month, but I think you're conflating death TOTAL with death RATE. Population centers are always going to have higher totals in the long run... NYC ensured that at the beginning of all of this... but when the death total of South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi in a day are several times the death total in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts despite having a minuscule population in comparison to those 3 liberal states, you clearly seem to be missing something.

Today alone our country had over 70,000 cases and 1,200+ deaths. That's significantly worse than what we had in March. Your last paragraph is hilarious. I guess you know better than anyone. Here. I think you should read this: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Expertise-Campaign-Established-Knowledge/dp/0190865970/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2T9VWM9XHUEPA&dchild=1&keywords=the+death+of+expertise&qid=1595478723&sprefix=The+death+%2Caps%2C317&sr=8-1

You probably don't do a very good job establishing norms and building relationships with them then. I really don't care what your opinion is of me, but I never said I call my students dumb. I think that at least needs to be clarified since evidently you are not reading.

That's from a month ago.

Yes. I would start tomorrow. I'm digging in because I have empathy. Nothing has gotten better. The reason those entities have changed their tune is not because we are safer as a country now than when we shut down in March. It's because of the kids and their social and emotional well being. And I get that. I even agree, which is why I'm willing to get back in the classroom. My students will benefit most from my in class instruction. But what about the teachers and the kids' families? So we just accept some casualties--which surely will happen at some point--because they're adults? And what about when kids get sick or die? Nothing is better. It's bizarre logic to have to shut everything down back in March so we can get the virus under control (which other countries have done successfully) and now claim that we obviously have to fully open back up even though things are much, much worse. I'm not the one digging. Your President dug us into this hole and we're all suffering the consequences. Link?

Why do you assume I'm testy? I apologize if you thought that was me being angry. It was merely a statement of fact because at least in that post, you were indeed an idiot. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I tell my students all the time that contrary to the popular belief the motherly teachers have probably told them, there are absolutely such a thing as dumb questions and I will point them out when they ask them. Yours was a dumb question. You'll probably double down and keep pushing, but you'd demonstrate more character just admitting you asked a dumb question. Probably because you're completely ignoring the context of that post. It's no surprise considering the wild cherry picking I consistently see over here. Go back and read.

Look at what he said, idiot.

Ummm... okay Rip Van Winkle. Red states with Republican Governors are the ones having the issues over the last couple months. I don't even know how you can believe what you just said if you've been paying attention. Look at Florida, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Tennessee, Oklahoma, etc. over the last month or so. All red states with Republican Governors leading state policy. All have seen drastically increased case numbers in the last month or so. They're very far from "doing great at limiting Covid" as you suggest. I don't know what "selextive" but it sounds provocative. And with that situation, if she was so publicly doing that that she's traceable, my answer would be, sure. Are you implying that's the norm rather than the exception? I hope not.

A rebuttal implies that anything you said was worth a 2nd thought. It wasn't. It's just plain ignorance not worth the time discussing because it stems from a brain too ignorant to understand his own ignorance or just from a troll. Neither is worth a rebuttal.

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Here is the conundrum of this situation at this point: Pretty much the entire nation shut down in March in order to "flatten the curve" and get this virus under control in a sense that we as a country could open and operate reasonably again. By the end of March, we had 189,000 cases and 3,900 deaths. In less than 4 months since we shut everything down to get this all under control so we could do things like resume schools in the Fall, we have seen roughly 3.8 million more cases and 141,000 more deaths. So what's changed now that the argument is obviously "open everything up!"? Sure hasn't gotten better. And it irritates me when anyone points to other countries who have opened schools and are fine. Yeah, but you left out the other half of that equation. Those other countries got the virus under control. Denmark, Germany, Finland, Norway, Israel who all opened schools have a COMBINED total of just over 300,000 infections and 10,800 deaths. (Yes, I realize those countries combined have a population of about 1/3rd of the US population, but even accounting for that and adjusting... it's pretty staggering) And Israel actually saw their death rate go up significantly when they opened schools back up. And some of these countries STILL have students doing the hybrid model of split in class and distance learning. I was actually ready to go back into the classroom back in March. I would do it now. My household is low risk. Which is actually why our Presidential leadership pisses me off even more. There was a path for this to happen. Instead we got an idiot President worried about poll numbers in an election year while bizarrely doing everything he can to make everything worse. Nothing has gotten better... in fact everything in our country has gotten exponentially worse since schools shut down and kids were kept home to keep them, their family members and their teachers safe. It didn't necessarily have to be a choice between losing lives or setting our kids back socially ad educationally, but you can thank our terrible President for forcing that choice upon our country and forgive the educators and their Unions supporting them for worrying about lives. I absolutely believe that distance learning is no substitute for in person learning. And I therefore also believe our students will end up being hurt and set back. What too many of you are missing is that we shut down schools last March FOR A REASON. And that reason is only exponentially worse now than it was in March. Thank your POTUS.

You're right, it's not definitive and they acknowledge several limitations, but you're conveniently (and probably tactically) twisting the indications of the findings of this study with what you say here.

Wow. You seem like a pretty bitter and ignorant human being who knows very little about anything, particularly the teaching profession.

Are you drunk again?

Honestly. If you watched this insane interview, do you really think this take is inaccurate, setting aside the source?

Voted delayed... Wanted to vote that the season would start on time, but I've always been overly optimistic... changing my strategy

I'm getting so friggin excited to be able to finally talk real football again!!! Less than 2 months til opening day?!?! Is this real????