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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????

Aloha! I'm on O'ahu, the gathering place. You're an architect? Is that what you mean? What school did you design? Define "shoes." No one's showing up barefoot to school, but most people wear slippers (you'd know them as flip flops) year round. My first year of teaching I showed up to school for the first couple months in pants, nice shoes, and a long sleeved shirt with a tie. I soon realized I was way overdressed for the islands. Now I sometimes wear an Aloha shirt, khaki shorts and brown leather slippers to work and I'm plenty dressed up. It's definitely a different world from where I grew up. Am I supposed to be "the guy" in this little rant?

You sound bitter. Or drunk. Or both, more likely. I live in Hawai'i, not North Carolina. Students are back August 4th. Put down the bottle.

"More" And no. Back to school for me. I say school not work because I've been working this whole time anyway. It's what teachers do on their vacations, believe it or not.

Wait, what is "the system?" High School systems all across your county? Your state? The country? The world? Just trying to figure this out because you've directly proclaimed you're the guy we all need to turn to in this discussion. Want to make sure I don't step on the toes of the Sultan of High School education.

All the states not fully going back are now doing it for political reasons?

I don't even know if I have a will or a health care proxy. I know I have life insurance in multiple forms that sets my wife up with plenty of money for the rest of their lives. But me not having those things would have jack squat to do with my credentials or ability to teach Expository writing and literature to Juniors and Seniors in High School.

I had to look up what the hell TDSer is. Trump Derangement Syndrome. Sure sounds like something a Russian bot like @Deranged Rhino probably came up with that while working for Cambridge Analitica with Brittany Kaiser during the campaign leading up to the 2016 election. You guys need to lay off Twitter and Facebook so much. You're being targeted. And I'm only half joking.... Maybe a quarter...

Then I finally feel like a real member of this forum since this is all I see over here from you. Minus the political affiliation, of course