This is the dumbest conversation I've ever read on this forum.
Now that's just rude, and my bar for rudeness is pretty high.
What's rude is people who are non-parents making a one-size fits all assumption about how children learn.
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This is the dumbest conversation I've ever read on this forum.
Now that's just rude, and my bar for rudeness is pretty high.
What's rude is people who are non-parents making a one-size fits all assumption about how children learn while wearing masks.
You can flip that though and say the people recommending masks for all children are doing the same. It's why I think the public health institutions should stay out of it and let parents make their own choices.
Children do not learn the same. And children are not taught all the same values and beliefs. Schools are indoctrination centers that teach children the values, beliefs, and customs of the society they are being integrated into. It's why Asian schools, European schools, and even Native American schools are all different. It's why Christian schools are private institutions so they can teach the lessons and values of their christian beliefs.
Public Schools are indoctrination centers ran by the government to instill the values to integrate children into American Society. When a school doesn't do this, then that institution fails.
These public schools were already failing long before covid-19, and what I feel happened is this virus exposed this to a lot of people, because it could not handle it. A lot of people are switching to homeschooling.
And for me, the best type of teaching comes from the parents and the community, whom are very capable of being able to teach their own kids how to be productive members of society. More so than a teacher who has to abide by the regulations set by the public schooling administration industry.
If the parents do not like the masking going on in the schools, they have the freedom to pull their kids out of school and homeschool them. It may require an entire lifestyle change and shift on one's life, but it can be done. I just do not know how that balance is on how easy it is for some to homeschool, while quite difficult for others in which they have no choice but to rely on the public schools for many things besides education.
Over here, a big problem with schools being shut down is that many children will go without food, many homeless children attend public schools for the sole purpose of getting a meal to eat. And also, just recently, the schools shut down over a cyber attack and not because of this pandemic. Which for me, I find that reason for public schools to be closed even more hilarious in this damn crazy ass chaotoc rollercoaster we were thrust onto. Because, to me, that shows even though the schools may have a sense of control over a health pandemic, there's still the cyber threats the schools can't even handle, which if the schools were not so dependent on technology or had fail-safes, they would have still been open as the teachers hand counted, and wrote down attendance in their little grade book, while using the textbooks or books at their local library to teach their subject of choice.
If I were a parent, I'd be more concerned about a cyber attack than masking, to be honest.