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[Reelya]

The shopping area could in fact largely be staffed by students themselves. After all, the shops shouldn't be open when classes are on, anyway, so you can have students work their part time.

[scriver]

Isn't this the plot of "If..."

[JoshuaFH]

Isn't this the plot of "If..."

"If..." the 1968 movie?

[Reelya]

Nah, Scriver this is a bit different. That movie is about an uprising in the school, whereas we're talking about something where it's school policy that you have to fight each other in some sense as how you gain grades or go up to a better class.

Meanwhile, an American school that suspended a student for posting a picture of crowded hallways full of maskless students has now closed down because of Covid infections.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/hs-that-suspended-teen-who-tweeted-photo-of-hallway-has-9-covid-19-cases/

[scriver]

Isn't this the plot of "If..."

"If..." the 1968 movie?

It's not weird! It's a classic!

[JoshuaFH]

Isn't this the plot of "If..."

"If..." the 1968 movie?

It's not weird! It's a classic!

I'd honestly never heard of it. I was asking cause that seemed like a very old reference to be making, but it was the most probable one from what I could tell from googling it.

[scriver]

I'm not old! I'm a classic!

[wierd]

Oh, WHOEVER COULD HAVE GUESSED this would happen!?

I mean, NOBODY could have predicted that jamming a bunch of kids together into a confined space, sourced from a geographically diverse area, could result in such a huge upswing in cases! Mind blowing!

/sarcasm (withering, searing hot, and potentially radioactive levels of sarcasm)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/10/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html



Seriously people, a desire for things to be normal is natural and understandable. However, reality does not give a fuck about what you or I want.  Public health is an area of policy that must be rooted in hard reality, and not political socio-engineering.  As such, "how I feel about it" is not that important.  "Does it save lives?" is what is important.  How you will deal with having your kidlings at home with you all the time is not a life and death situation. Sending kids off to school during a pandemic *IS*.

For the love of all that is good, please pressure your elected officials to do what is mandated by science and reality, and not what some loud Karens want.  Keep the kids home. Stay at home. Don't go to public gatherings.

[Greiger]

I did message my lawmakers.  I sent a physical letter even.

All it did is put me on Rick Scott and Desantis' newsletters, which I have tried to unsubscribe from twice and still keep receiving, letters from conservative 'charities', emails and letters claiming to be computer repair companies saying they were contracted by microsoft to contact me about my computer issues, and emails telling me my non existent myspace and spotify accounts were hacked.

I did not receive any actual correspondence back, nor did either of them appear to even consider the stance of a person they are supposed to be representing.  Your representatives don't give a flying fuck what you think unless you make the envelope out of 100 dollar bills.

[martinuzz]

How you will deal with having your kidlings at home with you all the time is not a life and death situation. Sending kids off to school during a pandemic *IS*.

But what if your boss demands you go to work and your kids are too young to be left home alone (because they could die from trying to climb stuff or open the door for a pedophile), and the alternative is losing your job, becoming homeless and your now homeless kids get run over by a bus while you are being raped in an alley by a crack dealer?

[dragdeler]

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[Starver]

"Bring Your Child To Work" Day. Every. Goddam. Day.

(Including weekends, 'cos it sounds like that kind of boss.)

[martinuzz]

What Dragdeler said, give people money to stay home.  But not just alms, a fair wage.
Over here the government paid business that had to tell their workers to stay home during the lockdown enough to pay them 90% of their normal wage.

Bringing children to work is just impossible in a lot of workplaces.  And you'd get the same thing as in schools if more parents bring their kids, then they're just not grouped at school, they're grouped at their parents' workplaces.

[dragdeler]

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[Frumple]

And you'd get the same thing as in schools if more parents bring their kids, then they're just not grouped at school, they're grouped at their parents' workplaces.

I mean, that would still sorta' be an improvement! At least you'd be removing an extra infection vector by not having the household in question potentially spread the plague to both workplace and school. That's probably going to be better than the infection spreading to both.