Trump to defund schools unless they reopen for on-person instruction

I don't know, I'm not sure they are even looking at that side of it and I doubt that kind of message would fly this election.

My guess is that it's all about the economy. School is day care for a lot of working people. With kids back in school, it means those people can go back to work and hopefully help the unemployment rate and the economy. We have a businessman in power...he only looks at the bottom line and to him, getting people back to work is how he's going to win the election. It's the only chance he has...just keep hoping the virus goes away and the economy bounces back...then he'll get reelected. He went for the monster homerun swing and just isn't willing to choke up on the bat and just get a single.

 

If Trump really cared he'd put Jared on it.

 

The devil didn't even try to fool these idiots. It just said,
"whoa rea-
you know I'm the dev-
LOCK HER UP, BUILD THE WALL...."

 

Enough said right here

 

Donald Trump is an even bigger idiot than I thought if he thinks simply putting kids in school will get the economy thriving again. There is only one way to get the economy booming, and that’s through restoring consumer confidence. The only way that happens is America crushes its COVID-19 curve, and that requires everyone to wear a mask, social distance and stay home as much as possible for a few months. Accomplishing that takes leadership like Americans received from FDR following the Great Depression and during World War II. That type of leadership isn’t easy and isn’t going to make every American happy, but it is what is needed during times of crisis. Trump is incapable of such leadership.

Also, no educated American will praise Trump for getting citizens back to work before the election because it’s his fault they lost their jobs in the first place. If he had listened to his public health experts, not disbanded the pandemic playbook the Obama administration left him, and not cut funding for federal public health agencies and resources, the country wouldn’t be in this predicament today.

Trump will still have some crazy people that still hang on his every word come November 3, but the vast majority of Americans will not forget the last four months, and I’m very confident he will get voted out of office. Mail in voting or not, Americans are going to let nothing stop them from letting Trump know what they think of him, and his day of reckoning is coming soon.

 

Dammit, I came here to post exactly this.

 

Slow trigger finger.

 

Agree with everything you're saying.

He's a businessman. He's all about deals, numbers, and the bottom line. He sees the unemployment number, something he's touted throughout his presidency, as an important part of his presidency...he even whined about it on twitter when the first job reports came in and mentioned about how sad it was that his beautiful economy was slipping away.

But he's also a conman, so he doesn't want to work hard at this, just trying to flip a quick buck to boost his bottom line. Problem is, he's fighting against the virus...not another person. The virus doesn't praise him, coddle him, or talk to him...it's just ever present. So, he does what any other businessman would do in that situation and tries to ignore it while he focuses on the bottom line.

- People dying...helps the bottom line...means more jobs open up or unemployed people die bringing the numbers down
- People sick...helps the bottom line...insurance companies and hospitals are making money even if no one else is
- More sick people...helps the bottom line...maybe it means more people will stay home...all he needs is his base to head out there and vote
- His base gets sick...helps the bottom line...they'll go out and get the other side sick...those people will die or stay home when it comes time to vote

I mean, it's sick, but I'm pretty sure that's the strategy now which is why he basically said that people must learn to live with it. He's basically trying to use the virus for his own personal gain at this point and hoping that it scares enough people to stay home come November...but not his base.

It's a hail mary shot, but he doesn't know how to operate any other way at this point. He's a businessman...the only thing that matters is the bottom line.

 

You're using that word "businessman" very loosely with him but you are correct.

 

Thanks for what you do for kids and our country... both as a teacher and coach. What you do is underpaid, and underappreciated... yet we look to you to educate and care for what's most important to us.

 

Well, it's the natural response given the great success Kushner has had with Middle East Peace, the opioid crisis, his coronavirus task force, infrastructure, criminal justice reform, relations with China and Mexico, etc....

Is there anything the man can't fix?

 

I agree with all of this, too. Trump is a racist, con artist, narcissistic scumbag and a pathological liar that isn’t willing to try and do the right thing when it is uncomfortable. He would rather pass the buck and blame everyone but himself for his failures. He cries like a toddler when anyone disagrees with one of his many lies and threatens to take his ball and go home. The bottom line is Trump is a coward and a disgrace to the office of the presidency of the United States.

 

There probably is something to that too. If that is the case though it would make more sense to spend money on upgrading school safety which would make parents more comfortable sending their kids back. Then again I won't rule out lack of rational thinking on the part of this Admin.

 

Thank you! I appreciate that. It’s not an easy job, but it’s incredibly rewarding.

 

It's called discipline.

 

Another brilliantly deadly idea. #genius

 

Yes. That is the viewpoint apparently. As a teacher it isn't our job to be day care center. I would love to teach face to face again but that isn't possible to do safely yet. How do you keep Kindergarteners to socially distance and keep their masks on. They are only about 75% on using the restroom by themselves. What should happen is to have teachers report to school and the kids stay home. Teachers will be a classroom with regular hours. They won't have the distractions of teaching from their own homes. They can have a somewhat uniform and coherent strategy and resources to deliver instruction. But it is much safer.

Opening up that way also won't cause a disruption when the schools get classes and have to shut down when everyone has to quarantine because the virus spread.

As it is everyone will plan on in person learning and then when they have to shut it down again there's going to be a huge clusterfrick and disruption in learning.

Sorry teachers aren't supposed to be daycare.

 

118 days and counting

 

I mean that was his proffesion before. It doesn't mean he was good at it.

 

Nation’s Parents Fear That If Kids Miss Enough School They Will Turn Out Like Betsy DeVos


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (The Borowitz Report)—With many of the nation’s schools closed through the end of the school year, millions of American parents worry that if their children miss enough school they will turn out like Betsy DeVos.

As news broke last week that the DeVos family has provided funding to one of the organizations behind recent anti-social-distancing protests, parents panicked at the prospect of their school-deprived children becoming as ignorant as the nation’s Education Secretary.

“Without school, our kids could have frightening gaps in their understanding of math, science, and history,” Carol Foyler, a parent in Akron, Ohio, said. “We could be raising a generation of Betsy DeVoses.”

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Gotta open dem skoolz