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Today is the first day of school in NJ - just put a masked kid on a bus - fingers crossed | |
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| Toprance1
User ID: 70287640 United States09/08/2020 10:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The kids went back here in Jefferson County, West Virginia. Sad to see the kids with their black masks on outside while waiting for the bus. They didn't seem to mind wearing those masks though...   Never ever, ever, ever give up!!! |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77504359 United States09/08/2020 10:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The kids went back here in Jefferson County, West Virginia. Sad to see the kids with their black masks on outside while waiting for the bus. They didn't seem to mind wearing those masks though... Quoting: Toprance1 :5sr: They are thrilled. I don't send my kids to school for an education, really. I send them for the discipline of getting up every day and doing something productive, and for the practice of being responsible and accountable to their peers and to authority. They love school. Every little mundane thing is amplified to be the most exciting thing at school, when they are surrounded by their friends. I'm proud of our teachers, parents and our district for hashing it out and getting it going. Most nearby could not. I used to live in WV and was a parent in Harrison and Lewis Counties. Here in NJ we have independent districts, to the chagrin of many while others hold on to them for dear life. People pay huge money to live in places with better districts ... I wish we went by county like you guys do - it would eliminate a whole lot of nonsense. Anyway - our district is very rural for the state on average. We have the luxury of very few buildings and relatively few children. We are opening and I'm glad. Families punctuate their years by school calendars. Today is the New Years Day in my house. It feels good to be back - I hope it holds. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 72425492 United States09/08/2020 10:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With regards to school: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77504359 We always start after labor day, so we've been out a while ... since March 13. It's no worries for me if school is normal, modified, online or not at all. I'll homeschool if I have to - I really don't care. Both my high schooler and third grader are fine either way. So ... we're opening, whereas most of the surrounding districts are starting as online-only. The NJEA pretty much runs the show in New Jersey and they are fighting opening in most places, but this is a Trump county and people are pretty determined to push through it. We go in person two days a week, and they determined the "cohorts" (I HATE that they are using that word that's used in research) ... by neighborhood, which was actually brilliant. Cohort A goes mon and tues, B goes thurs and fri, C is online only and D is special ed - they go mon, tues, thu and fri. Wednesday is online only and cleaning the school for all. My high schooler's sports practices start Friday. Those have been delayed - they should have started in the summer. The kids were so excited to go back, masks or not. I'm glad we weren't deprived of the first day ritual. It would have sucked starting online. Now we wait and see how long we can go before they shut it down. Fingers crossed. No matter what, the excitement of the first day and the ritual of waiting for the bus was worth the hassle of the masks and oddball rule changes. You should be homeschooling cause your kids are going to come home with blue hair, a rubber dong, and screaming Bolshevik propaganda at you. COVID is a scam. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 5461667 United States09/08/2020 10:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Poor kids, having to listen to the commie teacher drone on about social justice all day while sucking air through a rag. When the kids start passing out they'll probably cancel school. Lose the masks, retards. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77504359 United States09/08/2020 10:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My "political" attitude towards the whole thing was very non-chalant ... I didn't care either way - I have always had the ability to work from home as needed and I've always worked around the school schedule. I can just be home while they learn online and it wouldn't matter. Some parents, like my sister, have kids who require special education - those kids have to go in. They are top priority and I can see where parents were worried. But a whole lot of adults around here should be ashamed of themselves with all the fuss they made a bunch of blowhards almost ruined this school year, too |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77504359 United States09/08/2020 10:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With regards to school: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77504359 We always start after labor day, so we've been out a while ... since March 13. It's no worries for me if school is normal, modified, online or not at all. I'll homeschool if I have to - I really don't care. Both my high schooler and third grader are fine either way. So ... we're opening, whereas most of the surrounding districts are starting as online-only. The NJEA pretty much runs the show in New Jersey and they are fighting opening in most places, but this is a Trump county and people are pretty determined to push through it. We go in person two days a week, and they determined the "cohorts" (I HATE that they are using that word that's used in research) ... by neighborhood, which was actually brilliant. Cohort A goes mon and tues, B goes thurs and fri, C is online only and D is special ed - they go mon, tues, thu and fri. Wednesday is online only and cleaning the school for all. My high schooler's sports practices start Friday. Those have been delayed - they should have started in the summer. The kids were so excited to go back, masks or not. I'm glad we weren't deprived of the first day ritual. It would have sucked starting online. Now we wait and see how long we can go before they shut it down. Fingers crossed. No matter what, the excitement of the first day and the ritual of waiting for the bus was worth the hassle of the masks and oddball rule changes. You should be homeschooling cause your kids are going to come home with blue hair, a rubber dong, and screaming Bolshevik propaganda at you. COVID is a scam. I pretty much am. I schooled my 2 and 3 others from March through June. I'm not worried about any propaganda swirling around - it's everywhere - on the TV ... ... there's so much propaganda coming out of every adult's mouth everywhere on the daily ... If you don't make your kids tough enough to deal with that, you're fucked. I'm not the least bit worried about blue hair - my kids are tougher than that lol. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77504359 United States09/08/2020 10:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Poor kids, having to listen to the commie teacher drone on about social justice all day while sucking air through a rag. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5461667 When the kids start passing out they'll probably cancel school. Lose the masks, retards. I can't wait to see how it plays out. This is a white knuckle school year. If my kid passed out from a mask I'd say "oh well, it was worth a shot" ... They aren't made of glass. Physically or mentally. If public school can fuck up your kid that much, you built a weak kid. these hysterical parents ... sigh i have three kids ranging from 8 to 21 the hysterics are so unnecessary lol |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77504359 United States09/08/2020 10:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | my school tax is 5400 bucks and that's considered not bad here i'm at least going to get some trips to the principal's office for my money, to tell my grandkids i have always been the primary educator of my kids the school experience has always been gravy ... what's unhealthy is placing so much importance on the whole thing |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77607829 United States09/08/2020 10:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With regards to school: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77504359 We always start after labor day, so we've been out a while ... since March 13. It's no worries for me if school is normal, modified, online or not at all. I'll homeschool if I have to - I really don't care. Both my high schooler and third grader are fine either way. So ... we're opening, whereas most of the surrounding districts are starting as online-only. The NJEA pretty much runs the show in New Jersey and they are fighting opening in most places, but this is a Trump county and people are pretty determined to push through it. We go in person two days a week, and they determined the "cohorts" (I HATE that they are using that word that's used in research) ... by neighborhood, which was actually brilliant. Cohort A goes mon and tues, B goes thurs and fri, C is online only and D is special ed - they go mon, tues, thu and fri. Wednesday is online only and cleaning the school for all. My high schooler's sports practices start Friday. Those have been delayed - they should have started in the summer. The kids were so excited to go back, masks or not. I'm glad we weren't deprived of the first day ritual. It would have sucked starting online. Now we wait and see how long we can go before they shut it down. Fingers crossed. No matter what, the excitement of the first day and the ritual of waiting for the bus was worth the hassle of the masks and oddball rule changes. I personally would have never sent them and moved out of the communist state of NJ. I believe it's merely suggested children wear masks in NJ. You should have sent them unmasked. Deal with and fight the fall out for a week or two. It would have caught on and others would have ditched the mask. |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77504359 United States09/08/2020 11:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With regards to school: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77504359 We always start after labor day, so we've been out a while ... since March 13. It's no worries for me if school is normal, modified, online or not at all. I'll homeschool if I have to - I really don't care. Both my high schooler and third grader are fine either way. So ... we're opening, whereas most of the surrounding districts are starting as online-only. The NJEA pretty much runs the show in New Jersey and they are fighting opening in most places, but this is a Trump county and people are pretty determined to push through it. We go in person two days a week, and they determined the "cohorts" (I HATE that they are using that word that's used in research) ... by neighborhood, which was actually brilliant. Cohort A goes mon and tues, B goes thurs and fri, C is online only and D is special ed - they go mon, tues, thu and fri. Wednesday is online only and cleaning the school for all. My high schooler's sports practices start Friday. Those have been delayed - they should have started in the summer. The kids were so excited to go back, masks or not. I'm glad we weren't deprived of the first day ritual. It would have sucked starting online. Now we wait and see how long we can go before they shut it down. Fingers crossed. No matter what, the excitement of the first day and the ritual of waiting for the bus was worth the hassle of the masks and oddball rule changes. I personally would have never sent them and moved out of the communist state of NJ. I believe it's merely suggested children wear masks in NJ. You should have sent them unmasked. Deal with and fight the fall out for a week or two. It would have caught on and others would have ditched the mask. Everything goes by district in NJ, except Abbott districts, which are run by the state. Abbot districts are deemed to have an insufficient tax base to support a fair and equal public education as per the constitution, so the state takes over. We're not an Abbot districts - those are mostly all online-only until at least mid-October. Our district was able to get it going and that's a credit to them. The mask thing - not my style. If it's required by the school, it's required by the school. I don't have to send my kids there. When I do, we follow the rules. If that became a problem, I'd pull them out. I weigh the possibilities every summer. I have my own opinions about the NJEA ... and all the politics ... but I'm a Jersey Girl through and through I moved out of state for a decade and I'm so glad to be back home. There's nothing that could ruin this place for me. As long as my last days on earth are looking out over that ocean, it's all good :) |
| Backwash
User ID: 77794570 United States09/08/2020 11:47 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With regards to school: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77504359 We always start after labor day, so we've been out a while ... since March 13. It's no worries for me if school is normal, modified, online or not at all. I'll homeschool if I have to - I really don't care. Both my high schooler and third grader are fine either way. So ... we're opening, whereas most of the surrounding districts are starting as online-only. The NJEA pretty much runs the show in New Jersey and they are fighting opening in most places, but this is a Trump county and people are pretty determined to push through it. We go in person two days a week, and they determined the "cohorts" (I HATE that they are using that word that's used in research) ... by neighborhood, which was actually brilliant. Cohort A goes mon and tues, B goes thurs and fri, C is online only and D is special ed - they go mon, tues, thu and fri. Wednesday is online only and cleaning the school for all. My high schooler's sports practices start Friday. Those have been delayed - they should have started in the summer. The kids were so excited to go back, masks or not. I'm glad we weren't deprived of the first day ritual. It would have sucked starting online. Now we wait and see how long we can go before they shut it down. Fingers crossed. No matter what, the excitement of the first day and the ritual of waiting for the bus was worth the hassle of the masks and oddball rule changes. Sounds like you got your hands full. Praying for a Great School year for your two. Jed Eckert: C'mon! We're all going to die, die standing up! Why is it that an economic theorist called an "expert", but a conspiracy expert is called a "theorist"? The only time an aircraft has too much fuel onboard is when it is on fire. . . . Sir Charles Kingsford Smith |
| Philly Special
User ID: 48696927 United States09/08/2020 12:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In NJ as well, kids (both in HS) were supposed to start a "hybrid" schedule, but 2 weeks ago the district put that on hold until Nov. (at the earliest) so everyone is remote. Kids were bummed that they couldn't go to school. District gave the excuse "we don't have enough PPE for all the teachers". What they meant to say is "NJEA is busting our balls, so we're just going to cave to their demands". I'll hear how the first day went when I get home. They're trying to do this remote learning with attendance records and during the same hours the kids would be in school (as opposed to the end of last year which was "just get the work done whenever"). There is an app on their school issued chromebooks for attendance. Just got a call an hour ago, VM from the Principal, saying that not all parents have picked up their kids' laptops, so this whole attendance thing is probably going to go great. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79349986  Canada09/08/2020 12:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With regards to school: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77504359 We always start after labor day, so we've been out a while ... since March 13. It's no worries for me if school is normal, modified, online or not at all. I'll homeschool if I have to - I really don't care. Both my high schooler and third grader are fine either way. So ... we're opening, whereas most of the surrounding districts are starting as online-only. The NJEA pretty much runs the show in New Jersey and they are fighting opening in most places, but this is a Trump county and people are pretty determined to push through it. We go in person two days a week, and they determined the "cohorts" (I HATE that they are using that word that's used in research) ... by neighborhood, which was actually brilliant. Cohort A goes mon and tues, B goes thurs and fri, C is online only and D is special ed - they go mon, tues, thu and fri. Wednesday is online only and cleaning the school for all. My high schooler's sports practices start Friday. Those have been delayed - they should have started in the summer. The kids were so excited to go back, masks or not. I'm glad we weren't deprived of the first day ritual. It would have sucked starting online. Now we wait and see how long we can go before they shut it down. Fingers crossed. No matter what, the excitement of the first day and the ritual of waiting for the bus was worth the hassle of the masks and oddball rule changes. Sounds like the people who admin your school admin ours & I'm in Canada. Creepy |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79156579 Canada09/08/2020 12:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And once they get away with that, they are going to move the children to camps! And you won't be able to visit them without a vaccine. Keep these friggin kids home! Or be ready to bust them out of a Walmart/FEMA camp. |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77504359 United States09/09/2020 09:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In NJ as well, kids (both in HS) were supposed to start a "hybrid" schedule, but 2 weeks ago the district put that on hold until Nov. (at the earliest) so everyone is remote. Quoting: Philly Special Kids were bummed that they couldn't go to school. District gave the excuse "we don't have enough PPE for all the teachers". What they meant to say is "NJEA is busting our balls, so we're just going to cave to their demands". I'll hear how the first day went when I get home. They're trying to do this remote learning with attendance records and during the same hours the kids would be in school (as opposed to the end of last year which was "just get the work done whenever"). There is an app on their school issued chromebooks for attendance. Just got a call an hour ago, VM from the Principal, saying that not all parents have picked up their kids' laptops, so this whole attendance thing is probably going to go great. I get so mad at the teachers. (For non-NJians this is hard to understand - we have the best schools anywhere - but our teachers' union has us all by the balls.) SO MAD. This is why we had Christie in there twice - he took on the teachers. And yes the ones that aren't open are using stupid excuses! One school didn't have enough time to install spitguards - no way - teachers. They are all like that. We're in Salem county. Things are a little different here. My kids came home and couldn't wait to go back. They want 5 days. They took all the kids, put them in classes like regular, and split them in two - so half the kids are in the classroom and half online. There were 11 in class yesterday, 11 online. The 1-2 hours of online instruction includes the whole class. I like the way they did it - but they need more instructional time. For years we heard they don't have enough instructional time for this or that. Well ... Good to read osmeone who understands NJ schools - thanks for posting! |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77504359 United States09/09/2020 09:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know when, I don't know where, but they are FIXIN to keep the children overnight. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79156579 And once they get away with that, they are going to move the children to camps! And you won't be able to visit them without a vaccine. Keep these friggin kids home! Or be ready to bust them out of a Walmart/FEMA camp. I'd kill someone over that. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77504359 United States09/09/2020 09:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The rest of them in surrounding districts nitpicked the kids out of a school, but ours didn't leverage this for themselves. Mine were so happy to be back, as weird as it seems with all the new rules they love going there every day. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77504359 United States09/09/2020 10:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's the parents who make the school ultimately ... and the teachers and administrators, too. We live in the kind of place where upon losing two buses out of three on a class trip to Baltimore, we mobilized parents that morning to pull off the class trip with one bus and it was great. Not all schools could do that, but we're generally a can-do lot. Neighboring districts have horror stories about the meetings deciding how to open ... there are some adults who really should shut up and sit down because they are ruining it for kids. We can have school safely for everyone according to their level of need. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77504359 United States09/09/2020 10:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Man up home school. Your killing your children’s intellect with nj public school. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79121774 As if I don't practically home school them on top of what they get in school. Any good parent doesn't live and die by the schools ... we educate our children our selves. School is their job. It's where they leave the safety and comfort of their home, and go out into the world and are held accountable to the requirements of the job and their peers. It's where they learn about all the different ways people live and learn and are, too. None of that is a threat to my parenting or my kids whatsoever - it can only enhance their learning. |
