Kids going back to school in a PANDEMIC.

[Nevilledog]

[BigmanPigman]

1. I don't agree with the bottom statement.

Normal, young kids wouldn't do that if they were told by teachers not to and why. Maybe older students who are meaner would do it or their "Karen" and "Kevin" parents would tell them to do it after showing them how. Kids under 3rd grade wouldn't. From my experience, after 15+ years in Elem School, the little ones mostly follow the rules, tattle tell on the bad ones, and don't want to get into trouble.

[Reader Rabbit]

5. How long ago were you in a classroom?

I've got 26 years in, and with very few exceptions, I can see most kids doing this, grades K-8. Particularly after being cooped up without other kids for 6-8 months.

It's natural. It's what kids do. It's our job as adults to be their prefrontal cortex for them, until it develops.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I taught K-6th until 2013.

I have been teaching since 1995 though.

[NickB79]

13. My daughter told me kids were doing exactly this prank this spring

4th graders. Lots of coronavirus jokes right before schools shut down.

[BigmanPigman]

15. I'm not surprised by 4th graders doing it.

That is why some schools break up the K-6 grades up into K-2 and 3-5th or 6th. There is a big difference in just a few years. The youngest ones are still nice to each other and want to help each other, they are not into any peer pressure and aren't self conscious yet.

[jimlup]

2. I am thankful the independent school where I teach has chosen to open remotely

I hope our local public schools will make the same decision.

[Initech]

3. Oh yeah, this is going to be a disaster.

[2naSalit]

4. I don't get why everyone is not

Flay out telling-45 to fuck right off and refuse to send their kids to daytime death camps.

[smirkymonkey]

6. What platform/app are you using to post your OP's?

I cannot see a single one of them. I can only see a little blue square with a hill and a cloud with a white line through it in almost every single one of your posts.

I occasionally see it in other posts, but I see it all of yours. Sorry, not mad or anything, but just wondering why I can't see it. I know it has something to do with my company blocking certain sites, but I'm just curious as to which ones they are. I'm going back to work on 8/3 and I might see if our IT Kiosk can help me out with it.

[Nevilledog]

8. Imgr

Wonder why you can't see them?

[smirkymonkey]

10. Ah ha! I think, for some reason, my company has blocked that one and I am not sure why.

My best friend has bought me an HP Chromebook for my B-day which should be arriving soon, so I will no longer have to use my work computer for surfing the web, so hopefully it won't be an issue much longer, but it's kind of annoying now.

I'm not sure if it's some kind of security issue with my company, but I would imagine that's the case since that is usually why they block things.

Thanks for getting back to me!

[Nevilledog]

11. Hope you can see the pics soon!

[gratuitous]

7. Because their parents can't risk their lives and go back to work if the kids are still home

Trump desperately needs the economy to "re-open" because if we're still hobbling along with 40 million unemployed by November (and, barring a complete change in the country's leadership, we will be), his chance of winning the election will be nil. So kids have to be back in the classroom so their parents can go back to work. If the parents aren't working, it will again expose the dirty little secret that it's Labor, not Capital, that drives the economy and creates wealth.

[TheFarseer]

12. Otoh

This could be going on for the next 4 years and I can understand why people would want their kids to get a real education. Sorry, it’s not as simple as one side wants to kill everyone or one side is stupid or whatever you might want to think.

[cwydro]

14. Really glad I was not a kid like this.

Nor do I know any now.

Something very wrong with the parents of those who would act like that.

Back in the day we had measles and chicken pox, and I don't remember any of us wishing it on others. We were taught differently I guess.