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masterplum posted...

My spouse is a teacher. Most of the virtual school students are learning absolutely nothing, its a big problem.

I dont think thats the right solution, but I have no problems not offering virtual schools for the most part. Need more money to hire more teachers because there are huge problems, but virtual schools isnt the way to go

The school we're at is a Flex one, they've always done part virtual and part in person. I can't speak to everywhere obviously, but this place does really well with virtual options, but they're also used to doing it. I'd imagine it would be a lot harder for teachers who are used to in person instruction though. I think the choice of virtual vs. in person should be up to the parents though, not to the government.

Corrik7 posted...

Wrong. Schools are provided money for each student that attends. It is why a lot of schools were/are upset people were going to virtual schools instead of staying in district because they lose that funding. With students not in schools, the costs are lower. They can easily afford to provide a small chunk of the money given to the district for each student back to the parent. This money would go to providing the children with lunch's and internet costs if needed.

The school for my brother and sister already does this on their own. They get sent a check to cover lunch's which is actually higher than the amount here. It's like 2.6180. (actually not that far off).

Still love how you acted like you were a republican or centrist and you sit here and try to make Republicans into evil entities over and over. Heaven forbid Republicans want to ensure children eat and have internet access out of a small amount of what schools provide districts per child.

I don't know how any of that works around here, so I could very well be wrong, and maybe it's not as bad as I'm thinking it is.

I don't know what other districts do, but ours has a meal order form that gets mailed (postal or email), and they offer free breakfast and lunch to all children 18 and under in the community. So maybe that's a bigger issue in some places, but it's not part of the problem in my particular district.

As far as the centrist thing, prior to Trump's gross mishandling of covid I said that I would likely vote Trump over Bernie, and that caused a bunch of people to jump all over my ass. I do fall in the political center, but I'm having a very hard time going along with anything Republicans do, considering I disagree strongly with how Trump has handled pretty much everything in the last year. The parties silence on things speaks volumes to me, and instead of moving more to the right as I get older, I'm getting pushed back to the left like I was in college. Even if my political beliefs are in the center, I can't support what the Republican party has become under Trump and I will continue voting straight Democrat until I feel differently.

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