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I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by LodeOfCode »

sylens wrote: post #331
darth_avocado wrote: post #328

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It will be year 3 of covid and this is 100% the fault of the same people who have created every other problem in the education system: the administrators. There is no perfect way to open schools, that much is certain after looking at other countries. But looking at the state of things, it doesn’t even seem like people are trying. Japan has students come in on alternate days, so that the school can operate at 50% capa…

I don't fault any schools for struggling from March 2020 to June 2020, being thrown into the pandemic and remote learning with no warning. But I was absolutely astonished to see that most administrators took the summer of 2020 off, assuming that everybody would be back in school that fall and things would be normal. They wasted several months of time that could've been spent planning contingencies and how remote lear…

>whose job was to monitor chat/messages from the virtual attendees and raise his hand to ask a question to the instructor

Seems like a human solution to a (mostly) technical problem. Basically you just need a way for students to mark a message as hand-raising (and maybe a way to point out another student's message), a chat filter for the teacher to read those messages, and a USB LED (or some such) to act as a raised hand until the messages are marked as read. Of course there are some edge cases, like temporarily ignoring a child who's repeatedly raising their hand to troll, but this still seems like it could've easily been usable by the start of fall 2020.

You'd likely still need a surrogate for young children and special ed students, but you could probably eliminate ~2/3rds of them (? I'm not sure how old children need to be before they can be expected to remember they need to mark their messages & how to do so)

Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by barry-cotter »

tartoran wrote: post #391
khazhoux wrote: post #379

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How so? I grew up with kids whose entire childhood was in the same trailer park. They were homeless?

Yes, unless you consider a trailer a home but then where do you draw the line? One could go as far as considering a tent as a home but come on, we all know what we mean by home. A trailer is just a trailer.

Consider how people who live in those trailers feel about people like you. If you need an intuition pump consider that most Europeans live in houses that are solid masonry, not plywood and plaster. Your houses are basically tissue paper, trashwood and mud. Hardly a permanent structure.

Your public contempt is reciprocated by the people you do not respect.

Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by Glyptodon »

kcplate wrote: post #188
Glyptodon wrote: post #109

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Not moving the goal post. I agree that criminalization of leaving home for the unvaccinated gets more appealing by the day. But I also don't know that vaccines actually end it at this point.

> I agree that criminalization of leaving home for the unvaccinated gets more appealing by the day. Don’t recall anyone in the thread suggesting criminalization (except you), so it’s pretty strange that you brought it up. Perhaps that is appealing to you, but it sure isn’t appealing to me. In fact it is so abhorrent an idea to me that I am pretty much open to anything that would prevent such totalitarianism from happ…

Obviously it's too late for it to matter and that was a bit of hyperbole. But I also think it's fair to say that anyone who insists on doing nothing and acting like COVID is a complete scam, vaccines are a complete scam, masks are complete scam, etc., is basically behaving pretty much criminally.

Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by spookthesunset »

corey_moncure wrote: post #390
megablast wrote: post #312

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Why?? This is normal and natural.

Within 200 years, the madness we are living through will find its place in the history book next to the Salem witch trials and the War of the Worlds, that is, assuming we live through it.

Absolutely. History will not look kindly upon this barbaric crap we subjected ourselves to for the last 2 years.

Masks, lockdowns, all of it is just modern day rain dances. We think we can somehow control and contain a highly infectious virus. Ha. Yeah right.

Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by trailingComma »

sva_ wrote: post #365

I read this post earlier today, and found it quite shocking. I really hope this is an exception rather than the normal. I previously didn't think about it this way, and thought closing schools was the more sensible choice. But we're failing a whole generation like this. It more and more feels like we live in a society that sarcrifices their young, just to keep old people on their life support machines a little longer…

You think a school being basically worthless when open because large numbers of teachers have become ill from infection spread, is some how a criticism of closing schools to prevent infection spread?

Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by barry-cotter »

the_lonely_road wrote: post #374
double_nan wrote: post #313

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I’m mostly curious about why the maturity period was prolonged by 5-10 years from what the human race had 100 or 1000 years ago. I’m not talking about education but the transition from youths to adulthood.

Science seems to be pointed hard towards 25 being the age of majority rather than 18. We are unlikely to see the age move in our lifetimes due to the military needing its recruits but it probably should. Do you really think the average 14-15 year old should be considered in the same maturity bracket as the average 35 or 45 year old? I was incapable of making good decisions at that age. The things I thought were cool,…

I could not come up with a better argument for reducing the age of majority to 13 or 14 if I tried. Infantilising adults like this is dehumanising.

Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by bombcar »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #381
genericuser314 wrote: post #351

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Most facts are incomplete, it's almost impossible to give all the context to any given data point unless you just give people a URL and tell people to read for themselves. For example, it's an incomplete fact to say that "if you live in a trailer park, you are considered homeless", but thankfully you provided the link to the complete fact! From your source, a little more completeness for your fact: "living in ...trai…

> living in ...trailer parks... due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations Wouldn't this be most people living in trailer parks?

There are a portion of trailerparkers who could but choose not to live elsewhere. I don’t necessarily agree with it, but they made the choice.

Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by ergocoder »

kodah wrote: post #322
megablast wrote: post #312

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Why?? This is normal and natural.

No, it's not normal and it's not natural. I remember being treated like this by the same people I heard spread fear and misinformation about COVID throughout the year before I got COVID. It's incredibly dehumanizing, isolating, and fractures any sense of community. My relationship with those people will never be the same.

It is normal.

CDC and US has full on PR every day on how bad COVID is and how we should get vaccine and wear masks. People who don't do those are ostracized.

People who don't think covid is a big deal is labeled anti-science and covid-denier.

With all this, of course, every normal reasonable person is scared of covid.

If a person next to me has covid, I sure as hell will run away as soon as possible.

Saving myself is way more important than saving your feeling.

I hope anyone would do the same. Don't worry about hurting my feeling. That is negligible. Save yourself first.

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