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Re: San Francisco: The reckoning is here

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Post by pmonks » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 8:11 PM UTC

dilap wrote: post #50

pmonks wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You literally said: > During the pandemic, SF had in-person schooling at private schools, but not in public schools. This is patently false. All of the private schools in SF that I’m aware of switched to remote learning from March 2020 to the end of that school year, and many had “hybrid” models (e.g. alternating one week in-person, one week remote) when they resumed in August / September.

I don't feel like you're making a good faith effort to understand me...

Fair enough. FTR I think you’re trying to dunk on SF using factually incorrect claims about what actually happened at local schools during the course of 2020 and into 2021.

Re: San Francisco: The reckoning is here

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Post by dilap » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 8:59 PM UTC

pmonks wrote: post #51

dilap wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't feel like you're making a good faith effort to understand me...

Fair enough. FTR I think you’re trying to dunk on SF using factually incorrect claims about what actually happened at local schools during the course of 2020 and into 2021.

It's surprisingly hard to find an authoritative history of this.

Like you, my source is having been there and experienced it: my cousins, who were in private school, were quickly able to go back to in-person instruction; my sister, who was in public school, was not (until she switched).

Kids without the financial resources to do that just lost out.

Here's an NYT article from Nov 4, 2020, headline "In San Francisco, Closed Public Schools, Open Private Schools":

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/san-francisco-closed-p...

Here's an SFUSD memo six months later announcing the partial return of some kids to in-person learning:

https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resource...

Sure I'm dunking on SF city gov, because it deserves it! Its citizens are uniquely poorly served, especially its poorer citizens, in a city that is one of wealthiest on earth.

Re: San Francisco: The reckoning is here

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Post by seanmcdirmid » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 10:53 PM UTC

recursive wrote: post #48

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #44

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On street parking really sucks! Don't buy/maintain a car if you don't have a real parking spot for it. That would also keep the traffic down.

I do have a real parking spot for it. At my home. In a whole other state. The mistake I made was visiting my friend. I wasn't aware of the out-of-town window smashing policy.

I got my window smashed in the first time a few weeks after I moved to Salt Lake City from Seattle, it was a pretty big shock. But that was in SLC, the Foothills even, which should have been safe-ish (I wasn't even parked on the street, but in a driveway). I guess it is just the way they greet new neighbors. I guess the crime in Utah at the time is now also common in Seattle.