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Why Aren't School Districts Giving Taxpayers a Refund?
2021-02-19
[pjmedia.com] School districts across the country have suspended in-person instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, and many continue to do so despite the fact that children are far less likely to contract the virus or to spread it to adults. At least one school board experienced a financial windfall due to its shift to remote instruction, and it provided a refund to taxpayers. Perhaps this should form a model for school districts across the country.

The school board in Naperville, Ill., announced it would distribute $10 million back to taxpayers, The Washington Examiner reported. This tax refund translates to $200 to $500 for the typical family. That will not make up for the months of "remote learning" when parents had to supervise children as they took lessons on a computer screen, but it will certainly help.

Much more at link, including how much taxpayers should get back!
Posted by:Seeking Cure For Ignorance

#8  They say if by third grade you are not up with reading comprehension you are screwed...our neighbors son is lucky in that his school all kids are attending full time (rural El Cajon, Ca) and I walk him to the bus stop each morning as his parents are young and both working. He is in the third grade and doing fine.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2021-02-19 20:00  

#7  I know what the problem is...

Watch: Biden Says Black & Hispanic People Don't Know How to Use Internet
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-02-19 14:55  

#6  That's not how you spell Reparations.
Posted by: Cesare   2021-02-19 13:52  

#5  WHOooo hooo hoo
ha ha ha ha

Good one.

That's the report I got from my kids, the remote learning is just garbage; most of the participants dinking around on something else.

In school is not much better; everyone is so confined and distracted by the protocols of covid attention and retention is difficult at best, everyone is irritable from eating in boxes and having to yell at each other, hall patrol siccing them for every minute mask violation.

In fact, flaunting mask theory isn't an afternoon in detention, it is a weekend of 'mask re-eduction' which that term made me bristle.

There is an article at American Thinker from 2/17 also addressing these observations.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-02-19 13:14  

#4  $13k per public schoolchild. $700 billion per year. Total waste
Posted by: Harry Smith5289   2021-02-19 11:22  

#3  My brother in law is a teacher DeKalb County GA. He says there’s at least one full blown melee per week, with family members getting into horrific fights on the zoom classes
Posted by: Beavis   2021-02-19 11:21  

#2  We had to withdraw our son and put him in a private class because there was no way he can spend 6 HOURS a day on the computer doing school stuff. That's what they wanted them to do. He was 5 at the time. We have been trying to limit his screen time and they think he's going to sit there for 6 hours a day? Wrong. You had to sit on him, cause he'd already figured how to minimize zoom and was playing a game while the teach talked and she couldn't tell he was not doing what he was supposed to. I'm quite irked at the tax money taken from me being wasted.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2021-02-19 11:18  

#1  The refund should go to the children's parents, who have been forced to spend thousands per child on tutors to supplement or undo the damage from their public schools' shitty distance learning classes.

Those stupid Zoom classes have been nothing short of a disaster.

Some kids don't even show up. Teachers aren't prepared, can't manage the class, dial in from the road or while off skiing or otherwise on vacation. Even the kids who are conscientious and still trying are giving up due to burnout from screen time.

All the national education stats since the kids were sent home show that achievement is down across the board: reading and math scores compared to pre-COVID are down by about 25% for kids in majority white public schools and down by over 40% in majority black public schools.

Mind you, that's a decline from an already low performance level. This is the death spiral for US public education. Don't think for a second that this is not going to hurt what's left of our Republic and our economy. Here comes serfdom
Posted by: Zenobia Unaviling8140   2021-02-19 11:11  

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