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[kimberlysteele]

 

 

 

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[mollari]

Speaking of insanity by Canadian governments:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-considers-move-to-make-remote-learning-permanent-for-all/

Online education for high school or colleges, sure. I don't find it works, but some do. But this would include elementary schools. This is totally and completely insane....

[open_space]

The amount of stupidity that I've heard for the past year baffles me in ways I was not aware of... Thank God I have not had to talk with mostly anyone ever since but I've heard of some truly nasty interactions out there.

[kimberlysteele]

Wow. That's all fine and good if they want to stop charging for it, and if they refund all property taxes paid in for the last year and never charge the "good schools" portion of property taxes again. Also, all of the teachers and school administrators get their pay reduced by half.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd personally say the administrators at the school boards ought to be fired; but I'm not particularly enthusiastic that'll happen. The other part I find amusing is that they're saying this would be optional, but also now claiming that it would be possible to save money by no longer paying to maintain the schools. I sincerely hope this doesn't happen, since the consequences for the children would be truly horrific....

[kimberlysteele]

Schools are collapsing here.... I don't know that it's such a bad thing. People are starting to home school in droves and their collapse is pushing me to make a school. I'm not the only one. My group's conversation with Senator Bailey was all about forming our own indie schools. The school system failed the children a long time ago. It was failing children back when I was a child, and it was a heck of a lot better back then! At least I learned how to do my own taxes and I knew where Tunisia was!

[lp9]

Wow, that is crazy! Though I have seen some school systems around me, in the more suburban areas, offering an all-virtual option for next school year for people who opt-in.

I am also really concerned here about the movement here to require vaccination for all college students, faculty, and staff. There are, at this point, I believe over 100 colleges mandating this.

[kimberlysteele]

The cluelessness of the upper middle class strikes again. With college enrollment down by an order of magnitude, they're not doing much to make the "college experience" seem appealing to young people! You really have to be a die hard Progressian salary class cult member to want to go to college these days.

[mollari]

The one that gets me is that many of the colleges which mandate the Covid-19 vaccines will not guarantee that classes will be in person. In other words, they're trying to force people to get these vaccines without even making sure that you'll be able to attend the classes. Frankly, I'll be amazed if higher education survives the next year at this point, since it seems like they are undermining everything that makes people interested in attending.....

[kimberlysteele]

Right, because what is college for? The MRS degree. You go there to find a mate. I didn't find my husband there but that wasn't for lack of trying.

[mollari]

Well, for us bookworms, access to the library is also a major factor, and most of those are closed! But yes, the social factor is crucial. Or, was crucial before 2020. It's fascinating watching them shoot themselves in their feet like this, but it requires a fair amount of stoic detachment on my part not to get very frustrated at how much damage it is doing.

[kimberlysteele]

I am pissed off at the people running the Theosophical Society library. They're still closed a year plus after the initial "two weeks to flatten the curve", truly acting the part of the salary class nitwit. The public library system around here, supposedly the best in the nation, had severe shortcomings long before the Scamdemic. I remember wanting to read The Grapes of Wrath over a decade ago and being told it was only available if I could wait 3 days for an interlibrary loan. Ridiculous!

[mollari]

Public libraries seem to always be terrible. It's one thing to lack the really obscure stuff, but the classics? Surely a public library should at least have those.

I was always extremely happy about the fact that I had access to two university libraries here, which actually meant something. Now both are closed by order of the province, and one is fighting to stay closed. The only reason the other isn't is, once again, because of Quebec: they issued an order declaring libraries an essential service and forbidding them from closing. So now, the bilingual university here is unwilling to fight to remain closed, because they need to be able to recruit Francophone students.

[mollari]

I'm glad for Quebec, yet again: a federal law here in Canada blocks any effort to force employees, or students, to get any form of vaccination under most circumstances. Any effort to change that will trigger a complete meltdown in Quebec's political and chattering classes, and so for now the government won't touch it. But I figure this means we have a year, two tops, since I don't expect Quebec to remain part of Canada for much longer anyway.

[kimberlysteele]

They should secede. I hope Illinois gets red-pilled and joins with all the surrounding states to become a Great Lakes bloc. In my fantasies, the Woke are driven out of Minnesota and Chicago with garlic and wooden stakes.

[mollari]

I very much support Quebec independence, just as soon as I am out of English Canada: right now they're the only thing keeping us from transforming into a wokeocracy! Of course, once I'm there, I'll probably actively get involved in the secessionist movement. From what I've heard they love it when they can recruit us Anglos, and apparently it's a way to make a lot of friends very quickly.

As for driving the woke out with garlic and wooden stakes, I really wish it was that easy. I haven't tried a wooden stake, but they don't seem any more susceptible to garlic breath than anyone else.

[lp9]

My daughter has been saving up her money for a couple years to go to a summer camp in Quebec when she's in high school (her hobby/passion is languages and she's working on French now). I'm glad to hear that things are a bit more sane in Quebec - but I wouldn't be surprised if she's not allowed to cross the border from the U.S. (either at all or without a vaccine).