Public Schools

Step one in the eventual all online semester has been completed. The county board has moved the start of the school year to the day after Labor Day. Ironic, in that the schools were so upset when the governor mandated a post Labor Day start a few years ago, that they enlisted their Democrat allies in the state legislature to overturn the Governor's action.

After the disaster that was school in March, April, May, and June, I was actually supportive of an early school start. Three months worth of learning was wiped out and it made sense to use the extra time to catch the kids up as much as possible. What possible reason is there to delay school by two weeks? Not to clean the schools, which ought to have been done four months ago. No, it is to train the teachers in better online teaching. Do I know this for a fact? No, I surmise it. Buying 6,500 Chromebooks is a BIG CLUE, don't you think?  And once they start online, why will they ever go in person? They won't, as long as the mandate for social distancing exists.