Allen Independent School District, a suburb north of Dallas, held its convocation with teachers and staff this week to kick off the new school year. They held it indoors.
This is how they handled the mask issue in a county where Covid-19 cases are up 500% in the last month.
Imagine being the parent of a vulnerable child in this district. These are supposed to be the people who protect your kids.
Sometimes I wonder what it would take for me to home-school my kid. I think knowing people like this are teaching him math and science would put me over the edge.
"If Collin County has 58 covid cases per day in June and 500 cases per day in July, should we wear our masks?"
If you're the parent of an unvaccinated child, the choice is to send your child to school in unsafe conditions or home school your child. This is a total abdication of government responsibility at the state and local level and it requires federal intervention.
During a deadly pandemic, a school district must answer at least one of these questions affirmatively:
1. Have we created the safest learning environment possible?
2. If not, have we provided learning alternatives for parents and students?
people won't get vaccinated because they don't understand science, but honestly, mRNA vaccines seem less of a mystery to me than how lakes get fish or how helicopters hover without the earth rotating beneath them
fish clearly a hoax
also more of a mystery to me than mRNA vaccines --->
I want to say a few things about Jim Hornfischer. Most people expressing shock over his passing and gratitude for his work mention his writing as an author and naval historian. He was great at those. Last Stand is one of the best military history books ever written.
Most fans of his writing, however, don't realize he started his career as a big-time New York book editor who later kept his day job as a literary agent. Not only was Jim a great writer, but as an agent, he created other great writers over two decades.
I've had two serious writing mentors in my life. Jim was one of them. When I decided to try writing a war memoir in late 2004, Jim took a chance and became my agent. At that point, I'd never written anything outside of school. So Jim basically tortured me.
1. Are these comments regarding @SBAgov Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) the sign of a failing federal agency or the unjustified complaints of a vocal minority? Hard to say because SBA hasn't been transparent with businesses at all.
2. What I do know is thousands (millions?) of American small businesses have applied for these covid-related relief funds and SBA currently cannot tell them when their EIDLs may be funded or when their modifications may be processed. Some have been waiting months.
3. SBA doesn't respond on Twitter. Call wait times are well over an hour. When finally answered, customer service reps appear to be contractors who have no knowledge of the process and no authority to assist businesses.
2. Even if no shots were fired, the paranoia and fear Texans live with each day due to guns being *everywhere* has now disrupted retail sales for dozens of businesses on a huge day.
3. No business wants this. @GregAbbott_TX says he supports Texas businesses, but the reality is he's willing to harm Texas businesses in service to his gun cult.