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25 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"How was picture day?"-me "They made us wear masks for the class picture so I didn't smile because no one could tell anyway."-my 8yo.
I told this story in my piece about our time in Florida last year but my daughter's softball team in Palm Beach County took a maskless group pic last...February. When does NYC catch up? city-journal.org/a-lifelong-new…
Ppl asking if class pics were outside. Of course! We live in crazytown. To go to a Halloween fair at my kids' school I had to show my vax card (a sad non-English-speaking grandma lacked hers and couldn't come in), fill out health forms for everyone and yes, still mask, outdoors.
Btw, the masking of kids outdoors came up during this discussion. The ex-head of AMA had not heard kids were masking outdoors. Randi Weingarten gave her best poker face when the issue was discussed but every dumb rule starts with her or the other unions.

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19 Oct
I got my kid a rapid test yesterday. Turned out he needs PCR to return to school. So he's home an extra day while we wait for that result.
On the plus side I'm home all day with the kid who talks nonstop about random history so I learned about various Napolean battles (and how if he could pick to have any brain in history he'd pick Napolean's) and about how Celts started Halloween. Maybe I need the homeschooling.
He's whittling down a stick (with plastic knives because his mean mom won't let him use a real one) to make a harp. "Just went through my 6th knife," he says glaring at me.
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8 Oct
He did not do a single thing to fix failing NYC schools so on his way out the door Mayor de Blasio destroyed the rare functioning component of the NYC school system. You voted for this, New Yorkers, twice. nytimes.com/2021/10/08/nyr…
.@elizashapiro is openly anti-gifted education so "experts say" is her opinion. That second paragraph, though, YAH teaching kids with a wide range of abilities in one classroom is difficult. But whatever, it's only kids who lose out.
The next mayor can absolutely overturn all of this. This is @elizashapiro's way of saying he shouldn't.
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1 Oct
I missed this live but am watching it now. facebook.com/events/s/scien… Right off the bat Randi Weingarten challenges that it was her union that kept schools closed. Mmm, it's the remix.
At the 10:34 mark, Michelle Walker, one of the activists at Open Schools USA says “A lot of people don’t know that practicing physicians are prohibited from speaking against the CDC guidance.” Is that right?! facebook.com/events/s/scien…
First speaker Irwin Redlener is so intensely obnoxious, conflating the topic- child masking- with like anti-MMR-vaxxers. This is what the pro-masking side has, hysteria.
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24 Sep
Oh. No.
I don't know even know where to start with Walensky. She is atrocious at her job. Walensky said schools should open in Feb 2021, then was cowered into reversing herself by WH (pressured by Randi). But oh there's more.
She said pregnant women should be vaccinated and then 3 days later *walked that back.* She continues to push masking kids despite all the available data (incl real world data from, oh, Europe) saying it's a largely unnecessary step.
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24 Sep
I'm going to have a thread of good people running for school boards all over the country. Send me recs!
.@lvlewitinn is running for school board in Tenafly, New Jersey.
.@ishapiro is running in Falls Church, Virginia. shapiro4fallschurch.org
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24 Sep
A NYC friend has a 2nd grader who was "exposed" to someone with COVID in his classroom on 9/20. He will not be able to return to school until 10/1. If the exposure happened on 9/27, new rule say he won't have to quarantine at all. Best part is...his brother still going to school.
So much is so, so deeply stupid and anti-science and it kills me that people are just taking it. This kid is losing two weeks of school because of pure idiocy. It's an embarrassment. Everyone involved in this policy-making should be fired. Everyone quiet is pathetic.
Why does every change take weeks to implement? Why can't new quarantine rules start the day they're announced? How did you people vote for Bill de Blasio for two freaking terms with a straight face?
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