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Oculus Spirit [97938]
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Wife about to go to war with the school district.
Jun 25, 2020, 1:25 PM
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They announced the plan for reopening schools in the fall. Middle schools go 3 days a week in person and 2 online. K-5 goes 5 days a week but every other Wednesday is online. Then everyone has an all-online option as well. They went into great detail about buses, dropoff times staggered, classes scattered, sanitation, masks, yada yada. But gave absolutely zero details about what the #### happens online, whether part-time kids are online or full time.
Ok, well, now they demand a choice by the parents with half of one half-assed option explained, and the other totally unknown. But you have to choose by next week.
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Legend [15223]
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I can't for the life of me understand why they would allow
Jun 25, 2020, 1:34 PM
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a 3 day per week option. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
For elementary kids, have an online option or in class option. For in class, just let the #### art and music teacher come to the classroom if you don't want them in the hallways and such. Have normal recess and pe outside. Eat lunch in the classroom. This isn't hard.
For middle and high schoolers, just make them wear masks.
Why would you have a 3 day a week option? Just way over thinking it.
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CU Medallion [60246]
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Re: I can't for the life of me understand why they would allow
Jun 25, 2020, 1:39 PM
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This is all a ### moment.
Is Wednesday the day when Rona is contracted? Why 3 days? Why not 5? What difference is it making?
It’s all so arbitrary and messed up.
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Oculus Spirit [79508]
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Everybody laughed at me and thought it was a joke when I
Jun 25, 2020, 1:45 PM
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said one day the population would be too stupid to get anything done whatsoever. But here we are boys and girls, here we are. Much faster than I anticipated though, I'll admit.
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Oculus Spirit [85963]
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We just took a survey
Jun 25, 2020, 1:36 PM
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Thankfully, one of the options was "unsure". I went with that one.
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Oculus Spirit [79508]
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Don't be so worried about it man, look at the bright side
Jun 25, 2020, 1:40 PM
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here. Even if your children are moderately intelligent, they will be cream of the crop once they come of age. Can they write a legible sentence in english? Congrats! They'll now be overseeing the entire SCDOT! I want my son to become a harbor pilot, the way things are trending if he can manage to stay somewhat sober he'll already be overqualified for the job.
Aside from the bright future for non-rahtards (soft a, so it's OK), if we're going this route I want to see a reduction in property taxes. And we get to assault teachers who complain about pay.
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Oculus Spirit [81387]
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You better get divorced and marrry into that
Jun 25, 2020, 1:43 PM
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Thats the only way I've ever heard of anyone getting that gig.
I don't even know anyone who knows anyone who is a harbor pilot. That's a double secret gig there--they don't want anyone to know they make $300-$400K/year working 2 weeks a month.
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Oculus Spirit [79508]
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Hopefully by then actually being from South Carolina will
Jun 25, 2020, 1:49 PM
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be the only necessary qualifier.
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Oculus Spirit [97938]
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Sounds like an ILA gig to me.
Jun 25, 2020, 1:58 PM
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Met a guy 15 or more years ago making $88/hr. His job? Drive around the port in a pickup truck marking trailer numbers on a looseleaf notebook. When I got my driver's license at 15yo, I would have been overqualified for that job. Wanted to meet with an ILA guy when he got off work at 5pm. Well, we couldn't meet because at 5pm they MUST vacate the premises, or be fired. Forget working late, or anything else.
Break room was a hoot.
Those guys have leveraged a huge cut of the savings we get having crap made in Chinese sweatshops and shipped here. Plus, they have the ultimate leverage.
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Oculus Spirit [81387]
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I think they're PPP down here.
Jun 25, 2020, 2:52 PM
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Gotta buddy that's a bar pilot, I'll axe him next time we're drankin' beers. You right, they do make $$$.
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Oculus Spirit [81387]
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He's a bar pilot in CHS?
Jun 25, 2020, 2:53 PM
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How much of Sullivan's Island does he own?
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All-TigerNet [11254]
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Nahh, I'm on the gulf coast.***
Jun 25, 2020, 2:58 PM
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Re: You better get divorced and marrry into that
Jun 25, 2020, 4:24 PM
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One of my good friends from HS is a harbor pilot in Charleston. At one point his wife was as well. I think she quit when they had kids.
Growing up all he did was sail.
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Oculus Spirit [81387]
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Was he born into a fam that did it?***
Jun 26, 2020, 10:44 AM
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Oculus Spirit [85963]
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Oculus Spirit [81387]
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I'm hoping my (next tax year) 4 year old boat will go under
Jun 25, 2020, 1:51 PM
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the $1,000 mark for taxes next year.
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Oculus Spirit [79508]
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Oculus Spirit [85963]
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I guess it could be worse....I need to stop looking at boats
Jun 25, 2020, 1:55 PM
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every night or my taxes are going to double and I'll pick up a payment.
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Oculus Spirit [79508]
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Good luck finding one, they don't seem to be staying in
Jun 25, 2020, 1:57 PM
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stock very long.
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CU Medallion [60246]
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Re: Wife about to go to war with the school district.
Jun 25, 2020, 1:41 PM
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Also, we are going to pay a HUGE price with the kids missing school. I guarantee 70% of the parents couldn’t care less if their kids do the work on the days off.
This whole cutting school back is going to bite us in the bwhole. Hard.
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Oculus Spirit [81387]
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How's that?
Jun 25, 2020, 1:44 PM
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Lets be cereal...Once you can read and write, public school has pretty much done all its going to do.
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CU Medallion [54045]
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You’re married to Karen Tiggity too?
Jun 25, 2020, 1:47 PM
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Just kidding. It’s a difficult time for all of us. Just imagine when we actually live in a war torn country with our communities blown apart by the destructive powers of war. And then look back at all of the humans that we refused to help because they weren’t born here. Just imagine when we cross the border into Florida in order to provide a useful skill for a meager wage and all they do is mock us, tell us to go home, or tell us to learn to speak their language. And then you say, “I am speaking your language, sir.” (You add sir because you realize the need to show humility. Heck your family has to eat, right? And the kids need an education.) But because you have a southern accent they say they can’t understand you.
I bet we could easily make our decision then.
Life is gonna suck when the shoe is on the other foot. Better hope we all die before it happens. Sorry for the sarcasm.
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With the money they are going to waste on an online platform
Jun 25, 2020, 1:50 PM
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that won't work at all and will cause massive problems for working parents, they could build plexiglass boxes with speaker systems for every teacher and bus driver.
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All-In [35541]
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She'll probably lose***
Jun 25, 2020, 1:55 PM
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Figure something good out so Richland County can follow
Jun 25, 2020, 2:05 PM
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Our schools are all 'pending' but likely based off of smarter counties around us.
Should this be a statewide mandate or let each school district set the rules.
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Oculus Spirit [97938]
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Well, this is across the river.....fwiw
Jun 25, 2020, 2:17 PM
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First, the plans:
Middle School options:
https://www.lexdistrict1.com/COVID-19/stronger_together/06-23-2020_Middle_Schools_Proposals.pdf
Elementary School options:
https://www.lexdistrict1.com/COVID-19/stronger_together/06-23-2020_Elementary_Schools_Proposals.pdf
The Deadline:
June 25, 2020
Dear Parents/Guardians:
I hope that you have taken some time to review the district’s plan for returning to school in the 2020–2021 academic year. Keeping our more than 27,300 students and 4,000 employees safe while providing a high-quality education remains the district’s top priority.
The plan includes the district’s proposals for a face-to-face option that minimizes risk as well as a virtual (online) option for elementary, middle and high schools. You can find those proposals on our website here.
https://www.lexdistrict1.com/stronger-together
Now we need your help. We would like for you to participate in a survey that will show us what option you would prefer — the face-to-face option or the virtual (online) option for your child/children.
You can find the survey here. (LINK)
Your response does not bind you to any one choice yet. In about a week, we will send you more information and another follow-up survey. In that survey, we will ask you to commit to one choice.
Thank you for your patience and your willingness to help.
Sincerely,
Superintendent
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So your options are a pure scheduling cluster ####. I mean ###? Then they have no freaking clue about online options. It's as brief and vague as you can get. Wish covid would just make the choice easier. I have a feeling it will, if only we can get another month to choose. Are they going to hold themselves to their in-person option no matter what?
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same here***
Jun 25, 2020, 2:21 PM
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Legend [17407]
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Trump and followers being astute.***
Jun 25, 2020, 2:34 PM
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If we are going to change education to something
Jun 25, 2020, 3:10 PM
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more "with the times" then now's the time.
Most plans I have seen coming from supers and school level admin follow that same policy.
In-person option A day and B day with 1 day a week e-learning for school wide deep disinfecting or an all e-learning route.
So what this means for teachers is we will have to completely change our classes to more of a college seminar class while at the same time have another curriculum for your e-learning students.
So double the work.
High school and middle school won't be that bad of a problem, but it will be a pain for elem and pre-k.
The people claiming to "cut property taxes" are idiots. It's going to cost SOOOOO much more to provide quality education with the requirements now.
Who's going to pay for the masks for ALL students? We have a lot of parents who can't provide running water.
School districts who aren't 1 to 1 are being forced to become 1 to 1 (one laptop for every child)
Busses will now have to run 2-4 MORE routes than normal. Who pays for that now?
All of the additional disinfection will require more custodial staff and will require purchasing more disinfectant. Who's going to pay for that?
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Oculus Spirit [79508]
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I think the idea of purchasing masks for all students with
Jun 25, 2020, 4:12 PM
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the expectation that they'd actually wear them is illustrative of exactly why we should not be giving you people more money.
Why do e-learning students have a different curriculum?
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Provide masks. It's about liability
Jun 26, 2020, 10:41 AM
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If somebody gets it and dies/vent/whatever and you're talking to a lawyer the first thing they are going to ask is what preventative measures did you take to ensure this didn't happen.
If you didn't at least provide masks, you're paying.
E-Learning: Same topics different delivery. Needs to be planned for and implemented two different ways.
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Districts are wanting it cleaned every 3-4 days
Jun 26, 2020, 10:42 AM
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and by clean I mean a deep deep clean with surface level disinfection every day.
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First paragraph, last sentence
Jun 25, 2020, 3:45 PM
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Did you give Aero credit for co-authoring this?
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