TIME TO
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mericans have quit their jobs in record numbers in the past 18 months. It’s being called “the great labor shortage.” But when a massive number of people who were previously employed just choose to walk away from their jobs, perhaps this is just a return to more “traditional values.” We have personally learned that “virtual learning” is nearly impossible with three small children. Wrangling kids to get in the car to go to school is hard enough, add to that getting the kids to sit in front of the computer and listen to a tiny teacher’s head on a Zoom call trying to explain math. It’s
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simply impossible to also work, while trying to make a miracle akin to herding cats happen. We have decided to refuse to participate in “virtual learning”. No learning occurs virtually with three kids under nine who can’t even sit still for a haircut. It’s a prolonged torture exercise, and kids cooped up at home easily become menaces to parents, dogs, neighbors and furniture. A laptop is no substitute for a classroom. Teachers essentially have banded together to quit encouraged by over-zealous, fearful administrators. Now parents need to quit. It’s too much. So parents
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By Richard Markosian
