04-16-2020, 10:36 AM
Do we really need schools any more?
Yes (unless you're leilanidude, then f#ck those kids)
My daughter has done both regular and online learning and says the online learning works better for her.
Online learning options are great and we are lucky that some of our local schools offer it. They do not work for every student or for every subject (chemistry, band, football, just to name a few of the more obvious examples)
Nor do they work for many families that need to have two working adults to pay the bills and so kids need a school to go to during this time. Much of the pushback about closing local schools recently was about this issue so how would you solve this?
As for other possibilities, sure, lots to consider as ways to preserve services while reducing overhead. But for every person let go, that is less money being spent in the community on other services so there are indirect costs imposed on all businesses attached to those tax dollars being "saved" (and respent on unemployment)
The term economic death spiral keeps coming to mind, over and over, and around and around again...
Yes (unless you're leilanidude, then f#ck those kids)
My daughter has done both regular and online learning and says the online learning works better for her.
Online learning options are great and we are lucky that some of our local schools offer it. They do not work for every student or for every subject (chemistry, band, football, just to name a few of the more obvious examples)
Nor do they work for many families that need to have two working adults to pay the bills and so kids need a school to go to during this time. Much of the pushback about closing local schools recently was about this issue so how would you solve this?
As for other possibilities, sure, lots to consider as ways to preserve services while reducing overhead. But for every person let go, that is less money being spent in the community on other services so there are indirect costs imposed on all businesses attached to those tax dollars being "saved" (and respent on unemployment)
The term economic death spiral keeps coming to mind, over and over, and around and around again...