<story><title>The cruel, ridiculous reality of &apos;virtual learning&apos;</title><url>https://www.macleans.ca/society/the-cruel-ridiculous-reality-of-virtual-learning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcrosby95</author><text>Yeah well my 7 year old hates wearing pants but I still manage to get her clothed for the classroom.&lt;p&gt;The only kids I know that have a problem with masks are kids with parents that have a problem with masks.  It&amp;#x27;s not a kid problem its an adult problem.  Kids are adaptable but adults are whiny little assholes that are set in their ways.</text></item><item><author>nradov</author><text>Mask mandates are collective punishment of children for no real benefit. I absolutely condemn them and they are not a system that works. Most European countries don&amp;#x27;t require young children to wear masks in schools.&lt;p&gt;And don&amp;#x27;t presume to claim that masking children is necessary to protect adults. The adults who want to be vaccinated have been for months.</text></item><item><author>codefreakxff</author><text>What you are describing is anecdotal and the same problem we have with Facebook - social group isolation. You have a large number of Catholic schools in your area because you have a large number of Catholics in your area. They are operating under different principles, and so attract people who want those rules. If I went to a Sushi restaurant and proclaimed that nobody wanted Pizza anymore, or to live under the tyranny of tomato sauce and cheese, because nobody in the Sushi restaurant wanted pizza it wouldn&amp;#x27;t make sense to anyone else.&lt;p&gt;I know teachers who are very supportive of mask mandates and that the schools and teachers are generally doing ok, and people who I work with who send their kids to schools with masks are very happy for the kids to have socializing opportunities.&lt;p&gt;Your friends and community are free to find a solution that works for them. But it is not the only way, and it does not make sense to condemn a system that works for the vast majority of people.</text></item><item><author>mbg721</author><text>I live in an area that has a large number of Catholic elementary and high-schools; they generally have fewer restrictions than the local public schools, and enrollment demand from non-Catholics is through the roof.  Nobody wants remote learning, few people even want masks or any restrictions at all; parents hate it, students hate it, teachers hate it--as far as I can tell, nobody wants the outcome we&amp;#x27;ve got, and yet somehow there&amp;#x27;s this resignation to &amp;quot;Well, this is how it has to be.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Just because kids aren’t actively complaining doesn’t mean it’s not bothering them. My kid is a conformist Asian like me, and we’ve been going along with masking this whole time because her private school is full of democrats. But she broke down crying last fall when she found out that we’d be doing another year of masking. It’s not just the inconvenience of the masks, or the eating outside on the ground, but the whole exercise of disrupting normal life for these kids: no field trips, no birthday parties, etc. We’re into the third year of this reduced childhood.</text></comment>
<story><title>The cruel, ridiculous reality of &apos;virtual learning&apos;</title><url>https://www.macleans.ca/society/the-cruel-ridiculous-reality-of-virtual-learning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcrosby95</author><text>Yeah well my 7 year old hates wearing pants but I still manage to get her clothed for the classroom.&lt;p&gt;The only kids I know that have a problem with masks are kids with parents that have a problem with masks.  It&amp;#x27;s not a kid problem its an adult problem.  Kids are adaptable but adults are whiny little assholes that are set in their ways.</text></item><item><author>nradov</author><text>Mask mandates are collective punishment of children for no real benefit. I absolutely condemn them and they are not a system that works. Most European countries don&amp;#x27;t require young children to wear masks in schools.&lt;p&gt;And don&amp;#x27;t presume to claim that masking children is necessary to protect adults. The adults who want to be vaccinated have been for months.</text></item><item><author>codefreakxff</author><text>What you are describing is anecdotal and the same problem we have with Facebook - social group isolation. You have a large number of Catholic schools in your area because you have a large number of Catholics in your area. They are operating under different principles, and so attract people who want those rules. If I went to a Sushi restaurant and proclaimed that nobody wanted Pizza anymore, or to live under the tyranny of tomato sauce and cheese, because nobody in the Sushi restaurant wanted pizza it wouldn&amp;#x27;t make sense to anyone else.&lt;p&gt;I know teachers who are very supportive of mask mandates and that the schools and teachers are generally doing ok, and people who I work with who send their kids to schools with masks are very happy for the kids to have socializing opportunities.&lt;p&gt;Your friends and community are free to find a solution that works for them. But it is not the only way, and it does not make sense to condemn a system that works for the vast majority of people.</text></item><item><author>mbg721</author><text>I live in an area that has a large number of Catholic elementary and high-schools; they generally have fewer restrictions than the local public schools, and enrollment demand from non-Catholics is through the roof.  Nobody wants remote learning, few people even want masks or any restrictions at all; parents hate it, students hate it, teachers hate it--as far as I can tell, nobody wants the outcome we&amp;#x27;ve got, and yet somehow there&amp;#x27;s this resignation to &amp;quot;Well, this is how it has to be.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbg721</author><text>If pants had been invented in 2018 in order to cure horniness, I&amp;#x27;d treat them with the same gravitas that I give to graham crackers.  One person&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;set in one&amp;#x27;s ways&amp;quot; is another person&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;doesn&amp;#x27;t change with the wind&amp;quot;.</text></comment>