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Everything posted by Eastwood
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I'd pay the $1k personally if it would get my district masked up.
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Something is better than nothing. Like I said, we aren't trying to eliminate all risk. I want my school district to show me something, anything, that they're going to help us mitigate risk and, if necessary, take further measures if the situation worsens. There is no honest way to look at the numbers and say that the situation hasn't already completely unraveled from where we were in June. And, from where I sit, there's no honest way I can look at the response, thus far, and be confident that anything will be done if the situation continues to worsen.
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We've been told this isn't a big deal or not that bad so many times in the last 18 months, despite the mountain of daily evidence that says otherwise, that it is really hard for me to take any kind of stock or comfort in it now.
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I'm not him, but I have been pretty vocal about not sending my kids back and have changed a lot of future plans based on withdrawing the kids and homeschooling them until The State of Texas proves they're willing to do, well, anything at all. Texas officials came out both barrels and said this year will be business as usual, going as far as threatening any school district that tries to police their own districts and implement measures to combat the spread of COVID and keep parents informed of potential contact and outbreaks within the school. They literally want to do nothing about it. Our gameplan, as a family, has been purely risk mitigation, not elimination. As we learned more about the disease, we adjusted our plans accordingly. In fact, when cases were down below 100 a day, we lived as if it was 2019. Our kids played with other kids in daycare without masks, we did not make them wear masks, and my wife and I didn't wear masks because we were vaccinated. We are now masking up again, have stopped going to the gym, again, and have kept the kids at home, except for outdoor activities. The schools, on the other hand, refuse to do anything despite the numbers being the same, or higher in some areas, as when we had virtual and kids masking. This variant is more easily spread, this variant appears to be slightly tougher on children, and we know a lot more about long COVID. If it truly is as contagious as chickenpox, our children will be very likely to get it, at some point, with a zero-mitigation policy in place. Our children are young and while they are fine with masks and we never had a problem, they will need adult guidance willing to remind and enforce the mask, just like kids that age need to be told to go to the bathroom. Without that support, we are left hoping for no long-term effects and no severe illness. The numbers in school were low last year, and people like to crow about that. But they also seem to neglect to mention that we had distancing and masks at the same time. The lack of public concern from officials is astonishing, disappointing, and frustrating, to put it lightly. If even an ounce of concern was shown by merely allowing individual districts to mandate COVID policies, I'd feel much more confident about sending my kids in because the school policy would be in place and school officials will be required to follow it. So, yes, the fact that schools in California are requiring masks is a showing of good faith that California school districts recognize that there is an issue and are likely to be willing to take further steps should the Delta surge worsen and create a health crisis for kids, which we have thankfully avoided up to this point. With Texas, we are pedal to the metal and I have no clue if government officials are willing to hit the brakes if we are approaching a cliff. I mentioned in the AISD thread that I have heard some murmurs out of rural Texas that even they are getting nervous, but unless those nervous officials speak up, nothing will change. The government is playing political chicken with our children and I am sitting my family out until either the numbers drop or cooler heads prevail.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Eastwood replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
So, the TL;DR is that kids need to be in school, but schools need to take precautions. No insight as to what to do if the schools refuse to take precautions. We're so incredibly ready for our young children to be in school, but doing so right now seems like madness. -
AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Eastwood replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
This is going to be the ultimate stereotypical message board vague rumor bullshit, but I'm going to say it anyway. It is starting to feel like there is going to be a sudden shift in the approach to school sometime next week. I have a family member who is a school board member in a small, rural county and got a phone call from them asking what we were doing about school coming up because they are getting very concerned where they are. And we're talking a rural county and all that it entails as far as COVID goes. It's getting hard to ignore the stories of pediatric hospitals quickly filling up in other states now that this thing has mutated to where it hits us all where it hurts the most, and that's the kids. If Abbott is starting to lose rural Texas, then we could be seeing an about-face on the horizon. With that being said, we have spent the better part of this weekend trying to form a pod, with little success. We will be spending Monday talking to a couple of private schools about availability and scholarship opportunities. If all else fails, we have made the incredibly hard decision to push a lot of things back and accept homeschooling as a reality. We've had a tough haul over the last 15 months, but we have been left with no other choice. We don't feel that our school district is taking appropriate measures, things are worsening by the day, seemingly by the hour, and we are accountable to the health and safety of our children. We hoped that the state and school districts would be take an active role in helping us maintain that accountability, but we have been left grossly disappointed. We'll see if my hunch about the coming days comes to fruition, though. -
Our household is very concerned. The numbers are greater than when they shut things down the last time, this version is more virulent, and we have been stripped of the resources that gave us the freedom to make a choice. We were excited to have the kids back in school when there were 80 cases a day, not 1500. We can't afford private schools and can't swing homeschooling. Those who were angry last year were saying that they had their freedom to choose stripped by the government, but they still eventually got to send their kids to school. Now, the roles have reversed and they are celebrating it. Freedom was never the issue. It was control. If they had any concerns about freedom of choice, they would have supported a virtual option or let the school districts decide on mask mandates, since that was what they were clamoring for the first time. Our school district has had to send out a couple of emails saying they wish they could do something, but they legally can't. They have also been sending regular emails touting the benefits of public schools and pushing back enrollment dates. The school district has a large population that can afford private or home schooling, so I'm assuming enrollment numbers are significantly down or have begun to drop. And this time next year, our family will be back in a position to utilize that option. We're seriously leaning that way.
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To avoid opening any doors to legal action while they hash out the details of getting Texas and OU out of the Big 12 earlier.
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The intent behind the words, fine. The words themselves, off limits. A guy could call another guy a piece of shite or that their team is shite. No problem. Call him a piece of shit or that their team is shit, problem. Allowing the intent but banning the word is so incredibly disingenuous.
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UTSA's acceptance rate, at one point, was lower than A&M's. That was about 2 years ago. Haven't checked recently.
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Predictable is the word I would use. The way they acted through all this has been par for the course for decades. They have no middle. Everything is the greatest ever or the worst ever. Their coach is the best coach in the world until he's the worst coach in the world, outside of Sherrill and Bible. Their recruits are the best in the country, until they choose someone else. The SEC was the love of their life. Now it's not. Loftin was amazing, now he's not. Sharpe was amazing, now he's not. There are only extremes with them.
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The SEC will let the first couple rounds of TV deal distribution payments go out, let the schools see how much more they're benefiting, let CBS and ESPN see how much they're benefiting, then do it all over again in a couple years. NIL was a death knell for the NCAA in football and basketball. I think the SEC is positioning itself for independence from the NCAA in football within the next 15 years. They'll slowly bleed the rest of their conferences of all marketable teams until the NCAA is forced to participate with the SEC as equals, rather than a governing body over a subordinate.
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Unless Big 12 member schools waived sovereign immunity in their contracts. I haven't seen the contracts, though, so I don't know if that is the case.
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Texas and OU are just avoiding repudiation. If a party declares that they will not perform under the terms of a contract, that opens the door for the other parties to bring suit. As repeated many times over in this thread, Texas and OU won't have to do anything to get out of the contract as soon as other conference members start scrambling to find a landing spot. As soon as 4 teams declare that they are leaving, the conference dissolves. 2 down, 2 to go.
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Texas swimmer up. Lane 2
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Now let's show the part where they put the press conference too close to the demolition and swamped everyone with construction particulate...
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It's time to come out of retirement, sir.
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The admins at BU, TCU, and BYU wished their students wouldn't touch because of Jesus, too, so there is some common ground for them to build on.
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Time to stop fighting the will of The Mouse and start enjoying being overrated and given the benefit of the doubt because of three letters on the jersey.
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A live look at Texas A&M stepping up at the SEC meeting:
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Because we don't have to. Texas and OU knew that the moment this became public, all other teams in the Big 12 would be reaching out to conferences, who now have a renewed sense of urgency to expand. Reports are saying that is exactly what is happening. Why waste time and money on a problem that will take care of itself? I'm sure Texas will take a phone call from a conference for some insight on the administration of a school, but Texas isn't going to make phone calls or sit down at any tables on behalf of other Big 12 schools.
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This is a classic example of why your average college football fan gets so bent out of shape about anything business related even glancing off of their beloved sport. In their little corner of the world it's all amateurism, school pride, honor, and tradition. I get it. You guys get it. We were all in that boat a decade ago. But you can't stop progress. The college football landscape, since the BCS era and maybe even before, has been money, school pride, money, and money. You can either wail, gnash your teeth, and wax poetic about years past or you can survey the landscape and realize that the times aren't just changing; they've changed. A&M thought they were brought into the SEC because of culture, tradition, and hard-nosed football. They had an inkling that money played a role, but failed to grasp the changing landscape around them. It's well beyond reading the tea leaves, at this point. A&M was staring into their cup while a whole Starbucks was built around them.
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