@catladyactivist@ohai.social

I've said this before, but, the biggest shock of the whole school mess was/is that from both my wife's perspective as a teacher, and my perspective as a parent with kids in our district, the local school district and the administrations in charge could not have cared less at all about the kids or teachers. No decisions were made with theta health in mind and it was laughed off when mentioned. The decisions were all made 100% from the perspective of how they could get the most money into the district through "butts in seats." The moment the state reduced school payments for zoom logins from the kids and switched it back to a count of butts in seats, all of the pretense disappeared and it became urgent to get the kids back.

In a lot of these little fiefdoms there's a "industrial complex" of sorts in which money is doled out to friends and family for jobs to work with and maintain the school district and they're not at all willing to give that up, even when risking the health and safety of the kids and employees.