Plan A – If schools open face to face in Sept
Plan B – If schools have to return to remote learning.

Plan B is just as important as Plan A as we all witness and saw the lack of interaction, engagement and learning lost at the end of the school year. A significant number of teachers did not have laptops, internet or other essential tools to deliver a lesson. No, a 20 min lesson twice a week is not good enough if we indeed wish to prepare our children for their future and our country’s future. Too much learning was lost.

It should also be highlighted that with remote lessons parents were able to gain more insight into what is really happening in classrooms. I have to admit, I was not impressed with some teachers delivery, preparedness and photocopied sheets. My child’s teacher was not able to answer math questions, the teacher assigned!!!! This showed me the teacher did not prepare by ensuring they worked out the answers before assigning the work.

Public education must do better.

If I could afford it, I would have my kid in a private school.

Should we live in fear the rest of our lives? The depressed economic activity of this type of thinking will have more consequences than you can imagine over the long term.

The answer isn’t fear or wearing masks for the rest of eternity. The answer is to move forward. I for one want my kids to inherit a world with the same economic freedoms we have enjoyed , and without billions of debt taken on by a government unwilling to make difficult decisions in order to stay elected at any cost.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think it is right to spend our kids and grandkids money. Ever. We will go down as the worst generation ever if we keep spending their money and saddling them with debt. But most people only care about themselves, now.

Instead, let’s open up the economy, open up the borders, and return this country to prosperity. Any other path is wrong.

I wear a mask because doing so and following the regulations tailored to avoid infection spread has been proven to give people a 65% chance of not contracting the virus. And if I have the virus and like thousands have no symptoms – then it protects those around me from the mouth and nose droplets. Maybe it saves someone else’s life….. maybe it helps stop the spread. But when is anyone going to be somewhere out and not one person comes within 6 feet of them? Even getting gas or pulled over for checks I’m too close without the mask.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe schools can and should be reopened with safe guidelines and procedures put in place. However, is this virus not worse than a mold that is easily detected and can be easily controlled by opening windows, A/C and a bit of clorox?

If the spacing is so effective, then why do they need masks?

If the procedures for returning residents and tourists are more strongly enforced, would a more fluid model be possible? Similar to the reopening phases where movement can exist between the phases based on the population’s ability to abide within them?

If students are grouped in bubbles all day from pre-K up to grade 12, are masks really necessary?