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Dear Everyone:
What& #39;s more important than a child& #39;s "need to return to a sense of normalcy" (THE WORD IS NORMAL, YOU FUCKERS) is the need to remain healthy and not increase their risk of contracting and spreading a potentially deadly virus.
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What& #39;s more important than a child& #39;s "need to return to a sense of normalcy" (THE WORD IS NORMAL, YOU FUCKERS) is the need to remain healthy and not increase their risk of contracting and spreading a potentially deadly virus.
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You know what students need to support their mental health?
A serious fucking sea-change in the way mental health is treated in this country, including the way mental health is funded in this province.
A LITTLE FOOTIE AT RECESS ISN& #39;T GOING TO MAKE KIDS LESS ANXIOUS.
A serious fucking sea-change in the way mental health is treated in this country, including the way mental health is funded in this province.
A LITTLE FOOTIE AT RECESS ISN& #39;T GOING TO MAKE KIDS LESS ANXIOUS.
And understand that it& #39;s better to tell our kids that "wearing a mask at school might be the new normal" than to tell them "this will all end soon" or "we& #39;re worried about your mental health; no, we don& #39;t have the budget for a school counsellor, but here& #39;s some soccer."
So anyway, I think I have to go simmer the fuck down.
I just got a letter from our kids& #39; school division about their return to extracurricular activities (sports only, because Jesus Himself knows that football is more important in developing a child& #39;s ....like... stuff than drama is) and I& #39;m a little upset.
"Extracurr. play an important role...they enhance and support the physical, social, behavioural, and intellectual growth of students..."
BUT ONLY SPORTS. And never mind that we& #39;re still in the nascent stages of phase two pandemic growth, so whatever.
BUT ONLY SPORTS. And never mind that we& #39;re still in the nascent stages of phase two pandemic growth, so whatever.
I& #39;m just.
I& #39;m just so angry right now.
This is the wrong time to introduce a return to team sports. It& #39;s also the wrong time to introduce a return to any extracurricular activities that don& #39;t involve proper physical distancing and non-contact but chess wasn& #39;t even on the list
I& #39;m just so angry right now.
This is the wrong time to introduce a return to team sports. It& #39;s also the wrong time to introduce a return to any extracurricular activities that don& #39;t involve proper physical distancing and non-contact but chess wasn& #39;t even on the list
And I feel like someone, somewhere is using kids to promote some kind of agenda, because when I read "returning to extracurr activities can help to support students& #39; mental health and provide them with a much-needed return to normalcy" (THE WORD IS NORMAL, YOU DOLTS), I seethe.
More than that the ability to live in a world where people value evidence-based facts and not just hand-wavey statements about mental health, while they also see their schools unable to provide actual mental health support because there isn& #39;t enough funding for schools OR health
Kids need us to actually listen to them when they tell us what& #39;s upsetting them. It isn& #39;t not being able to sports. It& #39;s not being able to see their grandparents, or their friends, or go to the store at lunch, because there is a GLOBAL FUCKING PANDEMIC that overwhelms hospitals.
Don& #39;t tell me about a & #39;return to normalcy& #39; (THE WORD IS NORMAL, YOU PUDMONKEYS) when I& #39;m sitting here wondering how many businesses are going to close and how long we& #39;re going to have to keep our kids home from school after Thanksgiving and when the virus is going to explode...
