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Children Bundle Up for Class Due to Boston Public Schools Open-Window Mandate
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2022 Jan 15, 4:44am 439 views 10 comments
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Rin
2022 Jan 16, 8:15pm
Rin
2022 Jan 16, 8:15pm
Al_Sharpton_for_President says
Actually, for the first time, I agree.
From what I'd seen, during childhood, Boston city schools had poor ventilation and thus, you're not only getting viruses (Covid, Cold, Flu, etc) and bacteria overload, but also inhaling a lot of exhaled CO2. I'm surprised that kids even make it through those places w/o a nasty case of meningitis.
So yeah, open the windows, install roving space heaters everywhere (cheaper than those old central heating oil burners), and bundle up.
Or better yet ... homeschool your kids!
Parents have been forced to send their children to school dressed in multiple layers of winter clothing because of a Boston Public Schools mandate that windows be kept open 4 inches to mitigate the spread of Covid.
Actually, for the first time, I agree.
From what I'd seen, during childhood, Boston city schools had poor ventilation and thus, you're not only getting viruses (Covid, Cold, Flu, etc) and bacteria overload, but also inhaling a lot of exhaled CO2. I'm surprised that kids even make it through those places w/o a nasty case of meningitis.
So yeah, open the windows, install roving space heaters everywhere (cheaper than those old central heating oil burners), and bundle up.
Or better yet ... homeschool your kids!
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Patrick
2022 Jan 16, 9:34pm
Patrick
2022 Jan 16, 9:34pm
I have frequently hated the hermetically sealed office buildings I worked in. Would have loved to have been able to open a window.
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tanked
2022 Jan 17, 1:37pm
Patrick says
In January in Chicago?
January in San Jose isn't apples to apples.
I have frequently hated the hermetically sealed office buildings I worked in. Would have loved to have been able to open a window.
In January in Chicago?
January in San Jose isn't apples to apples.
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Patrick
2022 Jan 17, 2:07pm
Patrick
2022 Jan 17, 2:07pm
I agree, just complaining about the lack of fresh air in office buildings.
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Reality
2022 Jan 17, 2:38pm
Voting commies for mayors have consequences! If they want fresh air circulating in the buiding, all they need to do is installing UV-C lights in the heating air ducts. Irradiation by UV-C lights as air pass through the opaque pipes would produce the equivalent of outside sun-exposed air without exposing children to irradiation by UV-C directly. They are obviously doing this absurd open-window-in-dead-of-winter shite to run up sickness/death count among children, and to drive up natural gas consumption, which in most of New England is supplied by a single pipeline and often running close to capacity on very cold days. As usual, the commie fucks are trying to kill people and enrich crooked market manipulators while pretending "public service"!
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Shaman
2022 Jan 17, 3:31pm
Shaman
2022 Jan 17, 3:31pm
Anyone who votes for a Democrat deserves what he or she gets. Same as if you decided to make a hyena your master. You’ll get eaten up and shit out by the amoral creature and promptly forgotten about.
I hope that voting Democrat becomes equivalent to voting Nazi. In my mind it is already the same thing. I think of Democrats the same way I think of Nazis.
I hope that voting Democrat becomes equivalent to voting Nazi. In my mind it is already the same thing. I think of Democrats the same way I think of Nazis.
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Rin
2022 Jan 17, 6:20pm
Rin
2022 Jan 17, 6:20pm
Reality says
Sorry, but Boston public schools haven't seen renovations in decades. Most of them are dives & are breeding grounds for all kinds of Staph (or worse, MRSA) infections, nevermind the Covid thing.
Sure, if they cared about the students, they would have started those projects years ago. Instead, they do what's politically expedient and what ppl will put up with today. And yeah, if one's not homeschooling then sure, one would rather have those windows open so that one could breath fresh air than deal with that dank environment.
they need to do is installing UV-C lights in the heating air ducts. Irradiation by UV-C lights as air pass through the opaque pipes would produce the equivalent of outside sun-exposed air
Sorry, but Boston public schools haven't seen renovations in decades. Most of them are dives & are breeding grounds for all kinds of Staph (or worse, MRSA) infections, nevermind the Covid thing.
Sure, if they cared about the students, they would have started those projects years ago. Instead, they do what's politically expedient and what ppl will put up with today. And yeah, if one's not homeschooling then sure, one would rather have those windows open so that one could breath fresh air than deal with that dank environment.
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Patrick
2022 Jan 17, 11:09pm
Patrick
2022 Jan 17, 11:09pm
Shaman says
There are some strong similarities, like support for putting dissenters into camps.
And an extreme obsession with race.
I think of Democrats the same way I think of Nazis.
There are some strong similarities, like support for putting dissenters into camps.
And an extreme obsession with race.
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Ceffer
2022 Jan 18, 8:23am
Ceffer
2022 Jan 18, 8:23am
It'll teach the kids useful life survival skills, like rubbing two pencils together to start a fire with a pile of crayons.
“Good morning families,” one school wrote in a letter to parents first reported by the Boston Herald. “It is still very cold. Remember the windows in our classrooms have to be open. I suggest layering your child’s clothes (2 pairs of pants, 2 shirts and a sweater, 2 pairs of socks, etc. (Plus all their outerwear (hat, glove, scarf, etc.).”
The policy has triggered outrage from some parents, who see the abundance of Covid caution to the point that kids are freezing in class as a hindrance to learning.
“These are the notifications I get from a BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL … in the 21st century,” one parent tweeted. “I hate this so much. How is my 4yr old to concentrate on learning trying to keep warm?!? An adult has trouble in the cold these kids are enduring so much.”
Samantha Laney, a teacher at Holmes Elementary School in Dorchester, said at a School Committee meeting Wednesday that she and her students leave their coats on in class because the windows are required to be left open to circulate air.
Mary Dibinga, a Boston Latin Academy teacher, suggested to the School Committee that many of the Covid rules are arbitrarily implemented, given that the school buses she’s seen have been packed with students with no social distancing due to a driver shortage. She noted that she had to teach in a “55-degree classroom.”
There will be a walk-out on Friday morning to protest the school system’s poor working conditions for staff. The district doubled-down on the window rule Wednesday, adding that school facilities will turn up the heat to help stabilize the temperature, wasting expensive energy so that the windows can remain open.
“This is the protocol for each school to mitigate COVID risks,” a Boston Public Schools spokeswoman said Wednesday of the open-window mandate. “Temperatures in school buildings have been adjusted to 76 degrees to help combat the required window ventilation, and teachers/staff are urged to contact their school leader if they are experiencing issues with heat or cold.”
The spike in Omicron cases has sent school districts across the country into a panic, moving them to impose bizarre Covid mitigation measures such as forcing children to eat lunch, and teachers to take instruction, outside in frigid temperatures, while masked.
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