Parents, you want public schools to open in Aug if cases are still spiking in Ms or

[Jack Lambert]

We can't shut down. That's the point. If we don't learn to manage this as a "slow burn" we'll have to shut down again. And that will be 100% the fault of the "fully open, no mask, don't care, economy first" crowd. We have to manage the gas and the brakes. No groups of more than 50, or 25 or 10. LOCAL mandates to wear mask in public settings when the virus is present. Etc... I WANT FOOTBALL and everyone seems intent on screwing it up!!! If bed space in hospitals, ICUs PPE or medical treatments become scarce we have to shut down. This is a manageable situation that we've refused to manage. It's maddening. If we have to actually "shut down" again, it's the fault of the federal government.

I think just what happened this past school year is going to affect the kids. Many will struggle going forwards. Social learning was a joke. I saw it with my two kids. They go to Rankin County Schools. Hell in some school districts kids did not have the means to distant learn. My understanding was parents were sitting out side McDonalds using thier wi fi. Watching my two kids and what they had to do. They improved their grades but I just don't think they learned anything. Just doing the work and getting an 80% got you one extra point on your final grade plus the grade average in. You could retry over and over until the window was closed. If you did not do the work or fail it or it would hurt your grade, nothing. If did not hurt you or help you. My son has friends who did nothing. Took their grades the way they were. They lost two and one half months of school. That is going to hurt all of them.