Our mayor and our governor are having the world's stupidest pissing contest

[conuly]

over whether or not NYC public schools are closed for the rest of the school year or not.

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Comments

[affreca]

I beg to differ. The fight between the Kansas governor and one legislative committee about if churches are allowed to ignore the 10 people gathering limit is pretty stupid. Thankfully, the state supreme court backed up Governor Kelly right before Easter, and churches have to follow the rules the rest of us do.

I'm also pretty pleased that Governor Kelly was the first in the nation to declare that the schools were closed for the rest of the year. So glad we're in the sensible portion of our governor cycle (Kansas swings between electing conservative douche canoes and sensible Democratic women for governor). This would have been so much worse under Brownback or Kobach.

[conuly]

Do they have to follow the same rules, or do they merely "have to" follow them? That is, is anybody going to actively go and break them up and arrest the pastors for disobeying this law, or are they just going to shake their fingers at them and go "tsk, tsk"?

[affreca]

Have to follow in the sense that I haven't heard police being called to break up anything yet, religious or not. But I live in strongly blue college town, and distancing is easier with most of twenty thousand students gone. I think I read about one church doing a drive in service, which seems reasonable to me.

[adafrog]

WTF, man?

[conuly]

Just like their original pissing contest over whether or not NYC schools would close at all, the outcome isn't in much doubt. This time, De Blasio's got the right of it - the schools should stay closed until September*. (Possible exception: Seniors who need to go to summer school to graduate, and/or students who are already held back one year or more and need to go to summer school to be promoted to the next grade.)

* At which point we can reevaluate, but I think they won't be able to justify keeping the elementary and D75 (special education) schools closed much longer than that, and I'm not sure they'll be able to split the difference and open only some grades and not others.

[adafrog]

I've heard that it's been hard with the special ed kids that need more hands on education. I don't know what they've been doing, but I've heard that's a big problem with the laws/etc and not being able to be physically with the student.
Splitting the difference wouldn't be great, money wise, at least.
Good luck with your schools.
(BTW, Texas so far has not said we're out until Sept.) We aren't peaking yet, morons.

[conuly]

Splitting the difference would have a lot of downsides, but the upside - the sole upside, frankly - is the kids most in need of a. supervision or b. special education would get it. Most middle and high schoolers can sit by themselves, and if online learning isn't *great* it's at least better for them than for their younger siblings and cousins.

[adafrog]

That's definitely an upside.

[lightbird]

Yeah, the Cuomo-DeBlasio pissing contest is sooo stupid.

Pennsylvania gun owner: I want gun stores closed during coronavirus

Interesting. My brother is in Florida and gun stores are open there. They made a point about it when they designated 'essential businesses' could remain open.

[moxie_man]

Well, on a positive note, Maine's Governor signed an executive order yesterday declaring the Easter Bunny to be an essential worker and that he can carry on doing his job as long as he practices proper social distancing. I've seen a copy of the EO on Flamebook, but her staff haven't updated the state website with it yet or I'd link it.

[malada]

Even with a plague it's hard to keep the fluffers down.

-m

[penpusher]

I believe school is closed, officially. I mean, how could it not be?

People forget the basic elements of how the virus works and start acting like it's nothing.

[conuly]

Who knows?