Comments on: Escambia School District Approves New School Year Calendar

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:02:19 +0000

@Stephanie Sims

Asking innocent people to risk their lives in the middle of a pandemic so you and your child can pretend that everything is okay is both shameful and unAmerican. I don’t know what went wrong during your upbringing, but I truly hope your daughter turns out better.

By: Stephanie Sims

Stephanie Sims — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:19:30 +0000

I have a 5 year old little girl who is autistic and is going into kindergarten. She is also starting at a new school this year along with a new teacher. She not only needs to meet and get to know her teacher but needs to do that so she will listen and be taught by her. My child will not look at a computer and sit there and be taught by someone she has never even met. She barely sat there at the end of last year by her teacher who she loved. So I’m sorry that this whole COVID is going on but we cannot live in fear and we need our kids back in school.

By: INFORMATIVE

INFORMATIVE — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:24:14 +0000

Columbus Day? @ Emmy !!
That’s a laugh. Are you upset you don’t get to celebrate a murderer and thief?

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 02:49:44 +0000

REGARDING:
“David Huie Green you are an overly opinionated and hilariously politically incorrect fellow! President Trump did not set the times for the different states to go back to school. The states and even the counties are deciding that. In Alabama, Mobile County is not going back to brick and mortar school until November or later, while Baldwin County is resuming school on August 12….Sorry, David, but the Democrats are pushing this (and your Columbus theory) down our throats and promoting way to much fear and near panic!”

People without opinions are people not paying attention.
People WITH opinions sometimes adopted those of others, sometimes formed their own.

It is true the states and local school districts decide. Their decisions face many pressures to act different ways. Many Republican governors have refused to kill people to adopt President Trump’s “nothing to see here” agenda.

It isn’t a matter of panic but fear caused by lies and disinformation. We will all die of something. We would like to know how to avoid the more painful or imminent deaths. Lies don’t help.

As to the kind of man Columbus was, that’s not a theory but a set of facts. He is on record for letting Europe know there was land and riches relatively close to their west. Those riches included the people he enslaved. This is not an opinion. He went on record pushing for it. How we react to it is up to us, same as how we might react to the fact Abraham had slaves and his descendants were slaves for a while in Egypt. George Washington had slaves.

Big deal. Injustice exists and will exist. That doesn’t mean no good was ever done. It doesn’t mean you have to reject the good or the bad

Regardless, you found some hilarity. I count that a plus.

An interesting take on Columbus with facts taken in context:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/columbus-confusion-about-the-new-world-140132422/
The comments have interesting points of agreement and disagreement.

David for open eyes and minds

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 16:47:58 +0000

The POTUS has suggested the election date be moved, but is pushing schools to reopen??? We have higher numbers than ever, so how does that make sense??? Desantis needs to step up and take a rationale position instead of working the political angle. 40% of teachers have, or are considering retiring early or quitting. There was already a teacher shortage and fewer people interested in teaching.
LLP

By: Things not what they seem....

Things not what they seem.... — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 14:12:29 +0000

David Huie Green you are an overly opiniated and hilariously politically incorrect fellow! President Trump did not set the times for the different states to go back to school. The states and even the counties are deciding that. In Alabama, Mobile County is not going back to brick and mortar school until November or later, while Baldwin County is resuming school on August 12. Debbie Tullis wouldn’t life be great if we could just tell our employers that we cannot come to work until our spouse comes home to babysit? I am a mother and a grandmother and I worry about my children becoming ill also. But life is full of tragedies, illnesses and even wonderful blessings. We cannot live in fear all the time. If you are too worried about Covid, keep your children home! They do not HAVE to go back to school. Sorry, David, but the Democrats are pushing this (and your Columbus theory) down our throats and promoting way to much fear and near panic!

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 13:48:03 +0000

@ Emmy

Escambia County School District, nor others in Florida, have a holiday for Columbus Day.

By: Willene Bryan

Willene Bryan — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 12:26:26 +0000

People you were given a choice of what to do. Some people just like to complain no matter what. That must be so sad to live that way.

By: Brandy

Brandy — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 11:24:41 +0000

Every one of you who have something negative to say about a parent who is sending their kids back to school can suck a fat one. Some of us have NO CHOOOOIIIICE!! I am so sick and tired of people trying to make other people feel guilty for having to work. My 11 year old can not teach herself while I am at work, period. There is no way around it.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 05:38:38 +0000

REGARDING:
” Christopher Columbus… It seems that some people think he was a bad person.”

He was definitely a bad person. We never celebrated his goodness. We celebrated his discovery of islands off the coasts of the Americas because that made it possible for our ancestors to escape even worse people (or to be worse people).

If we only honored people who were always good, statue-making would be a lost art. (We could still celebrate October 12 as Grandma Huie’s birthday, though.)

David for celebrating every day