Children's books are obviously not written for children... they are written for adults who select for children. Dr. Seuss was written for Boomers - the message, the aesthetic, everything - it's Boomers all the way down. As GenX I can say I had them foisted upon me ad nausem... but to me they represented the profound disorder of the Boomer ethos more than anything else. Dr. Seuss was 'whimsical' disorder fueled by psychedelics - and therefore a cautionary tale of things to avoid... like Parents who abandoned you to a Cat. Don't be those parents. Don't read Dr. Seuss because he's the disordered soul of the Boomer Generation.
That's GenX.
Millennials are at the opposite end of the disordered soul funnel... their notions of order come pre-deconstructed, so they reconstruct it around the new moralities... like Race/Sex/Gender. The impossible irony is that Dr. Seuss is the Boomer expression of the new moralities of Race/Sex/Gender. The uprising of Milennials against the Ur source of Milennial understandings of the new Morality is just Zeus killing Kronos. In the end, just another Titan sitting on the throne.
Turns out Emmy was an actual gal. And I'm firmly against awarding people as prizes.
I'm mildly curious in the "there's no such thing as a leak" kind of way why DEC-13-2020 marks the public claim against him for events that happened 2015-18 passim.
We were just talking about this over dinner... the next phase might be a deep-fake video emailed to G'ma... a gun pointed to the head with a phone in the kid's hand holding a message: DO NOT CALL ME.
Besides the confidence tricks plus personal data, it's about exploiting a generational technology understanding gap.
About a month ago my recently graduated daughter (23) got a call from folks telling her that they were on their way over to arrest her for money laundering -- not her money laundering, but money laundering that other bad guys had done in her name, so a sort of ID theft that she would be responsible for -- they had just enough personal info to make it sound almost plausible.
By pure coincidence we'd had a discussion on her last visit about talking to law enforcement and getting arrested; I'd seen a youtube thing with a public defender and a cop about how simply saying anything without a lawyer present is a terrible idea. (Said here at OT as well) Interestingly one of the things the Cop said was an effective technique was to let the target have the idea that they could negotiate their way out of an arrest... said they would often give up all sorts of info just in that hope. The cop also reiterated that if there's an arrest warrant... they are going to arrest you. So shut up and get arrested.
Coincidental and fortuitous that I'd had that conversation with her and used that exact phrase: If you're going to get arrested, it will ruin your day, but just shut up, get arrested and call your lawyer. So when the scammers called, she told them she wouldn't talk without a lawyer and if they were going to arrest her, then come on over.
She called me after hanging-up absolutely certain she was about to be arrested and wanted to know the number of the lawyer she should have ready. I told her she handled it perfectly, and good news... she wasn't going to be arrested. It took her a couple hours at work before she stopped looking over her shoulder for flashing lights.
It got me thinking that future scammers will probably trick me by combining a technology new technology I don't fully understand plus the old fashioned con-artist tricks. I'm mentally steeling myself to resist the IRS Holograms that my BostonRobotics Dog will beam to me evoking fading memories of R2D2 and the need to heed their call.
p.p.s. I also really liked the comments on Edward Ryder... I hadn't really considered the effects of depression and grief on his person.
If we're archetyping folks, I always saw Ryder the elder as the last Victorian... compared to Marchmain (who ought to be a near peer in age) as among the first "modern men" an Edwardian broken by WWI.
I thoroughly enjoyed the autobiographical contemplation of the Brideshead aesthetic... but then I would, wouldn't I?
A couple thoughts.
First, a pity you encountered such a Catholic in Chicago; by rule we're a credulous lot; but we go through periods where miracles seem an embracing burden we must explain away to make ourselves presentable. As if such a thing were possible with our outrageous Marian claims, the perambulations of decapitated saints, and, well, the daily claims of the Mass. Chicago in the 70's-90's was such a place.
I've always had a soft-spot for Lutheran's who at least thought to maintain two of the seven sacraments; I can give one cheer for Luther famously pounding the table with "HOC EST... HOC EST...Hoc est Corpus meum" against the nominalists looking to strip away even that sacrament. The apocryphal(?) origin of Hocus Pocus, so I'm told.
On the matter of Brideshead and aesthetics, I certainly take your point that a besetting sin of a certain sort of traditionalism might be nostalgia; but the line between nostalgia and inheritance can be blurry. Sometimes I think people on the outside (of anything) wrongly attribute nostalgia for a dead thing to people building anew on a living tradition... it's a natural error, I should think.
For example the Chapel you cite in Brideshead isn't Baroque... Charles isn't seduced into the Baroque... it is a "monument of art nouveau." The aesthetic of suffering in Brideshead *is* Arts and Crafts.
"The whole interior had been gutted, elaborately refurnished and redecorated in the arts-and-crafts style of the last decade of the nineteenth century. Angels in printed cotton smocks, rambler-roses, flower-spangled meadows, frisking lambs, texts in Celtic script, saints in armour, covered the walls in an intricate patter of clear, bright colours. There was a triptych of pale oak, carved so as to give it the peculiar property of seeming to have been moulded in Plasticine. The sanctuary lamp and all the metal furniture were of bronze, hand-beaten to the patina of a pock-marked skin; the altar steps had a carpet of grass-green, strewn with white and gold daisies."
The Flytes, you see, are Moderns. They are we. Charles paints the old pile at Brideshead in his modern style. If there's a gothic sensibility it belongs to Anthony... who is bemused by Charles' "pictures" knowing them to be 'trendy'.
The flight of the Flytes is to modernity; and the entire 'tragedy' plays out before "a small red flame--a beaten-copper lamp of deplorable design" an artifact of the English Arts and Crafts artistic movement of the late 19th century.
I don't point this out specifically to gainsay your personal experience or underlying point... possibly the thoroughly modern (long suffering and insufferable) satirical author Waugh was more aligned with what you're suggesting?
Growing up I used to work in the field for the family business ... we were painting contractors of the industrial/professional sort: office buildings, commercial properties, warehouses, etc. (i.e. no houses) ... one thing that really impressed me was the genius (it can't really be described as anything else) of our long-time German foreman.
Everything back then had an ethnic component... most of the union guys were Poles, Germans, Greeks, Irish and in the later years, Hispanic... we had a run where a couple Romanian brothers joined from the local... and for a few years had an all Romanian team... and then there was Jimmy - he was an American from Tennessee, but he was the unusual one. I have more Jimmy stories than anyone else because he was fearless and painted the parts no-one thought was possible. One time, painting some facia on the peak of a sloped roof he slipped, slid down the roof - we all thought he was gonna die - and caught himself jamming his boots into the gutter; the slightest panic would have sent him over the edge, but fearless Jimmy figured he'd stick the gutter. Anyhow, back to the German Foreman.
Conrad, that was his name naturally, had an eye for estimating exactly how long it would take for any given job based on the talent on hand, like a coach selecting line match-ups in hockey. He managed to keep the family business solvent with little tricks like this: he'd know that the work he needed accomplished to keep the job on schedule would take about 9-10 hrs with the crew on site - going at the usual rate - BUT, if everyone focused, cut-out the ordinary time-wasters and each watched over the other we could get it done in about 7 hrs... or worst case 8... but 8 is what he needed. So he'd make the devil's bargain that we could all go home when this section/task was finished ... and darned if it didn't always work. Sometimes we won by finishing in 6.5 hrs ... sometimes he won with us needing 7.5 hrs... but always we got 'some' time back for free. If he tried to run the field that way everyday it would have led to mutiny, but used judiciously for the greater good of the project and with a fair bet for all involved? It made him a virtuoso leader of men.
That's not a tenet of Monotheism. Many monotheists openly speculate about what extra-terrestrial beings/life might be like... heck stodgy old CS Lewis wrote an entire trilogy about it.
I'm not sure "Contact" is a reliable source of Monotheistic belief.
Somewhat tongue in cheek... I'm not sure Mormons are Monotheistic...but they certainly are multi-celestial.
I'm sure we could find some monotheists somewhere who hold the belief dogmatically, but, alas, we can find monotheists who hold just about any belief dogmatically.
Back in December I thought it would be helpful to caution the family that while things are looking up, February/March will probably be tough months in-between pandemic lockdowns and winter lockdowns/blahs.
And while correct, I can report that the advanced cautioning was not in fact helpful. We've no choice but to double to rations of grog.
All good points... I don't know... one thing we've learned though, is that school districts are good at planning for and executing on unexpected contingencies.
I think you're right... barring some a radical change in Covid rates/vaccinations/strains... they will be open or, as you say, a big reckoning. Which is to say, the current trends are seen as perfectly adequate levels of risk to proceed at that point.
"A solar powered well pump? Seems easy enough to do, what’s the difficulty?"
I know, right? Haven't been able to find someone with the skills/equipment willing to do the work... plumbers won't do it, electricians won't do it, and solar guys won't do it. Solar guys don't like the plumbing, plumbers don't like the electric/solar and Electric don't like the plumbing/solar. Like the Bermuda triangle of trades.
I kinda gave up after a bunch of calls... there's probably someone somewhere, but sometimes you can only build what people in your area know how to build.
I think it has to do with the fact that no-one would *ever* buy solar if it was 100% back-up power... and if it doesn't tie into the grid to at least offset the usage without having to pick one or the other at any given moment... then no-one would buy it. So the Electric companies say, fine... but no way we're cohabitating without getting married. Or something like that.
Yeah, On-Grid = OK, off-Grid = OK, Hybrid = Well, you have to understand.
I'm monitoring the Battery tech... but my design spec isn't for a temporary outage but for one-week+ outage after a hurricane... we've had friends with longer outages - it's all a matter of where the tree falls on which segment of which line that determines the length. All I really need is water... then the animals won't die.
Mostly I was just hoping you'd say, "Don't worry March, I've got some time off and I'll build you that 30kwh hybrid system and damn the regulations..."
I take your point... partly I'm just pointing out how close Fairfax County seems to be to defecting... on the stipulation that if you lose Fairfax, the game is officially changed.
Regionally and locally? I hope it plays out a thousand ways with a thousand new alternatives.
But, conversely, once Fairfax (and the other 'key' districts) fall back in line, the full weight of the Dept. of Ed will come down like a freight train on how bad alternative education is for children... after all, look at the terrible job *we* did, and *we're* the experts.
I'm all for redundant systems and renewable resources... ironically one of the reasons I've never pulled the trigger on Solar for our property is because in Virginia once the grid goes down, your solar shuts off.
Now, I get the reason... since we're back-feeding in ordinary circumstances, it has to for safety reasons. My engineering question was why couldn't we fail-over - even manually - to a separate panel a'la a generator (or batteries)... to which the installers replied: laws.
Batteries destroy the cost curve, and don't really provide a reserve more than a day... a lot less than a propane generator - esp. with an existing 1000 gal tank.
So in concurrence... it's more than just subsidies, it's engineering specs and dealing with the political fall-out of Electric companies and their interests (and frankly the franchise Solar companies who don't want to engineer solutions... just install panels).
Certainly it could... for example the family wanted one of the kids to 'opt-out' of an online *zoom study period* since it was, well, kids on zoom reading or doing their own homework.
They were, of course, told, No you can't 'opt out' but not only that, the *way* they were told really irked them.
They are opting-out of whatever they can... but, and this is the big question, will they defect? Maybe, they certainly could... but then the Fairfax schools - when they are functioning - are quite good (from their worldview), convenient, and bought/paid-for by Fairfax county taxes.
And, when the time comes for schools to start up... the foretaste of attempting to opt-out of study-hall will be nothing like the backlash against those who try alternatives. Sure, you can always send you kid to Exeter, but even Exeter has a limit.
For my policy preferences I'd like to see that... but my current guess is that while the brink is near, it will all be patched up by August.
I can all but guaranty there will be in-person schooling in August... the idea that there won't be (or that it will require the levels of vaccinations of children being bandied about?) is the sort of nonsense up with which these people will not put.
On “From Global News.ca: Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published due to racist content”
Children's books are obviously not written for children... they are written for adults who select for children. Dr. Seuss was written for Boomers - the message, the aesthetic, everything - it's Boomers all the way down. As GenX I can say I had them foisted upon me ad nausem... but to me they represented the profound disorder of the Boomer ethos more than anything else. Dr. Seuss was 'whimsical' disorder fueled by psychedelics - and therefore a cautionary tale of things to avoid... like Parents who abandoned you to a Cat. Don't be those parents. Don't read Dr. Seuss because he's the disordered soul of the Boomer Generation.
That's GenX.
Millennials are at the opposite end of the disordered soul funnel... their notions of order come pre-deconstructed, so they reconstruct it around the new moralities... like Race/Sex/Gender. The impossible irony is that Dr. Seuss is the Boomer expression of the new moralities of Race/Sex/Gender. The uprising of Milennials against the Ur source of Milennial understandings of the new Morality is just Zeus killing Kronos. In the end, just another Titan sitting on the throne.
On “More Andrew Cuomo Allegations Bring New Questions”
Turns out Emmy was an actual gal. And I'm firmly against awarding people as prizes.
I'm mildly curious in the "there's no such thing as a leak" kind of way why DEC-13-2020 marks the public claim against him for events that happened 2015-18 passim.
I suppose everyone knew.
On “Original Ordinary Gentleman Erik Kain starts Substack, as does Freddie deBoer”
I think of corporate meetings as pod-casts...
Reading Substack? Corporate podcast!
On “The Real ScamDemic”
We were just talking about this over dinner... the next phase might be a deep-fake video emailed to G'ma... a gun pointed to the head with a phone in the kid's hand holding a message: DO NOT CALL ME.
Besides the confidence tricks plus personal data, it's about exploiting a generational technology understanding gap.
On “Aesthetics Revisited: A Lutheran, Catholic School, and Brideshead”
Fabian Socialists.
On “Original Ordinary Gentleman Erik Kain starts Substack, as does Freddie deBoer”
Holding out for "The Horseshoe Bundle"
On “The Real ScamDemic”
Sorry your MIL had to suffer that.
About a month ago my recently graduated daughter (23) got a call from folks telling her that they were on their way over to arrest her for money laundering -- not her money laundering, but money laundering that other bad guys had done in her name, so a sort of ID theft that she would be responsible for -- they had just enough personal info to make it sound almost plausible.
By pure coincidence we'd had a discussion on her last visit about talking to law enforcement and getting arrested; I'd seen a youtube thing with a public defender and a cop about how simply saying anything without a lawyer present is a terrible idea. (Said here at OT as well) Interestingly one of the things the Cop said was an effective technique was to let the target have the idea that they could negotiate their way out of an arrest... said they would often give up all sorts of info just in that hope. The cop also reiterated that if there's an arrest warrant... they are going to arrest you. So shut up and get arrested.
Coincidental and fortuitous that I'd had that conversation with her and used that exact phrase: If you're going to get arrested, it will ruin your day, but just shut up, get arrested and call your lawyer. So when the scammers called, she told them she wouldn't talk without a lawyer and if they were going to arrest her, then come on over.
She called me after hanging-up absolutely certain she was about to be arrested and wanted to know the number of the lawyer she should have ready. I told her she handled it perfectly, and good news... she wasn't going to be arrested. It took her a couple hours at work before she stopped looking over her shoulder for flashing lights.
It got me thinking that future scammers will probably trick me by combining a technology new technology I don't fully understand plus the old fashioned con-artist tricks. I'm mentally steeling myself to resist the IRS Holograms that my BostonRobotics Dog will beam to me evoking fading memories of R2D2 and the need to heed their call.
On “Aesthetics Revisited: A Lutheran, Catholic School, and Brideshead”
p.p.s. I also really liked the comments on Edward Ryder... I hadn't really considered the effects of depression and grief on his person.
If we're archetyping folks, I always saw Ryder the elder as the last Victorian... compared to Marchmain (who ought to be a near peer in age) as among the first "modern men" an Edwardian broken by WWI.
"
p.s. I feel obliged to point out that I may be contributing to the misspelling of Marchmain into Marchmaine.
In my defense, I added the 'e' for purely aesthetic reasons; and to distinguish my use from the use of those justly entitled to it.
"
I thoroughly enjoyed the autobiographical contemplation of the Brideshead aesthetic... but then I would, wouldn't I?
A couple thoughts.
First, a pity you encountered such a Catholic in Chicago; by rule we're a credulous lot; but we go through periods where miracles seem an embracing burden we must explain away to make ourselves presentable. As if such a thing were possible with our outrageous Marian claims, the perambulations of decapitated saints, and, well, the daily claims of the Mass. Chicago in the 70's-90's was such a place.
I've always had a soft-spot for Lutheran's who at least thought to maintain two of the seven sacraments; I can give one cheer for Luther famously pounding the table with "HOC EST... HOC EST...Hoc est Corpus meum" against the nominalists looking to strip away even that sacrament. The apocryphal(?) origin of Hocus Pocus, so I'm told.
On the matter of Brideshead and aesthetics, I certainly take your point that a besetting sin of a certain sort of traditionalism might be nostalgia; but the line between nostalgia and inheritance can be blurry. Sometimes I think people on the outside (of anything) wrongly attribute nostalgia for a dead thing to people building anew on a living tradition... it's a natural error, I should think.
For example the Chapel you cite in Brideshead isn't Baroque... Charles isn't seduced into the Baroque... it is a "monument of art nouveau." The aesthetic of suffering in Brideshead *is* Arts and Crafts.
"The whole interior had been gutted, elaborately refurnished and redecorated in the arts-and-crafts style of the last decade of the nineteenth century. Angels in printed cotton smocks, rambler-roses, flower-spangled meadows, frisking lambs, texts in Celtic script, saints in armour, covered the walls in an intricate patter of clear, bright colours. There was a triptych of pale oak, carved so as to give it the peculiar property of seeming to have been moulded in Plasticine. The sanctuary lamp and all the metal furniture were of bronze, hand-beaten to the patina of a pock-marked skin; the altar steps had a carpet of grass-green, strewn with white and gold daisies."
Oh dear. Or, as Charles said, "Golly"
Here's a picture of the possible inspiration for the Chapel.
The Flytes, you see, are Moderns. They are we. Charles paints the old pile at Brideshead in his modern style. If there's a gothic sensibility it belongs to Anthony... who is bemused by Charles' "pictures" knowing them to be 'trendy'.
The flight of the Flytes is to modernity; and the entire 'tragedy' plays out before "a small red flame--a beaten-copper lamp of deplorable design" an artifact of the English Arts and Crafts artistic movement of the late 19th century.
I don't point this out specifically to gainsay your personal experience or underlying point... possibly the thoroughly modern (long suffering and insufferable) satirical author Waugh was more aligned with what you're suggesting?
On “Once You Finish, You Can Take The Rest of The Day Off”
Growing up I used to work in the field for the family business ... we were painting contractors of the industrial/professional sort: office buildings, commercial properties, warehouses, etc. (i.e. no houses) ... one thing that really impressed me was the genius (it can't really be described as anything else) of our long-time German foreman.
Everything back then had an ethnic component... most of the union guys were Poles, Germans, Greeks, Irish and in the later years, Hispanic... we had a run where a couple Romanian brothers joined from the local... and for a few years had an all Romanian team... and then there was Jimmy - he was an American from Tennessee, but he was the unusual one. I have more Jimmy stories than anyone else because he was fearless and painted the parts no-one thought was possible. One time, painting some facia on the peak of a sloped roof he slipped, slid down the roof - we all thought he was gonna die - and caught himself jamming his boots into the gutter; the slightest panic would have sent him over the edge, but fearless Jimmy figured he'd stick the gutter. Anyhow, back to the German Foreman.
Conrad, that was his name naturally, had an eye for estimating exactly how long it would take for any given job based on the talent on hand, like a coach selecting line match-ups in hockey. He managed to keep the family business solvent with little tricks like this: he'd know that the work he needed accomplished to keep the job on schedule would take about 9-10 hrs with the crew on site - going at the usual rate - BUT, if everyone focused, cut-out the ordinary time-wasters and each watched over the other we could get it done in about 7 hrs... or worst case 8... but 8 is what he needed. So he'd make the devil's bargain that we could all go home when this section/task was finished ... and darned if it didn't always work. Sometimes we won by finishing in 6.5 hrs ... sometimes he won with us needing 7.5 hrs... but always we got 'some' time back for free. If he tried to run the field that way everyday it would have led to mutiny, but used judiciously for the greater good of the project and with a fair bet for all involved? It made him a virtuoso leader of men.
On “Ordinary World: Missing President’s Day Edition”
Well put. The Solidarity Trap.
On “Perseverance Does the Impossible Again”
That's not a tenet of Monotheism. Many monotheists openly speculate about what extra-terrestrial beings/life might be like... heck stodgy old CS Lewis wrote an entire trilogy about it.
I'm not sure "Contact" is a reliable source of Monotheistic belief.
Somewhat tongue in cheek... I'm not sure Mormons are Monotheistic...but they certainly are multi-celestial.
I'm sure we could find some monotheists somewhere who hold the belief dogmatically, but, alas, we can find monotheists who hold just about any belief dogmatically.
On “Weekend Plans Post: Smack Dab In The Middle Of February”
Back in December I thought it would be helpful to caution the family that while things are looking up, February/March will probably be tough months in-between pandemic lockdowns and winter lockdowns/blahs.
And while correct, I can report that the advanced cautioning was not in fact helpful. We've no choice but to double to rations of grog.
On “Rep Ayanna Pressley Federal Jobs Guarantee Resolution: Read It For Yourself”
For the constituency that doesn't like work-for-welfare requirements, have I got a plan for you!
So much abuse this will see.
In the future memes will be written about 'if you could go back in time and kill *one* govt program, what would it be'
On “Thursday Throughput: Texas Power Outages Edition”
All good points... I don't know... one thing we've learned though, is that school districts are good at planning for and executing on unexpected contingencies.
"
I think you're right... barring some a radical change in Covid rates/vaccinations/strains... they will be open or, as you say, a big reckoning. Which is to say, the current trends are seen as perfectly adequate levels of risk to proceed at that point.
"
"A solar powered well pump? Seems easy enough to do, what’s the difficulty?"
I know, right? Haven't been able to find someone with the skills/equipment willing to do the work... plumbers won't do it, electricians won't do it, and solar guys won't do it. Solar guys don't like the plumbing, plumbers don't like the electric/solar and Electric don't like the plumbing/solar. Like the Bermuda triangle of trades.
I kinda gave up after a bunch of calls... there's probably someone somewhere, but sometimes you can only build what people in your area know how to build.
"
I think it has to do with the fact that no-one would *ever* buy solar if it was 100% back-up power... and if it doesn't tie into the grid to at least offset the usage without having to pick one or the other at any given moment... then no-one would buy it. So the Electric companies say, fine... but no way we're cohabitating without getting married. Or something like that.
So yer sayin' there's a chance?
https://www.rpssolarpumps.com/backup-water-systems/#1584320099948-90461073-7ddc
"
Yeah, On-Grid = OK, off-Grid = OK, Hybrid = Well, you have to understand.
I'm monitoring the Battery tech... but my design spec isn't for a temporary outage but for one-week+ outage after a hurricane... we've had friends with longer outages - it's all a matter of where the tree falls on which segment of which line that determines the length. All I really need is water... then the animals won't die.
Mostly I was just hoping you'd say, "Don't worry March, I've got some time off and I'll build you that 30kwh hybrid system and damn the regulations..."
Or this... come on out and engineer this for us. :-)
"
Eastern Loudon? Plenty of Schools. Western Loudon? I think you need a special use permit to have a child.
"
I take your point... partly I'm just pointing out how close Fairfax County seems to be to defecting... on the stipulation that if you lose Fairfax, the game is officially changed.
Regionally and locally? I hope it plays out a thousand ways with a thousand new alternatives.
But, conversely, once Fairfax (and the other 'key' districts) fall back in line, the full weight of the Dept. of Ed will come down like a freight train on how bad alternative education is for children... after all, look at the terrible job *we* did, and *we're* the experts.
"
I'm all for redundant systems and renewable resources... ironically one of the reasons I've never pulled the trigger on Solar for our property is because in Virginia once the grid goes down, your solar shuts off.
Now, I get the reason... since we're back-feeding in ordinary circumstances, it has to for safety reasons. My engineering question was why couldn't we fail-over - even manually - to a separate panel a'la a generator (or batteries)... to which the installers replied: laws.
Batteries destroy the cost curve, and don't really provide a reserve more than a day... a lot less than a propane generator - esp. with an existing 1000 gal tank.
So in concurrence... it's more than just subsidies, it's engineering specs and dealing with the political fall-out of Electric companies and their interests (and frankly the franchise Solar companies who don't want to engineer solutions... just install panels).
"
Certainly it could... for example the family wanted one of the kids to 'opt-out' of an online *zoom study period* since it was, well, kids on zoom reading or doing their own homework.
They were, of course, told, No you can't 'opt out' but not only that, the *way* they were told really irked them.
They are opting-out of whatever they can... but, and this is the big question, will they defect? Maybe, they certainly could... but then the Fairfax schools - when they are functioning - are quite good (from their worldview), convenient, and bought/paid-for by Fairfax county taxes.
And, when the time comes for schools to start up... the foretaste of attempting to opt-out of study-hall will be nothing like the backlash against those who try alternatives. Sure, you can always send you kid to Exeter, but even Exeter has a limit.
"
For my policy preferences I'd like to see that... but my current guess is that while the brink is near, it will all be patched up by August.
I can all but guaranty there will be in-person schooling in August... the idea that there won't be (or that it will require the levels of vaccinations of children being bandied about?) is the sort of nonsense up with which these people will not put.