It never ends friends!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40628785)

Huh, I haven't seen it spelled that way before.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40628796)

this is the only effective policy moving forward.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40630388)

Watch TITANIC, you ijits!!

A bit more background on the libtard Alison Collins:

Educator, Community Organizer, Parent Advocate at SF Public School Mom

Former Parent coach, workshop facilitator at Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network (PLAN)

Former Educator at Oakland Unified School District

Former High School English Teacher, Peer Resource Coordinator at San Francisco Unified School District

Lives in San Francisco, California

From Los Angeles, California

Alison Collins

Yesterday at 1:34 AM ·

Can we talk about all this? It’s really problematic. For real.

Some questions about Pandemic Pods:

- Who is present in these spaces? Who is missing?

- Who benefits? Who is excluded?

- How does this elevate and support anti racism? Integration? Public education?

- What narratives do pods reinforce about public education?

- What is the history of families with asset wealth and social privilege pooling resources (e.g. resource-hoarding)?

- How does this fit into a culture of capitalism, individualism and consumerism vs. socialism, collectivism, and community-responsive practice?

- In this time of crisis, how do these actions support families with the greatest need? Families struggling with food insecurity? Housing insecurity? Single parents? Parents of students with disabilities? Parents of students learning English? Parents of undocumented students?

- (And also, who is Littldata, the company behind these Bay Area groups?)

I am hearing from many families that the explosion of this conversation is very concerning. As families we are all experiencing a loss because we cannot “go-back-to-school” or work this fall like we had hoped when we began shelter-in-place this spring.

Every day we see a virus spiraling out of control and there is a lack of leadership at the state and a national level. Our government’s failure to act is causing deep distress in our communities and is leading to economic devastation, deep emotional depression and loss of life which we have never experienced in our lifetimes.

It is understandable that folks want to take action in order to feel some control in this scary uncertain time. Taking action is a healthy response to crisis and trauma.

Nonetheless, the frantic activity I am witnessing of families soliciting teachers and private tutors for their children at the tune of hundreds to thousands of dollars to “homeschool” their children is frightening to many Black parents and parents of color. It feels exclusionary to many families with students with disabilities who require one-on-one support. Parents who don’t speak English, or don’t have the time to participate in all this online research, networking and interviewing don’t even know these conversations are happening.

If you put BLM in your social media feed... If you have ever protested children being put into cages... If you believe in the promise of collective solutions to social ills, e.g. libraries, public parks and public education... You must ask yourself how your involvement in forming “pods” promotes or diminishes our collective investment in historically marginalized communities: Black, Native American, Latinx, immigrant, low-income, homeless, disabled, etc.

Some context to consider... After Brown v. Board of Education mandated integration, white families pulled their children out of public schools in droves and began homeschooling and hiring teachers and tutors to educate their children in their homes. This led to segregation academies, and later an explosion of private schools which allowed our education system to remain segregated. With white and affluent families out of the public education system, funding and public investment decreased as well.

In contrast Black communities formed “Freedom Schools” in the 1960s to counter the “sharecropper education” received by so many African Americans and poor whites. The Black Panther Party also developed childcare, educational enrichment and one of the meal programs which eventually led to free-and reduced school based lunch programs in public education.

Please educate yourselves on the history of segregation and it’s relationship to private education. Please educate yourselves on “white flight” and “freedom schools” and collectivist (vs. capitalist) models of childcare and education.

We need solutions to the challenges we are facing that don’t further separate us from our neighbors. We need solutions that pool resources for the benefit of ALL of us and that center families and children most in need.

**This post seems to have gone viral and I’m now getting comments from across the country. If you are not from CA you should understand ALL (even private) schools in some counties are mandated to be remote. And folks are still organizing private pods that are racially/socioeconomically segregated. In some cases, folks are pulling their kids from public schools and organizing to pay private tutors thousands of dollars to educate up to 10 kids. Ask yourself if this is for the public good. Ask yourself how we might mobilize to get real relief from state and national leaders so families (and let’s name it womxn) weren’t so impacted by school closures.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40628849)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40628895)

How is CA school funding calculated? If kids are being pulled from public schools, but the $ from the state remains the same, then there's more $ per child in public school. The pod kids win, the public school kids win, what's the problem?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40628891)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40630858)

of the need for more money fo dem programs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40629091)

LJL

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214752650504159&id=1061722599&set=a.1515072311050&source=11

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40629326)

We had that, and the government closed them all down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40629867)

Missing 1.0 years of schooling is huge for kids who are already lagging behind. In reality, it will be more like 1.5 or 2.0 years of lost schooling.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40630571)

They are just social creatures being shitty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40630933)

Dark skinned Indian(actual) families do plenty of things with European families in the US. Negroes with ‘nigger’culture’ behaviour and values less so.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4587696&forum_id=2#40632149)