Michael Ramirez for January 30, 2021

If a refugee child gets kidnapped and locked in a cage by a Republican administration, is it still considered a crime against humanity?

How many teachers are you willing to kill to keep kids in face-to-face classrooms?

How much easier would it have been on everyone if we had leadership in OUR WHITE HOUSE and in the Dept. of Education? If ordinary people had gotten some of those millions floating around. If the billionaires had done something to help? stay safe.

The International Court in the Hague really has to send Interpol over to grab Trump for his crimes against humanity.

Ramirez, and many republicans, are very much against*functional* education.

Just one more mess that the Democrats have to clean up after.

If a Trump in the White House refuses to respond to a pandemic and sabotages those who try to respond, will a Trump Disciple cartoonist notice?

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#TraitorTrump

If children of color are put in cages and can’t see their parents again do they make a sound to Republicans? No, they are not around to hear them crying. Just wear jackets reading, “I REALLY DON”T CARE, DO YOU ?"

Breaking News: “Black Lives Matter” movement nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Funny that this has become a priority now. before the pandemic, people like Ramirez were all about dismantling the education system for the sake of saving money and the promotion of private, for profit, education for the wealthy.

Why don’t you ask that question to the kids that Trump ripped away from their parents or just plain locked in cages? Where was your bleeding heart then? Or do you just care about kids born in America?

And when the kid’s parents die will you adopt the orphans? The kids will have a lifetime to get back what was lost – except they won’t be able to get back the grandparents, or the health of those with long- Covid ailments. And many kids are ending up with heart conditions and other circulatory problems … Where was your concern for the children of Refugees, left in camps at borders with no food, no schooling, and thanks to Trump – no parents for months.

“Sound is vibration, transmitted to our senses through the mechanism of the ear, and recognized as sound only at our nerve centers. The falling of the tree or any other disturbance will produce vibration of the air. If there be no ears to hear, there will be no sound.

Thank you for confirming my prediction: regardless of the topic (in this case, the problems of education in the COVID era), some TDS patients will use it as an excuse for a far-fetched political comment. Well done!

Yes, we should teach the kids real courses like CREATIONISM! And GOD FORBID we should actually PAY THE TEACHERS!! But it is okay to expose them to Covid and let some die.

^ You first! ^

The call to open schools by the repugs isn’t about education, it’s for the babysitting service so the worker bees can get back to work.

How quickly THEY forget! What idiots! They ignore all their evil deeds and blame everyone else! EXPELL GREENE! INDICT TRUMP!

Because republicans spread covid all over the USA, the school systems are totally messed up, along with the rest of the country.

Wow. If only we had had a President who took the virus seriously instead of calling it a hoax and going golfing, perhaps things wouldn’t have gotten so bad.

The idiot republican admin totally ignored the rules of contagious diseases and killed 400,000 Americans needlessly.

Like Ramirez actually cares about kids in the first place. This cartoon is the true definition of an oxymoron.

I like how he snuck “teacher’s unions” in there. Blame the teachers, but vaccinate them too. Pay them more as well. We dump onto teachers because they have remarkably little power.

If schools reopen, the first classes should be remedial civics courses, mandatory for all Trump supporters, with Republican members of Congress first.

what do Republican’s can about education they want them dumb illiterates and easily manipulated

If Ramirez’s cartoons get flushed down the toilet will the sewer rats survive ?

Amazing how Ramirez SUDDENLY cares about children and education. I bet he will SUDDENLY care about the deficit soon too.

The severity of this pandemic brought to you by Donald J. Trump, ably assisted by alt-right cartoonists such as Mr. Ramirez.

It’s interesting that the party that championed home schooling and the family being the central pillar of our society is now taking a position that schools run by the government are essential in childhood development (physically and mentally) and that individual families are incapable of raising their children properly without government run institutions to aid them.

Ramirez last year: “Government schools are brainwashing our poor children. Home schooling is the only answer.”

Covid hits; kids are sent home for home schooling.

Ramirez today: “Oh, no; our poor children are being deprived of an education, no sports, no socialization, no meals.”

Wanna find a mind and make it up?

I’m a teacher. I hate distance learning. It makes it difficult to get the feedback I need to ensure good instruction. It’s a barrier to building relationships with my students. I have to adapt curriculum I’ve spent years honing to a different medium. I work from 7am to 4 or 5 PM running ZOOM classes, rewriting lesson plans and searching for resources on the internet. The kids don’t like it, the parents don’t like it, the teachers don’t like it.

However, there is a willful misreading of what the data is saying about Covid-19 and schools, and THAT concerns me. Back in March of 2020, we didn’t know much about the disease. The doctors were afraid that schoolrooms could be a vector for the disease given it’s population and the closeness of classrooms, similar to places like a meat packing plant where people are working in close proximity.

It turns out that is not the case. Children seem less likely to show symptoms of the disease and if they catch it, they tend to be milder cases. That doesn’t mean they can’t get it or don’t spread it. What the CDC and other organizations now believe is that you are no more likely to catch Covid-19 in a classroom than anywhere else.

That is not the same as you are less likely to catch it at school, as some (here) are claiming. It means that I have the same chance of catching it as I do if I spent all day shopping, or working in a grocery store, or tried to live the normal life I had prior to Covid-19. I would be at the mercy of other people taking (or not) precautions.

So my health would depend on whether my community believes that Covid-19 is real and are willing to mask and socially distance themselves. If you’ve been paying any attention, you know that’s not even close to the situation we have here in the USA.

well done today.

How widespread is the problem? I mostly know the story for Wisconsin (bigger city public schools are closed, most other are in person or some combination of virtual/in person). Both sides certainly make legitimate points. I do think in more densely populated areas there should be special consideration given for safety.

Ramirez shakes a stick at Miguel Cardona.

I know kids are having a tough time with this. So are the adults. I love my job. I love my kids. But, I will not be cannon fodder. Americans think that teachers should be selfless heroes who sacrifice daily for their love of their profession. We’re expected to shield them from bullets, while Americans refuse to regulate the guns shooting at us.

Schools are expected to ameliorate all the effects of modern life on society, without thought of addressing those things politically. We feed your kids, educate them, watch them after school. We deal with bullying, homelessness, their mental health, racism, sexism, etc., etc. All without sufficient funding, without sufficient training. And without respect.

You want us in the classroom? Then get serious. No more talk about how mask mandates are an assault on your liberty.No more minimizing the death rate. More people have died in a year than died in 4 years of intense combat during WW2. LA county, home to 10 million, had no ICU beds last month.

This is serious and requires serious people to deal with it. If you’re not going to be serious, then just shut up.

I understand teachers concerns. Most are valid, most have been doing the right thing. Social distancing, avoiding unnecessary travel, etc. What makes it more difficult for them, are the few teachers that complain about having to go back to in school education, then take a trip to Mexico, Florida, or whatever, and post it on social media.

So, my answer. The teachers that don’t go on trips and avoid large gatherings and such, get to remain zoom teachers. The ones that don’t seem to bothered about the virus during their free time going on trips and to large gatherings and post them on social media, well, to school you go. Would help give parents the flex to keep their kids at home if they want to, as not all parents really want to send their kids back yet either.

As a recently retired teacher, 20 years in a Title I school (at risk families and students), I had this discussion with my brother, a pediatric neurologist and cousin emergency physician. I do resent you putting blame on teacher unions. Teachers work for peanuts and our number one priority is the child. I earn 1/4 what either MD mentioned above, but I hold two graduate degrees, while they each have just one.

Mr. Ramierez and the other knuckleheads agreeing with him imply that it’s cowardly teachers with nothing to fear that are keeping schools from operating. We should just go back to normal and make these cowards earn their money.

If you read the CDC report on safely opening schools, you see that their recommendations amount to a redesign of how schools are run. That won’t be cheap. They have to upgrade HVAC, hire and train staff, buy PPE, pay for testing, redesign the school day to keep students from mixing as much.

AND… if there is a case of Covid-19, the school may have to shut down for 2 weeks, or large parts of it. I work in a small, rural school. One sick kid or staff would close us.

It’s not just a question of cracking the whip.

So teachers union are to blame for the rampant pandemic that was responsible for having to close schools? Nice try.

If a child dies from Covid that he caught in school, did he learn anything?

The schools need to be reopened. 75 percent of kids are failing. Remote learning is a failure. It’s failed our kids.

Republicans shouldn’t talk about how much they care about education after putting that whacko Marjorie Green on the education committee. :- {

He left out absentee parents

You side doesn’t think feeding children is cost effective.

Course Mikey would would blame teachers unions. Wasn’t Betsy DeVos a fan and an investor in virtual learning? Trump tweeted that “virtual learning has proven to be terrible”. Oddly DeVos never retweeted that one. But it’s true, our children will have spent 2 years falling further and further behind in their studies.

What people seem to forget that we stole the states of texas, colorado, new mexico, nevada, arizona and california from mexico. To bad mexico didn’t build a wall around texa and california to keep the gringos out. I am not hispanic.

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/selected-deaths-vs-covid-19-united-states Switch to Sweden to see how herd immunity worked. Try Australia or Taiwan to see how real intelligent policies worked.

If a child fails due to the inferiority of “remote learning”, does anyone at the teacher’s union care? No, of course not. They get paid anyway.

Pres Trump in July said all children should be in school. Last month CDC finally came out 100% agreement with Trump (6 months too late). And now Pres Biden is agreeing with Trump that kids need to be in school. I sure wish we had the guy that gets it right before everyone else at the helm.