This was Hogan yesterday, in which it was pointed out that HE had the power to do something about it.

Today, Hogan stripped the authority of closing schools away from the counties.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday revoked the authority of county officials to mandate schools close amid a clash with local health officials.


Local health officials in Maryland's Montgomery County last week made the decision to keep private and parochial schools closed through October for in-person learning, arguing that having students in the classroom would present a danger to pupils and teachers as the state grapples with COVID-19.

But Hogan amended an emergency executive order, which he issued April 5, that allowed local health departments to have the authority to close any individual facility deemed to be unsafe. He called the Montgomery County mandate "overly broad."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marylan...al-schools

Bravo, a man with a pair.

(08-03-2020 02:40 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  This was Hogan yesterday, in which it was pointed out that HE had the power to do something about it.

Today, Hogan stripped the authority of closing schools away from the counties.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday revoked the authority of county officials to mandate schools close amid a clash with local health officials.


Local health officials in Maryland's Montgomery County last week made the decision to keep private and parochial schools closed through October for in-person learning, arguing that having students in the classroom would present a danger to pupils and teachers as the state grapples with COVID-19.

But Hogan amended an emergency executive order, which he issued April 5, that allowed local health departments to have the authority to close any individual facility deemed to be unsafe. He called the Montgomery County mandate "overly broad."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marylan...al-schools

Also good chance that it would end up costing taxpayers lots of money in legal fees.

As per usual, there is a political reason the county wanted to shut down ALL schools. THIs person laid it out exactly right. Private schools were expected to reap a windfall of new students, and public schools were going to see the number of students in their system plummet. So, we couldnt have those pesky private schools open up and take away all of the those kids from the public schools.





If Covid ends up killing the teachers union, well then it may have all been worth it.

What is needed is to redirect Federal funding so that it is tied to the student. If public schools are not open, parents can take that $$ and put their kid in a private school. Granted, given the makeup of the House, it won't happen now. If the GOP were to somehow reclaim the majority in the house, maybe it could happen.

If public school teachers don't want to work, $$ will leave. Why are they still getting paid to do nothing? The public and especially parents of students need to say, " no work, no pay." This keeping schools closed or doing online learning is all political and not based on the science, as so many public officials are claiming.

If you are promised a service and don't receive it, you always demand your $$ back. We should demand our money back if they refuse to allow students to go to school. All over Europe, schools are open with no adverse conditions appearing. We are the only country who doesn't seem to want our schools open. At least the policy makers. Parents want the schools back open. All BS.

(08-03-2020 02:50 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  If Covid ends up killing the teachers union, well then it may have all been worth it.

You sir - are 1,000,000 percent on point right there!

Montgomery County has been a slow rolling train-wreck for 50 years. Of course this is all political, and not just for the reasons she so capably pointed out. It's also likely a "solidarity" move to stand with the other nuts out west. "Students are our priority", "education first". Uhh, hunh.

Also, defund the police (Yes, that should benefit young people), end Charter Schools altogether (Again, yes, that should benefit young people. Esp those in poorer neighborhoods stuck in failing schools with lousy teachers. Give free State money to illegal aliens and their illegal parents. Uhh hunh. Not the poor citizen kids who are supposed to be there, but the ones that are sapping the resources they should be getting.

Time to eliminate these teachers unions altogether. They serve no purpose except their own. Not the kids who can't pass a simple math or English exam, not the betterment of society as a whole, most certainly not what absolutely should be a core purpose- Educating these kids about the United States, our true history and the greatness that is the best place on earth. Don't see a lot of people jumping fences to get out.

(08-03-2020 02:55 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  What is needed is to redirect Federal funding so that it is tied to the student. If public schools are not open, parents can take that $$ and put their kid in a private school. Granted, given the makeup of the House, it won't happen now. If the GOP were to somehow reclaim the majority in the house, maybe it could happen.

If public school teachers don't want to work, $$ will leave. Why are they still getting paid to do nothing? The public and especially parents of students need to say, " no work, no pay." This keeping schools closed or doing online learning is all political and not based on the science, as so many public officials are claiming.

If you are promised a service and don't receive it, you always demand your $$ back. We should demand our money back if they refuse to allow students to go to school. All over Europe, schools are open with no adverse conditions appearing. We are the only country who doesn't seem to want our schools open. At least the policy makers. Parents want the schools back open. All BS.

We are barely educating them when they are IN school, I can't imagine the lack of real education when it is supposedly happening online. Studies and reports have shown that some ridiculous % of kids never had contact with their teachers at all once the schools closed. Something like 25-45% no contact, not a single time. Thats a recipe for disaster and foreign countries really lining up to kick our collective assses. We're plenty dumb already, let's not have some useless union thugs making it exponentially worse.

This is exactly what my son told me yesterday. He said that if the teachers don't want to go back to work then to refund the money that was taken away by the school districts. Most people know that the school districts are run by Liberals and they are in the pockets of the Demoncraptic Party and will cooperate with them just to mess things up some more. The teachers aren't to blame it's the powers that be in those school districts. Parents should demand that their money is returned or their kids educated. It's simple. We cannot live like this forever. If the people in the middle ages were able to survive the plague with rudimentary medicine we should be able to take our chances and get back to normalcy. If we die, we die, that's part of life. If the ChiFlu don't kill you something else will, believe me.

(08-03-2020 06:18 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  This is exactly what my son told me yesterday. He said that if the teachers don't want to go back to work then to refund the money that was taken away by the school districts. Most people know that the school districts are run by Liberals and they are in the pockets of the Demoncraptic Party and will cooperate with them just to mess things up some more. The teachers aren't to blame it's the powers that be in those school districts. Parents should demand that their money is returned or their kids educated. It's simple. We cannot live like this forever. If the people in the middle ages were able to survive the plague with rudimentary medicine we should be able to take our chances and get back to normalcy. If we die, we die, that's part of life. If the ChiFlu don't kill you something else will, believe me.

yea, not the teachers, but the teachers union. The teachers need to be able to do like they do in wisconsin and be able to opt out of the union. With the explosive growth of private schools, any good teacher is going to make more going that route. When the teachers of wisconsin got the choice to opt out, they did so en masse.

Refusing to work when you can and should work, should be grounds for not receiving compensation or greatly reduced compensation.

If you are fired or laid off you get more in UE benefits. IF you ELECT to not work (you quit) your benefits are cut. It is pretty simple and fair actually - many people are chomping at the bit to go back to work and they can't..... If you CHOOSE not to work, you should be CHOOSING in essence not to be compensated....

I said this in another thread about these spoiled athletes.... If they were not so grossly over compensated and had F-U money already in the bank, none of them would be hesitating to come back to the field of play. The Trout's of the world would not be so cavalier if they were only making 60K per year.