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Comment by freitzkriesler2 | Hacker News Reader

Pretty much this. People keep kids home now for almost any reason at all and you'll get a chorus of replies telling you that your opinion is wrong.

People need to toughen up. Not every cold is covid.

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Why do you care? Most public schools are so slow now you could miss a month and they would still have not covered more than a week of material

If you really think that, then you don't have a kid or worse: you have an abysmal school district.

Part and parcel why I purposefully bought a house where the district was highly rated. Missing several weeks is a serious blow.

I do have a kid in school. he’s a year ahead in Math simply by taking 1 class a week in supplement math school. Sure we have to do 15 homework day but that’s just an example of how slow they go. My kid is also pretty darn average so it’s not a natural talent thing. I have to drill flash cards with him cause school fails to teach those. All they seem to do is play games on the tablet. Maybe they learn something but it seems more like politically correct tv time.

Trust me, you're kid is smarter than average simply by virtue of you posting here.

Also- getting cold symptoms and simply not acknowledging that it could be covid doesn’t make it not covid.

There are so many cold critters out there that have always existed. Everyone blames covid when it's clearly the season flu, it's nonsense. It's time to move on.

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