We didn’t know if this was worth a post or not, but then we thought there are Twitchy readers in states where schools never closed and life went on as normal for their school-aged kids. So there are probably lots of schools like this one; we’d already reported on a California school district that sent home a note suggesting parents send their kids in rain gear or pack a change of clothes because COVID rules force kids to eat lunch outside regardless of the weather.
Yesterday we did a post on New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg, who reacted to an NPR interview with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about the damage lockdowns have done to the mental health of young people by noting all the times she was told not to be concerned because children are “resilient.”
Goldberg is back today tweeting about a New York City school where they’re letting kids eat indoors when it gets too cold if they have their parents’ permission.
Earlier I deleted a tweet about my kid's school because I felt like I hadn't done enough to confirm what my daughter was telling me, but now I have. At least one NYC public school is indeed making kids sit on the floor to eat lunch inside, for covid reasons.
— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) December 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/michelleinbklyn/status/1468698507326459912
https://twitter.com/michelleinbklyn/status/1468698694526586882
Your source is a good one 😉
Did the school tell you what public health “covid reasons” are satisfied by making kids eat on the floor when they are inside?
The mistreatment of our kids infuriates me.
— Maud Maron (@MaudMaron) December 8, 2021
No I haven't heard back from the school, I confirmed with parent volunteers
— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) December 8, 2021
We’re assuming they either have those circles marked on the floor or count tiles or something for spacing kids six feet apart.
Wait. Covid knows if someone is sitting at a table vs the floor?
— Helaine Olen (@helaineolen) December 8, 2021
The floor is lava (to Covid)
— Dmitriy Mandel aka Schnitzel 🐈 (@mndl_nyc) December 8, 2021
It's becoming common knowledge that tile emits a force field that repels Omicron.
— Michael Sapherstein (@MBSaph) December 8, 2021
Infuriating
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) December 8, 2021
The redpilled numbers are growing.
— cosettetheresa (@CozTDeCesare) December 8, 2021
If you don't hate your children it's okay, their school will for you.
— blarneystonecereal (@blarneycereal) December 8, 2021
This is what you voted for.
— Asabiyyah Respecter (@asabiyyahfan) December 8, 2021
This is insensible and cruel, and I hope you can write something on this. Sadly, few on the left are talking about the way pandemic policies have unfairly treated NYC’s public school children, and it needs to be known so it can be fixed.
— Asad أسد 🥸 (@DandiaAsad) December 8, 2021
This stuff is needlessly punitive. These teachers or administrators must really detest kids.
— Marlowe (@MarloweShort) December 8, 2021
Lunacy. When kids all over the world are in schools acting normally and not dying or cause others in the community to die, why would they torture children like that?
— Rob (@RobertBenco1) December 8, 2021
It’s sort of amazing that all of the data we have from Europe means nothing to school administrators here.
Good to see lefties get outraged at least when the lefty insanities impact their own kids
— NeoCon (@Eeindc) December 8, 2021
Appreciate your following up on this.
Please consider writing a story about some of the other harms that are being done to children in the name of COVID mitigation.
— NYC Angry Mom (@angrybklynmom) December 8, 2021
I am thrilled you are following up on this. What we are doing to our kids in "blue states" is abhorrent.
— MoCo Dad (@zartmo3) December 8, 2021
Don’t worry, you can still go to knicks games with no mask or anything. Only the children should suffer! 🤡🤡🤡🤡
— This Guy (@This_guy_says) December 8, 2021
Too bad you work for the NYT and MSNBC and are contractually obliged to vote Dem or you might be able to do something about it other than buying your kid a cushion.
— Andrew (@AndrewSe7en) December 8, 2021
How about the parents who don’t give permission and have their kids eat outdoors no matter how cold it gets?
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Update:
Portland:
Kindergarteners in Portland school are forced to each lunch outdoors in 40 degree weather to properly social distance. This is child abuse. pic.twitter.com/y5n9NeDRIG
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 8, 2021
Related:
New York Times columnist almost gets there when it comes to the damage lockdowns have done to kids https://t.co/Ldw5NXY7yv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 8, 2021
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