California State University is cancelling in-person classes not for the rest of this semester (somewhat reasonable), not for the summer (somewhat absurd), but for the fall semester (wholly pathetic). They will continue virtual teaching until 2021 when they will analyze facts and make a decision.There is no need to offer a detailed analysis of the importance of learning in a personalized environment. However, we can state unequivocally, that the cognitive, emotional and behavioral form three aspects of healthy education, none of which can be analyzed through the lens of a screen. We should also be grateful that the in-person indoctrination from these bastions of political correctness will at least be partly retired.
I am not a resident scholar of California policies, but the facts state that “less than half of California students from third grade to fifth grade have met statewide literacy standards since 2015.” The news of the Californian education situation is ubiquitous. In a state where 10% of college students think Judge Judy is a member of the Supreme Court, we find ground zero for the COVID-hysteria propaganda.
L.A. County is expected to extend its stay-at-home mandate until August. Other counties may follow the same pattern. Stricter regulations in selected counties will follow as a large portion of the country begins to ease down restrictions and businesses resume the long road towards economic stability. But California continues in the same trajectory, even as Gov. Newsom offered some hope of sanity yesterday.
The end goal is the certainty of a vaccine which will end all our woes and give us the peace we need. The reality is that the absolute certainty of a vaccine can only ameliorate the conditions of a people if they are already willing to take some risk. If not, a vaccine will only offer temporary relief to a risk-averse generation. States like California who has worked continuously to oppose the Christian God creates in His place a golden calf of protection. In the end, this golden calf is weaker than the ones made by the rebel Israelites who at least could dance freely outside. For many Californians, their god is a domesticated toy. They will have to wait a while before worshiping him outdoors.
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