Please watch as this mother prays for relief from her new role as a homeschooling mom.

She laments:

“Ah, Lord, the spirit of Common Core has taken over my house…”

Categories Common Core, Home Schooling

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Laura H. Chapman says:

March 24, 2020 at 10:12 am

Really worthy of going viral, and it is.

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retired teacher says:

March 24, 2020 at 10:36 am

This woman hilariously expresses many parents’ frustration. Fortunately, my daughter is home to help my grandson, and she is a college graduate. In addition to doing the work sent by the school, my daughter and I have decided to work on my 4th grade grandson’s writing. I am the distance consultant. We’re trying to do the best we can under the circumstances.

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Chiara says:

March 24, 2020 at 10:53 am

It is really difficult and I just have one high schooler and a flexible job – I’m self-employed. He resents the oversight and is insisting he doesn’t need supervision. In many ways he doesn’t- he generally gets his work done- but it all just seems so chaotic I feel like I have to jump in more than I usually would.

I can’t imagine how people with inflexible work schedules or younger children or extreme financial pressures are doing it. That is a big ask.

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SomeDAM Poet says:

March 24, 2020 at 10:54 am

Schoolelujah!

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Patrick J Wiltshire says:

March 24, 2020 at 10:56 am

Mandatory national standards for testing school children but none for public health. What a travesty!

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- retired teacher says:
  
  March 24, 2020 at 11:19 am
  
  Under the Republicans our public health policy is social Darwinism. The only reason for standards and testing is to undermine public education. When students shift to private providers, there is little accountability.
  
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  - LisaM says:
    
    March 24, 2020 at 11:45 am
    
    Have you read about the Lt. Gov (R-Dan Patrick) from Texas that wants the shut downs ended because grandparents are willing to die to sacrifice for their children and grand children? That it is better to have a stable economic situation in the US than to have the lives of older folks living among us. My gosh, you can’t make this stuff up!
    
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  - retired teacher says:
    
    March 24, 2020 at 12:07 pm
    
    I was just looking at the video. Essentially, the elderly are expendable. They should go out and spend with the implication that if they die, there will be more money for their grandkids. Conservatives always try to pit one group against another It is dubious that money would not flow to young people. It would go to corporations.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/dan-patrick-seniors-are-willing-to-die-to-save-economy.html?fbclid=IwAR14Z-6eO9gwJFTJSWi9KBi9zOnhhAgG5LdafW3O2rS3QuslHAOjnq-vtFM
    
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  - bethree5 says:
    
    March 25, 2020 at 12:12 am
    
    LisaM it’s not just that guy, but WSJ Editorial board, & this am’s libertarian [Heritage] guest on CSPAN Wash Jnl, & others, they’re of one voice: SEND those workers back out into the fray in weeks not months regardless of risk of death to public [whether from covid-19, or just trying to get medical assist from heart attack/ stroke/ et al medical crises while hospitals are overwhelmed]– or FACE ANOTHER GREAT DEPRESSION.
    
    Last I looked, the victims of the Great Depression mostly lived through it to try again another day… Let these Calamity Janes– mostly I’m guessing in the over-65 vulnerable group– get their sweet asses right out into the cheek-by-jowl mainstream back to worl THEMSELVES! They’ve got all the answers, let THEM be our plague-era laborforce!
    
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  - SomeDAM Poet says:
    
    March 25, 2020 at 8:34 am
    
    I don’t know what Dan Patrick has been smoking, but I don’t believe for a second that elderly people are telling him what he claims.
    
    Anyone who would believe anything the governor of Lt governor of Texas tells them is a fool.
    
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Chiara says:

March 24, 2020 at 10:57 am

My son has a part time job and that has closed too. It’s a lot for them to handle so young. It’s not the money- he doesn’t work a lot or make a lot- it’s the complete loss of everything he does in a day and it happened so fast! I just hope they are okay.

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- LisaM says:
  
  March 24, 2020 at 11:51 am
  
  I believe that they are OK for now. My kids are texting and face timing their friends. Over the last few years, it seems that home sickness has become less of a problem on college campuses because of texting and social media platforms. Kids/Parents are able to see and talk to each other every day now that cell phones are in existence….one of the few benefits of the tech industry. Just remember that it wasn’t that long ago that one would wait until after 10pm to call long distance because it was cheaper.
  
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Chiara says:

March 24, 2020 at 12:17 pm

One good lesson might be having kids watch President Trump’s bizarre press conferences where all the Trump appointees lavish him with praise and humiliate themselves in groveling before him.

Yuck. Do NOT grow up to be like these pathetic adults, children.

We’re governed by members of a cult. It’s appalling.

They had to be weak people going into Trump employment though- people of good character wouldn’t have fallen so far, so fast.

They’re afraid to contradict his lies, so they nod along and mislead the public. Dishonest.

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- LisaM says:
  
  March 24, 2020 at 12:38 pm
  
  Although Dr. Faucci was absent at the most recent news brief? Maybe some one “grew a pair”?
  
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Bob Shepherd says:

March 24, 2020 at 1:17 pm

Oh. My. Lord. This is wonderful!!! Preach it!!!!!!

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Bob Shepherd says:

March 24, 2020 at 1:25 pm

Moronavirus trumpinski orangii Press Briefing and Campaign Rally, Sunday, March 23, 2020

TRUMP (snorts some Adderall and steps to the podium): OK, I wanted to start by saying some people are blaming this thing on Asian Americans. Where would they get that idea? Terrible, just terrible, OK? Don’t do that. Good people, Asians. The Asians love me. They love Donald Trump. We’re going to get through this Chinavirus. We’ll get through this.

This is going to be bad. Really bad. People are going to die. Am I right? Terrible. All those people. That’s why we need to lift the restrictions immediately and go back to work like normal. Can’t let the cure be worse than the disease. We need the economy working. People going to eat in Trump restaurants. Going to Karaoke at Trump private clubs. Staying in Trump hotels. Playing at golf Trump courses. People call me, they say, when you going to open those up again? Everybody agrees. You got people can’t even make reservations. Can’t even go on safari now to kill the last remaining animal of some species. Disgraceful. That’s why–the doctors agree with me–we should open everything up again now. Because this thing is going to spread. Spread like crazy. We open up, it goes away? OK? Chinavirus. I’ll make a decision about this early this coming week, after my new Adderall comes in.

Doctors will agree with me. Because I’m smart. A genius, really. Somebody said the death rate. The death rate from this thing. Is like, what was that? Like point zero zero zero zero zero zero one percent. Right Dr. Birx?

DR. BIRX: Well, it was about 3 percent in China, but we really don’t know.

TRUMP: See? Like I said. Point zero zero zero zero zero zero one percent. Obama ever get numbers like that? So, we lift these restrictions and get back to work. Because that’s what Americans do. They like to work under unsafe conditions for very low pay. And maybe die. So some people can get richer. I know, I’m a construction guy. Chinavirus. This is going to be bad. That’s why I’m making a decision. A decision next week. Open back up. Pick up a Sharpie, draw a circle around the country on a map. No Chinavirus! Two, three days, it’s gone. Magic! It’s like magic, am I right? I know. You’ll thank me.

So, we’re working hard, right now on a package. A stimulus package. No one ever liked Obama’s package. I have the best package. Get the economy humming again. Quickly. Very quickly. Best economy ever. You won’t believe it how quick. Let me tell you the great things. We’re doing great things. The best things, OK?

Steve Munchkin gets 500 billion to give away. It’s like free money, right? To Trump businesses, to members of the great Mar-a-lago resort. You know, to all those who desperately need it. Would you like to say a few words about that, Steve?

STEVE MUNCHKIN (in Lederhosen):

I represent the Oligarch Guild,
The Oligarch Guild, the Oligarch Guild,
And in the name of the Oligarch Guild,
I wish to welcome you to Grifterland.
All citizens are marks in Grifterland.

And the airlines and the cruise industry. They need billions and billions too. And the banks. Other corporations. Because they are sitting on only about a trillion dollars offshore right now. Hard. It’s hit them hard. So we’re going to send checks. Twelve dollars to every poor, hardworking, white, Christian American so they can pay their rent and utilities and feed their children and maybe buy a new car and go on a trip to the Trump International Hotel and Golf Club in Ireland. Because that’s the kind of people we are. We put the American people first. America first, OK? Not like the Fake News Media and the Democrats. Lots of people are going to die. So, we need to open up immediately. Makes sense, right? I have a knack of this kind of thing. I really do. My uncle was like this super genius at MIT. Open back up. Have some Trump steaks. Play a little golf. Maybe go back to the hotel. And speaking of hotel rooms, everything’s going to be golden.

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- Bob Shepherd says:
  
  March 24, 2020 at 2:24 pm
  
  Moronavirus trumpinski orangii Press Briefing and Campaign Rally, Sunday, March 23, 2020
  
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- retired teacher says:
  
  March 24, 2020 at 3:24 pm
  
  You’ve captured the spirit of the Trump White House.
  
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  - Bob Shepherd says:
    
    March 24, 2020 at 3:53 pm
    
    The demon spirit, lol
    
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  - Bob Shepherd says:
    
    March 24, 2020 at 3:57 pm
    
    Trump didn’t do his daily briefing today. Instead, he held a town hall on Faux News and told people that everyone would be back to work in two weeks. It seems that they’ve decided to let people die.
    
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  - Bob Shepherd says:
    
    March 24, 2020 at 5:08 pm
    
    https://www.salon.com/2020/03/23/dr-bandy-lee-trump-is-spreading-a-mental-health-pandemic-thats-making-coronavirus-worse/
    
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ColorFermat says:

March 24, 2020 at 2:55 pm

If she were actually praying, this would never have come up as a YouTube video.

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Laura H. Chapman says:

March 24, 2020 at 7:40 pm

Bob, Trump did his daily briefing today.
The new pitch is that he wants everybody who can to go to church on Easter Sunday and report for work the next day.
He is certain that this will save lives because this country was not made to be locked up…
So he has this new pitch to furthur distract from the recommendations of the experts. “Hope and pray” is part of his latest stage performance. He wants to be regarded not just as a stable genius but as a saint who will resurrect the economy, make it “pop” just after Easter sunday.

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- Bob Shepherd says:
  
  March 24, 2020 at 9:23 pm
  
  YUP. The usual pattern. Trump says some incredibly false or stupid thing. Then the press erupts about it. Then his handlers get worried and try, gingerly, to explain to the Don that he has a PR problem. Then he directly contradicts himself, pretends he didn’t say what he said. It’s exhausting trying to follow the stream of BS.
  
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Donna Williams says:

March 24, 2020 at 8:32 pm

Amen, sister! May God bless our teachers and give them a huge raise after this. Thank you for passing this along and brightening my day. Be safe, dear Diane, Mary and all those in your increasingly wide circle.

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- Bob Shepherd says:
  
  March 24, 2020 at 8:56 pm
  
  Amen to that. Diane, Mary, Mitzi–be safe!!!
  
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- dianeravitch says:
  
  March 24, 2020 at 9:06 pm
  
  Thank you!
  
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Bob Shepherd says:

March 24, 2020 at 11:23 pm

Here’s how bright the folks in Trump’s base are: his approval rating is now at an all-time HIGH.

Fox News.

This people are going to cost American lives.

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- Bob Shepherd says:
  
  March 24, 2020 at 11:26 pm
  
  cx: These
  
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- Christine Langhoff says:
  
  March 25, 2020 at 2:35 pm
  
  I saw two surveys touting the approval ratings of Trumps.
  One surveyed 512 people.
  The second extrapolated their results from 1020 people, 30% via landlines.
  
  Representative? I don’t think so.
  
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  - Bob Shepherd says:
    
    March 25, 2020 at 2:54 pm
    
    Thanks, Christine. That makes sense. (As you always do.) And, quite a relief.
    
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  - Christine Langhoff says:
    
    March 25, 2020 at 8:48 pm
    
    Thanks,Bob!
    I think when things don’t seem possible, check them out.
    
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  - Bob Shepherd says:
    
    March 26, 2020 at 10:11 am
    
    Yes. I made the mistake, there, of falling for some headlines. Aie yie yie. I should know better.
    
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Godfreykuma says:

June 29, 2020 at 4:22 am

Real great and wonderful

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Ashley Hall says:

August 9, 2020 at 7:44 am

Awe. That was a hilarious and cute way of putting so many new homeschoolers frustration behind being new to homeschool. It’s nowhere near as hard as many think it is. I wish all new parents homeschooling the best luck!

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