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Should schools go back to virtual learning if we're in the extreme risk category?
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1,592 Votes

Should schools go back to virtual learning if we're in the extreme risk category?

Yes, they should!

10

No, students need to go to school!

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Yes, they should!

9 Comments
Tim Collins
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Tim Collins

Yes its time. we have been vaccinated!

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Trisha Frederick
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Trisha Frederick

They are passing the virus around and sending it back home

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Judi Snider Emory
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Judi Snider Emory

Because students that are testing positive are still attending school and putting other students and their families are risk.

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Sheri Clarke
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Sheri Clarke

Its common knowledge that children/teenagers are spreading this in schools! Until there is a vaccine for them it will keep happening.Germs don't know to stop at 6 feet! I'm sorry that's s not even real!

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Tally Annette Nelson
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Tally Annette Nelson

It's been so stressful for my kids to be at school, worrying about all of the students around them and spread of covid. They prefer virtual learning. (Teenagers) They wanted to keep their same teachers, though, and didn't want the BLPO option.

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Pennie Day Holiday
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Pennie Day Holiday

If they shut down restaurants, rodeos and any other outside event, schools should be shutdown too!

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Emily Gibson
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Emily Gibson

We are at the highest level of cases, we are seeing increased cases in students, and the new variants are becoming dominant. The exponential growth is truly overwhelming. Lets keep our students and their extended family safe until they can be vaccinated.

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Jack Hood
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Jack Hood

As a student, being in school is honestly pretty scary right now. There is literally a direct correlation between COVID-19 cases and the schools reopening. I don’t see how anybody in their right mind would want to risk the health of the entire community over a couple months of in person school.

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Emelia Emmerson
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Emelia Emmerson

Protecting the health of staff, children, and their families is critical. Prevention is key; immunocompromised and disabled staff, students, and family members are particularly vulnerable. It isn't about convenience, it is about accountability of our community protecting each other.

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No, students need to go to school!

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Hannah Jacobs
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Hannah Jacobs

What happened to the flu? Did they close schools? How about heart disease that kills millions in the United States? I think it should be the parent's decision.

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

Kids are less affected then adult with covid

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Bend Teacher
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Bend Teacher

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!! School is almost out.

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Robert Northrup
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Robert Northrup

Being in contact with COVID positive people does not mean a person will get COVID. Children need to go to school for their social health. If humans had cowered in fear since the beginning we would not be here.

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Carol Vetterick
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Carol Vetterick

HECK no. The psychological and emotional damage to our children and grandchildren is HORRIBLE. OPEN THE SCHOOLS up 100%. IF a parent is concerned about THEIR child, go ahead and home school. The RISK of a child getting really sick is minute. Getting injured at play or by a car is MUCH greater.

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Melissa Davies-Lutz
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Melissa Davies-Lutz

Keep that poison away from kids. They’ve done just fine without it.

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Dave Voiles
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Dave Voiles

We're still arguing with teachers' unions and locking down states over a "flu" that has a 99.8% recovery rate overall and almost 100% for kids under 18, while kids in other parts of the world are actually getting an education.

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Rick Allen
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Rick Allen

NO the real risk is Kate Brown, she must go!

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Rachel Victoria Shultz
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Rachel Victoria Shultz

Mental health, screen fatigue, learning effectiveness and engagement, low transmission rates in schools…

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Joe Ottlinger
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Joe Ottlinger

Virtual learning has been a disaster for kids. Several teachers I've talked to agree.

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Kimmy Wasatch
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Kimmy Wasatch

they need to be in school , lots are falling way behind and I don't trust the metrics or count for covid.

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Shannon Sprinkel
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Shannon Sprinkel

Kids are the least suseptible to the virus and need their education. Get them in school, keep them there, and give them the structure they need.

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Ed Holloran
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Ed Holloran

Kids need in school learning. We are setting there education up for complete failure if we go back to on line. Just ask a teacher or parent.

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Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?
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172 Votes

Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?

YES

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NO

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YES

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NO

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    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?
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1,335 Votes

    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?

YES

12

NO

1

YES

12 Comments
Barb Hayden
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Barb Hayden

Never should have been allowed in the first place! Bend needs to develop a site with bathrooms, showers and rules,like NO drugs and NO trash. At least Redmond is trying to help these people. Take a. Lesson from them. Get off the dime and solve the problem

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Cheri Trettin
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Cheri Trettin

I say move the campers off forest land and onto main street if you want public funding for homelessness in Bend to become an immediate priority!!!

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

Yes and build more homeless shelters or provide jobs for them

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Tylor Meyer
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Tylor Meyer

They have had excessive amount of time to move off land they are not even allowed to live on!

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Just a voice Figg
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Just a voice Figg

They have had ample time to move. Vegetation reduction helps slow and or stop wildfires that will eventually hit that area and destroy millions of dollars worth of homes and people's lives.

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Jeff Sanders
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Jeff Sanders

Living in SE Bend I really enjoyed going to China Hat with my Jeep to off road and walk with my dogs. The thought of being shot has kept me from doing that for a while now. Good riddance to the homeless and make it where they can't come back.

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Joe Dillon
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Joe Dillon

it is public land, NOT someones home! The public cannot use it without fear of saftey. We DONT need another human caused fire that happens EVERY year out there, we have enough to worry about with mother nature fires. Time to move on!

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Linda Knowlton
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Linda Knowlton

Fire danger and trash in the forest

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jennifer stenkamp
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jennifer stenkamp

Being homeless is usually the result of bad choices. My taxes help pay for government land. Living there rent free and creating tons of garbage, being a true threat to causing wildfires, behaving in a lawless manner angers too many of us who manage to pay for real housing. Move them out now.

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Erin E Yates
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Erin E Yates

We all have problems in life why do they think it is ok to do what they are doing, when the rest of us pay our taxes, go to work, get counseling if we have problems. The amount they spend on drugs, they could pay rent. It’s a choice and their choice is to do drugs and not work. DEATH and TAXES!!!

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Goth Gaga
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Goth Gaga

This homeless problem is a choice. These people are drug addicts that need to get clean and go back to work. They should be put into rehab while being counseled for their personal problems. Once clean they should be put to work doing tasks that prisoners do. If they refuse, then jail them.

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Ron Rommel
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Ron Rommel

The Homeless Campers are the wrong people on the wrong landscape due to their lack of cognitive awareness of fire. I and many others are willing to share grace for their position in life when they are willing to improve their situation through counseling, accepting shelter to transition life.

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NO

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Diana Cockerill
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Diana Cockerill

They are humans and have no other options.We try not to let that happen to unwanted pets, yet have no problem in letting it happen to, what many consider, unwanted people!

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