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hlthe2b

(101,730 posts)
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 10:13 AM Nov 2020

(!) Jarvanka were apparently asked to withdraw kids from Jewish day school over COVID "flouting"

Josh Marshall
@joshtpm
Jared and Ivanka were apparently asked to withdraw their kids from the Jewish day school they attend in DC because parents at the school were concerned the couple were flouting COVID safety guidelines the school requires of parents.




https://www.jta.org/2020/11/11/politics/amid-white-house-covid-19-outbreak-ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner-pulled-their-3-kids-from-a-dc-jewish-school

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children out of a Jewish day school in Washington, D.C., two weeks before Election Day and three weeks after an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in and around the White House.

The couple’s children had attended the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital since moving to Washington in 2017 after Donald Trump, Ivanka’s father, became president. Their three kids started a different school, the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy in suburban Maryland, on Oct. 19.

“They withdrew from the school,” a spokesperson for Milton, as the school calls itself, said Wednesday in a statement.

A source close to the family said they withdrew because Berman offered more in-person classes during the pandemic. Jared Kushner said in August, amid national debate about whether schools should reopen, that he would send his children to school in person if he could. Berman switched to mostly in-person during September and October after opening virtually, according to its website.

But three parents of children attending Milton, which is switching to fully indoor, in-person classes next week, said the withdrawal came after parents raised concerns that Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top aide, and Ivanka Trump, his daughter and also a top aide, were seen at events not complying with the coronavirus protocols that Milton demanded of its parents.
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(!) Jarvanka were apparently asked to withdraw kids from Jewish day school over COVID "flouting" (Original Post) hlthe2b Nov 2020 OP
Darn the luck Sherman A1 Nov 2020 #1
"We don' need no stinkin' masks". oasis Nov 2020 #2
I sense they've been waiting to distance the school from TRUMP underpants Nov 2020 #3
Home Schooling Dudes! no_hypocrisy Nov 2020 #4
Oops! PatSeg Nov 2020 #5
Republicans in Congress should take a lesson from the Jewish day school NoRoadUntravelled Nov 2020 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author CatLady78 Nov 2020 #7
Ohhhh myyy niyad Nov 2020 #8
Good for the school. Entitled, rich, arrogant parents can find plenty that will take them sadly Evolve Dammit Nov 2020 #9
Just don't let their grandpa near them. KY_EnviroGuy Nov 2020 #10
I know it's a private school... JohnnyRingo Nov 2020 #11
Viruses don't care who transmits them Retrograde Nov 2020 #14
They ARE NOT punishing the Jarvanka children, but trying to protect all the OTHERS! hlthe2b Nov 2020 #16
I'm sure their peers view them as outcasts JohnnyRingo Nov 2020 #17
It is not punishment by the school. It is all on their fuckstick parents. Celerity Nov 2020 #21
Let them homeschool VA_Jill Nov 2020 #12
There you go. JohnnyRingo Nov 2020 #18
They'll be moving back to New York in a month anyway greenjar_01 Nov 2020 #13
I doubt NYC... They are surely not going to be welcomed back into "high society." hlthe2b Nov 2020 #19
They weren't welcome to begin with greenjar_01 Nov 2020 #20
Twitter reply: Rhiannon12866 Nov 2020 #15
GOOD! BobTheSubgenius Nov 2020 #22

underpants

(182,279 posts)
3. I sense they've been waiting to distance the school from TRUMP
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 10:26 AM
Nov 2020

it’s like just throwing out shitstained underpants

no_hypocrisy

(45,774 posts)
4. Home Schooling Dudes!
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 10:42 AM
Nov 2020

And don't give those duties to Jared. He was a "C" student at his yeshiva (Frisch School in Paramus, NJ). (Plus, he probably can't tell the difference between the Pentateuch and the Talmud.)

NoRoadUntravelled

(2,626 posts)
6. Republicans in Congress should take a lesson from the Jewish day school
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 11:20 AM
Nov 2020

in how not to crumble in the presence of a Trump/Kushner. Everyone plays by the rules or they can just stay home no matter who their daddy is.

Response to hlthe2b (Original post)

JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
11. I know it's a private school...
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:14 PM
Nov 2020

...and as such they can discriminate for a lot of reasons, but I don't know if it's right to punish the kids for their parent's behavior. Perhaps the concern is that the kids are more likely to be infected than most students.

I can't feel too sorry for them because they have the money to find a school that aligns with their belief that that Covid is a hoax. Might take a while, but they can lower their standards..

Retrograde

(10,073 posts)
14. Viruses don't care who transmits them
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:41 PM
Nov 2020

kids can be a vector for Covid-19 transition. Jared and Ivanka associate with people known to have the disease. Therefore removing their kids so they don't share it with their schoolmates makes sense.

hlthe2b

(101,730 posts)
16. They ARE NOT punishing the Jarvanka children, but trying to protect all the OTHERS!
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 01:10 PM
Nov 2020

Really? You don't get that? Yes, these kids are a special transmission risk to the entire school BECAUSE their parents do not follow the agreed-upon protective behaviors for the school

JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
17. I'm sure their peers view them as outcasts
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 02:13 PM
Nov 2020

Literally. And that, to any school child, is indeed punishing.

That's why I said that Ivanka can shop for a school that aligns with their beliefs, even if they have to lower their standards. There's always the public school system.

VA_Jill

(9,854 posts)
12. Let them homeschool
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:34 PM
Nov 2020

Surely they have the money to pay a tutor or a governess. They already pay nannies.

Rhiannon12866

(203,033 posts)
15. Twitter reply:
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:58 PM
Nov 2020



Other parents care more about their kids and the staff than making a political statement, imagine that!

BobTheSubgenius

(11,535 posts)
22. GOOD!
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 03:38 PM
Nov 2020

A tiny bit of Consequence visits their door. About damned time.

I just hope they take rebuke the way her father would and does.

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