Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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ou don't want lying to be approved. I just don't know that there are too many cases like this one where unfortunately lying was maybe the only good play for the benefit of the country. I hate it. I mean you can hate it but if you don't have a better idea just keep that in mind. All right. And was there some expert who knew all the right answers and didn't tell the president? Was there some smart…

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p for that. They did say I am going to intentionally put myself into infectious and or dangerous situations. This is the career I choose. There's a bigger benefit. I take the risk. If that's what we were talking about I'd say all right, you know we'll send the kids back to school and you've signed up for it. But teachers did not sign up for that risk. It is completely unreasonable, completely unfair for the rest of the public to try to force them back to work into a situation that at least half of them think is too dangerous given the costs and the benefits.

Here's what I would suggest as a workaround. Are you ready? The benefit of a teacher in the room as opposed to remote teaching is that it's just a way to get the kids out of the house so the parents can go to work. So there's certainly a child watching process that you need a physical school for. Secondly you need to hand out things and discipline people and say stop doing that, etc. Here is my hybrid solution. That the teacher only appears remotely if they prefer. Let's say the older teachers don't want to take the risk. They can appear on a television remotely to their class but you would have a mu

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ch younger person, let's say a college age type person, who is the in-class manager if you will. So let's put a name on it because they're not teaching. The young person who's the physical presence and the authority in the room would simply be a manager of the situation. But the teaching would still come from the teacher who would be in a big old TV screen right in front of the class. They could s…

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