I’m all for helping our kids learn to have big fun and learn how to be good friends and have good friend fun. But enough of this being friends with your nonadult kids. It’s this kind of foolishness that’s going to kill people — literally.
Maybe times are changing and I missed the parent memo, but apparently a bunch of Isidore Newman High School parents think it’s cool and adds to their good parenting bank account to throw a graduation party — and attend — to support their teenage children.
What part of stay-at-home do these folks not understand? Stay at YOUR house.
What is about Phase 2 that makes them think that it’s a good idea to have dozens of their best, good high school friends — and parents — attend a 50-person party Uptown?
How much stupid do you have to have locked in your brain to even casually see the novel coronavirus pandemic news and fail to understand that this is some serious stuff?
How can you consider it safe to attend a gathering with people with whom you don’t live when all of the government and public health officials — from the World Health Organization to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Center for Disease Control and Protection to Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards to New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and New Orleans Director of Health Dr. Jennifer Avegno — continue to say that this virus is deadly dangerous and it’s best to stay away from each other with social and physical distance? Turns out the one Newman graduation party wasn't the only one thrown by parents and students from the same graduation class. There were more in the same week.
Don't y'all know Rudy Rona was lurking inside and outside those parties?
Money doesn’t make smart people.
It cost a lot of money to send your kid Newman each year. Most people assume that those with the financial ability to pay for their children’s education are wise enough to make good choices. Obviously, this graduation house party proves otherwise.
How stupid.
One assumes that when we pick a faith or religion, a neighborhood or a school that we’re agreeing to some basic social norms, that we’re buying into at least most of the established cultural community. I’m pretty sure the house party wasn’t an official Newman event. But I would hope that the parents footing the expensive tuition bills chose Newman because they believe in the school’s mission: “Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.” I assume they believe in the core values: honesty, kindness, respect and responsibility.
So I ask, what kind of example was it to host or participate in a graduation party of “only” 50 people during a worldwide pandemic?
I ask, why couldn’t a good, rational, reasonable and responsible parent explain to a yet-to-mature kid that a pandemic means not doing things we would normally do?
I don’t think I recall hearing that Newman ever used paddling to get students’ attention like some other schools I know, but this might be a case where someone needs to apply some wood to the seat of education on some parents.
According to state health officials, there are at least 25 positive COVID-19 cases tied to the Newman graduation party on Prytania Street and other parties, including a downtown “Juneteenth” DJ party. That party attracted hundreds of people “shoulder to shoulder.” There were so many people that the state fire marshal had to shut it down. At least one eyewitness who didn't attend but watched outside said there was hardly a mask in sight. How stupid.
How did this paid party happen? Because Malcolm Darensbourg and friends decided they could make a pandemic buck by charging $20 for a Baronne Street party that, best I can tell, had nothing to do with observing our ancestors’ struggles and emancipation. Because Gordon McLeod, a former chief of staff to former New Orleans District A Councilwoman Susan Guidry, saw an opportunity to rent a short-term rental space in his capacity as a real estate broker with the McEnery Company. It goes for $779 per night. Was it worth risking people's health?
Please don’t be so stupid, people. If you don’t care enough about the others of us who you and your kids and your business associates may infect, please care enough about and show love for your own kids — and your family members they may infect.
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