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Of Course We Could Open Schools Safely!!!!
If we wanted to.
The President of these beleaguered United States has worked himself into a tizzy in the past couple of days. He’s not upset about the 132,000 Americans who have died since January. He’s furious because educational experts all over the country are hesitant about re-opening schools.
Trump and his Sec. of Education are demanding that all schools open on time this fall, with kids and teachers face to face in crowded classrooms. They are threatening to withhold money from any district that thinks it's just too dangerous to open schools in the middle of the worst global pandemic in a century.
Here, I’ll show you what I’m talking about:
Now, I’ll be brutally honest here. I agree with Trump in that first tweet. Yep, the CDC is, in fact, asking schools to do a lot of impractical things. They are suggesting a lot of very expensive things.
Things like asking teachers and children to follow the very same precautions that every single human on the face of this earth have been told to follow for the past six months. Those medical experts are telling teachers and school administrators that everyone…
