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Not only is Trump willing to sacrifice up the Nation’s elder, and health care workers, to the whims of the Coronavirus’ exponential contagion — he is now on the crusade, to put our nation’s educators on that “collateral damage” bandwagon.
Needlessly to say, countless students too — and their friends and family members.
All for the sake of — DOING ANYTHING — in a vain attempt, to re-ignite his re-election chances.
by Collin Binkley, AP News — 7/7/2020
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“We want to reopen the schools,” Trump said. “Everybody wants it. The moms want it, the dads want it, the kids want it. It’s time to do it.”
But that bright outlook was met with skepticism by some beyond the White House. The president of the nation’s largest education union said Trump is more interested in scoring points for the November election than in keeping students safe.
“Trump has proven to be incapable of grasping that people are dying — that more than 130,000 Americans have already died,” said Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association. “Educators want nothing more than to be back in classrooms and on college campuses with our students, but we must do it in a way that keeps students, educators and communities safe.”
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Trump mega-funder and favoritism appointee Besty DeVos, has deployed the forces of her undeserved office, to promote Trump’s “fully operational” re-opoen the schools agenda.
Whether it be safe or not. Science and Health professionals — be damned. Their recommendations hold no currency here.
by Associated Press; www.staradvertiser.com — 7/7/2020
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos today assailed plans by some local districts to offer in-person instruction only a few days a week and said schools must be “fully operational” even amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Anything less, she says, would fail students and taxpayers.
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In the call with governors, DeVos slammed districts that plan to offer in-person instruction only a few days a week. She called out Fairfax County Public Schools, which is asking families to decide between fully remote instruction or two days a week in the classroom.
“A choice of two days per week in the classroom is not a choice at all,” DeVos said, contending that the district’s distance learning last spring was a “disaster.”
Arne Duncan, who served as Education Secretary for Barack Obama, tweeted this rational point of view on the rushed re-opening:
And this too:
And the CDC has issued these Guidelines about how to re-opening schools — SAFELY:
The CDC’s guidance for schools recommends that students and teachers wear masks “as feasible,” spread out desks, stagger schedules, eat meals in classrooms instead of the cafeteria, and add physical barriers between bathroom sinks.
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Guidelines, which the “Administration of Denial” has made clear, that they have no intentions of following.
Even if it means endangering teachers, support staff, students, and everyone that students will be in contact with, when they venture back to their homes, friends, families and relatives.
“Damn the COVID-Torpedoes — It’s full steam ahead — whatever the corona-consequences may be!”
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