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The New York Times pointed the finger at Democrats regarding schools being closed. according to Fox News.
“Many Democrats seemed to be more suspicious of in-person schooling last summer when President Donald Trump called for it.”
“We shouldn’t let ourselves be driven by ideology rather than science.”
“The blunt fact is that it is Democrats – including those who run the West Coast, from California through Oregon to Washington State – who have presided over one of the worst blows to the education of disadvantaged Americans in history.”
“It’s been almost 350 days since most kids have seen the inside of a classroom. We know this: Virtual ‘learning’ is not working,” SOMA for Safe Return to School, the organizers of the rally outside the town hall in Maplewood, wrote on Facebook. “Schools do not have to be closed to be safe.”
“Some things are true even though President Trump says them,” Kristof began. “Trump has been demanding for months that schools reopen, and on that he seems to have been largely right. Schools, especially elementary schools, do not appear to have been major sources of coronavirus transmission, and remote learning is proving to be a catastrophe for many low-income children.”
From Fox News:
The disruptions also will likely worsen the achievement gap between children from wealthier families – those that can afford private schooling and home internet service, for example – and those from low-income families, who often lack internet and cellphone service, Kristof notes.
As many as 3 million American children have had no schooling – whether in the classroom or online – for the better part of a year, Kristof adds, sharing findings from the nonprofit Bellwether Education Partners.
He also argues that teachers who oppose returning to the classroom until after all teachers and students are vaccinated are guilty of “an abdication of responsibility to America’s children.”
Kristof writes that evidence from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the British Medical Journal and a Tulane University study all suggest that in-person schooling doesn’t pose any dangerous risks to students or teachers.
