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Team Biden is making up absurd excuses for shuttered schools just to please unions
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Feb 18, 2021, 7:31:53 PM2/18/21
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schools-to-please-unions/
Remember the good old days, when the issue of reopening schools to full-
time, in-class instruction was about COVID? It’s not about helping people
avoid contracting the novel coronavirus any longer.
Now it’s about saving them from . . . mold. And asthma. And other
conditions that have nothing whatever to do with COVID and everything to
do with coming up with reasons why schools should remain closed until
teachers unions decide it’s all right for their members to go back to
doing what teachers have done since the days of ancient Athens — instruct
their charges in person. Face to face.
Professional education journalists and Democratic politicians shift the
goalposts daily, to make it harder and more complicated, not easier, to
get kids back in a classroom with a teacher in front of them.
Case in point: The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss, who archly informs
us that “many schools were not healthy environments for human beings
before the pandemic. In too many places, this is the ordinary: crumbling
buildings, unhealthy air quality, bugs and rodents, mold, broken or
nonexistent air conditioning and heaters, nonfunctioning toilets, etc. If
you don’t think that takes a daily toll on everybody inside a school,
guess again.”
By The Washington Post’s lights, before we can reestablish the central
precept that most kids need to learn in a school, we must address
ancillary health concerns that have nothing whatsoever to do with COVID-
19.
Team Biden is part of the problem. After she said flatly on Feb. 3 that
“there is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen,”
newly minted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle
Walensky was taken to the woodshed by her White House bosses. She came
back chastened with new “guidance” that just moved the goalposts to higher
standards of cleanliness beyond the virus.
Walensky told reporters: “We very much advocate for another layer of
mitigation to be improved ventilation. And that is not just really for
COVID-19, but that is for many other things, that public health things
that will improve when we improve ventilation in our school, including
things like asthma and exposure to mold.”
Note carefully: This is guidance that’s “not just really for COVID-19.”
Once again, all we should be discussing at this moment is the necessity or
lack thereof of the emergency declarations that sent tens of millions of
American kids into their bedrooms to try and learn somehow through Zoom.
Such moves need to be ended the minute the overwhelming crisis has passed.
We shouldn’t be trying to mitigate asthma right now. We shouldn’t be
trying to limit exposure to mold. We should be trying to save a generation
from illiteracy, ignorance and existential despair.
But why should we care about the students, when what we really need to do
is empower the “stakeholders” in education? At the same news conference
where Walensky spelled out the guidance she herself would likely have
classified as dilatory nonsense a month earlier, a new Department of
Education official named Donna Harris-Aikens took to the podium to discuss
the process by which the guidance was developed.
“We have talked to a variety of stakeholders,” Harris-Aikens said, “and
look forward to continuing our robust engagement with all sorts of
stakeholders, not only in the school community but in the community at
large. That includes superintendents, principals, civil-rights groups and
all sorts of other folks.”
I was unaware that “civil-rights groups” are specialists in the science of
disease transmission — which is, I want to point out again, the sole basis
on which any of these decisions should be made. That we have moved beyond
the data into the realm of the special-interest wish list should be
galling to everyone who expressed indignation at the way the Trump
administration was supposedly elevating politics over science.
jpodh...@gmail.com
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
schools-to-please-unions/
Remember the good old days, when the issue of reopening schools to full-
time, in-class instruction was about COVID? It’s not about helping people
avoid contracting the novel coronavirus any longer.
Now it’s about saving them from . . . mold. And asthma. And other
conditions that have nothing whatever to do with COVID and everything to
do with coming up with reasons why schools should remain closed until
teachers unions decide it’s all right for their members to go back to
doing what teachers have done since the days of ancient Athens — instruct
their charges in person. Face to face.
Professional education journalists and Democratic politicians shift the
goalposts daily, to make it harder and more complicated, not easier, to
get kids back in a classroom with a teacher in front of them.
Case in point: The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss, who archly informs
us that “many schools were not healthy environments for human beings
before the pandemic. In too many places, this is the ordinary: crumbling
buildings, unhealthy air quality, bugs and rodents, mold, broken or
nonexistent air conditioning and heaters, nonfunctioning toilets, etc. If
you don’t think that takes a daily toll on everybody inside a school,
guess again.”
By The Washington Post’s lights, before we can reestablish the central
precept that most kids need to learn in a school, we must address
ancillary health concerns that have nothing whatsoever to do with COVID-
19.
Team Biden is part of the problem. After she said flatly on Feb. 3 that
“there is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen,”
newly minted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle
Walensky was taken to the woodshed by her White House bosses. She came
back chastened with new “guidance” that just moved the goalposts to higher
standards of cleanliness beyond the virus.
Walensky told reporters: “We very much advocate for another layer of
mitigation to be improved ventilation. And that is not just really for
COVID-19, but that is for many other things, that public health things
that will improve when we improve ventilation in our school, including
things like asthma and exposure to mold.”
Note carefully: This is guidance that’s “not just really for COVID-19.”
Once again, all we should be discussing at this moment is the necessity or
lack thereof of the emergency declarations that sent tens of millions of
American kids into their bedrooms to try and learn somehow through Zoom.
Such moves need to be ended the minute the overwhelming crisis has passed.
We shouldn’t be trying to mitigate asthma right now. We shouldn’t be
trying to limit exposure to mold. We should be trying to save a generation
from illiteracy, ignorance and existential despair.
But why should we care about the students, when what we really need to do
is empower the “stakeholders” in education? At the same news conference
where Walensky spelled out the guidance she herself would likely have
classified as dilatory nonsense a month earlier, a new Department of
Education official named Donna Harris-Aikens took to the podium to discuss
the process by which the guidance was developed.
“We have talked to a variety of stakeholders,” Harris-Aikens said, “and
look forward to continuing our robust engagement with all sorts of
stakeholders, not only in the school community but in the community at
large. That includes superintendents, principals, civil-rights groups and
all sorts of other folks.”
I was unaware that “civil-rights groups” are specialists in the science of
disease transmission — which is, I want to point out again, the sole basis
on which any of these decisions should be made. That we have moved beyond
the data into the realm of the special-interest wish list should be
galling to everyone who expressed indignation at the way the Trump
administration was supposedly elevating politics over science.
jpodh...@gmail.com
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
BeamMeUpScotty
Feb 19, 2021, 12:53:08 PM2/19/21
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schools as contractors..... to teach the kids to the standards that
aren't set by Marxist-Democrats.
--
That's karma
Banning guns and de-funding police won't lower crime if you follow the
Democrats Rhetoric. *And their very own Democrat actions confirm* that
even *they believe they're lying* since they're doing the opposite *to*
*reduce any crimes "you" might commit against the Government* that they
control and apparently they *believe guns and fences and police* *will*
*protect* them from your crime and violence. So why won't those same
things protect you from crime and violence?
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