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Trump Pledges To 'Pressure' Governors To Reopen Schools Despite Health Concerns
Trump on Wednesday went as far as to threaten to cut off federal funding if schools do not reopen and suggested that his political opponents are somehow interfering with the reopening process, saying Democrats think reopening would hurt them politically in the November election.
However, the decision to reopen schools — like the decision to close them in March — is not top-down, but made from the bottom-up by thousands of local and state school leaders and public health officials.
Despite this, Trump has made his desires clear.
"We're very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools," he said during a roundtable discussion on the subject Tuesday.
This stance was reiterated by Education Secretary/ Cruella DeVille doppleganger, Betsy DeVos who said ‘schools must be "fully operational" even amid the coronavirus pandemic. Anything less would fail students and taxpayers.'
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/07/white-house-cdc-pediatricians-reopening-schools-350655
Both Trump and Devos blasted the CDC guidelines for safe school re-openings as "too restrictive" and threatened to cut funding from states and districts that seek to comply with CDC guidelines.
I guess since they can't bully the virus itself, they will resort to bullying anyone who is trying to act with prudence to keep themselves, their loved ones, and vulnerable members of the community safe.
Really? That’s how we manage a safe, systematic return to school ... with pressure and threats from people who have never been on the front lines of education and never attended a public school? This is a shit show right now that district administrators, teachers, town officials and parents are trying to navigate. How about giving states and districts the time, financial support and flexibility to create a plan and the okay to adjust that plan as things progress? How about supplying schools with ongoing testing? How about acknowledging that this is a really tough situation and there is no one size fits all. Where is the humanity? Where is the acknowledgement of the facts? Where is the support?
Oh, that's right, this is the Trump administration we're talking about.
Edit: Here's a post circulating on social media that sums up the situation well:
Trump on Wednesday went as far as to threaten to cut off federal funding if schools do not reopen and suggested that his political opponents are somehow interfering with the reopening process, saying Democrats think reopening would hurt them politically in the November election.
However, the decision to reopen schools — like the decision to close them in March — is not top-down, but made from the bottom-up by thousands of local and state school leaders and public health officials.
Despite this, Trump has made his desires clear.
"We're very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools," he said during a roundtable discussion on the subject Tuesday.
This stance was reiterated by Education Secretary/ Cruella DeVille doppleganger, Betsy DeVos who said ‘schools must be "fully operational" even amid the coronavirus pandemic. Anything less would fail students and taxpayers.'
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/07/white-house-cdc-pediatricians-reopening-schools-350655
Both Trump and Devos blasted the CDC guidelines for safe school re-openings as "too restrictive" and threatened to cut funding from states and districts that seek to comply with CDC guidelines.
I guess since they can't bully the virus itself, they will resort to bullying anyone who is trying to act with prudence to keep themselves, their loved ones, and vulnerable members of the community safe.
Really? That’s how we manage a safe, systematic return to school ... with pressure and threats from people who have never been on the front lines of education and never attended a public school? This is a shit show right now that district administrators, teachers, town officials and parents are trying to navigate. How about giving states and districts the time, financial support and flexibility to create a plan and the okay to adjust that plan as things progress? How about supplying schools with ongoing testing? How about acknowledging that this is a really tough situation and there is no one size fits all. Where is the humanity? Where is the acknowledgement of the facts? Where is the support?
Oh, that's right, this is the Trump administration we're talking about.
Edit: Here's a post circulating on social media that sums up the situation well:
So if you didn’t catch this mornings shitshow, it went basically like this:
The CDC put out its official recommendations and requirements states should meet before reopening schools.
Trump went to twitter, shitted on the CDC recommendations, demanding that k-12 schools fully open up in the fall. He threatened to cut federal funding if they do not.
Then the coronavirus task force held a press conference, minus Fauci, because he’s on the President’s shit list.
Betsy Devos said she really really really wants kids back in school. She does not know how to do this, offered no suggestions. Just that they need to open, and leaves it up to local officials to figure it out.
Vice President Pence said children are resilient. Basically made out of cartilage with healthy lungs. They probably won’t get sick, so we shouldn’t worry about them. There is also no disagreement between the CDC and Trump. Trump wants schools to open, and just doesn’t want the CDC’s guidelines to be the reason for schools not opening?
Yes, he actually said he doesn’t want states to keep their schools closed just because their own CDC says it is not safe to open.
So the VP says, don’t worry, let’s bring up the Director of the CDC to clarify. -And I could‘ve sworn I heard this guy gulp off camera.
But the director of the CDC comes up and says he also wants schools to open safely. He said he likes his job and wants to keep it, therefore, he is also in full agreement with Trump, despite the guidelines they released hours before.
So then Dr. Birx comes on and says half the country has seen a surge of new cases. The country is worse off than it was back at the start of all this. She said they should return to phase 1 and start all over.
Now, an astute reader may wonder how do half the states return to phase 1, and still expect to open by fall? Good question. ..... And while you were thinking about it, Birx tries to leave the podium.
But before she gets away, Pence stops her, suggests she ‘talk about that other thing about the children’. She hesitates, then agrees.
She comes back up to the mic, says most children probably won’t die. Maybe 0.02%. And usually the ones who die were already sick, so you parents at home may want to keep an eye on them. Oh- and we have virtually no data on how transmissible the virus is in children because we’ve barely tested any of them, but let me get out of your hair.
Pence comes back and says, see, we’re good here.
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And Fauci has gone total rogue. He has been giving interviews across the media spectrum, politely telling anyone who will listen that following trump’s orders regarding the Coronavirus will lead to certain doom. Death and economic disaster on a scale never seen before. Please turn back while you still can.
And now you are filled in.
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