White House leans on CDC, pediatricians to argue for reopening schools

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

The White House is hammering a message of reopening schools even as coronavirus cases spike throughout the country, insisting it's OK to move ahead and that decisions last spring to close doors came from states rather than health experts at the CDC.

The push to reopen comes as parents agonize over whether it will be safe to send their kids back to school this fall and districts wrestle with whether and how to conduct classes. The reopening of schools is vital not just to getting the economy going, but to President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects. The campaign may be banking on the issue as a way to revive his appeal among disaffected suburban women, whose support will be key.

The Trump campaign is also seizing on Joe Biden's support of teachers unions that are stalwarts of Democratic politics and challenging whether Biden is committed to helping parents get their kids back to school. The campaign’s “question of the day” on Tuesday for Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is “Will you side with union bosses who want to keep schools closed or parents who want their kids to keep learning?"

After Trump tweeted, “SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!,” Lily Eskelsen García, National Education Association president, fired back on Monday, “You forgot to add the word ‘SAFELY.’” Biden, speaking to the NEA on Friday, pledged his administration will have a "teacher-oriented" Department of Education.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/07/white-house-cdc-pediatricians-reopening-schools-350655

[soothsayer]

1. And on governors. Lotsa pressure

[lark]

12. DeSatanus fell on his knees for drumpf again and is killing the people of FL as ordered.

He is following traitor tots demands. They are not planning on helping teachers or other workers to be safe other than requiring masks which will be ineffective especially with small children who don't have good safety practices ingrained and I bet they don't even enforce the mask as a requirement. I'd bet by the end of Sept. beginning of Oct. there won't be enough teachers or lunchroom workers and schools will close down here and in other big FL cities. I feel so sorry for the educators of our state who are being sacrificed to improve drumpfs' chances of winning.

[intrepidity]

2. Anyone involved in this discussion should read this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213709325

[soothsayer]

3. So getting kids sick is the way to appeal to suburban women?

I don’t thank so.

[rickyhall]

5. Are repugs sending their kids back to school, I wonder?

[bucolic_frolic]

4. An epidemic of home schooling will break out very soon

Sadly mostly to those with the time and resources to underwrite it.

Forcing compartments of life - school, sports, movie theaters - back to full operation in the face of this pandemic seems insanity to me.

[Warpy]

6. This is about stashing the kiddies somwhere so their parents

will be free to go back to work. Nobody gives a damn about the kids or whether they're getting educated, this is all about the gravy train.

[SkyDaddy7]

10. EXACTLY!!!!!

Get the jobs numbers up in time for the election deal with the explosion of sick kids & parents after Trump is reelected & the GOP takes back Congress...Or so thats how they see things!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬

[PatSeg]

7. He doesn't care how many people he kills

All he cares about is himself and winning reelection. What a monster.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Here's your conclusion, now find the data to back it up.

Science? Or Seance?

[turbinetree]

9. This asshole should be remembered to what he did to the kids at the border, Porto Rico and

and now he has is sights on the tykes in the US.................he really is a homicidal maniac..............

[3catwoman3]

11. Somewhat to my surprise, the American Academy...

...of Pediatrics supports students being physically present in schools come fall.

[Eugene]

14. It has to be done right, they stress.

It's a balance. Schools provide more for children's wellbeing than just education. That is especially true with poorer families.

The key is putting public health and safety before political expediency.

[McKim]

13. A Win Win

This could be a win-win for the Trump Administration as teachers are the backbone of the Democratic Party!

[BigmanPigman]

15. So who is going to teach them?

Do parents want to catch it from their kids? They will be the first ones coming down with symptoms from their own kiddies. The teachers and professors are not fools and not all will be going back. No Fed Gov $$$ is coming as support and schools and colleges need tons of it. This is a recipe for a disaster.

read this article and saved it...

"In other words, it is completely unrealistic to expect schools to open and to stay open without interruption in 2020-21. What is realistic is that schools may open and may have to close if they cannot function due teacher, admin, and staff shortages from their contracting COVID, or if the threat of such contracting is deemed imminent and schools are shuttered proactively, or even if too many adults are exposed to a person with COVID and therefore must quarantine for a couple of weeks per instance. Think about that. It is possible that a student in my room contracts COVID. One student. Let’s say that student has been in contact with at least one classroom of 10 students (small, I know, but stay with me) and rides a bus with 20 other students (and with a bus driver) and has class with six teachers per day. So, right there, we have at least 37 individuals needing to be quarantined– six of whom are responsible for instruction."
https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2020/06/25/parents-need-to-go-to-work-does-not-stop-covid-at-the-school-door/

[LisaL]

16. And teachers don't want to catch it either.

While most children don't develop severe covid (but some certainly have severe complications), many of their teachers, especially older ones, will be at risk.

[BigmanPigman]

17. Teachers, admin staff, support staff, etc.

From the article...

"Furthermore, if a teacher contracts COVID, then all of that teacher’s students (and likely some colleagues) must be quarantined in order to curtail a super-spreader situation."

"Add to all of that the possiblity for a teacher or student returning from quarantine to be exposed yet again and to have to head right back into quarantine."

"We haven’t even touched on what happens if the entire admin and office staff of a school are exposed and the heart of school operations must be quarantined."

[pfitz59]

18. Why does Trump have such a hard-on to re-open schools?

Anti-union thing?

[forgotmylogin]

19. Is he going to send his kid to school with thirty other students exhaling in the same room? n/t