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A school bus big enough for social distancing

Teachers Union goes against science

Will Teachers’ Unions Reelect Trump?

The science says it’s safe to reopen PK-12 yet the unions insist on holding the children hostage.

During the next six weeks the nation’s 51 million public school students, with the assistance of their parents, would normally be preparing for the next phase of their education. This year, despite the absence of scientific data indicating that a return to in-person class attendance increases the risk that students or educators will contract COVID-19, the teachers’ unions are resisting school reopening.

This flouts the will of parents whose taxes pay the teachers, disregards the failure of large-scale distance learning, and ignores the emotional damage children suffer pursuant to the social disruption that accompanies school closures. According to a recent Gallup survey, a clear majority of parents want schools reopened:

In other words, most parents agree with President Trump’s position as he summarized it during his July 7 remarks concerning the urgent necessity of reopening the schools: “Everybody wants it. The moms want it, the dads want it, the kids want it. It’s time to do it.” Yet Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), published a column in Sunday’s edition of USA Today threatening to hold public school systems hostage until the taxpayers cough up a $116.5 billion ransom. She admits that this would constitute a 19 percent increase over pre-virus funding: “The average school will need an additional $1.2 million … above what we currently spend.”

The complete report can be found here.

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What to do with the school busses if classes don’t start this year

Statue of ardent abolitionist Frederick Douglass has been toppled and dragged to edge of a river gorge in Rochester, N.Y.

From a report at the link below:

Sunday was anniversary of a famous Douglass slavery speech in Rochester.

A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was ripped from its base in Rochester on the anniversary of one of his most famous speeches, delivered in that city in 1852.

Frederick Douglass photo

Police said the statue of Douglass was taken on Sunday from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom.

Now the BLM mob seems to be eating their own. Do they not understand that the former slave and ardent abolitionist Frederick Douglass worked hard to free slaves? Maybe the mob is too intent on destroying statues to be bothered with history.

Maybe we should defund public education.

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Report: New Corona Study Bolsters Case to Reopen Schools

From a report at the link below:

Several countries are reopening schools after temporarily closing them due to coronavirus.

For example, Denmark and Norway have reopened their elementary schools. States in America should start reopening their schools, too. New research says that doing so won't spread coronavirus to many adults, and it will have little effect on child mortality. Yet schools remain closed in 44 states.

Full report here.

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