They acted like they had no idea the school year was coming.
Earthquakes, fires, floods, and hurricanes can be difficult to plan for — an event …
They acted like they had no idea the school year was coming.
Earthquakes, fires, floods, and hurricanes can be difficult to plan for — an event everybody knows begins in mid-August is not. Instead of the federal government implementing a responsible, science-based plan to reopen schools, President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and numerous conservative commentators have instead focused their ire on one of their favorite bugaboos – teachers unions.
“We’re very much going to put pressure on governors and everyone else to open the schools,” vowed the president, while citing successful school reopening in four European countries.
Yet while the United States has 10,312 coronavirus cases per million population, all four countries he cited have significantly fewer cases, including Germany (only 2,386 cases per million), Denmark (2,235), and Norway (1,656). Moreover, the United States now leads the world in new cases, and has over 400 times as many as Germany, which has one-fourth our population.
Yet, efforts by teachers unions to protect our students, their families, and yes, ourselves are being spun as either teacher greed or laziness.
