President Trump should announce that he will pull federal funds from any public school and district that refuses to fully open this fall.
Government schools and their unions are attempting to hold K-12 children hostage for billions more taxpayer dollars by claiming children shouldn’t fully go back to school this fall due to coronavirus. The state and local tax revenues that largely fund public schools are already going to take a massive hit from the forced economic shutdowns, but unions see this as an opportunity to get more of scarcer money for themselves, and thus the Democratic Party.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has ordered all public schools to offer in-person instruction to all students this fall five days a week, allowing them to decide whether to deliver it online, in person, or in some combination. Other states and school districts are rotating children through schools, or phasing in in-person instruction a few grade levels at a time.
New York City just announced it will not offer full-time in-person instruction this fall. Children will be in school three or fewer days per week.
In Virginia:
Washington state’s phase-in schools plan will discriminate against non-black students:
“In a Microsoft survey of about 500 K-12 schools across the United States,61 percent expect to start in a hybrid environment and 87 percent anticipate using more technology in the classroom than ever before, even when in-person learning fully returns,” reports The 74. In Boise, Idaho, “new school protocol will include isolated lunches, staggered schedules, and the possibility that the school district could return to remote learning at any point.”
Students in DC public schools, which spends $28,000 per student per year, might go to school as little as one day per week this fall. In Virginia, Fairfax County Public Schools, which spends $16,000 per student per year and is the nation’s tenth-largest district, will allow families to choose either fully online schooling or two days per week of in-person instruction this fall.
