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Watching Biden back off of the WH Press Secretary's statement that
His (Biden) goal that he set is to have the majority of schools — so, more than 50% — open by day 100 of his presidency,” she said. “And that means some teaching in classrooms. So, at least one day a week. Hopefully, it’s more.”
Is one day a week enough? Biden's school goal draws blowback
President Joe Biden is being accused of backpedaling on his pledge to reopen the nation’s schools after the White House added fine print to his promise and made clear that a full reopening is still far from sight. In January he specified that the goal applied only to schools that teach through...news.yahoo.com
My question is where does he have the power to tell local school systems what their operations are to be?
Now based on this statement how come Biden has the power now and Trump didn't?
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican and chair of the National Governors Association, said on CNN: “Governors made decisions to take various actions in their states based on what they thought was right for their states, based on the facts on the ground, talking with doctors and scientists. And I think individual governors who made those decisions will have the ultimate decision about what to do with their states.”
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So does the President have the power to tell schools to open or close?
Since the pandemic started, school boards across the country have asked for CDC guidance on how to reopen safely, and that guidance hasn't been forthcoming because the President and his staff would not allow the CDC to release such guidance. With no guidance, attempts to re-open schools have mostly been failures. Especially as community spread outside the schools has been continuously accelerating since the pandemic started.
Teachers unions have been reluctant to send teachers back to classes with no idea how to keep teachers or students safe. Neither the states nor the local boards have money for testing, social distancing (smaller class sizes) or even to supply masks for staff and students, because school budgets are already cut to the bone, and teachers are buying classroom supplies out of their own pockets.
Republicans in the Senate refused to approve money for schools to finance mitigation infrastructure, ventilation system upgrades, or smaller class sizes and more staff to accommodate social distancing, to get the schools open. Trump tried to bully schools into re-opening by threatening to withhold federal funding to schools who didn't open, but that did no good for schools who didn't know what to do, or didn't have the money to do it if they did.
Biden has quickly moved to provide guidance to school districts for re-opening, but at the top of that list are limits on the amount of community spread and positive tests before considering re-opening, and there isn't a school district in America within those guidlines. However, positive test results are dropping like a stone - and for the first time ever, the numbers of active cases are dropping, as are hospitalizations, so these are all very positive indicators. Especially that number of active cases which has never dropped before. It has only ever risen for the past year, and since January 30th, it has dropped every single day.
With more than 1.6 million Americans being vaccinated every day, and supplies of vaccine assured for the next 30 days, and both positive test results and active cases dropping, you may well be in a position to get schools open within that time frame, IF the schools can get the infrastructure in place while the community spread is abating.
So you evidently like the teachers union don't believe the science?
I'm following the numbers of deaths by school age 5 -24 and as of 1/1/21 total.
So all the schools were closed because 695 of the 83,680,000 Americans age 5-24 died.
Make sense?
That follows the science?
Oh by the way COVID deaths for the average age of 42 (ave. age of school teachers in USA) 7,395 deaths of ages 40 to 44 of a USA population of 20,000,000 or % of deaths:0.037%.
So following the science of mathematics why were schools closed when 0.00083% of the school age population died from COVID?
Protect the teachers (ave age 42) with 0.037% of deaths?
During the last year due to isolation, etc.
The Director of the CDC said:
“But there has been another cost that we’ve seen, particularly in high schools.” Mr. Redfield continued: “We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess that we had as background than we are seeing the deaths from COVID. So this is why I keep coming back for the overall social being of individuals, is let’s all work together and find out how we can find common ground to get these schools open in a way that people are comfortable and their safe.”
His (Biden) goal that he set is to have the majority of schools — so, more than 50% — open by day 100 of his presidency,” she said. “And that means some teaching in classrooms. So, at least one day a week. Hopefully, it’s more.”
Is one day a week enough? Biden's school goal draws blowback
President Joe Biden is being accused of backpedaling on his pledge to reopen the nation’s schools after the White House added fine print to his promise and made clear that a full reopening is still far from sight. In January he specified that the goal applied only to schools that teach through...
