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NPR s Rachel Martin speaks with Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, about schools reopening in the fall while coronavirus cases continue to rise in some areas.
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Survey of epidemiologists exposes lies that children do not spread COVID-19
In an article published Saturday by the
New York Times, a survey of 723 epidemiologists made clear the central role that children play in spreading COVID-19. The findings contradict claims made throughout the pandemic by the entire political establishment of supposedly minimal dangers posed to children and society as a whole by the policy of reopening schools.
The report also exposes the reckless and anti-scientific decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under the direction of the Biden administration, to end guidelines that call for all individuals to wear masks indoors and socially distance. A central aim of this change is to facilitate the reopening of schools for in-person learning before it is safe.
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The politically-powerful teachers unions say they re ready to send their members back to work, now that the COVID pandemic is effectively over.
And yet as a NYC public school parent, I don t believe my kids will have full-time, in-person, five-day-a-week learning this September.
Because with the teachers unions there s always a but just as there is this time.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
One of the US major teachers unions has, at long last, come around to admitting its members should be back in school, full-time, this fall. It s a huge, albeit long-delayed, development. But as a parent of three school-aged kids, count me as still skeptical.