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Chicago public school parent Amy Jacobson tells Fox & Friends teachers refusing to return to the classroom is about their needs and not our children s needs.
Parents across the U.S. are lobbying for their children to return to in-person learning as some students face the possibility of completing an entire school year without entering a classroom in addition to the months they lost at the end of the 2019-2020 school year.
North Carolina parent Kelly Mann gave up her full-time job in July to stay home with her three daughters after the Wake County Public School System said they d be stuck in remote classes for the foreseeable future because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Their message? Open up schools. This is about our children, said Wake County mother Kelly Mann, one of the organizers. This is about how this is affecting our children.
Mann and a couple of other mothers started the Facebook group, Members of Wake County Families and Teachers to Safely Reopen Schools, which has nearly 6,000 members.
Meanwhile, state Republican lawmakers are working on legislation requiring all districts to operate in-person in some capacity. Parents would still have the option of all virtual learning. I am there to support what they re pushing forward and I could not be more excited that this is something that s finally being done, finally, Mann said. It really should have been done a long time ago but I m very pleased by this.