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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think part of the issue here is that a lot of us believe school is significantly more important and more essential than a lot of other businesses that are reopening. The order isn't driven solely by safety/risk, but also value to society. We didn't see hospitals and public transit completely shut down even though they're some of the highest risk environments - we need them too much. Instead there was a lot of triage, search for PPE, changed schedules and locations, and basically attempting to find strategies to make them safer.

I agree with the OP of this thread. It's not that i don't care about child or teacher safety. It's that it's really stunning that we're not seeing massive energy and political will put toward figuring out strategies to reopen schools as safely as possible. Schools seem like kind of an afterthought compared to a bunch of inarguably nonessential (nice, and employing people, but nonessential) businesses opening as quickly as possible. It's not to say schools should open first, it's that we should be discussing them with as much urgency as metro and medical facilities, and we're just NOT.[/quote]

Grocery store workers don't have powerful unions. Neither do nurses. Neither do bus drivers. Teachers do. That's why politicians don't even want to discuss this. They know teachers don't want to go back to work in the fall, and they don't want a big fight with teachers' unions. [/quote]

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