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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uh no. teachers are—to put it simply—scared to die.

There’s a pandemic and if schools hadn’t closed in march, the death toll would have been much higher.

The political part of this is how terribly Trump has handled it for months and months, calling it a hoax, never wearing a mask, pitting states against each other for proper equipment, firing the pandemic team long before this happened, refusing to listen to top health experts.

If teachers had proper PPE and schools could have soap and paper towels, maybe they wouldn’t be so scared, but my kids in McPs —a wealthy county —often don’t even have soap in the bathrooms. How the hell can they keep the virus at bay without the proper equipment? [/quote]

I’m shocked to hear schools don’t have soap in the bathrooms. That being said I am CERTAIN parents or even strangers would be more than happy to donate to the school if that’s so it takes to reopen[b]. I don’t have kids but I’d gladly restock your school singlehandedly[/b]! Sadly I do think there are some teachers who don’t want to reopen at all if they have to take any risk whatsoever and there still getting paid. They should feel more sense of responsibility for the future of our children. Imagine if our healthcare workers refused to help patients until some long list of demands were met. Teachers play just as big a role in the (social, intellectual, emotional) health of our society as healthcare workers do. [/quote]

People say that but then they oppose higher taxes. Schools didn't get this way overnight, they have been consistently underfunded by the same people who are now screaming they should be open in a pandemic. It's pretty rich to talk about a teacher's "sense of responsibility" when the PTA is holding bingo night fundraisers because public funding for schools has been inadequate for decades.

We have the means in this country to double or triple (or more) the number of public schools and have everyone in person this fall in classes of 10 or fewer. We just lack the "sense of responsibility" to make it happen.[/quote]

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