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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This quote really stuck out to me:

“ Professor Kogan’s research has found that parents are more likely to feel hesitant about in-person learning if their children’s schools were closed for a longer period, which was most likely to be the case in the liberal-leaning urban districts that serve large numbers of nonwhite students. The hesitancy was caused less by fear of the coronavirus than by messaging from school districts about whether in-person learning was safe and desirable, Professor Kogan found.”[/quote]

me too. I’ve been saying since September that the teachers unions and their political allies were exploiting the fears of people in Wards 7 and 8, and that this was going to have serious repercussions. WTU needs to own up to what they did. [/quote]

I thought that the article provided a useful perspective. Poor and some minority families don't want their kids to return to school because teachers unions basically told them that every one would die if schools reopened. In addition, there's the childcare/economic reality that hybrid schedules don't work for many of these families. It's too much trouble, not logistically possible, or, for older kids, will cut into paid employment taken up during the pandemic (which, it should be noted, is likely to be more of a COVID risk than attending school in person).

The simple fact is that not enough was done to protect their communities from COVID in the first place. However, continued absence from school buildings is only going to cause greater harm.  [/quote]

I think the article was good and talked about things I see in my community that haven't gotten much attention nationally. I don't think this is accurate, "Poor and some minority families don't want their kids to return to school because teachers unions basically told them that every one would die if schools reopened." From what I see in my mostly Black and Brown, mostly working class neighborhood, families were worried about sending kids back since spring 2020, with a lot of concern about the conditions of school buildings and elders in muti-generation households. Teachers unions used the fears of Black and Latino parents to push a delayed return agenda, but parents had already made up their minds, and parents and teachers shared a fear about the enviornmental conditions of urban schools. And the fears of Black and Latino parents were driven in large part by knowing so many people who were very sick or died. [/quote]

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