Jared Kushner literally said he wanted cities to “suffer”.
And that it was our problem.


This is the main reason DC schools are closed - Republicans want DC, and its kids and parents, to “suffer”.

It is political. It’s just the problem is deeper than you’re looking.

Anonymous wrote:Article confirms what any keen observer could discern: school openings had nothing to do with actual covid risks, and everything to do with politics and unions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/10/partisanship-schools-reopening-virus-trump-unions/

School closures had everything to do with politics:

Schools are closed because Trump screwed up the COVID response (probably intentionally) and Republicans backed him... for judges.


Basically, it’s not far off to say Trump and Republicans traded Barrett for 100,000 American lives, and kids not getting educated. Was it worth it?

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Anonymous wrote:I love how "keen observers" miss the alarmingly high COVID rates in countries with open schools, and in areas of the US with open schools. If anything, politics have forced schools to open when they should have stayed shut.

Did you read the article? There is no correlation between covid rates and school openings. I’m still agog at supposedly progressive and intelligent DC parents who don’t get this.

That's impossible to know. What is possible to know is the COVID rates that go up when schools open. What a mystery, eh?

The view that there should be zero COVID cases in schools is very much political. And the evidence does not show COVID is spreading from
schools anyway. I expect you to make a more coherent argument here.

Why do people keep posting, "Why can Europe open schools safely when we can't" when they have such high spikes now that they are forced to do shut downs, and then in the same breath say opening schools doesn't contribute to rising numbers of cases? That's so stupid. Of course it does.

You’re not very smart are you? When schools opened up, so did everything else. People in Europe traveled all summer long without a care in the world. That’s what contributed-mostly-to rising case numbers. As evidenced by the fact that most European countries are shutting down restaurants, personal gatherings, etc. but not schools. How many studies do you need showing that open schools really do not contribute to rising case numbers?

This much is obvious.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how "keen observers" miss the alarmingly high COVID rates in countries with open schools, and in areas of the US with open schools. If anything, politics have forced schools to open when they should have stayed shut.

Did you read the article? There is no correlation between covid rates and school openings. I’m still agog at supposedly progressive and intelligent DC parents who don’t get this.

That's impossible to know. What is possible to know is the COVID rates that go up when schools open. What a mystery, eh?

The view that there should be zero COVID cases in schools is very much political. And the evidence does not show COVID is spreading from
schools anyway. I expect you to make a more coherent argument here.

Why do people keep posting, "Why can Europe open schools safely when we can't" when they have such high spikes now that they are forced to do shut downs, and then in the same breath say opening schools doesn't contribute to rising numbers of cases? That's so stupid. Of course it does.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how "keen observers" miss the alarmingly high COVID rates in countries with open schools, and in areas of the US with open schools. If anything, politics have forced schools to open when they should have stayed shut.

Did you read the article? There is no correlation between covid rates and school openings. I’m still agog at supposedly progressive and intelligent DC parents who don’t get this.

That's impossible to know. What is possible to know is the COVID rates that go up when schools open. What a mystery, eh?

The view that there should be zero COVID cases in schools is very much political. And the evidence does not show COVID is spreading from
schools anyway. I expect you to make a more coherent argument here.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how "keen observers" miss the alarmingly high COVID rates in countries with open schools, and in areas of the US with open schools. If anything, politics have forced schools to open when they should have stayed shut.

Did you read the article? There is no correlation between covid rates and school openings. I’m still agog at supposedly progressive and intelligent DC parents who don’t get this.

That’s what the article says but we need more data on that in this country in order to promote reopening. There is some but not enough, and still counter examples which is what is scaring school staff. Nobody cares about data from Germany, unfortunately.

I’m not sure what to say - we have months of experience now with school reopenings all over the world, the US, and even private schools right here in the DMV. The continued closures have little to do with a bona fide assessment of risks. Just look at WTU - the actual sticking points were teachers being able to
opt out based on their personal desires, not any actual safety steps taken or not taken by DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how "keen observers" miss the alarmingly high COVID rates in countries with open schools, and in areas of the US with open schools. If anything, politics have forced schools to open when they should have stayed shut.

Did you read the article? There is no correlation between covid rates and school openings. I’m still agog at supposedly progressive and intelligent DC parents who don’t get this.

That's impossible to know. What is possible to know is the COVID rates that go up when schools open. What a mystery, eh?

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Anonymous wrote:I love how "keen observers" miss the alarmingly high COVID rates in countries with open schools, and in areas of the US with open schools. If anything, politics have forced schools to open when they should have stayed shut.

Did you read the article? There is no correlation between covid rates and school openings. I’m still agog at supposedly progressive and intelligent DC parents who don’t get this.

That’s what the article says but we need more data on that in this country in order to promote reopening. There is some but not enough, and still counter examples which is what is scaring school staff. Nobody cares about data from Germany, unfortunately.

Anonymous wrote:I love how "keen observers" miss the alarmingly high COVID rates in countries with open schools, and in areas of the US with open schools. If anything, politics have forced schools to open when they should have stayed shut.

Did you read the article? There is no correlation between covid rates and school openings. I’m still agog at supposedly progressive and intelligent DC parents who don’t get this.

Anonymous wrote:I love how "keen observers" miss the alarmingly high COVID rates in countries with open schools, and in areas of the US with open schools. If anything, politics have forced schools to open when they should have stayed shut.

Wrong troll

I love how "keen observers" miss the alarmingly high COVID rates in countries with open schools, and in areas of the US with open schools. If anything, politics have forced schools to open when they should have stayed shut.

Anonymous wrote:But what we really need to know is what impact any openings had on covid spread...

We know that from other locations. The point of this research is that the decision to open had nothing to do with evaluating the risk of spread.

But what we really need to know is what impact any openings had on covid spread...

Article confirms what any keen observer could discern: school openings had nothing to do with actual covid risks, and everything to do with politics and unions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/10/partisanship-schools-reopening-virus-trump-unions/