Betsy DeVos wants to turn millions of America’s children into pandemic
lab rats
The trouble with actually listening to Education Sec. Betsy DeVos and other
Trump cabinet members is that their words lead nowhere.
They are circular arguments: Schools should open despite coronavirus
because, well, schools should be open.
Clearly DeVos is backing Trump’s demand for schools across the country to
be fully open with in-person classes in September. But under the fairly
predictable questions of talk show appearances, she was tongue-tied about
exactly how that is supposed to happen. Instead, she turned to the old
reliable – that local districts need to figure it out on their own. All of
which makes it more curious as to why the Trump campaign would send her
around the country with her mealy-mouthed speech about re-opening schools as
part of re-electioneering.
Fine. But, if “no one-size solution fits all cases” is the mantra, why are
Trump and DeVos saying the federal guidance – under threat of loss of federal
funds — is exactly that: Open up or else.
That this advice ignores a singularly difficult pandemic spread is obvious.
Return to “normalcy,” as we hear endlessly, means making it appear that
conditions are the best for a Trump reelection. But the contagion isn’t
going away, nor is the popular unwillingness to take even basic
precautions.
In states like Florida where Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to step as lightly as
possible despite record numbers of new outbreaks of coronavirus, there is
criticism because he is ignoring the disease. In states like California,
where Gov. Gavin Newsom is re-imposing many but not all stay-at-home orders,
there is criticism from those who find the orders CONTINUE
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