Don’t Sacrifice Teachers and Students to a Neoliberal God
By Thomas Ultican 7/8/2020
The US is not ready to open schools. We blew it. Let’s face reality squarely and quit making outcomes in our country even worse.
New York’s Michael Flanagan Ed. D. wrote,
“The pressure to reopen schools, and return to work, will continue to intensify, no matter how many new cases of Covid-19 there are each day, and the numbers are growing. Businesses, politicians and even health professionals are in the process of trying to convince us that sending our kids back to school will be safe.”
As if to prove Flanagan’s claim, Harvard’s “Education Next” published a Frederick Hess interview with Jeb Bush where he repeatedly emphasized,
“First and foremost, schools have to open with the health and safety of our students and teachers being paramount. But they have to open, or we will have huge economic, health, and social challenges.”
Not to be outdone by “low energy Jeb”, the President of the United States employed his normal elegance when tweeting,
“Schools in our country should be opened ASAP. Much very good information now available.”
Republican Congressmen, Jim Banks of Indiana and Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin, CONTINUE READING: Don’t Sacrifice Teachers and Students to a Neoliberal God | tultican
