Educators, This is Our Call To Arms! by Dr. Michael Flanagan
*Refuse To Return to schools until districts show fourteen days of no coronavirus cases, and until schools are funded adequately in order to open safely.
In a campaign of hate, you have to constantly throw red meat to the dogs.
Guess who’s the red meat?
As a master of chaos, Trump knows full well that besides hate, division is the key to victory. Foment anger and direct violence against a targeted minority to avoid scrutiny of your own liability. Find a common target.
Educators.
Instead of acknowledging the science of how coronavirus spreads, or analyzing the data that shows both an increase in cases, as well as a trend of younger people getting sicker in larger numbers, the political right has decided that the best thing to do is open up the schools in the fall...because Donald Trump wants to get re-elected.
There is a political push to reopen schools before the November elections. Since there is still a deadly pandemic raging, opponents of that policy will have to be vilified in order to counter the protests. Educators will be the scapegoats.
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