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Listen to this – 2020 #2 – Do We Open School or Not? | Live Long and Prosper

Listen to this – 2020 #2 – Do We Open School or Not? | Live Long and Prosper

Listen to this – 2020 #2 – Do We Open School or Not?




BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
Schools and teachers are faced with a no-win situation because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read this, from someone who never attended a public school, never worked in a public school, and never sent her children to a public school, yet is tasked with running the nation’s public schools…
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made clear on Wednesday she is not impressed with hybrid models and wants students in school full time. “They must be open, and they must be fully operational,” she said Wednesday at the Education Department.
On Tuesday, she said at the White House: “It’s clear our nation’s schools must fully reopen and fully operate this school year. Anything short of that robs the students, not to mention taxpayers, of their futures.”
Secretary DeVos insists that all students attend school full time in the fall CONTINUE READING: Listen to this – 2020 #2 – Do We Open School or Not? | Live Long and Prosper