Posted on 07/16/2020 1:46:15 PM PDT by rintintin
Younger children in particular are ill-served by remote learning, according to a report issued by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
By Apoorva Mandavilli July 15, 2020
Wading into the contentious debate over reopening schools, an influential committee of scientists and educators on Wednesday recommended that, wherever possible, younger children and those with special needs should attend school in person.
Their report — issued by the prestigious National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, which advises the nation on issues related to science — is less prescriptive for middle and high schools, but offered a framework for school districts to decide whether and how to open, with help from public health experts, families and teachers.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Instead, Kayleigh opened with some bland statement praising Trump for cutting "regulations" across the government. Fine, but right now tens of millions of families are concerned about SCHOOLS BEING CLOSED and the WELFARE OF THEIR CHILDREN.
Special needs kids are especially at risk. They need a voice to advocate for them. TRUMP SHOULD BE THAT VOICE!!! It would also be good politics. IMO, he is wasting so many opportunities to use his bully pulpit, by frittering his speeches away on trivial stuff and personal grievances.
We need him to boldly advocate for average Americans against the bureaucratic-media-Democrat shutdowns that are killing this country!!!!
Yes, there is more to it than oppressive DEMOCRAT politics.
That is some unusually straight-up reporting for the NY Slimes
Did someone say Science!
The New York Times actually printed this? I just saw a pig fly past my window.
The New York Times actually printed this
Yes, and unfortunately Kayleigh didn’t mention it in her press briefing today. It should have been her opening statement. Trump needs to own this issue. He needs to be the advocate for America’s parents and kids against the teachers unions and Democrat politicians who are shutting the school-doors against them.
This is literally one time, also, when blacks and Hispanics - and the disabled - are hardest his. Trump should stop tweeting about trivialities and make start beating the drum, relentlessly, on this issue. It’s the right thing to do - and it will kill Biden and the Democrats.
She did touch on it actually, about halfway through.
The goal of that whole presser today was to bait one of them into a COVID testing question so that she could drop the mic drop bomb about Obama/Biden ordering an end to all H1N1 testing.
because I dont have a paid subscription, I cant view/read the article.
Hopefully some other media source will print it.
“She did touch on it actually, about halfway through.”
Yes, she “touched on it”, in response to a question — not as part of her prepared statement up-front, where it should have been. And her language was jumbled, so that the media is already making it sound as if she said the science is “against” opening up. She didn’t say that, but she got her words tangled, in trying to answer a hostile question.
Again, this schools issue, and the welfare of America’s kids, should be the FRONT BURNER attack issue for Trump, EVERY DAY, not some vague crowing about “cutting regulations” in the bureaucracy - something that practically no voters care about but that Kayleigh led with today.
Yep, she mentioned it, as reported in the NYT, who’d thunk it. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus&variant=show®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu#link-583f53d
I completely agree. Governor Newsom tomorrow in CA is going to make some sort of sweeping announcement about schools—I’m hoping it’s “only” that schools can’t reopen until after Labor Day (that’s the rumor of the announcement).
I’m worried he will dictate 100% remote for all schools. For the whole year. For private schools too. Or whatever. Who knows.
I can guarantee that is the only and #1 concern of every parent right now in the US. Schools are toppling like dominoes all over the nation and refusing to reopen. The unions are so strong. Now “afterschool programs” are announcing they will instead be open full day, in effect becoming the new schools.
I want Trump to declare schools essential and urge (require?) their reopening as he did for the meatpacking plants.
The science doesn’t support keeping schools closed. Children don’t seem to transmit the virus much and they are nearly unaffected by it.
But millions of parents and students are being affected being denied education (and yes, childcare so working parents can work, whether in the home or not).
Trump needs to wake up and see that “fall” and the issue of school reopenings is now here. Schools were supposed to start in 3 weeks (many of them). The rest of the Western world reopened their schools. The United States is currently poised to not follow suit.
Also, unlike H1N1, kids who get this virus don’t actually get sick.
Yep, she mentioned it,
She did not mention this study that was reported by the NY Times. She said some vague things about “science” - and spoke in such a confusing way that the press was able to twist her words.
My point is, when you’ve got a scientific study of this magnitude, you LEAD WITH IT, with a PREPARED STATEMENT. It should be AT THE TOP OF HER PRESS CONFERENCE, not a subject you mention in passing in response to a question.
“Trump needs to wake up”
That’s for sure. He coasting toward losing right now. And he’s not serving Americans, because he’s not using his office to go on the fierce, relentless attack against these unions and Democrat politicians who are shutting kids out of school.
Wake up Mr. President.
For those who did not see / hear it, MSNBC had a piece earlier this week with a panel of 6 practicing pediatricians (all remotely from their homes) that ended with the question about restarting in-person schools. The host was obviously flummoxed by all six saying an emphatic YES!
I agree with you on that point. Today’s event about cutting regulations was the wrong message at the wrong time. People actually feel more oppressed by government regulation than they ever have thanks to a bunch of COVID Nazi Governors and their enablers at the CDC. It was all pretty tone deaf of Trump actually.
I watched our local school board deadlock 4-4 on a plan to open at 50% capacity; the 4 most knowledgeable of science, including the physician who runs the board, were for opening. The doctor made exactly the right points about how kids are ALWAyS at risk in school, and at home, and that physicians never look at things as a zero-risk proposition.
Unfortunately, the other 4 were all “I could not live with myself if one teacher or child died”, so we’ll never open the schools. Except they will be fine with the kids dying once they are not told to be scared of COVID.
The meeting was hilarious. They kept making excuses as to why the spring “distance learning” never got started, why traditional summer school online courses explicitly warn that most kids can’t handle it, and someone brought up the story of 3 teachers who got COVID with one dying, missing the irony that the teachers were distance teaching at the time.
Then there was a kid who said that if we had some kids going to school, but other kids did distance learning, the school kids would get a much better education than the distance kids, and that would not “be fair”, so his solution was to give everybody the same crappy education. (This is why we were not allowed to teach any kids after March, because if we did, because while it would be great for a majority of the students, it wouldn’t “be fair” to the kids who couldn’t get the programs to run, so it was better to let everybody suffer).
The only way to crush the teacher unions, who run a bloated overrated education sector, is for them to remain closed.
Trump has zero authority to open any schools in our country, its a local decision, period.
When educationists get serous about changing current curriculums then they can reopen.
First on the chopping block should be Feminist and African American studies.
The schools remain closed, but the union teachers continue to get paid. That strategy will get us nowhere.
So you want a do-nothing day-nothing approach by Trump
Okay, sounds like a winner
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