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Joe Biden promises majority of schools WILL be open five days a week by end of his first 100 days - and says there could be an extra summer semester to make up for lost time
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 17 2021 | NIKKI SCHWAB

Posted on 02/16/2021 11:54:27 PM PST by knighthawk

President Joe Biden said he believed a majority of kindergarteners through eighth graders would be back in school five days a week by the tail end of his first 100 days in office.

Biden said at a CNN town hall Tuesday night that reports about the aim being for students to be in school just once a week was 'a mistake in the communication.'

'But what I'm talking about is, I said opening the majority of schools in K through eighth grade, because they're the easiest to open and the most needed to be opened in terms of the impact on children and families having to stay home,' Biden explained.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 02/16/2021 11:54:27 PM PST by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Only to point this out...all schools in the nation are controlled/run...by state governments, not the federal apparatus.

So this is just another dose of Biden-chatter which goes nowhere.

I’d be curious what the Chicago teachers union says on his chatter.


2 posted on 02/16/2021 11:57:07 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: knighthawk

Kids need to be back in school. They’re not learning via zoom and they’re getting depressed. Plus its really hurting family finances.
The problem isn’t covid, its teacher unions.
My great niece went from a 94 in math this time last year to a 37. She either will have to go to summer school or the family has to come up with $1100 for a tutor.


3 posted on 02/17/2021 12:01:03 AM PST by NEPA (Repeal the 17th)
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To: knighthawk

Extra Summer semester LOL

Try getting that one past the teachers unions.


4 posted on 02/17/2021 12:01:26 AM PST by FreedomForce
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To: NEPA

Soooo Conservatives who hate the utter propaganda being pushed in public schools now want kids back in school asap?

I’d say we should take this opportunity to push home schooling permanently to those who are doing it now.


5 posted on 02/17/2021 12:13:13 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: NEPA

Are you kidding? This is or should have been a golden opportunity to show that we don’t really need government indoctrination centers and they should be replaced by a much more varied decentralized system of homeschooling and private options tailored to the need of the individual.


6 posted on 02/17/2021 12:14:57 AM PST by jarwulf
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To: NEPA

Why in the hell are these teachers getting paid?? STOP paying them PERIOD!! Reagan fired the air traffic controllers this is the same damn thing these teachers are paid by the tax payers for refusing to work!!! FIRE THEM ALL or STOP paying them NOW!!!


7 posted on 02/17/2021 12:18:17 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: jarwulf

The teachers arguments against home schooling and alternative schooling have been totally discredited by the teachers.


8 posted on 02/17/2021 12:22:37 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Beware the media industrial complex )
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To: knighthawk

No schools open until the mask mandate (and in some cases, face shields and gloves) and social distancing mandate is removed.

Why are so many of you mask-holes all so adamant about teachers, staff and faculty wearing the extremely uncomfortable garbage 6 to 8 hours a day?


9 posted on 02/17/2021 1:34:05 AM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Why in the hell are these teachers getting paid?? STOP paying them PERIOD!! Reagan fired the air traffic controllers this is the same damn thing these teachers are paid by the tax payers for refusing to work!!! FIRE THEM ALL or STOP paying them NOW!!!

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Why don’t YOU wear a face mask, face shields and gloves and try to deliver understandable content for 6 to 8 hours a day? Before demanding teachers and students be forced to do the same?

Or do you speak Kenny?


10 posted on 02/17/2021 1:36:37 AM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: knighthawk

A ‘summer semester’ is not going to makeup for a years loss of classroom teaching.


11 posted on 02/17/2021 1:40:08 AM PST by caww
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To: Starcitizen

Teachers should not be paid if they’re not teaching....period.


12 posted on 02/17/2021 1:41:49 AM PST by caww
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To: knighthawk
‘I said opening the majority of schools in K through eighth grade, because they're the easiest to open and the most needed to be opened in terms of the impact on children and families having to stay home,' Biden explained.

The dude basically admits that public elementary schools are nothing more than day care centers.

13 posted on 02/17/2021 1:47:58 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Its dem m9ney launde4ing.


14 posted on 02/17/2021 1:56:05 AM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Starcitizen

There are plenty of people working 8 hours a day in masks and constantly communicating with customers all day what the hell makes a teacher so special that they can’t possibly do it??


15 posted on 02/17/2021 3:01:56 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Gone on way too long. We are past due for property tax revolts.


16 posted on 02/17/2021 3:08:58 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat; Starcitizen

Let’s all agree that masks (and plexiglass) are useless? Especially with children.

Also, it doesn’t help them when we constantly think of kids as germ-spreading killers.


17 posted on 02/17/2021 3:14:30 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: knighthawk

LOl.
Good luck with the summer session.
Teachers have plans.
They don’t work summers, that’s why they took the job in the first place.


18 posted on 02/17/2021 3:25:54 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Starcitizen

yes and “teachers” as a whole are so proficient at acheiving their goals /s. In the private sector, overpaid, underperforming slugs are let go for non performance. Govt. employees like teachers are rewarded for underperformance


19 posted on 02/17/2021 3:48:15 AM PST by slapshot (The NHL is dead to me)
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To: knighthawk

This is in the bag.......The Teacher Union bosses have already agreed.....

The agreement is that the unions continue to resist until late February when Biden sweeps in and “negotiates” a compromise with the unions......

This accomplishes two political points:
First, it would give the appearance that Biden is not beholden to the Teachers Unions, is independent, and a master negotiater.
Secondly, the vast majority of parents in the US would be beholden to him.

Watch for either a “Teachers Summit” called at the Whitehouse or an announced conference call between the Union bosses and Biden in the next few weeks.

This is pre-determined folks!

This is truly political Kabuki theater......


20 posted on 02/17/2021 4:03:41 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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