{"id":97539,"date":"2020-10-26T03:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T00:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/if-they-wont-fully-reopen-schools-now-when-will-they\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T03:23:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T00:23:19","slug":"if-they-wont-fully-reopen-schools-now-when-will-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/if-they-wont-fully-reopen-schools-now-when-will-they\/","title":{"rendered":"#If they won’t fully reopen schools now, when will they?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#If they won’t fully reopen schools now, when will they?<\/strong>”
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\n Last week, some fantastic news<\/a> from the science<\/a> world should\u2019ve given full-time-schooling advocates real hope. Instead, officials are signaling that we may never return to full in-person learning, at least not like pre-COVID.<\/p>\n

A New York Times piece, \u201cSchoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel Coronavirus Surges, Scientists Say<\/a>,\u201d concluded that, yes, the science says kids should be in school. \u201cThe bulk of evidence now suggests only limited transmission from young children to adults.\u201d<\/p>\n

That evidence, of course, has existed for months, but the Times piece brought it home for nonbelievers.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, at The Wall Street Journal, David R. Henderson and Ryan Sullivan pointed to new research that shows infection rates in schools to be far lower than in the general<\/a> population.<\/p>\n

\u201cA group of researchers, spearheaded by Brown University Professor Emily Oster, have . . . made available the most comprehensive database on schools and COVID case rates for students and staff since the pandemic started,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

The data, covering \u201calmost 200,000 kids across 47 states from the last two weeks of September,\u201d showed an infection rate of 0.13 percent among students and 0.24 percent among staff.<\/p>\n

Given such low rates, they made a strong, science-based, cost-benefit argument for opening schools now.<\/p>\n

Alas, the science doesn\u2019t matter; we left it behind long ago. Instead, we\u2019re seeing signs that schools may not open for full-time learning for years, if ever \u2014 and many of our leaders seem OK with that.<\/p>\n

In the city, Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza told Queens parents Thursday, \u201cThere is an opportunity to innovate here that we do not want to pass by.\u201d His brilliant idea: Offer G&T classes to more kids using remote learning \u2014 next year. Surely he doesn\u2019t mean the kids will still be in remote classes a year from now, does he?<\/p>\n

Actually, it seems he does: \u201cVirtual learning, digital learning, mixed environments, digital content, digital supports will always be part of the new normal as we educate students,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ouch. The prospect that our kids may still be doing remote learning in a year \u2014 or even six months from now \u2014 should alarm every parent. What\u2019s the upside? Is there someone out there who believes remote learning in the city is superior to in-class learning?<\/p>\n

Gov. Cuomo, meanwhile, keeps suggesting schools are a giant danger. In August he said if he had school-age children, he wouldn\u2019t send them back. This month, he closed schools in areas with slightly elevated COVID infection rates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe schools are important, because you will very often see the schools be a place of transmission,\u201d Dr. Cuomo lectured.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lie: Read the Times. Read the Journal. Schools are not major sources of COVID spread.<\/p>\n

Besides, if kids are such superspreaders, why did Cuomo put them last on his vaccination schedule for New York? Doesn\u2019t he want to stop transmission?<\/p>\n

Fact is, our political leaders, in New York and elsewhere, app<\/a>ear to have made the calculation that, amid COVID, education is just not that important. But how long can families go with kids at home and inferior instruction? Why are we waiting for a vaccine, when we don\u2019t know when it\u2019ll arrive or how effective it\u2019ll be?<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he foresees social<\/a> distancing and masks continuing into 2022. And who knows? It could be longer. Keeping schools closed that long will harm families immeasurably.<\/p>\n

And if we\u2019re not going to wait, then let\u2019s open them now.<\/p>\n

During last week\u2019s debate, when President Trump suggested he\u2019s eager to reopen schools, Joe Biden mocked him, sarcastically rephrasing his words (and doing his best to scare folks): \u201cAll you teachers out there, not that many of you are going to die. So don\u2019t worry about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

C\u2019mon, Joe. To suggest many teachers will die is to reject science. And if we continue to treat schools as deadly germ factories sure to kill its occupants, kids and parents will suffer.<\/p>\n

The rest of the world has prioritized children and education and opened schools full-time. It\u2019s an embarrassment that America\u2019s major cities have no plan to do the same and that so many of our leaders spend their time fear-mongering instead.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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