The closure of public schools is indeed a bad thing—many parents can’t or won’t homeschool. I think about 40% of households with children in the US are now headed by single mothers who are more or less broke—how many of those single moms who are working full time (if they are lucky) can teach HS seniors Calculus and Physics? Not many, I’d think.
We have to be realistic about that US families look like right now—they are not two parent households with one smart stay at home mom who can teach higher math and science. And it’s tragic to stick students—whether elementary, middle, high school, or college—in front of a laptop all day. Humans need other humans.
We need to reopen schools, and quickly.
“We need to reopen schools, and quickly.”
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Meh. If so, do it as Reagan did with the Traffic Controllers union demads - if they don’t go to work, replace them. There’s plenty of smart people who can actually read and write (and teach others to do the same) to take over from the semi-literate extreme-left propagandists.