https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/25/alab-n25.html"Over the past two weeks, the rate of COVID-19 infections across Alabama has increased by over 50 percent, with teachers and other school employees representing a significant number of these cases. In one Alabama school district, Hoover City School, two district employees have died within the past week after contracting the virus."
So yeah, anyways. People clearly don't care about teachers lives and will continue to paint them as selfish (btw, in many cases teachers are more worried about someone vulnerable they live with than themselves). Also the "NIMBY rich parents" you mention have been by FAR the most vocal about opening schools so idk where that's coming from.
The major isue with school seems that science doesn't have a clear answer how much they actually contribute to the spread. Studies often contradict themselves. That makes it so difficult.
I don’t think this is really accurate. The science has come to pretty overwhelmingly show that schools contribute much less to the spread than many other aspects of society that have remained open throughout the pandemic, and which are less important to our future prosperity.
Almost every interview I see with scientists recently supports this position. Really the only people opposing school openings are teachers unions, Democratic politicians who don’t want to look like they are on the same side as Trump on any positions, and NIMBY rich parents who can afford alternative education.
People who really care about achieving social equality through progressive policies over performatively doctrinaire partisan positions should support keeping schools open.
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