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This this this!!! This sums up how I’ve been thinking/feeling about things so well. I desperately want to be back in school in the fall, and I feel this sense of helpless rage as I watch my country prioritize bars and gyms over schools. 1/5 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/01/reopen-schools-close-bars/
We could have supported nonessential workers to stay home for longer. Instead, we yanked away any meager supports and now they have to go back or lose their jobs. Meanwhile, the virus rages. 2/5
I have known for awhile that going back to school will never be a risk-0 proposition, but I also feel it is worth taking on some risk for such an important thing that can’t be done remotely very well. With reopening, risk is expanding as families’ bubbles expand. 3/5
We are on the verge of being unable to contain it, of unacceptable risk. I just feel like all of this is setting us up for an epic teachers-vs-parents/admin/districts battle in the fall, and I’m tired of it before it even happens. 4/5
If/when we can’t go back fully in person, it’ll be because of colossal policy failure at every level, not because of greedy teachers. But the narrative won’t play out that way and it makes me so angry. 5/5
