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Important read! 
“If the report is right in some basic way, as I tend to believe it is, no wonder so many educators & parents have such a strong sense of the safety risks of school reopening... they see their fears repeated and amplified in the news.” https://kappanonline.org/negative-covid-coverage-and-prolonged-school-shutdowns-russo/
“If the report is right in some basic way, as I tend to believe it is, no wonder so many educators & parents have such a strong sense of the safety risks of school reopening... they see their fears repeated and amplified in the news.” https://kappanonline.org/negative-covid-coverage-and-prolonged-school-shutdowns-russo/
Particularly over the summer, it felt like we were living this cycle of “Media reports on teacher fears that have been generally created and stoked by media.”
Yet we could barely find coverage of the positive stories, even thought they existed (REC centers, Europe reopening)...
Yet we could barely find coverage of the positive stories, even thought they existed (REC centers, Europe reopening)...
Parent advocates talk all the time about how shocking it is to realize that your elected officials don’t know that Europe is open.
Or even that the majority of US districts reopened!
Here’s one saying so this morning.
3/ https://twitter.com/angrybklynmom/status/1335939276375269376
Or even that the majority of US districts reopened!
Here’s one saying so this morning.
3/ https://twitter.com/angrybklynmom/status/1335939276375269376
You see parent statements on #openschools taking pains to point out that the majority of US districts did reopen this Fall – because it’s a *massively under-reported fact*.
Which it likely part of reason remote school is so normalized in CA, MA, etc.
4/ https://openschoolsus.medium.com/parents-protest-across-the-country-for-open-schools-2372da062b62
Which it likely part of reason remote school is so normalized in CA, MA, etc.
4/ https://openschoolsus.medium.com/parents-protest-across-the-country-for-open-schools-2372da062b62
When parents were writing that above statement & selecting reporting to support the point about most districts having reopened, we could only think of 2 stories that made the point directly. In all media from this fall.
@anya1anya was the one we linked: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/22/926757172/a-rising-number-of-u-s-children-have-the-option-of-in-person-school
@anya1anya was the one we linked: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/22/926757172/a-rising-number-of-u-s-children-have-the-option-of-in-person-school
Journalists could do children a solid and start telling more stories that normalize open schools... both with the stats on the extent of reopening, per above, & the color commentary, such as @DonnaStGeorge on Bethlehem, @EricaLG on Baltimore reopenings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/pennsylvania-school-in-person-classes/2020/11/12/c3119142-13a7-11eb-ba42-ec6a580836ed_story.html
