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Re: CDC advisories that just dropped: 1. Studies show schools keep about the same rate of community spread as the community - in a lot of chicago zip codes that is a very bad rate! We should be exposing as few ppl as possible!
2. They advocate for shutting down other non-essentials to prioritize school and safety precautions. CPS and Chi are not doing well on this although I’m certain they will tweet some weird 
emoji business stating otherwise!
emoji business stating otherwise!
There’s a Regina George “great, so you agree?” Meme waiting to be made somewhere out there - I don’t think what most unions I’ve been following and the CDC are proposing are that far apart.
3. Something I’ve been very bothered by: if there isn’t buy-in from the majority of parents does it even matter? I haven’t seen any plans that include protections to make sure remote students education’s are made whole while their counterparts are in school.
are there any large cities serving more than half their students in-person right now? Are any cities not seeing equity issues in the demographics? Why aren’t the majority + neediest students the focus? Remote learning could be so much better if we weren’t in a constant showdown.
@trinattrill had a great thread on this earlier: let’s be clear, kids (at least the ones I’m talking to) are not doing great right now! But there needs to be a better and more creative solution than “send the 20%-40% who want to go back into schools and screw everyone else.”
