The Reopening, COVID Roulette Dept. 0
The superintendent of schools of a Georgia county is less than impressed by his state’s response to COVID-19 as regards schooling. His comments, methinks, could more generally. Here’s a bit of his piece (emphasis added):
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Don’t suddenly tell me, as educators, we have now become “essential workers” just to get us back to work. What were teachers before now, unessential?
In a similar vein, Portland, Maine, Press-Herald contributor Victoria Hugo-Vidal is not impressed:
Methinks many decisions about reopening and about COVID-19 are based on magickal mystical thinking alloyed with political and moral cowardice. Politicians, in a mirror echo of Captain Picard, keep saying, “Make it not so.”
But it is so. And will continue to be so for some time. And the virus will feed on their cowardice and denial of science and fact.
My town seems to be acting responsibly.
