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President Trump, citing CDC guidance and the endorsement of The American Academy of Pediatrics, has stated all K-12 schools must open this fall. Which comes closest to your view?

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DJC
DJC
3 years ago

Actually it would be wiser if everyone could homeschool because the children are not being taught they are being INDOCTRINATED! This is not ok with me. ALL fed funding should be stopped IMMEDIATELY to universities.

Leslie Harig
Leslie Harig
3 years ago

I sure would like to know if Trump’s youngest son is going to “in person “ school in classrooms with other students. Just curious.

Suede
Suede
3 years ago

I would vote for state/local option but I live in a blue state and they will never open given any option to opt out

Byron E Baker
Byron E Baker
3 years ago

Who, tell me who is voting on this poll to not open schools or letting the teachers union decide:

  1. Those who watch and believe the lies on CNN/MSNBC.
  2. Those associated with the teachers union or other corrupt public sector agencies.
  3. Democrats who believe any they are told by the party.

The virus is real by the Kung Flu hysteria is a hoax generated by the FakeNews media. Designed to stop Trump at all costs.

Edward L. Finley
Edward L. Finley
3 years ago

This whole Covid situation has gotten out of hand and the Left is using it to dictate and run the nation. I agree with several on this thread, that the left is using this as another way to control not only our nation, but the voting situation. They would love nothing more than to turn our country into a progressive’s Banana Republic where the elites run the government, become wealthy off their government positions and we the peons live in squalor.

A. D Roberts
A. D Roberts
3 years ago

The schools should open. The rest of the world has figured it out. The Democrats want them kept closed. They and cowardly teachers who should quit teaching. HOWEVER, it would be best to shut down public schools permanently as they are now nothing but indoctrination centers where students are brainwashed against America. Look at what the college coeds are doing in the street. WHITE FEMALES rioting with all those BLM thugs.

Alan Ortiz
Alan Ortiz
3 years ago

A president and the word must is a problem. Local folks need to take care of schooling based on current situation
like the president saying you must wear a maks

Janet Szczuka
Janet Szczuka
3 years ago

I voted not sure but: if the schools were not tools of the liberal elite I would vote for th we m to open. As it is, the more families homeschool, the better.

Jim P
Jim P
3 years ago

“The benefits OUTWEIGH the risks to children”. That’s the most popular answer. A child is not a solider you don’t put them in harms way for any reason, not ever. I’m not saying keep kids uneducated and ignorant like some republicans who think global warming is nonsense and Covid 19 is a political arm. I’m saying find a cure and or find a way to keep kids safe. We have a responsibility to Protect those who can’t help themselves, the elderly & children to start.

Patricia A Vance
Patricia A Vance
3 years ago

The children need to be back in school in person only if each state/local school districts can implement a safe environment for the student & teachers. Our 8 year old grandson will be doing on-line learning through the online school provided by the district we live in. He & his father & older recently graduated brother live with us & 4 of us are highly vulnerable to contracting COVID-19. Also, the 8 year old had a traumatic brain injury when he was 20 months old due to a pedestrian car accident in which his mother was also injured. He does school work very well, but is hyper. Wearing a mask all day would create serious issues for him. He actually wants to stay home & do the online learning. There will be outside experiences for him to do through the online program the school district provides.

DAVID W CLAGETT
DAVID W CLAGETT
3 years ago

As much as reasonably possible, send them back. Kids need to be educated, but NOT INDOCTRINATED. Encourage Home Schooling, private schools and Charter Schools with special emphasis on low income districts. Ban Dept of Education, Common Core, the NEA, and all Teacher Unions except, local, non-affiliated unions that are not permitted to engage in political lobbying. Do not require attendance beyond the 8th grade and create a system of tech. training programs supported, in part, by corporations that need employees with tech. skills. We also need to discontinue Fed. funding of Colleges and Universities. Replace that funding with merit based, full ride scholarships/grants for students attending approved schools.

Pat
Pat
3 years ago

The media is making this a pandemic. This virus is 99.8% survivable. Children have been shown not to transmit it to adults. We need to stop being afraid ,stop masking, stop staying in our houses, and get on with life.

JohnH
JohnH
3 years ago

I do not agree with Trump having power to withhold funds from schools that do not open. Some areas have extreme circumstances & need support from the Feds & not blackmail. Unite & not divide this country.

Hopeful_One
Hopeful_One
3 years ago

Considering how our schools have become indoctrination centers of antichrist and anti-Bible beliefs, training for immoral behavior, promotion of communism/socialism, twisting of U.S. history and the Christian truth behind our formation, it seems better to me that parents find private schools or train their children themselves to keep them from becoming the next generation of ANTIFA or BLM.

Delores Shelton
Delores Shelton
3 years ago

Child care businesses are considered essential and take care of children from birth through age 10 or older. I have not heard of any cases/deaths as a result of this policy. Schools need look to this child caring professionals to learn how to bring up schools successfully.

David Smith
David Smith
3 years ago

Out of curiosity, did any parent discover the lessons required of their homeschooled student while locked out of public school were unAmerican in nature or revisionist history?

Mike
Mike
3 years ago

There are many factors and variables involved which must be considered in regard to the opening of schools and the safety of the general public and children. While many tout the fact that children are less prone to serious effects of infection, this is still a novel virus and there are ramifications which are still being considered from data and research as the cases evolve and spread through our population. Furthermore, the epidemiology, demographics, and strata across the nation are quite variable. For that reason, it is my opinion that school policies should be left up to local and state school boards who have a better understanding and knowledge of local conditions, as well as public opinions. Our elected officials are expected to represent those who elect them and the more local they are to their constituents, the more informed they are to their particular needs and preferences. Threatening to withhold federal funding may be a blessing in disguise as it would clearly offer evidence that the federal government is not needed when it comes to didactics of educating K-12 kids. And, when it comes to the so called experts, it should be remembered that those in the federal government all have some political interest of varying degrees. We don’t need politics in our education system. It opens doors to biased indoctrination.

Madeline M
Madeline M
3 years ago

To home school the children will be upending many families, and if one state isn’t experiencing an upsurge with the virus, why should those families be so greatly inconvenienced just because another state has the misfortune of a rising epidemic? All things are not created fairly, including this misery.

Kay Barnum
Kay Barnum
3 years ago

 

Richard Kee
Richard Kee
3 years ago

It’s time to take back our country, I’m tired of the left wing radicals trying to destroy our country. We must support President Trump and our Police ,we have spineless Republicans that don’t support our President we need to vote them out. Even the Democrats stick together even when they know they are wrong which is 99.9 percent of the time. Can hardly wait for them to tax me to the point I become Rich.

Gary
Gary
3 years ago

I understand that Pres Trump signed a bill or there was a court ruling that allows you to take the federal funds from your school district and put your child in a better school. If this is true, I hope we see a mass exodus from the public school system. It’s broken beyond repair. The teachers unions have devastated the system along with things like “no child left behind”. If children can be taught via computer at home, which is what they claimed during this so called pandemic, why do we need all those teachers and buildings? Why do we need all those Universities and high paid Proffessors? Let’s eliminate 90% of the cost of education, put it back in the home, and under parental control, and let our kids get an education without all the debt. 500 or 1000 people in one building could put together the ciriculum, the tests can be graded electronically, and it costs us very little by comparison, and it puts parents back in control of what your children are taught. No more NEA or striking teacher unions, or high taxes to support a broken system!!!!

B. Kelly
B. Kelly
3 years ago

Did you know that fish can hear what you are thinking just before you sneeze? Yeah, I heard that once and I think it must be true.

Steve maley
Steve maley
3 years ago

Children are not immune, it may be what they carry home that will be the issue, parents, relatives, day care provider.

Dan O
Dan O
3 years ago

Studies from around the world support that reopening schools is an appropriate way forward. I do not think the Federal government should direct how the reopening for the many diverse districts of the U.S. should occur, however. Leaving those decisions up to local districts keeps control at the appropriate level and away from Federal bullying, a dangerous precedent to set. As school districts reopen, we will learn what works best. There will be many mistakes made and many things done right, but it is better to contain small mistakes that can be corrected rather than huge national mistakes that will inevitably result in even worse errors of over-correction and media distortion. The one thing we should have learned from this pandemic is that it is best to proceed cautiously because we do not know how much we do not know.

Kelly Kroft
Kelly Kroft
3 years ago

With my daughter heading back for her senior year, I would like for her to have the option of remote learning, but my reasoning is this…. last year she had to take a class that already was pushing the “white privilege” agenda. Due to us being low income, she attends a school that she, as a white girl, is a minority. This class she took last year, caused some division and arguments among the students that caused her extreme discomfort. This year, I can only imagine it will be worse, and as a white student, she has a target on her back. I need to be able to pull her out at any time.

Greta
Greta
3 years ago

When you do the math rather than look at just raw numbers, significantly less than 1% of the population (even in hot spots like Texas) have contracted the virus. Less than 1% of those that have contracted it have died. Seeing the numbers from a different perspective reveals that our fear is out of proportion to the threat. So, be cautious to help everyone feel safe, but move forward. Go to school. Live. Don’t hobble the economy and create worse problems.

Alice Berg
Alice Berg
3 years ago

From what I have seen the school would be able to see that the children would be safe. Just as safe in their homes. People with children cannot teach their children due to working parents. It is not the 50’s, 60’s and even the 70’s and 80’s. Children need their friends, need interactions of other children. They have been laying a loof for two long. People need to go to work to help bring this epidemic to an end. we need to put our thoughts on other things: This year is politics, what is the senate trying to pass and what are they passing. What can we do to let them know what we the people want.

Kitti Hataway
Kitti Hataway
3 years ago

Yes, schools need to reopen but NO masks! I would not send my child to school if masks are required! The biggest problem with the education system is not a virus but the content of the books which is far more deadly! There needs to be an overhaul of the text books requiring accurate history be taught and removing the ‘sex education’ being thrust down everyone’s throat to desensitize and demoralize our children at young ages. Time for We the People to take back our country!

Carol Doggett
Carol Doggett
3 years ago

I have 3 sets of grandchildren who have been out of school since the closure. Ohio is doing online Zoom classes with work required to be turned in. Teachers are active with this. Two in TN were not given any lessons in their 2 different counties saying that it was close enough to years end that it was all review anyway. So…to think the districts are handling it is not a very good solution. There should be regulations set my the CDC and School on HOW EVERY School should handle it, and every school, K-College should abide by it). They should wear masks and there should be supervised hand sanitation after every class exit door…etc. It’s difficult to keep kids from getting close and touching each other…especially middle & high school. Extra staff should be put in place (paid or volunteer) to act as a guard in halls, rest rooms, play areas, etc. to keep kids distancing. Schools should be properly sanitized by a professional team nightly. If it costs extra funds…fund that from the govt coffers. Then there is the 6′ rule. Not sure how to add extra square footage to the school to do this, other than using halls, cafeteria and Gym areas as school desk areas. Portable popup buildings may help here. They could build temp hospitals for Covid outbreak, how about temp school space. But do not take the education away from our kids. Their minds need to be focused and motivated. Too easy for their minds to go soft. Too many latch-key kids to think they are going to motivate their own home study schedule while parents are at work. It won’t happen.

Patti Sharpe
Patti Sharpe
3 years ago

Within some supplied federal guidelines, each locality should decide for itself it’s status and readiness for school reopening. Even within a state, there are vast differences in how the virus has effected and is effecting it’s citizens. State regulations are most likely going to address the status of the highest populated areas, and not fit everyone. Let each district decide for itself how and how much it should open.

Jinger Jenkins
Jinger Jenkins
3 years ago

We have the virus now thanks to China… we are all going to have to learn to deal with it… life doesn’t just go on hold because of it! Life is uncertain anyway.. so put on your big girl panties and let’s just deal with it! That is as close to normal as we will ever be! I am tired of the government trying to interfere with my life.. I will wear a mask if I want or not… my right as an American! Everything being shut down has hurt people and even with the stimlus checks really has not been enough to cover the lost income, when one has bills to pay and a family to support. And besides I am sure at the end of the year we will all be taxed on that darn check!

Ramón Saldaña
Ramón Saldaña
3 years ago

I believe schools should open for a normal academic school year.
Education decisions should be made at the state and even school-district level paying attention to parents involved in their children’s education.
I believe in a national standard for true academics (the “three R’s”), but DO NOT impose on students an agenda-driven history or civics filtered by revisionists.

John
John
3 years ago

I think schools should be opened and classes held full time and not the part-time partial weeks being discussed. There will be students and teachers/ staff with heath issues and accommodations will need to be made where possible. There are cyber schools and maybe schools could pull resources to have some of the at risk teachers work on-line, but this should be the exception. The efforts should be to mitigate the risk to those at risk rather than changing the entire school system. Based on the statistics here and abroad, the vast majority of students will be at limited risk. Teachers are “essential employees”. They should be provided appropriate PPE, but they should be in the classroom.

Ronald Faust
Ronald Faust
3 years ago

Just ran the numbers for my state, Wisconsin, today. About 6% (300K) of the population (5.2M) tested. The present infection rate (35K), extrapolated to our population, would calculate to roughly 700,000 cases. There have been 821 reported deaths, and that number is suspect, but that is another story. The death rate is at 0.1% of the estimated cases. Those are not shut-down numbers. Those are not “health crisis” numbers. Those are not pandemic numbers.

Boyd Smith
Boyd Smith
3 years ago

President Trump is right! I only wish he had thought through the nightmare that could-and-has-turned-into,.. by ceding power to the CDC-WHO-Bill Gates wrong-headed ‘GUIDELINES’, which allowed State-and-local government (Governors, Mayors, City-Councils, etc.) TOO MUCH opportunity for draconian, tyrannical power OVER Constitutional LIBERTY,.. which has been a literal NIGHTMARE! Now these moral-idiots are continuing to follow the Gates-Agenda! I once believed that power to the States, and local governments would be better than ‘Federal’ control? But on this CV-Response it’s turned into the madness of a ‘Chinese-Fire-Drill’! The only ones of these yahoos that have ‘courage’ are the LUNATIC-LEFTISTS. And too many of the ‘reasonable’ Republicans are either gutless, …paralyzed by fear of the ‘danger’ of coronavirus,… or just plain quizzlings for the LEFTIST-GOONS! I understand the ‘FEAR’,… we have a pandemic of FEAR in our country. People don’t know WHO to trust,… and politicians are RUNNING ROUGH-SHOD over our Constitution’s limited-government mandate,… in favor of ‘Mask-Mandatss’,… and ‘Social-Distancing Mandates’, which have otherwise good, and decent people COMPLYING to tyrannical ‘ORDERS’! Local government CAN’T BE TRUSTED in this fear-ridden deceit!
Hopefully, President Trump, and thousands of other courageous souls will get on-board the FREEDOM TRAIN again! God-willing.

Karen Devereaux
Karen Devereaux
3 years ago

I just composed an email I will do in the morning to our Governor Reeves here in Mississippi. He has recently ordered a mask mandate for quite a few counties based on “new cases” rather than hospitalizations and deaths. We have had two deaths here along the Gulf Coast in the six counties and both of them were in nursing homes. And this mandates masks?? I’m sick of this Covid 19 farce being a political takeover with the American people as pawns. He is acting more like a blue state governor than the Republican governor that he ran as. I believe the problem is with State Health Directors. They are under big Pharm control and coercing the governors to act under their wishes. I have come to realize thru all of this that the state governors have too much power without enough checks and balances. It is too easy for them to overrun our freedoms with seemingly nothing that anybody can do to loosen their grasp. I hope in the aftermath of all of this that we can get this changed so that millions are not under the thumb of a very few with no options.

Paul
Paul
3 years ago

The United States Communist Party politicians, mayors, and governors in this country, as well as the so-called “medical professionals” have absolutely no intention of releasing the country from national house arrest anytime in the foreseeable future. Too many United States Communist politicians and medical professionals are making millions and millions of dollars off of this Communist Chinese invented and spread virus. When I went for my annual well check up visit, my doctor told me that I was fine, but he needed to classify me as a Covid-19 case, so the hospital could get an extra $800.00 from the Federal Government. What hypocrisy and fraud! The Teachers Unions are known to back the Communist Party, so they will try to keep the American children, like the rest of us, under house arrest.

Martha Hurd
Martha Hurd
3 years ago

Reopening of the schools is a tough call. I lean toward reopening but of course precautions will need to be in place. Maybe a mix of in classroom and at home. We have some areas in our state that don’t have access to the internet due to topography, so that would have to be worked out.

J. Lee Baldwin
J. Lee Baldwin
3 years ago

I understand Brian’s views below completely, but our children are our most precious possession. The hysterical press will lay EVERY child who gets COVID at Trump’s feet after school begins. Threatening to withhold funds from school districts who don’t at least offer some classes live and in person to students makes the most sense. Elections are just 4 months away, and we’d like something besides emotions to determine the Nov. vote.

Jason D Ruth
Jason D Ruth
3 years ago

This so called pandemic is a gigantic manipulation, if things were as bad as they say why do they have to lie about it?? Can’t go to church but loot and burn all you want, please wake up !!!!!!!

Suzanne Deadman
Suzanne Deadman
3 years ago

I fully support the Presidents decision on both the church’s and schools. If people including children can go to Wal-Mart they can go to church and school!

Michael J. Delaney
Michael J. Delaney
3 years ago

The answer is bogus school’s should reopen but without the threat of withholding funds, the schools as are the states are desperate for funds let the states that do not open schools fend for them self’s do not make the Federal Government the bad guy

Nancy
Nancy
3 years ago

 

Tom V
Tom V
3 years ago

The Media is hysterical. Giving useful facts, as they become apparent, does not seem to be ‘news’ to organizations claiming to be ‘news outlets’. Generating panic headlines is the drivel they give to us.
 
My research indicates that the significant profile of those that die is: 60+ years old AND (Bad Lungs, or Bad Heart or FAT or Diabetes or Bad Health).
It is rare that children get the Corona Virus and even rarer that they die.
It is the older Teachers and Administrative Staff that are at risk. But, the children are usually not infectious.

Solution: Annual Physical Exams be required for Adults. Adults, not kids, wear masks and change to another occupation at 60 years.

Cecelia Henderson
Cecelia Henderson
3 years ago

Reopening schools isn’t just for the children which need an education, but for the families. In most families, both parents work and the schools provide childcare for their kids. Schools feed, educate and entertain millions of children weekdays, while parents work to support the family.

JohnH
JohnH
3 years ago

Schools need to reopen this year so that we can get back to normal someday. One must realize it is a lot tougher opening up schools in Chicago/New York versus town like Tumbleweed, USA with 10 students.

Doris Kellen
Doris Kellen
3 years ago

I taught in the public school system for a number of years. Now I substitute for eight schools in this county. I understand that some parents are concerned about their children attending school with other children, however there are a number of reasons why I feel that the schools should reopen. First, many parents don’t have any qualms about taking their children many places with or without a mask but they’re concerned about them going to school? Secondly, this country needs to get back to something that resembles normal. Thirdly, many parents are not concerned enough about their children to even require they do their assignments. I feel that the best option is to allow those parents who are reluctant to send their children to school should have the option of the virtual school. Children need interaction with other children.

David Wiggins
David Wiggins
3 years ago

The devastation of the virus is grossly overstated. Get back to normal. The things being done do nothing to deter the effects of the virus.

Todd
Todd
3 years ago

I look at a bigger picture. This virus was an attack from China. China along with the rest of the globe, are using this tool to destroy our President and his nationalist stance. The last administration was successful at packing all branches of government with partisans and using every single aspect to hurt the American people. The over all goal as usual is a power grab, money, and greed. We must unite as Americans against any tyranny from a foreign enemy or a domestic one. The cancer of socialism and communism in our free society and politic must be stopped. Viruses come and go each year. They are handled by our medical and scientific research communities. This virus was heavily politicized to destroy President Trump. We have adapted. We have identified. We will overcome. God bless America!

Bernadette Smith
Bernadette Smith
3 years ago

I have great-grandchildren that miss their friends and teachers. School is important. There cannot be too many restrictions as these are children we are talking about. High school level would understand better.

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