I keep reading that people with kids are telling (especially low wage earners) that they can't return to work w/o child care. If kids go back to classes, not in a home, those people can return to on site jobs and the crashing economy might stop the economic fall.


I'm starting to think it is a social class thing. The US economy needs the low & middle wage earners back to keep it running.

wants the schools open--as baby sitters so parents can go back to work and open the economy for his re-election.


It is true. yes. it. is.

Not to mention that those in lower socioeconomic areas are being left behind via online education.

Trump fucked this up, and ALL less advantaged families will pay for it.

And, yes... our society finds these workers expendable. It is a freaking double whammy.

Well done.

De-democratize education and drive education to christian churches.

They don't want to return God and prayer to public schools. The new plan is to cripple public schools and force people into private christian version of madrases.

talking about more "options" for parents bullsh*t. More options being private/christian schools and of course the christofascists have never properly funded inner city schools.

The Pig's immediate goal is the economy, his christofascist theocrat lackeys are pushing a different agenda.

Bah you could be right

Which it most certainly WON'T do!!

Like everything else the desperate moron tries - it'll only backfire, and make things even worse for him (and, of course, the rest of humanity)!!

They hate public education anyway...

trump supporters. They need interaction with others and teachers to have a chance to dismiss that right wing BS.

Children, by and large, need a school setting to learn to interact with others who are different than they are and to become responsible citizens.

If children are not in school for an extended period of time, we run the risk of becoming an even more dysfunctional society than we are now.

Parents, by and large, aren't equipped to be teachers. Parents, by and large, were over-extended before they were required to pick up most of the school's job last spring. Most "can't" afford to stop working and be full time parents. Many literally can't. (By "can't" I mean people who have the means who have chosen to live close to the edge of their income - who could make lifestyle changes and live on less in order to meet their children's education and social needs.)

I have at least 7 risk factors for COVID 19 (personal: age, diabetes; spouse age, diabetes, diminished mental capacity; daughter: liver disease, on immune weakening medication). My co-worker has one: a daughter with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes.

I will be returning to work full time (plus) in less than a month on campus, face-to-face wtith students, in order to accommodate my co-worker's need to attend not only to her child with diabetes - but her other two children. I'm the boss. I tend not to acquire viruses and/or to recover quickly. I don't have three childrent to figure out how to care for/educate/etc. That said, I already work more than 100 hours a week year-round. We are short a staff person who will not be replaced (budget cuts). I can't afford to lose another if we make it too hard for her to continue working.

It is important to open them. But it needs to be done with flexibility and care - not just open the doors, cram everyone into the classroom at the same time, and hope for the best.