Teachers union president dares Trump to sit in classroom amid coronavirus 'and breathe that air'
Source: The Hill
The president of the nations largest teachers union hit back at President Trump over his demand that schools resume in-person classes this fall, saying reopening cannot take place without guaranteeing the safety of students and staff.
Did you hear the word he didnt use? Safely,' National Education Association (NEA) President Lily Eskelsen Garcia said Wednesday in reference to Trumps event the previous day on reopening schools.
Theres no one that wants our kids back more than teachers ... but we want to open it safely, she said on CNNs New Day.
We see what happens when they let bars open prematurely, she added, noting spikes in coronavirus community spread in states that were quick to reopen. This isnt a bar. Were talking about second graders. I had 39 sixth graders one year in my class. I double dog dare Donald Trump to sit in a class of 39 sixth graders and breathe that air without any preparation for how were going to bring our kids back safely.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/506368-teachers-union-president-dares-trump-to-sit-in-school-class-amid
bucolic_frolic
(43,176 posts)Every mother and every family understands. Why doesn't Trump?
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)as deaths increase. There is no plan. He has no plan. It's all wishful thinking. We are so screwed until he is gone.
Ohiogal
(32,005 posts)Invite Dumpy to spend an entire day in a stuffy classroom with 39 elementary age children with no protection.
Hey,he might even learn something.
And get Congress off their duffs to provide extra funding for protective measures. They can dole it out to Kanye West, they can dole it out to our public schools.
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)I have SO much respect for your posts, but really?
"Hey, he might even learn something."
You stand a better chance of having a "snow-free" winter in Ohio! (come to think of it, with BunkerBoy's "climate-change policies" (sic) you probably DO stand a good chance of that!).
Ohiogal
(32,005 posts)You have a point!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)just Petri Dishes waiting for new Speciems. First off,how many have up to date Air exchange systems that are Filleted? Hell,here in the Desert,the first month of school is plagued by Mechanical Breakdowns and the Kids and teachers are in 90 degree classrooms,just what could go wrong with that picture.
Here is the real sad part,most of the Southwest practices,stack them deep and teach them cheap. Just what the hell could possible go wrong with that?
Sophiedillo
(29 posts)if his son will be going back to the classroom.
calimary
(81,304 posts)Superb question!
I would no more feed my kids into that COVID meat grinder than I would put myself in there, if they were still of school-age.
Unless you WANT the virus to spread through these states and kill more people. Some of those slated to die this way will be trump supporters, you know.
RVN VET71
(2,692 posts)"Mr. President, umm, sir, sir, when will you be sitting in at a school after the reopening, in a regular classroom, sir, I mean with coughing and sneezing children all around you, none of them wearing masks, sir, when will you schedule a day or, better still, several days, in schools in different parts of the country, in city schools, in country schools, in private schools, sir, when?"
Because if he won't do it, it's because he knows that ordering schools to reopen is a death sentence for teachers and support staff as well as for some of the children. And he also knows -- or god damn him if he remains ignorant of the fact that -- many of the people he condemns to unsafe classrooms who contract the disease and do not die will, nevertheless, carry debilitating and lasting side effects with them to the detriment of their health and life expectancy -- even the youngest of the children. And whether despite knowing the dangers or through willful and spiteful ignorance of those dangers, Trump will be responsible for every episode of covid19 emerging from schools that open too early, for every lingering side effect, for every death.
Maybe the MSM has to get on him about this, or on any of his spokes-zombies at the very least.
luv2fly
(2,475 posts)Stupidity loves company after all.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)with covid19. Dr. trDump, yeah.
RVN VET71
(2,692 posts)If he thinks it's all malarkey (as my favorite current presidential candidate might say) then he should sit in on classes in the fall, just sit there, amid the talk, the spittle, the coughing and the snot sprays! And, yes, he should take members of his cabinet with him to sit there, unmasked and inhaling deeply beside His Gross and Diapered Rotundity. (I know I'm stealing here. Jefferson's people referred to the chubby Adams as "His Rotundity", but Trump is just so much more than that!)
Lokee11
(235 posts)But she should of went right for the throat and Triple Dog Dared that POS
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world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Virtually every known germ in existence floated around the classrooms constantly. There was no avoiding it.
Coronavirus is even more contagious than most of those germs.
beveeheart
(1,369 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)finally had to stop teaching (two doctors ordered it). Couldn't collect pension either.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)it's also.....
* handling all their paperwork and other class materials.
* helping to clean up their puke, pee and poop when they have accidents.
* handling their dirtied clothes when they have accidents.
* leading them in crowded hallways and lunchrooms to/from class and to exits.
* taking sick individuals to the school nurse and unruly kids to the office.
* interfacing with parents that refuse to follow pandemic safety rules.
Listed by an old man whose wife worked in public schools for many years as a teacher's aid and a daughter who is now a 5th grade public school teacher.
KY
raging moderate
(4,305 posts)And then he laughed. He was just coming down with a cold. Oops! He was low-functioning, and he didn't know that he was spreading germs.
Initech
(100,080 posts)Dan
(3,568 posts)Our stable genius;
With his demand for early re-opening, he tried to kill our elderly parents;
Now with his demand for school opening, he is planning to kill our children and elderly parents that survived the early re-opening;
Then with the school opening, then he will be able to kill the adults that go back to work (at no liability to the corporations);
Putin will be so proud, he is well on his way to destroying this nation without firing a shot;
And, the Evangelicals (Trumps biggest supporters) - what can you say - if only the Covid-19 openings results affected them and not the rest of us.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)NNadir
(33,525 posts)...to take it for him, in particular if it's an English or science test.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)... to some kids, if he's capable of reading it.
Blue Owl
(50,407 posts)You know he would...
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Response to sabra (Original post)
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Red Mountain
(1,733 posts)LOL.
Yoh, Betsy......