Teachers union President Randi Weingarten advocated for reopening schools with pandemic safety measures. She criticized the Trump administration’s 2020 calls to reopen schools fully, but it’s misleading to claim that she opposed reopening at all.
On Nov. 19, 2020, MacCallum asked Weingarten to explain why the schools were closing when schools in other countries had remained open during COVID-19 spikes. Here’s part of that exchange:
Weingarten:"What they did in Europe and what they did in New Zealand is that they had national leadership that closed — that did masks — that actually closed the bars, that did some of those things, including the stimulus —"MacCallum:"Given all that, they still say that kids are safer in school."MacCallum:"The number’s rising, but the kids are safer in school. Those are the two realities from what we’re hearing from all these scientists.
"I think that what we need to do is, we have to meet fear with facts, which is what we’re trying to do. … What we’ve learned in our polling and also in our experience is that when people are actually in school with the protocols in place, they trust it more. And then you just have to educate people in terms of this way. Seventy-one percent of our members are fearful that they’ll bring COVID home.
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