Long gone are the days when American children started their school day with a laptop at the kitchen table. But the bitterness over school closures has not dissipated — and that's not likely to change as the 2024 election approaches.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, testifies before a House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing on COVID-19 school closures in Washington, D.C., on April 26.
“The Democratic Party is responsible for these prolonged school closures, and public health aligns very strongly with Democrats,” Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, told Yahoo News. “Moreover, it may be that admitting wrong looks like they were at fault. Instead of apologizing, politicians in this country seem to take a position of doubling down. I do not understand it.
A paperback copy of “Lessons from the Covid War” sat on a desk next to the president of the American Federation of Teachers,before a House Oversight Committee subcommittee examining outstanding questions about the pandemic, including where the coronavirus originated and why schools stayed closed much longer than they needed to.
But the union president failed to shake the perception of undue influence, even as she argued that she was in favor of reopening schools. While Weingarten, her critics have charged that she did so without ever confronting union members, who continued to insist on staying remote.
If Weingarten has a rival in her ability to evoke in outrage among conservatives, it is doubtlessly Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former top White House pandemic adviser, who served in both the Trump and Biden administrations before retiring at the end of 2022.. “Show me a school that I shut down, and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did,” the respected immunologist said defiantly.
Some educators and elected officials insisted on keeping schools closed well into 2021, by which time Fauci had concluded that children should be back in the classroom.Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, a Republican, at a rally just before the midterm elections on Nov. 7, 2022, in Triangle, Via.
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