Trump tells governors to 'seriously consider and maybe get going' on opening schools

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

(CNN)President Donald Trump on Monday urged the nation's governors to "seriously consider" reopening schools as part of his push to restart the economy, though many states have already recommended against resuming the school year.

"Some of you might start thinking about school openings, because a lot of people are wanting to have school openings. It's not a big subject, young children have done very well in this disaster that we've all gone through," Trump told the governors on a teleconference call, according to audio of the call obtained by CNN.

He continued, "So a lot of people are thinking about the school openings. And I think it's something, Mike (Pence), they can seriously consider and maybe get going on it."

But this late in the school year, it's unlikely that many students will return to the classrooms in the immediate future.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/trump-governors-call/index.html

[dalton99a]

1. "You're going to test it. Sounds interesting, right? It'd be interesting to check that."

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Killing teachers and students by preemptively re-opening schools.

Betsy DeVos must be very pleased.

[CaptYossarian]

10. An efficient way to break the union.

[Miguelito Loveless]

17. By all means

they must get rid of people who can read and write, and are too poor to teach at, or attend, private school.

[KPN]

3. Geezuz! Another moronic muse! When in life do adults

get sick the most often? When they have kids! Why is that? They catch the illness from exposure to their own kids! Where do their kids most often pick up the illness?

[DBoon]

6. Kids are the perfect covid vector

close contact, uncertain hygiene, asymptomatic

Great way to create orphans

[MontanaMama]

4. No. Just no.

I’ve got a 4.0 high school student who is suffering through remote learning that’s a shit show here. He misses school horribly. He’s an only child so school is his social life too. Nobody wants school to open more than I do...for the sake of my kiddo’s mental health...but no. School should not reopen this term.

[Botany]

5. Coronavirus: 'One Billion' Could Become Infected Worldwide- Report

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142481271

[hadEnuf]

7. Now Trump is going after the kids.

Monster.

[CaptYossarian]

8. How does opening schools jumpstart the economy?

My wife is teaching from home. She and her colleagues put together bi-weekly packets to send home and she's constantly e-mailing/texting the 23 families--plus her colleagues and administrative staff. The finished packets get returned when they pick up the new ones. Three days later, my wife safely picks up the finished ones and begins the correcting/grading process.

All of the faculty is collecting the same pay and benefits as usual. And EVERYONE IS STAYING HEALTHY. (And the schools are the safest they've been in over 20 years.)

Hasn't the orange bastard killed enough already?

[Miguelito Loveless]

18. Schools do have an economic impact

1) They buy food for lunches

2) They buy gasoline/diesel for buses

3) They (and students) buy school clothes, supplies, computers, etc.

However, they should stay closed.

[CaptYossarian]

23. Every school in my area has been serving lunches.

For some kids, it's their only meal of the day. ut that's nothing new in brew-ski country.

[Miguelito Loveless]

26. True, but the volume of meals is down

compare to "normal" operation. But they know if they open schools, they cause schools (and parents) to buy fuel, which is desperately needed for oil company profit margins, doncha ya know.

[CaptYossarian]

28. Screw the oil companies.

Now they don't need to drill in the oceans or pipe the dirty crap in from Canada and no soldiers have to die for it.

[Miguelito Loveless]

29. Oh, I totally agree

with that sentiment.

[tavernier]

35. Breakfast and lunch in our county

and school busses make deliveries when families don’t have the means to pick up (parents working, no vehicle available, etc.)

[CaptYossarian]

43. That's both good and sad at the same time.

[pstokely]

39. free day care?

at least that's how many parents look at public schools

[CaptYossarian]

44. It should be funded like day care.

Pay each teacher $5 per hour times the number of students each day. (23 students X $5 X 7 hours X 180 days = $144,900 per year)

$144,900 is $30,000 less than the base pay for a Congressperson. Since ALEC writes the GOP legislation that our elected unskilled labor endorses, the newly elevated teacher pay is still a bargain, although not quite enough to risk getting shot for.

The new salary would at least allow the teachers to drive better cars than the h.s. students do.

[MissMillie]

9. Sure! As soon as you seriously get going...

...and get the states some testing.

[kimbutgar]

11. Let Barons school open immediately if they are so safe.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Kids will learn more and be safer at home, if they have a home environment

Trump is a dunce. Open the schools my foot.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

31. To steal a sentiment from Prairie Home Companion, ...

... this is Democratic Underground, where all the kids and all the parents are above average.

Other kids, parented by members of Free Republic and Jackpine Radicals, may be burdened by less-qualified home-school-parents.

Having the schools opened As-Soon-As-Safe will help many kids, academically and nutritionally.

Trump is a dunce, but opening schools is a good goal. I hope they can open in September at least.

[ProfessorGAC]

36. Agreed

I can just imagine parents with little to no science education trying to teach their kids HS Chem, of Classical Physics, or computer science theory, etc.
Or seniors, pre-calc. Those kids need teachers with direct access. Yes, there are some particularly bright or diligent students that will be OK. That's a small fraction of the whole.

[SoCalNative]

13. Seriously?

With a month or less left for the school year? What is the point? Just wait until the fall and see what happens.

[pstokely]

40. NYC schools usually go until late June

but they start after Labor Day

[SoCalNative]

46. Used to do that here in L.A. too

but then they changed the schedule so school ends late May/early June and starts up in mid-August. I think it also was done to make up for that extra week they give them off now at Christmas/New Year's and other breaks.

[whistler162]

14. Yeah let us shove several hundred or more

children and adults into school hallways without planning! No thanks. I want to see some plans before I going back to work. Luckily I am in New York. What we really need Drumpf is financial help so the schools and local governments can reopen.

[underpants]

15. Uh most schools finish up in May. Here in Va mid June

At least the parts of Virginia East of 95 - towards the water.

So bring them back in for the time everyone is usually OVER the school year anyway?

[keithbvadu2]

16. Dr. Oz just said our children should go back to school because only 2-3% of them would die.

Dr. Oz just said our children should go back to school because only 2-3% of them would die.

Apr 16

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213297826

Pick any two out of each hundred that you are ok with dying.

Link to tweet

[ProfessorGAC]

37. Listen Again

He did not say 2-3% of kids. He says 2-3% mortality. That's of the US population!
The midpoint of that results in 8.3 million dead.
Your pick has to be 1 out of every 40 people, at any age, everywhere in the US!
He's out of his mind.
8+ million dead is OK, per the quack Oz.

[keithbvadu2]

41. Yep. I was being optimistic.

[ProfessorGAC]

42. Gets Worse & Worse, Right?

He's a doctor who's all in on 8 million people dying! Forgotten his oath, apparently.

[CaptYossarian]

45. Vince Lombardi once said:

"What do you call the person who graduated last in medical school?

"You call them DOCTOR."

Another sports reference: Medicine isn't like baseball, where you are successful 3 out of 10 times and are called a superstar.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Republicans own this

Wave 2 is on the GOP. Democrats have no choice but to go along or be blamed for lagging economic output. Well Republicans are eager to embrace the consequences of their own actions, so let them have it.

[turbinetree]

20. So after he got the glue bag out of face, he decides to experiment with children and there teachers,

bus drivers, janitors, principles, cafeteria staff, food delivery people, walking guards.................so that his fucking ego can fully expand in the universe of his lunacy to just change the subject matter of his absolute failure ...........so glue head..............will you send your kid to school with gloves and mask on, after all they more than likely had all of the above where tested prior to opening right................but everyone else out in the country side no testing, so good fucking luck, your only "thinking " about doing 2.6% per month of the population or 36% per year to test so that will take four fucking years ......................well after all they are lab rats.............right....... are you going to supply the LYSOL and UV lighting............lets ask DEVOS, where is her worthless ass.......oh yeah inciting riots in Michigan and Wisconsin..........


November 3, 2020 cannot and I repeat cannot get here fast enough, then onto January 20, 2021 when you and your criminal gang will come in for testimony to plead the fifth...........

[iluvtennis]

21. First the GOPers said let the old die, now the kids. I have no words. nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

22. "...a lot of people are thinking ..." means "I alone am thinking" in Trumpspeak.

Believe me.

[WestLosAngelesGal]

24. School is canceled for the rest of the year.

Nobody knows when they will open for the next semester (in my area).

And those are children's lives we are talking about. Even the loss of one child is too many to risk their lives.

[SharonClark]

25. Our schools are closed thru the end of the year by order of the school district superintendent

The governor and trump have nothing to do with it.

[JCMach1]

27. I don't need to be worrying if tucking my child in at night is going to kill me...!

f#$k Trump!

[BigmanPigman]

30. I wouldn't step foot into my first grade classroom

with a gun pointed at my head. I said this two months ago and still say it. The chances of teachers getting sick from the kids is HIGH! Teachers are not expendable. I have permanent health problems directly from exposure to an unhealthy classroom environment. All my first graders and I were on inhalers and the school did NOTHING, finally the teachers' union got the building torn down.

[sarcasmo]

32. Trump sounds like Dr. Oz.

[tclambert]

33. If you open schools and get an outbreak at a school, and children die . . .

How's a governor gonna live with that guilt?

[Texaswitchy]

34. Trump is a killer.

Little kids or old people mean nothing to him.

[pstokely]

38. some schools end the year in just weeks

although they usually go to late June in NYC