1/ The head of the CDC said it poses more of a public health risk for children to stay home than it is to reopen schools. In what way? Could we take a moment to consider what that means?
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2/ If we actually think American children are so abused, so mentally or physically endangered at home as to make it worth the catastrophic risk of re-opening schools too soon, then shouldn’t that itself be seen as a humanitarian emergency?
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3/ There are so many millions of chronically traumatized children in America that they're literally at risk just being home. But instead of an all-out effort to ameliorate those conditions, we use it as an excuse to endanger them further by unsafely sending them back to school.

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Questions for teachers and unions to be asking now:
🇵🇸Jamie York
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To @BetsyDeVosED and all teachers, parents, students, and school support staff:
Replying to @marwilliamson
While 40% of Americans struggled prior to the pandemic, I'd like to see stats on where we stand now. If people think sending kids back to school is going to "fix" the problem, that in itself is crazy. The same issues, funding via zipcode, will only escalate trauma. #fundeducation
Replying to @marwilliamson
Not without the proper health guidelines, mask, temperature checks, washing/sanitizing of their hands and disinfection at schools 🏫 site, social distancing of 1-meter apart etc. Children needs structure, routines and systems, they’re resilient and very low to COVID infections.
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Our government has lost its moral compass.
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Our culture isn’t child-centric.
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Schools will continue the anxiety as they have to enforce rules about masks, distance, sanitation. Chances to collaborate, play, even just talk will be limited, everyone on edge. So, no, it won't be a return to normalcy. What about teachers having to enforce mask rules?
Replying to @marwilliamson
I feel like the insane asylum that we've been living in for 500* years now has been exposed. (*No this is not a paradise, but by 500 years I mean colonial/modern era, unmoored from communal life, accelerating greed, breakneck shifts from close to land to factory, etc, etc. )
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This has been a problem for like FOREVER. Schools have been carrying the weight of all “humanitarian issues” when it comes to children. The responsibility of helping these kids has been put on schools.
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They are left alone, abandoned, in many cases while parents freak out on them. Rampant. STOP THE MAD SCIENCE please. Fire Fauci, Arrest Trump and ALL governors acting in his good cop/bad cop bullshit scheme. WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE CONSTITUTION.
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