In a new video interview, Joe Biden claimed that schools should be able to reopen by this time next year or sooner. This time next year? The education of our children is being damaged right now. And has been being damaged for almost a year now.
Let’s say for instance there is a school in a low income part of New York, where many of the students do not have wireless internet at home. Perhaps their parents are struggling to pay their heating and electric bills and cannot afford the internet.
Let’s say many of these families also cannot afford a personal computer, and the school does not have enough funding to provide each of its attendees a computer and internet for the duration of the pandemic. How could we possibly expect students in these situations to receive the same quality of education as their peers or students at different schools? This indirectly shoves those in poverty further down the ladder.
These closures can also have a major effect on the mental stability of some children. Many children, without school will not receive the social interactions they need. Especially for younger kids school also doubles as a place to learn social cues and how to interact with other people.
If there is a vaccine that’s effective why not have schools open? Because we are prisoners is why. No longer allowed to think or gather. Cut taxes and start with the school system that’s closed and not providing services.