As politicians and ideologues argue, schools have to address the problems encountered by the students who show up each day. And because this exceeds what schools were designed for, they are often not well equipped to take on these challenges. The failures of everyone else, from the president to public health leaders to governors, all get passed to the schools. The students will be back at school in person on an amended schedule, with required temperature checks and masks. Upon our return to the school, there was talk of raises, with the buzzwords “hazard pay” and “essential worker” floating about.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2020 20:03 UTC