President Biden said once he took once, that within 100 days they would reopen schools, however now he has downscaled it to just reopening kindergarten through eighth grade. Many politicians, including minority leader Mitch McConnell, are putting pressure on reopening school for students to return to in-person learning. He comments that they are falling behind and missing out on their education. There’s also some pushback on the democratic side about how they can’t reopen schools because of how the former President Trump’s handle on the pandemic. The problem of how Republicans have been losing votes by suburban white women has to lead to them choosing to focus on this issue specifically to gain more votes back to their party. And therefore it will hurt Democrats in the midterm elections. There is also the question of whether it is enough to vaccinate the teachers or to test everyone for Covid-19. it also brought about the definition of what constitutes opening the schools up. If it means just the lower levels of children.
Tahbata Zuniga Diaz
Citation: Hulse, C. (2021, February 12). Republicans seize on Shuttered schools as a political rallying cry. Retrieved February 12, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/us/politics/school-reopenings-coronavirus.html
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