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Here’s the thing on school reopening... the recent future will look like the recent past.
Most Governors will stay hands-off about school reopening, and leave it to 14,000 superintendents. Just as they did in March, and again in the summer.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS...
1/ https://twitter.com/zacbissonnette/status/1314341528559652866
Most Governors will stay hands-off about school reopening, and leave it to 14,000 superintendents. Just as they did in March, and again in the summer.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS...
1/ https://twitter.com/zacbissonnette/status/1314341528559652866
The goal isn’t a policy remedy, it’s air cover for 14,000 superintendents and the pro-reopening teachers in each district.Incidentally, the above reality is precisely why I’m am so upset that media coverage of the incident-free reopenings has been so weak.
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Media coverage is the air cover for supes and the discourse-changer in social media.
Therefore, we need to keep sharing these stories:
CA
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-sees-no-link-from-school-openings-to-15626000.php
FL
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/09/28/florida-schools-reopened-en-mass-feared-covid-surge-hasnt-followed/3557417001/
EU
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/coronavirus-outbreaks-schools-europe/2020/09/27/0dd19bf6-ff48-11ea-b0e4-350e4e60cc91_story.html
MO
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/early-success-in-containing-virus-prompts-more-st-louis-area-schools-to-bring-students-back/article_f51a746a-4da2-5383-bb87-0fe995dfdf27.html
CT
https://www.courant.com/coronavirus/hc-news-coronavirus-hybrid-transition-20200928-xm6jjx3ecza3nkxypqxpji2g3e-story.html
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Therefore, we need to keep sharing these stories:
CA
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-sees-no-link-from-school-openings-to-15626000.php
FL
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/09/28/florida-schools-reopened-en-mass-feared-covid-surge-hasnt-followed/3557417001/
EU
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/coronavirus-outbreaks-schools-europe/2020/09/27/0dd19bf6-ff48-11ea-b0e4-350e4e60cc91_story.html
MO
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/early-success-in-containing-virus-prompts-more-st-louis-area-schools-to-bring-students-back/article_f51a746a-4da2-5383-bb87-0fe995dfdf27.html
CT
https://www.courant.com/coronavirus/hc-news-coronavirus-hybrid-transition-20200928-xm6jjx3ecza3nkxypqxpji2g3e-story.html
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Share the brand new story out of Illinois:
685,000 students are back in schools, only 105 student and 73 teacher cases tracked.
Small clusters only, which are managed. We can reopen schools and manage spread.
#SameStoryDifferentState
4/ https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-has-had-covid-19-outbreaks-in-44-schools-but-wont-say-where-theyve-occurred
685,000 students are back in schools, only 105 student and 73 teacher cases tracked.
Small clusters only, which are managed. We can reopen schools and manage spread.
#SameStoryDifferentState
4/ https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-has-had-covid-19-outbreaks-in-44-schools-but-wont-say-where-theyve-occurred
This is an exercise in persuasion. In bringing the growing body of evidence to families, teachers, communities... to reassure and counter fears. Parent fears, teacher fears.
I’d like to suggest that @apsmunro is
right here.
5/ https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1314217334932942849
I’d like to suggest that @apsmunro is
right here.5/ https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1314217334932942849
My hunch, as a parent who has persuaded quite a few friends that reopening is right thing to do: barbed OpEds about unions will not so the trick. Zoom chats with friends to talk about these stories after you post them on Facebook will.
TY for sharing, y’all.
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TY for sharing, y’all.
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By the way, let me edit myself:
Governors can play a role. This thread notes DeSantis’s pressure in Florida and Raimondo’s effective persuasion in Rhode Island.
If you can get your Gov to act, good on you! I’m just not holding my breath. Local control pervades in K–12...
7/8 https://twitter.com/karenvaites/status/1310359206458003456
Governors can play a role. This thread notes DeSantis’s pressure in Florida and Raimondo’s effective persuasion in Rhode Island.
If you can get your Gov to act, good on you! I’m just not holding my breath. Local control pervades in K–12...
7/8 https://twitter.com/karenvaites/status/1310359206458003456
Even when local control is basically governors’ excuses not to lead on this issue.
But changing winds in social media registers with politicians, too. Community persuasion is the tactic we’ve got.
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But changing winds in social media registers with politicians, too. Community persuasion is the tactic we’ve got.
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