For God’s Sakes, Open the Schools This Fall

By: Joe Marucio

 

Our children are our future, our pride and joy. They come to the world as innocent babies, free of prejudices and preconceived notions.

All of the bad things that happen to them in their later years are due primarily to what they have been taught by and saw in adults. They tend to imitate and pattern themselves after adults in their lives.

After several months of lockdowns, the children of America has been exposed not to Covid19. but to a series of protests, lootings, vandalism, fl ag burnings, statue topplings, etc. Worried parents struggle with how to protect their children from seeing the worst of the violence that appears on TV on a daily basis nowadays.

Children and adolescents are experiencing the collateral consequences of the publicized murder of George Floyd on their cell phones and various social and traditional media. They witness the issues that lead to a divided country they live in.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to help the future generations of America. The future of our children is at stake. We call on the politicians and the school boards to educate the children rather than playing and inculcating politics in their young brains.

No local institution is more important than our public schools. Even as Covid19 cases continue to spike throughout America, school offi cials need to fi nd a way for schools to open safely, with masks, social distancing as appropriate for learning and whatever is necessary to cut the danger. There must also be plans when students or staffers test Covid positive, even negative.

Schooling is too important to get wrong, and too many students have had little to no education since school closed in the spring. It is important to keep students and staffers safe when schools start reopening this coming fall. If students and staffers don’t feel safe, the entire system would collapse. Learn and emulate from other states or other countries on ways to keep safe from the virus and still continue learning in school.

We won’t know if it works until we try it. Let science and facts guide the decisions, let experience alter the course, but let the goal be classroom education, not virtual education, for it is safe and effective in learning that way.##