The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) will release guidelines next week on how to reopen schools nationwide safely, but some Republican lawmakers are frustrated because the Biden government has no longer taken decisive action.
President Biden promised to reopen schools within his first hundred days in office and told Americans he would “listen to the scientists.”
But the Republican Republic of New York, Nicole Malliotakis, wants the White House to tell teachers that teachers, because of the low transfer rates among young students, need to feel safe going back to the classroom.
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“It would be very helpful if the president and the first lady were willing to intervene here and encourage America’s teachers to get back into the classrooms,” Malliotakis told Jon Scott. “I could tell you, the teachers I talk to in New York City and a lot of those who work in our schools want to go back to work and parents definitely want their kids back in the classroom.”
But the congresswoman’s confidence in the teacher’s determination to return to personal training is at odds with the struggle taking place in the Chicago public school system.
The Chicago Teachers’ Union said on Twitter on Friday that city officials had not met their demands for the return of teachers to the classroom, prompting some teachers to refuse to appear in person.
Concerns about access to vaccines and the exposure of teachers to students in the third largest school district are of great concern that they could transmit the deadly coronavirus to vulnerable loved ones at home.
But Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued an ultimatum and told the teachers union that if teachers refuse to show up for personal tuition on Monday, they will be deemed without leave and will be terminated. on their hands.
Lightfoot did not say whether she would carry out her threat, but rather that the negotiations were underway in a statement on Saturday.
“The parties were in talks throughout the day to determine if there was a path to a final, comprehensive agreement,” she said. “Those discussions continue.”
But while the Biden government has so far remained silent on how schools can be reopened and take their lead from the CDC, some Republicans believe it is a political ploy to stem the coronavirus pandemic.
“What we see from our elected leaders is that they only want to follow the silence when it fits into their narrative and that is politically, politically useful to them,” Malliotakis said Saturday. “You see it on the education front with President Biden and you see it incidentally with the reopening of our restaurants here in New York City.”
CDC director Rochelle Walensky told reporters earlier this week that the vaccine was not a requirement to get teachers back in the classroom.
“There is increasing data indicating that schools can reopen safely and that safe reopening does not indicate that teachers need to be vaccinated to reopen safely,” Walensky said during a Wednesday press briefing. “Vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for the safe reopening of schools.”
But even if teachers agree to go back to personal training without receiving a vaccine, dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned in January that achieving the goal ‘may not happen’ due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Access to vaccines is ultimately at the heart of the reopening of the school debate, forcing lawmakers to realize that the public may not want to return to normal before widespread vaccinations become a reality.
“We need to focus on increasing supply, taking the vaccine on everyone who wants to take it. And we need to reopen this economy,” Malliotakis told Fox News. “And I do not see that balanced approach and presuppose it.”