Donald Trump wants students to physically go back to school and attend classes in person, despite CDC guidelines warning against it.
On Wednesday, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, the president of the National Education Association (NEA), appeared on CNN to slam Trump for urging students to go back to school in the fall without even offering any guidelines or precautionary methods.
“Did you hear the word he didn’t use? ‘Safely,’” Garcia said Wednesday in reference to Trump’s event the previous day on reopening schools.
“There’s no one that wants our kids back more than teachers … but we want to open it safely,” she said on CNN’s “New Day.”
“We see what happens when they let bars open prematurely,” she added, noting spikes in coronavirus community spread in states that were quick to reopen. “This isn’t a bar. We’re talking about second graders. I had 39 sixth graders one year in my class. I double-dog dare Donald Trump to sit in a class of 39 sixth graders and breathe that air without any preparation for how we’re going to bring our kids back safely.”
“I double dog dare Donald Trump to sit in a class of 39 sixth graders and breathe that air without any preparation for how we’re going to bring our kids back safely.”
National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen Garcia says schools can only reopen if done so safely. pic.twitter.com/d13sVYr5oS— New Day (@NewDay) July 8, 2020
To top Trump’s horrible plan on reopening schools, he also claimed that he would stop funding public schools who choose not to open in the fall.
