{"id":16879,"date":"2020-08-12T22:29:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T03:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=16879"},"modified":"2020-08-12T21:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T02:05:51","slug":"canceling-school-hurts-low-income-minority-families-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/08\/12\/canceling-school-hurts-low-income-minority-families-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Canceling School hurts Low-Income, Minority Families the most"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheWashington, D.C.<\/strong> – President Donald Trump welcomed a group of teachers, parents, and physicians to the White House today to discuss how best to get American children back to school safely this fall.
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\nKellyanne Conway: 65 percent of parents worry kids will fall behind<\/a>
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\nHalf of low-income families and 42 percent of families of color lack sufficient devices at home to access distance learning.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence listen as Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway delivers remarks during a discussion on safely reopening schools. (White House)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nearly 30 million American students rely on schools for free or reduced-cost meals, and more than 70 percent of children receiving mental health services do so at school.
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\nClosed schools put vulnerable students and families at risk. <\/p>\n

When the American Academy of Pediatrics issued its call to safely reopen schools this fall, it explained that in-person school helps reduce children\u2019s risk of abuse, drug addiction, and suicide.
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\nThe U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recognized that it is a public health priority to return students to in-person learning, and it has released guidelines<\/a> to help communities do just that. \u201cWe are working literally day in and day out with governors and state education leaders to find a way that we can safely reopen our schools,\u201d Vice President Pence said.
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\nThe bottom line: Keeping our schools shut down would do more harm than good. 
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\n\u201cI thought digital learning was the future, but we have learned through this COVID crisis that we haven\u2019t got digital learning to the point where you can really engage young people,\u201d Dr. Paul Peterson told President Trump today.
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\nDr. Peterson: \u201cThey\u2019ve got to be in that classroom.\u201d<\/a> 
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\nPresident Trump wants to ensure that students, parents, and communities have the support they need to educate children safely this fall. He has called on Congress to provide more than $100 billion in education funding as part of the next Coronavirus relief package, $70 billion of which will go directly to helping K-12 schools remain open.
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\nIf schools don\u2019t reopen in certain states or communities, funding should go directly to students, allowing parents to explore other options such as private, charter, religious, or home schooling to educate their kids.
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\n\u201cIf the school is closed, why are we paying the school?\u201d President Trump asked. \u201cI\u2019d rather give it to the student or the parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nFortunately, the case for reopening is backed by science. There is an extremely small risk of serious illness to children from the Coronavirus. According to a Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics study, \u201cchildren are at far greater risk of critical illness from influenza than COVID-19.\u201d
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\nWhile vulnerable populations in schools must be protected, most K-12 teachers are relatively young. The median age for these educators is 41, and over 90 percent are under the age of 60. For people under 60, Coronavirus fatality rates are so low that they are less than or equal to those associated with the seasonal flu. 
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\n\u201cThe science is so clear that the risk of death or hospitalization for children with this virus is so, so low,\u201d said Dr. Melanie McGraw Piasecki, a mother of three. \u201cBut we know the risks of missing school are catastrophic. We probably don\u2019t even know how high they are yet.\u201d
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\nShutting down schools is not the answer. A safe reopening that follows public health guidance is.
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\nPresident Donald Trump: \u201cI would like the money to follow the student.\u201d<\/a>
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\nRead More: We can reopen our schools safely<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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