education has always been something that is very, very important to me. It's something in my

family that was always stressed and always highlighted. Even my grandparents and great-grandparents

who came from farming and cattle ranching in the Midwest and in the west of the United States

all got college degrees in agricultural and animal husbandry

because they knew it was the way that they could improve their situation.

And that's why when I look at the education system here,

it's really a travesty because we are seeing it effectively locked down

because of the response to COVID. And I have children that are in school

right now. I have a teenage daughter and it's also potentially creating what they're calling

a lost generation. And a group of head teachers wrote Boris Johnson, our prime minister this week,

saying that, quote, schools are being locked down by defaults. And the reason they said that is because currently in

the in England right now, 412,000 students are off school due to the coronavirus. And out of those,

355,000 of them are self-isolating because they cannot get access to tests. Imagine that.

355,000 students that could be going to school, but they can't go because they can't get access

to the tests. And if you will look further, it gets even worse because week on week, 50% more

schools have shut completely because of, again, this lack of access to testing.

One in 10 schools right now in England are partially closed.

And one of the shocking statistics is in secondary schools.

It's gone from 82% that are open down to 79% that are open week on week.

If that continues, we could be at half capacity before Christmas.

And it really alarms me, but on top of all that,

it gets even worse because 17% of parents

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