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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Friday July 17th 2020. I am John

popcorns the editor of commentary with me as always executive editor a green

walled hide hi John associate editor no arosman high Noah hi John senior

writer Christine Rose and high Christine hi John so just as life creeps of

its petty pace from day to day we find ourselves with no new twist on the news

today it's just the same old same old so let me just get to the quick same old

we talked yesterday about the LA unified school district announcing you know

that it was basically shutting down and there was gonna be no in class

learning in the fall despite the fact that these schools have gigantic

physical plans and they could do classes outdoors and basically this in my

mind seemed to reveal that there is a general attitude among educators public

school educators in the United States that they shouldn't have to go to work and

that everything should be bent to making sure that they get whatever it is that

they want in New York City yesterday afternoon after we we did our podcast build

the blasio announced the mayor that while a schooling was going to be

intermittent either two days a week they don't really know yet how they're doing

it that in an effort to deal with the problem of kids alone at home or

parents needing to work that they were going to set up daycare for a hundred

thousand kids in New York City daycare so in other words school buildings are

going to be closed but massive facilities housing thousands of kids all over

the city are going to be opened so teachers will not have to go to schools but

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