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So the other day at a staff meeting, our producer Rosie mentioned something she had just heard

on NPR that really hit us all hard. It was a chat

between host Rachel Martin and reporter Corey Turner about school superintendents, all of whom are

trying to figure out how to keep classrooms open amid the latest COVID surge. And no matter what they do,

they just can't win. You know, I was talking to Dan Dominic yesterday.

He talks to superintendents all the time as head of the National School Superintendent's

Association.

And he told me he's heard something from a few superintendents personally that he's never

heard before.

And I should say, this might be a little hard to hear.

Superintendent's calling me, telling me that they're ready to commit suicide.

That I've never, ever seen a period of time where I've had to deal with that.

Oh, my gosh, Corey.

I mean, that's just amazing, awful to hear that school leaders would feel this way?

Yeah, I mean, it's a pressure cooker right now, this debate around safe schooling. Yeah. to hear that school leaders would feel this way?

Yeah, I mean, it's a pressure cooker right now, this debate around safe schooling.

And school leaders and educators feel like whatever they do, they're going to make somebody angry.

And that is a huge difference between now and say where we started this thing almost two years ago.

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