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🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Schools are shutting back down and they're closing because of this Omicron case surge we're seeing. |
0:06.7 | And as we know, we covered so many times, we covered at the top of this segment that the hospitalizations, |
0:12.8 | the deaths, the mortality, the ICU visits, and kids are minuscule. |
0:16.9 | And these teachers are closing these down. |
0:19.0 | This is the headline where it looked like we're covering it, tracking it at the high wire. |
0:22.6 | Harms of school closings on kids, ignored as teachers and teachers unions rush to remote learning. |
0:28.0 | And this is all in the backdrop of what we know now. |
0:31.2 | So this is the Toronto Sun calling it inexcusable. |
0:34.8 | This is an opinion piece, but these are in all the papers now. |
0:37.4 | Closing schools at this point is inexcusable. |
0:39.8 | This is Jennifer Grant. |
0:40.8 | She writes, it's almost impossible to enumerate the harms of school closures. |
0:44.4 | Let's go to Chicago. |
0:46.8 | That's one of the biggest pops in the news recently. |
0:49.4 | Chicago's Teachers Union voted to close their schools. |
0:53.0 | Chicago Schools cancel classes after teachers union votes to go virtual. |
0:57.7 | So 73% of the teachers union members voted for remote instruction. |
1:01.8 | Now, that's against a backdrop of this. |
1:04.2 | This is the quote from the article, roughly 100,000 students. |
1:07.4 | And here it is, 91% of its more than 47,000 staff in the district are vaccinated, |
1:13.8 | according to the district. |
1:14.8 | So you're telling me that these vaccinated teachers that are safe, |
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