{"id":1027742,"date":"2021-11-18T13:44:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027742"},"modified":"2021-11-18T13:45:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T18:45:02","slug":"detroit-will-close-schools-on-fridays-for-deep-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/detroit-will-close-schools-on-fridays-for-deep-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Will Close Schools on Fridays for \u2018Deep Cleaning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdetroit-will-close-schools-on-fridays-for-deep-cleaning%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027742&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.817258883249\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Cleaning process does not decrease COVID infections, studies show<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-83780277_736x514-736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-83780277_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-83780277_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-83780277_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 November 18, 2021 1:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"69.719958202717\">\n<p>Detroit&#8217;s public school district will for the month of December switch to a four-day in-person school week, citing COVID-19 protocols that scientists have found to be futile.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Nikolai Vitti <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitk12.org\/site\/default.aspx?PageType=3&amp;DomainID=4&amp;ModuleInstanceID=7278&amp;ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&amp;RenderLoc=0&amp;FlexDataID=60580&amp;PageID=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Wednesday that he made the decision based on &#8220;the need for mental health relief, rising COVID cases, and time to more thoroughly clean schools.&#8221; Assistant Superintendent for Operations Machion Jackson in a Monday committee <a href=\"https:\/\/detroit.chalkbeat.org\/2021\/11\/17\/22788007\/detroit-public-schools-remote-learning-friday-december-covid-spread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;the district prioritizes &#8220;deep cleaning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Studies have shown that &#8220;deep cleaning&#8221;\u2014disinfecting a building floor-to-ceiling\u2014does little to prevent COVID-19, with experts&nbsp;last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2020\/03\/12\/schools-are-deep-cleaning-fight-coronavirus-why-some-experts-say-its-likely-waste-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling<\/a>&nbsp;the <i>Washington Post<\/i>&nbsp;that the process &#8220;may be a waste of time.&#8221; A December 2020 <i>Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology<\/i> study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7832809\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a>&nbsp;that &#8220;deep cleaning&#8221; harms people with asthma.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/community\/disinfecting-building-facility.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes<\/a>&nbsp;that &#8220;the risk of [COVID-19] infection from touching a surface is low.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;mental health relief&#8221; Vitti mentioned likely refers teachers&#8217; unions&#8217; demands that the district return to remote learning.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day week &#8220;makes all the sense in the world considering the mental health and burnout for our folks,&#8221; Detroit Federation of Teachers president Terrence Martin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/education\/2021\/11\/17\/detroit-schools-going-remote-fridays\/8658872002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have found that virtual learning during the coronavirus pandemic has hindered students&#8217; education, including in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/talent-education\/more-michigan-3rd-graders-struggled-read-amid-covid-remote-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan<\/a>, where nearly 5 percent of third graders now lag behind at least a year or more in reading.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes as Detroit schools face challenges over chronic absenteeism. The <i>Detroit Free Press<\/i>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/education\/2021\/11\/16\/detroit-public-schools-students-absent\/6390112001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;the day before Vitti&#8217;s announcement that 57 percent of the city&#8217;s schoolchildren are chronically absent, which means that they have missed 10 percent or more of school days.<\/p>\n<p>School districts across the country have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/news\/education\/kids-not-logging-into-virtual-class-long-term-education-effects-pandemic\/65-80acc445-b6c1-4609-97fb-dce571d0f453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggled<\/a> to get students to show up for virtual learning.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Cleaning process does not decrease COVID infections, studies show  Getty Images  Karl Salzmann \u2022 November 18, 2021 1:30 pm Detroit&#8217;s public school &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1891951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}