{"id":1204990,"date":"2022-01-10T13:50:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1204990"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:51:04","slug":"former-biden-covid-task-force-member-calls-remote-school-a-failure-we-kept-kids-out-way-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-biden-covid-task-force-member-calls-remote-school-a-failure-we-kept-kids-out-way-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Biden Covid Task Force Member Calls Remote School A \u2018Failure\u2019: \u2018We Kept Kids Out Way Too Long\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\">36<\/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%2Fformer-biden-covid-task-force-member-calls-remote-school-a-failure-we-kept-kids-out-way-too-long%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=1204990&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--><p>Dr.&nbsp;Zeke Emanuel, a former member of President Biden\u2019s COVID-19 task force, said Sunday that remote schooling for U.S. children has been \u201ca failure across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta asked Emanuel during an appearance on the network what his advice to the Biden administration would be on whether schools should remain open or shut again due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI agree with Mayor Lightfoot that kids have to be in school, and we know that virtual learning did not work. It was a failure across the country and we kept kids out way too long,\u201d Emanuel told Acosta on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s recently remarked that, \u201cOur kids need to be back in school. Schools are safe.\u201d The Chicago Teachers Union voted to return to remote learning, but the Chicago Public Schools system canceled classes, saying the district wants to continue in-person learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do we have to do? Teachers have to be fully vaccinated and get boosted. Children who can be vaccinated have to be vaccinated,\u201d said Emanuel, who is the Vice Provost of Global Health Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel suggested that schools can adopt safety measures like air purifiers in classrooms and using high-quality masks to mitigate the spread and stay open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are billions of dollars available for the federal government to improve and upgrade schools,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know virtual learning for kids in first grade and above is not very effective for them, and we lose many kids,\u201d Emanuel emphasized. \u201cSo I think we have to prioritize in-person learning and put the safety measures we know work to reduce transmission to work there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Biden advisor added that prioritizing football games over keeping schools open seems \u201cupside-down\u201d to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think that we have our priorities upside-down when we think dining in restaurants, going to football games, going to basketball games are more important than having schools open. That just seems upside-down in this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlright, hopefully we\u2019ll get right-side up at some point,\u201d Acosta responded.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers unions and union members in several cities including Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco are pressuring their school districts to return to remote learning.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some schools across the country either delayed returning to in-person classes after winter break or returned to remote learning for now due to COVID-19 concerns, including Washington DC, Seattle, and Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Teachers Union CTU President&nbsp;Jesse Sharkey called Lightfoot \u201crelentlessly stupid\u201d for trying to force teachers to continue teaching in person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are asking for some basic common sense safety measures. We want a metric when the majority of the classes are on quarantine. We don\u2019t have the reassurance we need to restart school,\u201d Sharkey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/chicago-teachers-union-boss-calls-lightfoot-relentlessly-stupid-for-trying-to-reopen-schools\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In San Francisco, the teacher\u2019s union is demanding 10 paid sick days for all COVID-19 related reasons and that the school district provide two N95 or KN95 masks for every student and employee every day.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Zeke Emanuel, a former member of President Biden\u2019s COVID-19 task force, said Sunday that remote schooling for U.S. children has been \u201ca failure across the country.\u201d CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta asked Emanuel during an appearance on the network what his advice to the Biden administration would be on whether schools should remain open or shut again &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204990","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}