A pediatrician says public school leaders in Detroit must think parents and taxpayers are stupid when they learn about a temporary plan to fight COVID-19 cases in the classroom: Skip school on Fridays.
Michigan is experiencing a jump in COVID-19 cases, which includes students attending school, so school officials in Detroit have announced a four-day school week that conveniently means a three-day weekend for students and for teachers.
Dr. Rosemary Stein, a pediatrician and member of the Christian Medical and Dental Association, says what is missing from that plan is any medial reasoning for dropping a day of school.
“There’s no valid reason medically for decreasing the school week to four days a week,” she says. “And to point to that as a cause for doing it is ludicrous and telling us as parents and taxpayers that we’re dumb.”
According to The Blaze, school district Superintendent Nikolai Vitti announced schools were dropping Friday during December to prevent virus cases. He also said doing so would provide “mental health relief” for students and give more time to clean classrooms.
Vitti also said in the announcement there is “great consideration” for requiring COVID-19 shots for students in the future, too.
“They’re making decisions,” Dr. Stein warns, “without understanding that the people to be affected by these decisions are the parents and, of course, the children.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
It would make sense if the virus was transmissible only on Fridays but a virus doesn’t have that type of schedule. So what about the other four days?
Add to that, have kids NOT ALREADY MISSED ENOUGH SCHOOLING, cause of this damnable virus and the politicians RESPONSE TO IT!?!?!?
I have no problem with going to four 10 hour work days, but I am not a single mom who will have to pay the freight of an extra day of day care, or a store owner getting robbed by gangs of youth let loose on society for a day with no adult supervision. If they were serious about clasroom student “Mental relief” they would add an hour per week in the study of biblical truths that set people free in the ability to Self-govern themselves to replace the Marxist lies and socialist entitlement ideology that currently is taught to enslave their minds in social dependency and pandemic fear.
Teachers have been the one occupation that SHIRKED their way through Covid, treating it as a paid sabbatical -a year or more off. They are the most shameless of union members as others in trucking and retail have kept necessary supply lines running (until lately in California). Instead of being professionals like health care workers who have risen to above and beyond their duty, teachers have made NO attempt to look after their student charges, costing untold loss in literacy etc. in underprivileged children whose parents cannot or will not compensate for teachers leaving them to vegetate. Union drones wrongly calling themselves teachers have done permanent damage to borderline kids. FOR SHAME!
YET they still clamor for MORE PAY…
RIGHT NOW I don’t believe they deserve what they ALREADY GET PAID… Let alone deserve more.