Sure enough! We just discuss school closures in NYC as being under the control of the teacher’s union there when the same group pops up in NOVA demanding the same action! (https://patch.com/virginia/ashburn/nova-teachers-unions-call-return-virtual-schooling-watch). Just like a copy-cat crime. Someone starts the process and others follow!
NYC schools showed no trend in COVID-19 cases occurring because of in-school class attendance (https://freemannews.com/2020/11/20/families-blast-school-closures). Prince William County Schools (PWCS) have had no negative trends either. Yet the teachers’ union in PWC has added its voice to those of Loudoun and Fairfax teachers’ unions to ask Governor Northam to issue a mandate that requires 100% virtual learning.
Fairfax has a higher occurrence of COVID among the population than has PWC. The teachers’ unions don’t cite school statistics as the reason for wanting to close schools. Instead, they look at the…
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Citizen Tom 
I don’t have children but I can only imagine the frustration and ager parents have over this. San Diego Unified still has not opened schools but private schools all around the county have had in person learning for months with no Covid disasters happening.
At what point do people start storming the castle?
@Tricia
For the sake of the election, the news media created a huge fear of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Now the only way they can turn off the fear is with the vaccine. Sick!
I can’t tell you how frustrating it is. Our district has time to implement all sort of “special programs” but just basic education isn’t one of them. I have a letter I’m getting ready to send to our school district just up the road from yours. Such a joke!
Yep!
We are not adults. We need governors to tell us how to avoid getting the flu.