President Donald Trump in a ramped-up push to reopen schools vowed Tuesday to “put pressure” on reluctant governors, while Education Secretary Betsy DeVos blasted education leaders who won’t accept risk and “gave up and didn’t try” to launch summer instruction.
But a statement Tuesday night from teachers unions, the PTA, special education administrators and secondary school principals indicated that instead their relationship with the White House has hit a new low. “They think it's going to be good for them politically, so they keep the schools closed —No way,” he said during a roundtable discussion at the White House. “So we're very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools, to get them open. And it's very important. It's very important for our country. It's very important for the well being of the student and the parents.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar separately backed up DeVos, saying parents should expect schools to deliver a safe learning environment for their children, even during a pandemic.
Never cared for this woman.she is a joke.she can not relate to people.
Trump is terrifying families by forcing them to endanger their children...Trump is worse than any thug or terrorist.
the risk to our children is nothing compared to their avoiding totally deserved political fallout. MurderousCowards
Devos is the sister of Erik Prince, famed thug of Blackwater. Their family is a viper's nest.
DeVos doesn't care what kids die. Wasn't it her family that set up those detention centers that they put kids and parents in at the border?
What a morally repulsive human being
This might mean more coming from an expert who knows & understands education - which she DOES NOT.
The left wants the US to be like Europe until it comes crunch time. If the US followed Europe's science and data schools would be opening as usual but it's more about politics than science or data. It's all about getting Trump and the left doesn't really care about citizens.
Don't send your kids to school until it's safe. It's not up to her or Twitler.
These politicians are so detached from reality and the working class/working poor, that it's not even funny. This. Is. Bad.
Hope that we will see profiles in courage and any Governor, superintendent/county executive/mayor who, after consulting with public health experts, does not believe it to be a safe move, will REFUSE. These decisions should be based at the local level based on local data.
Death-count 7/8 in countries that took prompt aggressive action: S. Korea: 285 Japan: 978 Hong Kong: 7 Taiwan: 7 NZ: 22 AU: 106 The US where Trump called COVID-19 a hoax & ignored it for 70 days, faced huge deficit of ventilators/masks/PPEs US COVID-19 Death Toll Tops 133,991.
Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected. So anyone could pairing the flu to covid-19 and how contagious it is should recheck themselves
Obviously it will be bad for Trump’s chances for re-election, so he needs them open. To heck with the consequences.
And the icu beds are full. I guess it doesn’t matter they have nowhere to treat the sick staff, children and their families when they force schools to reopen. If Manafort and Stone can’t be in prison, kids can’t be in schools.
Tick tock.
My son took two summer school classes. All online. It worked fine.
These are our children lives, they are gambling with. We need to pressure them to protect them from thier greed.
BetsyDevos is kindly invited to spend a week co-teaching my classes.
Remember when you had to have guns in schools? Because a bear might come into a classroom? Where was 'degree of risk' then?
Another psychopath
realDonaldTrump is willing to sacrifice the lives of our children because he thinks it will be helpful to his personal ambitions to win re-election. The so-called president is threatening our lives to achieve his personal political goals. TrumpMustGoNow WorstPresidentEver
BetsyDeVosED Give us your plan on how to educate the children safely. I'm sure you thought this through, right? If you want them back in school safely they need; More funding More teachers More space (for social distancing) Bigger buildings (again more space) Better leaders.
No one who cares about the safety & education of their child should listen to CruellaDeVos. She's working to syphon taxpayer money from low- & middle-class public schools to her private Talibangelical madrassas.
Idc what anyone say, I want to see ALL of these politicians in Washington put their kid in school and not no damn homeschooling. Go gamble with your kids life, not everyone elses.
What is wrong with her besides being one of the world's worse ppl, and him. What is the motive for this. It's always selfish and benefits them.
I pray that they don't reap what they sow, but that we get much, much better leadership. There is no way children should go back to school without the planning and funds needed to protect them, their families and the staff. Wear a mask. Black lives matter. Vote. Care for all. =
trump has a long list of groups that he attacks or harms....Hispanics, Blacks, Mexicans, Muslims, Environmentalists, immigrants, Asians/Chinese...why not children now? Subject them to the plague where they can easily spread it among their friends/family & grandparents!
She should head into the classroom herself if she’s so willing to accept the risk.
We're leaning towards online schooling for our son. I'm not putting him in any kind of danger whatsoever. Fuck all that bullshit. trumpvirus
ah the woman who steals children from trump's cages to put them in her christian foster care system. yeah, we're gonna listen to her.....not.
The billionaire DeVos has no background or experience in education than a baboon in the wild. She cannot be trusted with any aspect related to education.
Does she suffer from COVID-19 induced brain damage?
Nobody cares what she has to say. She has no business being in the position she has. She fully embodies the trump swamp.
Republicans continue their efforts to kill those who live in underfunded communities. Schools in these communities are over crowded. They won’t have funding to take measures to lower COVID risk, and the families don’t have the healthcare coverage to get better when they catch it.
Looking forward to having an educator and not a campaign donor in this roll. This lady couldn't clean the bathrooms in our school.
Trust fund Karen strikes again.
What a despicable “human” being.
Open the schools!
Hmm, there was some other major organization that said we should be opening schools too. Who was it again...? Ah, yes!
BetsyDeVosED where the fk have you been?
This loser is willing to bet a generation of young Americans on what little we know about COVID19 just a few months in. At a few months in AIDS was still GRID: Gay Related Immune Disorder bc they thought only gay men were impacted. Is it airborne? We don't even know that yet.
I can’t wait until NYGovCuomo turns her into human compost.
Dang is it that easy to be brainwashed by Trump?
Did you ask him about putting pressure on Russia over the Taliban bounties? Ask him that one. That’s all I’m interested in right now. Coward or kompromat?
States will open their schools when they feel ready. Florida is teeming with the virus now. Not time to risk the lives of students, teachers, and people who work in the schools. Can’t wait to have a president who isn’t Hell bent on killing us.
What's he gonna do about it? Take the children from their parents & put them in cages?
GOPDeathCult TrumpDeathToll133K not high enough must add more children as well.
NO WE DONT!
Trump cheated at school and despised military service and he's telling others to go to school under extremely dangerous conditions?
Republicans are at war with our citizens. They could at least not make things worse if they are not going to do anything effective and constructive. Just get out of the way of those who are trying to save lives.
You first, El Trumpo
Trump should stick to deciding which one of his courses he'll play golf at next; that's all his really good at.
Let’s keep the children safe ! Keep the children home 🏠
Anyone who wants to send kids to school, its your right. My RIGHT is to keep them home safe! You Can’t tell us ANYTHING, U became USELESS when it took U 2 months to stop China travel. The EUROPEAN BAN Didn’t Happen TILL when? The VIRUS IS HERE! MASKS, Distancing & Proper PPE!!
“...we will put out the fires as they come up.” The country is a BLAZING INFERNO already, and you’re doing nothing!
Put out the fires. What is that....dead children?
We the People need to get rid of this guy. Mass protests at the White House.
But it's summer break.....don't make them go back til September....of 2021
He’s truly ill.
What happened to the proponents of States Rights?
Trump clone FL Gov. DeSantis opened the beaches...open spaces...and thousands got sick and many are dying. Imagine a school room with kids sitting right in line with each other. TrumpIsKillingUs
Totally insane
I vowed to put pressure on the governors and realDonaldTrump if decide to put kids back to school during the pandemic and it still not safe you will hear from me
We should just let all trump supporters send their kids to school first. At least for a couple of months. Just to see if it is safe for our children to go after. Better to be safe then regretting it.
How did that work out for Israel? Check the stats right after they recently sent kids back to schools!
Now he is attacking state's rights? TrumpIsANationalDisgrace TrumpIsAnIdiot TrumpIsUnfit
Wrong pressure, punk.
realDonaldTrump is so obsessed with everything just being normal again by Election Day and he doesn’t care about reality. I can’t even...
Let the non vaccine ppl go first 😉.
After Mary Trump’s book, I realized trump doesn’t give a fuck about our kids.
So what’s does the science, data, and risk analysis say about our kids and staff health. That’s what should be driving the decisions not a decree from a president who has no interest in the safety and health of the nation firmly ensnarled in a pandemic.
No conscious
What evidence do we have to believe that he would even attempt to put out 'fires' as they come up... 😞 The entire country is on fire right now and the administration appears to be actively making it worse.
How quickly will realDonaldTrump jump to open schools if he has to send Baron to public school? Is he willing to risk HIS life?
...the Bringer of Sickness, Death, and Carnage.....
COVIDiotInChief
As always the low hanging fruit and the Tuff-Talk to go with it.
Wait a second. Wasn't his idea of deal with fires was to sweep forests of debris so they wouldn't catch fire? Can we expect the same kind of logic with schools?
What kind of protections and safe guards are you going to give teachers, administrators, facility, lunch room, aides, volunteers and all the others who are vital for school to happen? I can see a nationwide strike if this isn’t addressed.
realDonaldTrump We now put kids on the menu for the sake of the trumpconomy
It’s. Not. Safe.
Daycares and camps r operating safely this summer. We can do this.
Put pressure on them to mandate masks Canada 🇨🇦 did
Don’t think so. He can’t buck the teachers’ unions.
A little faith people, Kids are resilient & will recover with a delay in school opening, let’s save their lives & their teachers first & then educate them later, they are our future including mine
That's odd, because, according to the COVID-19 graphs, it's time to stay away from large crowds and social gatherings.
Trump doesn’t give a crap about anyone but himself.
Wouldn’t it be lovely if he’d just go play golf 24/7 for the next 6 months 🙏🏻
Just like you pressured them to reopen their states. How well is that working out for you? Doesn’t look very good according to the stats.
And you are doing so well in FL! 🤮
Not safe no school dont send the children 👶
But the house is already on fire and you want to throw a party.
Trump cares nothing about Americans’ lives or health, only his re-election.
trumpdecidestokillkids
It’d be cool if we could maybe put out the current fire or are we just ignoring it? TrumpVirus
The left isn't interested in the actual science that's why they stand behind Fauci but the rest of the world and their data suggests kids can go to school safely and are already doing it around the globe. Many more kids under 15 have died from the annual flu than the Wuflu.
What pressure is that? He'll tweet nasty crap about them if they refuse? He has no power over the schools whatsoever.
This clown has completely surrendered. It's an embarrassment
Trump: I don't give a damn about your children.
Well, of course if you believe this virus is harmless, you can hardly understand why anyone would want to avoid it.
Translation: “Bring me your children. I will sacrifice them on the altar of my incompetence to ensure my election.”
Let him send Barron if it is so safe
Have the public school children expose each, and their families, to COVID-19. The children of the 1% are in private schools where they are tested daily for the virus.
When he has his son walk into a public school that lacks preventive resources, that is when parents should send their kids in.
realDonaldTrump COVID-19 is a conflagration that is taking over our country. It is not a little fire that you can put out with a garden hose.
This is a typical conservative government ploy to discredit public schools. They will open up the schools during the pandemic, It will not go well, and they will use that as a reason to privatize the school system even more.
The country is on fire moron!
130,000 to 180000 dead and continuing!
Like DumbTrump is informed about ANYTHING and can guide the country with his 'I think's.' Ever notice how frequently he starts sentences with 'I think. . . .' His self-declared reliable 'gut feelings' have never once steered me.
He has had success extinguishing lives in Texas.
Good
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