Post-COVID, Families Overwhelmingly Want School Choice — Yet Dems Keep Blocking It; For Kids with Long COVID in the UK, “back to school” Often Means Not Returning At All, and other C-Virus related stories
Post-COVID, families overwhelmingly want school choice — yet Dems keep blocking it
A new poll proves it: Americans, in stunning numbers, want their tax dollars used for schools they select.
That includes private schools, not just the government-run monopolies that have let down so many kids — particularly during the pandemic.
As The Post reported last week, a Center Square survey conducted by Noble Predictive Insights found a full 69% of likely voters back a federal tax credit to let kids attend a school of their choice; just 20% say they should attend the schools they’re assigned.
This wasn’t just Republicans: More than six in 10 Democrats back a federal school-choice program.
Independents, too, overwhelmingly back the market competition that school choice facilitates: Fully 60% favor it.
Alas, Democratic leaders don’t care about voters, even those who vote for them: They routinely oppose voucher and tax-credit programs, parroting the teacher-union lie that using taxpayer funds for private schools leaves public schools short — and that public schools matter most.
Wrong. Taxpayers want their money to buy the best education for their kids, whether from government bureaucrats, private businesses or nonprofits.
“What people ultimately want is for schools to work,” says NPI’s David Byler.
Besides, when traditional schools lose students, their smaller enrollments should lower costs.
And research shows competition actually spurs all schools to improve. —>READ MORE HERE
For kids with long COVID, “back to school” often means not returning at all:
In January 2022, Jennifer Robertson’s now 11-year-old son, Fergus, developed long COVID, a condition in which the symptoms of COVID-19 linger for months or even years. Due to his symptoms, he missed nearly six weeks of school after his first infection. He’d be in and out of the classroom for the rest of the school year.
Robertson never knew how her son would feel day to day. After three months of daily fever spikes, red eyes, and chest pains, the family pulled him out of their school to be homeschooled for a year. There was hope when he returned to in-person school last year at a private, and more flexible, school.
But then he caught the virus, again. This year, as many kids returned to school, Fergus returned to home education. Robertson told Salon in a phone interview that this is to “both to catch him up on things that he needed help with or missed and to try to avoid the non-stop repeat infections that come from school.”
But additionally, the lack of COVID-19 precautions in schools is a deterring factor to sending him in-person. “We feel we will never heal from this as long as schools have no ventilation, open windows, air purifiers, and policies that children and staff can come to school while actively positive with COVID,” Robertson said, adding that she and her family feel “forgotten” as the 2024 school year begins.
“The days, months, and years are rolling by with no precautions from school,” Robertson elaborated. “All the while more children join families like ours every day, due to complete and utter negligence from those around us and the authorities who have the power to change things for the better.”
Robertson and her family are based in the United Kingdom, but the lack of coronavirus protections in educational settings follow an international trend. In 2022, schools across the United States started to relax their masking policies, making them “optional.” Today, seeing a kid wearing a mask in class is a rarity. —>READ MORE HERE
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