How Trump’s Push to Reopen Schools Backfired

New York Times: “By some estimates, at least half of the nation’s children will now spend a significant portion of the fall, or longer, learning in front of their laptops.”

“Rising infection rates were clearly the major driver of the move to continue remote learning. But Mr. Trump’s aggressive, often bellicose demands for reopening classrooms helped to harden the views of many educators that it would be unsafe — and give their powerful unions fodder to demand stronger safety measures or to resist efforts to physically reopen.”

“Indeed, as the president has pushed for schools to reopen, key constituencies — parents and educators — have largely moved in the other direction.”