President Joe Biden said Tuesday that schools should remain open despite the ongoing nationwide surge of COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant.
Union members threatened to stay home to force instruction to move online during the surge in cases.
“Nobody signs up for being a home-schooler at the last minute,” she said on Tuesday night. “We can’t forget about how disruptive that remote process is to individual parents who have to work, who can’t afford the luxury of staying home.” The governors of Florida, Massachusetts, and New Jersey have called for schools to remain open despite staffing challenges, according. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law during the summer that requires distance learning to come through independent study, which most classrooms can’t provide.
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