Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H.

many low-income parents have allied themselves with teachers, especially in low-income districts, as they demand vaccinations, classroom spacing, personal protective equipment, disinfectants, and improved ventilation systems in buildings and classrooms that were already severely lacking in these areas.

The reopening schools controversy is another tactic to create chaos in the public education sector by presenting teachers in a negative light and distracting the larger public from other issues at hand.

teachers and their union leaders are repeatedly calling for teacher vaccinations before fully reopening schools.

there is little appetite to provide the necessary funding, during this pandemic, to support the in-person education of these students in a safe and healthy way.

They assume that the proper protocols of building ventilation, small class sizes, social distancing, mask wearing, hand washing, and access to disinfectants are widely available in all school settings.

Without strong COVID-19 mitigation, the rapid return to school will be a dumpster fire.

The lack of access to remote learning among the poorest students, who have mushroomed in number during the pandemic, is a challenge that has not yet effectively been dealt with.

Like Dr. King, Biden must be mindful that when politically riven divisions are undergirded by race and a Republican commitment to reinstituting political and social Apartheid, he needs to focus on expanding his base.

Trump and his merry band of insurgents have sparked actual and proposed attacks against democracy and minority citizens across the country.