Miranda Devine tells 'America's Newsroom' the Democratic leaders are caving in to the teachers' union and doing 'incalculable' harm to children by closing NYC schools.
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Good NEWS,
David Lee in New York
joining us for more
on the school shutdown in New
York City Miranda, Devine
the cover of the New York
Post
here it is no class, is the
headline this morning:
clueless Cuomo and Deblasio
close schools, hurting kids and
parents.
You watched that news
conference yesterday Miranda
and you see the governor and
the way he responded to fair
questions coming from that
Wall Street Journal reporter
parents are confused
what is happening here Miranda.
Well, unfortunately, New York
is saddled with two extremely
bad leaders.
We put the dunce cap on both of
theme and they deserve it.
The way theyve handled this
pandemic from the beginning has
been appalling.
The nursing home deaths that
the governor presided over are
a terrible blight on this state.
Now to be closing schools based
on no science, it is just at a
three percent case rate, not positive
rate, not death rate three percent case
rate when even the World Health
Organization says you dont
have to do anything until five percent is
simply caving into the
teachers unions, because when
the schools initially opened
late, that was the deal that
was struck with the teachers
union by the city,
and they said as soon as the
case rate goes to three percent. What
are parents meant to do and
children meant to do
the harm to children is incall.
Cue, able
the risk to them is minuscule,
absolutely tiny.
We know the numbers now.
We know the numbers better than
we did at the beginning of the
pandemic back in March.
We know that children are
damaged by not going to school.
Why do this to them again?
It is so cruel,
the poor parents who just
the ones who have to go out and
work. What are they meant to do?
Not? To mention
science has to involve the
American Pediatric Association,
who has not only pointed out
the risks of Covid 19, but the
risks of kids continuing to be
out of school,
the risk of isolation, lack of
socialization.
They call it a travesty.
Travesty, ridiculous and
cruel
cruel to the students and their
parents
cruel to the Citizenry school
is a safe place for kids and
they will now be denied it
parents think of the parents
having to scramble tomorrow.
Here we are pre thank giving.
What are they going to do?
I want to be clear.
The announcement that Deblasio
made and how he made it
here is the tweet
clearly how he explained this
to New York City, public school
families.
New York City has reached the
three percent testing positive, seven day
average threshold.
This means public school
buildings will be closed. As of
tomorrow, Thursday November
19th.
Out of an abundance of caution,
we must fight back the second
wave of Covid 19.
We should be clear: nobody is
questioning that there is a
spike happening right now.
We acknowledge there is a surge
in cases happening across the
country.
We acknowledge the need to be
safe to social distance. Wear
a mask wash your hands.
Where is the evidence that kids
are spreading this virus when
they are in school, wearing a
mask sitting behind Plexiglas
Social distanced?
There is no evidence.
Other countries in the world
children are going to school,
even when they have a higher
case rate
catholic children in New York.
They get to go to school,
they get to do in person.
Classes
were not seeing a problem with
that.
It is pure and simple, a cave to
the power of the teachers union.
You can see who is in charge of
New York City schools.
It is not Mayor Deblasio or
Governor Cuomo. It is the
teacher unions which are
militant
which didnt want to open up
and do their job in the
beginning,
and it shows that their care is
not for the children that they
supposedly are looking after
and teaching
their care is simply for
themselves and for exerting
power to get what they want.
And you know you see that
Governor Cuomo during the
pandemic, he paid more attention
to the lobbyists for the
hospitals than he did for
concern for the people of New
York.
I think this is going to be the
last straw.
I dont know how parents cope.
It really is im glad I
dont have school age children
at school. At the moment
it is tough.
This is the American Pediatric
Association on the risks, as I
mentioned, of kids not being in
school,
they have a multi page form. You
can print out yourself.
I did this morning and dig
through
the warnings that they have for
keeping kids out of the
classroom
included, is lack of computer
internet connection,
school meals and food security
for families at risk.
Very important for New York
City
students may face difficulty
reentry once they get back in
Skoo and they point to the
growing gap of systemic racial
inequity.
Very important
pew research says school age.
Children lacking the
connectivity to get schoolwork
done is more with black
households.
Cuomo blames people
if you socially distanced
and wore a mask, and you were
smart. None of this would be a
problem.
It is all self imposed.
It is all self imposed.
If you didnt eat the
cheesecake, you wouldnt have a
weight problem.
I have the leave it
here.
Thats, a tough one, to hear
right now.
City, speak really is.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-19.