i will be taken care of. at this point for my kids, teaching them to stand up and speak when you disagree or support something, my school has been supportive but loudoun county as a whole is lost in translation from the top. teachers in the hallway saying you keep fighting. i do car duty and moms are so. it has been good. people disagree, we have good debate and it has been productive. jillian: you have two.us, seventh grader at eighth-grader and you are in loudoun county. what was your issue? when we were doing virtual schooling i saw the curriculum being taught and looked at the power point, and had a chill go down my spine, there are other
30% of those children are starting to have these long covid-like symptoms and what does that mean? we re talking about vaccination for our children in particular, it s very important, because kids want to be kids, they want to mingle with each other and play with each other, which they should be able to, right? but what we know is that when they go out for these halloween parties, they are then going into schools. so all it takes is just one child to pick up that virus and now we can have an outbreak in a school. that has consequences. it reminds me, when we say these children, oh, only 500 has passed away, if your child is one of those 500, it s your complete world. we have to start thinking about this differently in the way we approach it. an eighth grader in mississippi is no longer with us. i know if we could do anything to take back that moment when she passed, we would. we have to be proactive in our approach. appreciate you so much for
conversations often on my peacock show about how these conversations need to happen in communities of color. so what is the nuance here? how are these conversations happening in communities of color? because you re not only going to have to convince the parents to get vaccinated who are hesitant, but also the children of those hesitant parents. right. i think what we have to do is, one, we have to counterct the narrative that children are somehow protected or immune from covid-19. in the last four weeks, 1 million children were infected with covid-19. and we have individuals and babies like the one in mississippi, an eighth grader, within days of starting school, who is no longer with us. that s a tragedy that we should try to avoid.
largest school districts with another 30,000 quarantined. you can look at mississippi. they have quarantined over 20,000 with 6,000 kids being positive and thirteen deaths are rising. and when we are mentioning these numbers, i think we have to remember we re talking about people. we re talking about kids, mikaila robison, an eighth grader, died just days after school started. her life meant something. if we look at the cases now versus 2020 when we started schools we had 30 times more student cases now that are positive. we have six times more teachers that are popping up positive. 12 times more students quarantined in mississippi right now compared to when they were in 2020 of august and the difference between then and now is simply a mask. we know that right now if we re looking nationwide only 13% of those kids under 18 are actually vaccinated. so that shows you the power of masks, and we need to get to those basic public health
happened in america history. the fact that we had enslaved people for 100 years, and 100 years of jim crow, and then we had redlining and a failed war on drugs that impacted people of color in this country, that s what it talks about and to be clear, if you were a parent peering over your students shoulder during the pandemic, and found that they were teaching the truth about america history, critical race theory edit finest is something you don t encounter until you get to university level study because it is a very complex subject matter beyond the understanding of a kindergartner, an eighth grader, or for that matter a senior in high school that talks about to the basis of the system and how they operate and bypass racial inclinations and how we should encounter systems and is not anything that a kindergartner would understand. and i have to interrupt really quick. we have to go to the white house press briefing, because peter doocy is asking questions on this. we have heard abo