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Hence the letter. Its the old adage that liberal should have learned by now you can be nice to a crocodile but he will still eat you. The open letter is cute but why not actively defend people who are being canceled right now . Who arent part of this elite group that signed the letter . Why not help those who lost their jobs and not just speaking engagements . Instead, they say they want and cancel culture because its existence will help drum. No, you should want to end it because you helped create it. It rose from the toxic load of academia, energized by the cowardice of liberals and media politics and business. The counselors can smell their fear. If you Say Something they dont like, they will contact your workplace and how did your bosses online until you finally fired. The First Amendment matters little if they can still ruin your career and life. Yesterday i asked, wheres the silent majority . The answer in hiding from an unstable, angry mob. These open letter warrior should fight
New York City Public School families, 400,000 families responded. Ive never heard anything like that. 75 of them want their kids back in school in september. So the people are speaking, the obligation to respond to that but to do it safely and do it well. Dana will talk to former education secretary ernie duncan in a moment about all sorts of things regarding schools but first to laura ingle with the latest on School Reopening plans across the country. Laura, this is very much on the minds of american parents. You go to any neighborhood in america and you walk on the street and talk to parents and this is what they are talking about. The word that we are hearing mostly is hybrid. Its going to be the word of the new school year for so many across the country, as parents, educators and lawmakers try to strike the balance between safety and schooling for the fall semester. As we take a look at the numbers, they continue to change. At least 39 states have released School Reopening guidance
[applause] good morning, thank you for joining us. Weve here to talk about the forgotten child. Ach much has been made of the forgotten man and woman and this is particularly on education. Ladies and gentlemen, everyone lived through the pandemic and screen time is school time, but i can tell you i never met a single mother in this entire country who has said, you know what my daughter needs more of, her phone. You know what would really help my son learn, staring at a computer all day. And so, people bought into that from march to june of 2020 at the beginning of the height of the pandemic. At the beginning. And then we all had a pretty good summer. All of a sudden, we were told in many states, in many jurisdictions that kids are going to start online again. For the Second School year. And the net effects of that, the consequences of that, we still do not know in full. What we do know is about two million kids left the Public School system across the country. What we do know is that t