Roy discusses the herd immunity approach. With the new school year beginning in schools and colleges across the country, the acrostic candidate joe biden said if he is elected help is on the way. To School Systems and parents. Good morning, this is washington journal. We start the program asking you about your experience so far. How is it going back either remotely or in person, is it working . Four those of you in the eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific. For educators, our number is 2027488002. If you want to send us a text, that line is 2027488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. And ontter or twitter. It was his Second Campaign appearance after his convention, biden in delaware yesterday. You can find it at cspan. Org. The Washington Post, biden blames trump because the education gap a national emergency. Joe biden sought to channel the frustrations of students, parents, and teachers around the country i blaming trump for School Districtss inability to be open during the pandemic. Biden received a briefing from education leaders at a sparsely filled downtown theater. He said a lack of in Person Education around the country is an emergency. Here is more of what joe biden had to say. [video clip] trump still doesnt have a plan of how to reopen safely. No plan of how to make parents feel secure for their children. He is offering nothing but failure and delusions on the start to finish. Paying then are price. Failure to take this virus seriously early and spread it around the globe. Failure to take the steps we needed back in march and april. Failure to institute widespread testing and tracing, to control the spread. Failure to provide clear national sciencebased guidelines state and local authorities. And failure to model even basic responsibility like social distancing and wearing a mask. Failure to make sure educators and administrators have the equipment and resources and training they need to open safely under the circumstances we find now. Devos trump and betsy have not stepped up. We have. All seen the results. Millions of students starting a new school year in the same way they finished the last one at home. Host your back to School Experience so far. 2027488000 if you are in eastern and central time zones. 2027488001, mountain and pacific. Educators, the line is 2027488002. The y tested issue guidelines for reopening the white house did issue guidelines for reopening schools. We believe Many School Districts canal reopen safely provided the implement mitigation measures, Health Protocols to protect families, teachers, and students. Includeidelines supporting the resumption of in person schooling. Trump is standing up for the wellbeing of American Children who need to get back in the classroom and. Working parents. Hear what trump had to say when those were released. [video clip] we cannot stop American Children from going to school and harming their mental, physical, Emotional Development and inflicting longterm damage. I heard a gentleman today from year issay that every 10,000. They lose a tremendous amount of money in the future. I think he was talking about on a yearly basis, it was a lot. Every year of education they lost, every year they gained they gained 10,000. When you have students sitting at home playing with a computer, it is not the same. It is not the same, it can never be the same as being in a classroom. We want to get our students in a class or. Host lets get your calls and input including that educators line at 2027488002. This is nelly in alabama. It is not safe for kids to go back because every time you look around someone is coming with the virus. They have too many kids bunched up together. Somebody is going to get sick and schoolteachers what are when you havedo kids go back to school with the virus . Especially college kids. They call the virus they caught the virus. Then you bring it back home to your parents it is not safe. Instead of going back to school, but he is worried about the money. [indiscernible] rob, lets hear from florida. What is your screen so far . Caller the ironic thing about the situation is trump himself doesnt do his homework on just about anything. His mind works in such a way he writescally his own teach each his own sheets. He pretends he has done his homework. When you dont do your homework, you fall behind your classmates. You know that others are getting ahead of you when you dont do your homework. You fall behind and you know it so you try to hide it. About it and pretend you are as developed as the others. About it and pretend you are as developed as others. I did the same thing. You continue to pound away and prove to others not only that you did the homework but you are on their intellectual level, but you are not. It, your lack of development, you continually try to convince others you are not undeveloped. It is a merrygoround. You work at rehearsing and pretending instead of doing the work. That is the situation we are in. Host some comments on twitter. This is alexis, a Washington Post reporter. Fouryearold keeps muting himself and saying i dont know yourself, is this meeting over yet . Mama is doing a happy dance. Trump unaware mr. Controlled all the School Districts. My eightyearold grandson will begin virtual schooling. Educators, your line is 2027488002. Mountain and pacific, 2027488001. Kristof in thes york times and his peace and his piece. Sone trump his private the private school his son is attending is sticking to Remote Learning. Computer andve a will be able to eat his fill without school lunches. Study found that almost 17 million American Children live in homes without highspeed internet and more than 7 million dont have a computer at home. For disadvantaged kids, Online Learning is an oxymoron. That is in the New York Times. Sea in tennessee, go ahead. Caller mr. Biden, we are a federal system and every state is not alike. Understand south dakota didnt close down in the spring. They didnt like they needed to. [indiscernible] local people are not stupid. They dont have to be instructed as to what to do. Arel and state officials doing just fine. Host we go to michigan. Kathy is an educator there. Are you back in school . Substituteork as a teacher and i work at a hospital. There is almost no information about the schools so i talked to someone about picking up jobs. No one knows anything. The hospital is probably the faces the safest place. Right. S kristof was schools where some dont even have running water, some dont have internet, they are going to be undereducated this year and the president could have stopped that. Put the gear in schools for people to wear. Face masks, shields, make sure there is running water. One school didnt have it for a wolverine. Alf, in we have all the water we need right now, we have all the resources to feed our children, to heat their homes and we arent doing it. We are taking everything for people and giving it to the powerful and rich. Host you havent been called back for substitute jobs since they reopened . Caller no. There are software programs. You dont read anything in the local newspapers, there is no information. I dont know what is going on. Most people dont. That is difficult. Host back to the Nicholas Kristof article, he writes the advice of american pediatrics seems right. We do everything as possible to resume in Person Learning. That is especially true for special need students as well as low income pupils and those at risk of dropping out. This isnt about hurting children into schools this isnt about herding children into schools but doing everything safe. That means teaching outdoorsmen possible and gripping didnt into pods. What is also embraced, bandwidth for all. Is as essential today as electricity was then. The ideas of joe biden yesterday in bloomington, the ideas he would do if elected president. [video clip] if i was president , i would makes you make sure our children get relief under the stafford act. I would make sure that ppe and sanitation supplies qualify as emergency protective measures which is a fruit which is a phrase they use to be eligible for federal assistance. I would be working with the of congress now, today to pass emergency packages for schools so they have the resources they. Eed in order to be open safely money for ventilation, i heard that a lot when i had Health Care Experts on zoom. Money for ventilation and other Health Measures also money to hire more teachers. Every recommendation we got was they should be dividing into pods, smaller classes. Smaller classes means more educators are needed. Keeping classes socially distanced, small. Money for more psychologists and councils and counselors. I proposed legislation a long time ago. We have one School Psychologist every 1500 children in school. The Mental Health our children need now, the anxiety they are feeling at home and go to school. Not being able to go to school. Superintendents have estimated they will need 2 billion to support k12 schools throughout the year for safe reopening. We need the money to hire educators. For community colleges, four minority for minority serving institutions. Politico headline this morning with president ial Debate Commission announces the moderators for all three president of debates advice residential debate. The first debate between trump and biden set for september 29 will be hosted by fox newss Chris Wallace who became the first journalist from his network to moderate a general election debate. Scully, editor for cspan wmata the second debate, a town hall style event to take place on october 15 in miami. The final debate will be moderated by nbc news and today w coanchor Kristin Walker kristen welker. Between Vice President mike pence and senator Kamala Harris. That debate scheduled for some timber seventh october 7. Now here with our colleague, steve scully. Congratulations, we are looking forward to it. Guest in the first interview i comen cspan i have full circle. Host you are hosting a town hall debate in miami, what does a town hall debate look like in covid19. Guest we are going to learn the process, but in talking to the commission. Some background, the first town hall took place in virginia and that came from negotiations between the Clinton Campaign and the bush campaign. Does is commission now they work with the organization and they will select approximately 30 undecided voters who will be in the debate october 15th and they will have questions. My role is to facilitate other questions, not to tell them what to ask. Just so i am aware of what the questions will be so there is no duplication. And then to carry on the conversation. To geter thing, we want questions from the cspan audience and general public. You can follow me on social and send us a question. Townhall cspan. Org. We will incorporate that into the conversation that will take place on october 15. Host you were the back up in 2016, the backup moderator in 2016. Tell us how you are planning to prepare for the townhall. Guest it was good training for me to serve as a backup moderator. I went to all four debate prepared as if they were going to call on me at the last minute to moderate the debates. The townhall meeting is unique because it is more of a to listenr role carefully, to follow up, to make sure that the president , joe biden, and if there is a third participant follow the rules and dont filibuster. My hope is we are going to ask direct questions and push through direct answers. Host give me your thoughts on this fortyyear arc of cspans coverage of these debates from 1980 to 2020. We have been an observer of these events and now stepping into the role as a per dispute. What are your thoughts on that into the role as a participant. What are your thoughts on that . Guest it is exciting. This format is wellsuited for my background, it is what you are doing right now and every andwith pedro and john greta. Everyday we are talking to the American People. The key thing about these debates is it is the last opportunity you have to see the candidates in an unfiltered format, especially in this covid19 environment. We came off the conventions which have been prepackaged events. That is how the party put it together. But this is a chance with the candidate debates to hear from the moderators, to hear from the American People. I think it is great for cspan. I think it is great for our approach which is to make this americas conversation, especially in this format. We are looking forward to it. It is a big task, but we are ready for it. Host our viewers and listeners can submit their questions to cspan. Org. We are behind you and good luck on october 15. Guest thank you, it is going to be a great ride. Host coverage of all of the president ial debates and the Vice President ial debate coming up on the cspan networks. Full details available at cspan. Org. We continue our comments from you, your experience as schools open up this week. After labor day, many more schools will open up. 2027488000 is the line for those in eastern and central time zones. 2027488001 mountain and pacific. For those of you who are educators, 2027488002. Vicki is in North Carolina. Go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. Grandmother i speak as a grandmother, we have the resources to homeschool in the early years and when he got to the fifth grade we were glad he would be able to enter a middle school and develop social skills which we have lost since we went to Online Learning. Recentlycarolina, we restarted Online Learning for the past nine weeks. Austerity as parents of us to stick as parents of autistic programs have a program for each of our which is something you cannot achieve with an all size fits all login. Have gone back i to our old format of homeschooling him because we felt he would not receive any formal didactic education. I am 64, i recently developed cancer. I have an granddaughter who is in private school and attending oncampus. I faced covid with the choice of how can i participate being on chemotherapy with one grandchild that may be at risk of covid. There are extraordinary circumstances for many of us. Host thanks for your experience. Whendent trump in august the white house came out with their recommendations stated his argument for in Person Learning this is what he had to say. [video clip] the American Academy of pediatrics has released guidance, recommendations that schools reopen. It said lengthy time away from school and associated interruption of Supportive Services results in social isolation making it difficult for schools to identify and address important learning deficits. The doctors also warned about the risk of increased abuse, substance use, depression, and suicide. The National Education association recently stated despite the momentous efforts of educators during the pandemic, Online Learning has never been an effective replacement for in Person Learning and support. When you sit at home looking at the computer, your brain start to wither away. Host our line for educators is 2027488002. In maryland, eric. Good morning. Caller i work for a private school, i am the i. T. Director. We were one of the first schools in maryland to shut down because of covid. The reopening has been very interesting. Since march 12 i have been working 15 hour days to make sure we have a. An environment. I disagree that Online Learning is ineffective. It comes down to teachers to make sure they are properly trained. Hours a day of aggressive, robust Online Training for our students from prek through eighth grade. You as the i. T. Director at a private school, we read a column earlier for the New York Times pointing out the issues of Broadband Access across the country. I know it is larger than your private school, but what are your thoughts on being able to get access to broadband, get access to hightech gear for students in the innercity and rural parts of this country . Caller that is a great question. My location is an interesting question interesting location when it comes to demographics. When it comes to equipment, if theally Equipment School and the families were very slow at managing their Logistics Supply train theyre going to suffer. As far back as april this was going to be reality this fall. Even though i knew that, i still managed supply chain issues not just for electronic equipment but for supplemental equipment. One of the big projects we did was we put brandnew cameras mounted in every classroom, microphones in every classroom so that we could support an hybrid environment if the covid environment ever allowed it. When it comes to broadband, that is a huge issue. This pandemic didnt exist, broadband was an issue as it is in terms of cost and availability. I work with a friend of mine who is a trainer and is trying to help his business do Remote Learning for his clientele. Broadbandking at the in his area was extremely expensive. There is one provider and the performance was substandard. They wanted almost 400 a month for a cable internet.