But first, the kids still arent all right and thats the focus of tonights angle. These children are the kite strings that lift our National Ambitions aloft, and how we treat them is the major of what kind of decency and honor we have as a society. We also want that future to be better for our children, so this is all about the children. Laura for decades democrats have tried to convince women that they cared more about them and the children than the republicans care. Its tedious cliches and support for things like abortion and food stamps. Meanwhile, republicans think women value things like i dont know, from economic prosperity, a good job into safe streets. But thats not all. Mothers and fathers of course also greatly value education and anyone who has or has had children knows there is no substitute for interest in learning from teachers in an Actual School with peers and actual curricular activities. The kids in my classroom are all laughing and talking and they are busy and theres movement and ive gotten that from a totally different thing where im an i. T. Person looking at a screen all day. Its important to focus on safety but there is an essential business that has to get work done and we think educating our kids is essential. Laura thus, after three and a half months of distance learning, dont you hate that phrase . For millions of students, exhausted parents coasttocoast and especially mothers are anxious about with the fall will bring for their children and themselves. As moms who work outside the home are beginning to head back into the office, they need to know that their sons and daughters will be heading back to School Monday through friday. You know, like they did in the pc era, precobit covid. In one of the most affluent suburbs of washington, d. C. , the democratcontrolled School District made the shocking announcement that its not going to be fully reopening the fall. Instead families are given two options. Enrolling their kids and 100 online classes four days per week or in person classes were just two days a week. With the latter option kids what would have to remain 6 feet apart at all times, Daily Health Screenings and regular hand washing and sanitizing. Its similar to a plan being put forward to the neighboring Loudoun County virginia, under their wealthy county controlled by democrats. We have a lot of those in the d. C. Area, i wonder why. Now parents in both counties are rightfully outraged. One parent telling the local abc station, i also have seen the repercussions at home where they were distancing. I saw depression. I saw them lose interest in life and i cant sit by and watch that happen again. She is right. We cant let this happen again. We know the heavy toll this is taking on childrens mental health. The vast majority of children are very, very low risk of any serious consequences of this disease. Keeping kids out of school is causing enormous harm to them. We know some studies now out of china that depression rates in kids who have been locked down or up to 2030 . We know the children from low income families in particular or being homeschooled, if we are waiting for tilden to be immunized before they go back to school, we could be looking at two, three, or four years, thats an eternity. Laura now of course living in this area we are used to mistakes, and it would be a terrible, terrible shame. If these two counties set an example for the rest of america. Now i am sure the folks in Fairfax County are claiming they are only doing these extreme measures because of the virus, for public health. But that is just absurd. There is no science that supports keeping kids especially those in the younger grades away from the classroom. Npr reported yesterday that throughout the pandemic both the ymca and of the new York City Education Department kept Child Care Centers open for the children of frontline workers. They collectively took care of tens of thousands of kids for months. So guess how many covid outbreaks were linked to them staying open . Zero. Furthermore a survey by Brown University economist found that just. 16 of the 20,000 children at 916 care Centers Across the county were covid positive. 16. The evidence for reopening our schools is overwhelming. Elliott haskell, a policy expert with the Robins Foundation saying there are almost no recorded cases of child to adult transmission of covid19. Its not a zero risk but we are acting with the march 2020 understanding of covid19 and not with the 2020 june 2020 understanding. Lets see how the europeans are handling this decision. European countries that had far higher covid death rates than we did such as france and belgium have already sent students back to school. Italy and spain are reopening schools in september and of course sweet and never closed to solar schools at all. No significant outbreaks in these countries have been reported due to school attendance. Unfortunately Fairfax County isnt listening. The student body in fairfax happens to be one of the most diverse in america. 26 of hispanic, 8 africanamerican, 23 asian and 33 white. Thousands of these parents are essential workers and others live paycheck to paycheck. And there are others who are wealthy of course. But what are the people who are less advantage supposed to do here . How is not going to work . Are women, who democrats care so much about, are they going to have to quit their jobs to homeschool their kids . How can Governor Ralph Northam countenanced this and how are the teachers unions driving these decisions . The answer to the last two questions is likely, a lot. Keep the chaos going through the fall in the streets and in the homes. It will be terrible for the larger economy, terrible for the unemployment numbers in god awful for students. Not a good situation for any incumbent president. Politics is already poisoned the School Curricula across america. Propaganda from the 1619 project already seeping into history classes, we talked about that last week. Sensible School Choice initiatives are blocked by democrats. They trap at minority kids in underperforming schools. But politics should never affect whether schools open for regular classes. In the coming days and weeks School Districts across america will be announcing their decisions on schedules and classroom learning. Mothers and fathers make their voices heard on this loud and clear. Our kids need to be back in school. Widespread closures will have terrible longterm consequences for our children and will do little, if anything, to stop covid19. Things like hand sanitizing stations and even temperature checks at the door could easily be incremented without throwing millions of American Families into chaos. If parents want to keep their kids at home they should have the option and they should be able to do that. But the vast majority of americans dont have the luxury to quit their jobs or the skill and patience required to teach their kids at home let alone multiple children in different grades. Now if already stressed out parents and isolated children are forced back into the situation again, the one they just got out of from the spring, expect a difficult situation to get worse, dramatically. So pelosi really cares about the children. Then why hasnt she spoken out about this . And assuming biden even understands whats happening here, why isnt he pushing for a safe and sensible reopening as well . Remember. This is time for liberals to press their advantage, to experiment in terms of how much they can push you and how much she will take, how radically they can change the old normal to prepare you for their new normal. So its up to us to conserve and preserve what we know works. Students in class, learning and growing, thats what works. And thats the angle. Joining me now is john schilling, president of the American Federation for children. Its great to see you tonight. Decisionmakers are ignoring science and abandoning the ideal that our education is a basic moral priority for our society. Whats really going on here . Laura, i live in Fairfax County in my children are grown, so thats not a problem for me. Its a big problem and this is a School District that proved incapable of Online Learning. It took them five weeks to even start Online Learning. The date start of the system crashed and their response was to send a note to parents to say, we hired a law firm to figure out what went wrong. I dont know how that helps the kids learn. The plan is bad for students, families and teachers and when you have a situation where you are essentially going to do parttime education, well, what kind of a position does not put parents who have to work, twoparent families who have to work . Laura thats what i just said. This is being driven mostly by liberal educators in the education bureaucracy. They both dont like homeschooling, they dont like that and they dont like Online Learning and if they dont want kids to come back to school so what is the option here . The option is as you pointed out safe and sensible. We need to get the schools reopened with safe smart plans which will be delivering fulltime education for students. One of the things a pandemic has taught us, it has laid bare how inflexible and antiquated our k12 system is and how much we need School Choice. We need to have parents who have maximum flexibility. Laura politics should never enter into the equation but you know it does. Virtual learning though, its hurting low income and minority students. 15 of households with schoolaged children, have no internet access. One in five teens say they are unable to complete homework because they lack internet or computer. 20 of black teens and 17 of hispanics dont have the resources to keep up with virtual learning. So these lockdowns mostly advocated by liberals are further damaging the education of those who are less privileged in our society, correct . No question about it and this is why we have safe and responsible ways to open up schools. Its up to 30 of the lower income families that do not have access to internet. Some of us do, and they did a great job. They were nimble and smart, friendship Charter Schools right here in washington, d. C. , 16 schools and almost all of their kids were lower income and in the community. In one week all the kids who needed chrome from books and hot spots got them. But in School Districts because of politics, they simply failed to deliver. We need to get them open safe and responsibly. Spring i cant say it strongly enough. How many mothers i have heard from in the last 48 hours, i had to d do the segment tonight. It affects everyone across the country. John, your voice isnt really important. And the science is pretty clear. So across multiple studies, kids are less likely to contract and spread covid than adults so why isnt this informing the people in power . Joining me at his pediatrician and founder, author of the seven secrets of the newborn. Okay dr. Hamilton, if parents are concerned about sending their kids to camp or school whats your message tonight of reassurance . First of all laura, thank you for having me on your show again. We have put our self into a corner and this really does represent a conundrum but education is a big deal. Its a big deal for everybody whether you are a democrat or republican or whoever you are you want your children educated. The problem is, the reality is we need to get our kids back to school because if you look at the whole thing from a medical perspective, children are doing remarkably well with covid19. If you look at the numbers, and i looked them right before i came on here tonight, still, less than 2 of all the cases of covid are happening in children zero through 18. Those children who do get sick are actually tolerating the infection remarkably well. Many of them are asymptomatic and by the way they are not super spreaders. So if you look at the whole thing and by the way. I should also say that the number of children that are actually dying of covid19 infection thankfully is very, very low. Laura we cant even get the actual number. We dont want any child to get sick or died, ever. But in this case i think there was one teen who had leukemia and also had covid19 and passed away. I think thats a handful of people nationwide. This is important for the ingraham angle viewers to understand. Unfortunately we are making all these decisions and there is not a single american study on this but there is a chinese study which is all we have so lets put it up on the screen. Positive cases in children, in the u. S. Only 2 and as you said china 2. 2 . Italy 1. 2 and spain. 8 . And most of them are asymptomatic, or mild, 5 critical, children who have covid, doctor,. 6 . And we are not sending them to school, this makes no sense to me. It make sense if you look at it from a bigger perspective. You are not really doing anything for children, what youre doing is protecting the adults in the room. Therefore, and you know, this is a problem because in some ways, and i dont want to be overly hyperbolic here but you are kind of punishing children because you are afraid that they are going to pass infection on to the adults, to the teachers, the workers in the cafeteria, the administrators and other people in the room, right . And thats why laura but there is no evidence. What people need to understand is there is no body of evidence that demonstrates that kids are super spreaders of this disease. There are no outbreaks in europe, no significant outbreaks in france and they are already back at school. Sweden has done incredibly well with keeping kids in school in those lower grades especially so thats not even a problem. His politics at play here, that has to stop and parents have to get involved. Dr. Hamilton, thank you for joining us tonight, its very important. And after his reckless policies killed thousands of net nursing home residents, Governor Andrew Cuomo actually had the gall to say this of red state governors. I say to them all look at the numbers. The play politics with this virus and you lost. If you told the people of your state and the people of this country, white house, dont worry about it. Just open up and go about your business, this is all democratic hyperbole. Now you see 27 states with the numbers going up and they were in denial. Denial is not a life strategy. Laura now hes mocking states like florida and texas which despite a rise in infections are not seen a spike in death. Texas has only eight covid death in 100,000 people, ranking 43rd out of 30 states. In washington see in d. C. And new york, they have 20 times more than texas and ranking first in the country. Here to respond, texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick. As cases arise, and texas is stepping on the brakes so shouldnt the ones that we laid out provide context to this conversation of increasing infection numbers . First of all Governor Cuomo is probably the biggest fraud who hold that position in the country. He had about 6,000 people die a nursing home and we had less than a thousand and thats on top of the other people who have died in new york. He shortchanged the people in new york and he cost people their lives and how dare him come on and point his finger at any other governor in the state. And we are testing in more than our 254 counties and we were before. So expect those numbers to go up. But heres the good news. The good news is we arent seeing it translate to the icu unit or into fatalities. So over the last eight days we had 47, 29, 28, ten, 17 people pass. Every life is valuable but with a spike in cases and a spike in hospitalizations, the firewall so far as of the icu units. I talked to one Major Hospital chain last night and in march their death rate compared to positivity was almost 4 . May it was 9 and this month its 5. 9. Heres a point. Numbers are high, but there is a lot to be a very optimistic about. We are very concerned and being very careful but to be very optimistic about because these are mostly younger people who were in hospitals for half the time they were in march. Its been all over the place in texas, we have 1400 with covid. 721400. Laura and you havent even had to move essential surgeries off of the table. You have room to grow in your icu and i hope you dont have to use it. Well texas in any way, shape or form, dan patrick, shut down because of the spike . Governor abbott was very clear in his announcement, we put a pause on elective surgery to make sure we have plenty of room, but we are not stepping backwards. Our pause button that we have taken, we are already 75 open, people are out there and about. Its one of the reasons cases are out there with the young people. Im going out and they are socializing, we wish they would social distance as they do that but thats been the big reason for the spike. To close the loop on the icu cases, when they say in texas its 90 or 95 full, thats with noncovid patients. Laura dan, and about three or 4 minutes, because dan has a long history in radio, too. You clarified so much that has been confused, purposely confused by the media. Thank you for doing this tonight. We will keep track of this tonight and we will check back with you next week. Tell of governor abbott, no closing the state down. Cant do it. Its not just of protest hot spots, we have more when we come back. You doing okay . Yeah. This moving thing never gets any easier. Well, xfinity makes moving super easy. I can transfer my internet and tv service in about a minute. Wow, that is easy. Almost as easy as having those guys help you move. We are those guys. Thats you . 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