 The National Assessment of Educational Progress has this new testing that shows that nine-year-olds lost ground in both math and reading in pretty dramatic ways as a result of the pandemic. What is the president going to do about it? What is the administration going to do about this severe learning loss? And does the administration shoulder any blame for not pushing schools to reopen sooner? 47 percent of schools were in less than six months. Our schools went from 46 percent to open to nearly all of them being open to full-time. That was the work of this president and that was the work of Democrats. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Teachers unions have said that teachers should be vaccinated before schools are open again. Does the president agree with that? Should a vaccination be required before a teacher should go back to school? He believes that teachers should be a priority in the vaccination list. He has supported that. He believes that teachers should get their vaccines but he's listening to the science. It is not clear to me where the president's position is on reopening schools. Jen Psaki keeps leaving it ambiguous. Where there is a high incidence of COVID, there has to be a judgment made from the community as to how they go forward. Most of many schools will tell you across the country they were waiting for the CDC guidelines, they want to know how to do it safely. Parents were thrilled last night to hear the president say five days a week he wants to get those kids back in school. Well look if it were easy it would have been done by now. You know I mean obviously it's a very difficult situation to get an absolute definitive answer. Stand up against that pressure and fight the unsafe return to school site. This is a recipe for propagating structural racism. That was the work of this president and that was the work of Democrats. As an educator there's been some vocal opposition especially from teachers unions to this idea that the teacher should be forced back into the classrooms this fall regardless of vaccinations. What do you say? I mean what's your message to educators? Is it time to get back in the classroom this fall no matter what? Well I think it depends on you know we're following the science and what the CDC says. So if we can't blame President Biden for the fact that many schools are still closed do we blame teachers unions? No I think that another quick reopening schools in the middle of a pandemic is not as easy as some may think. Knowing what we know now that it doesn't the disease isn't transmitted on surfaces we don't have to go through all this deep cleaning that we thought we did at the beginning we've learned a lot do you think the schools should have been open earlier? You know without looking at the context it's difficult to answer that. Are schools going to close on Monday if we top 3%? Yep we do need to close our schools for the coming days. No one is happy about this decision. It is super super super hard in the places of the deniers. The only way you can safely open up schools Craig is on-site testing and unless you're an affluent school district you don't have access to it right now. But we should not rush to reopen schools because they're the biggest risk the biggest risk the spread of the pandemic is opening up the schools. That was the work of this president and that was the work of democrats. Thanks for watching I forgot to mention that I got all of these clips from Tom Elliott of Grbyan Media from a Twitter thread he did on this topic you can find the link to that in the description and pinned comment