American Consequences - September 2020

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Well, Sort of...

and their parents are required to adopt in the school districts where those buildings with the long hallways of lockers and rooms with chalkboards and desks stand empty this September... Only 8% of American adults polled this July wanted to see schools open “as usual.” Well, the majority’s getting its way. Nowhere is public life “as usual.” Until students can safely gather together in closed spaces, school will not be the way it used to be before – and ought to be again. But reaching even this consensus has been next to impossible. New York City public schools, after the city led the nation in catastrophe and in disaster response, made the last-minute decision on the first of the

By Alice Lloyd

American Consequences

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