Canceling School for COVID-19 Cheats California’s Kids
When This Epidemic Ends, Schools Should Make Up the 50 Days of Instruction Our Kids Are Missing Now
Not one day.
Our kids should not lose one day of school, not a single day of instruction, to the coronavirus.
Let me be clear: I’m not arguing against closing schools right now, in the midst of the pandemic. Flattening the curve of infections comes first.
But the coronavirus must not be an excuse for permanently losing critical days of actual instruction.
Here’s the principle we need: California must guarantee that our schools will make up every single day of instruction now being missed. Those days could be made up with …
