Covid and School Decisions

So now the bombshell Covid controversy that looms on our distant American horizon is: What are we going to do about sending the kids to school next fall?

It’s a very big question because there are in these United States a lot of schools, and a lot of students. Millions and millions of them.

It’s a thorny pandemic problem. 

But we need not get all hot and bothered about it. 

Trump says he wants to open all the schools next fall. That’s a nice idea but it won’t work, because the way this Covid virus is spreading its unseen contagion, kids bunched up in close-quartered classrooms next fall will comprise a Covid kettle of disaster, if not closely initiated and managed on a local level. 

A national blanket decision would not be in the best interests of all those kids and their parents.

To find a fix for this problem, take a gander at this flag:

Notice, this flag has 50 stars, which means there are fifty ways to solve this problem.

Think of it this way. There’s a good reason we have fifty states instead of one big one. Think of  each state as a star, fully enabled to shine. . .  on its own course, especially with a little resourceful  backup from mama.fed. Each state is capable of   setting its own course through these treacherous coronavirus waters, or vapors.

Now each state has a governor. 

Each governor has a close  understanding of her/his people, demographics, travel patterns, socio-economic factors, infrastructure, availability of state/local infrastructure, social and religious values.

Each governor has no need of bully trump thrusting some imperial pronouncement about schools or any other institutions upon that state’s dutiful response to the Covid conundrum. 

Furthermore, if any governor is inclined to delegate some educational decisions further down the state .gov institutional framework—the city and county school boards— that is her/his strategic decision to implement, for the good of his/her state’s people and their schoolchildren, interpreted and worked out on a local level if need be. 

We don’t need the bully pulpit spewing orders at us about school or any other institution when it’s our own children whose lives and education are at stake.

Bottom line: Allow (We) the people to coordinate closely with our school boards, our local governments and state .gov services, to assure safety and good education for our kids next fall.

Glass half-Full