This Only Confirms Biden Truly Clueless As To State Of America

Last week, 7,030 shut for the same reason. Breitbart News has tracked closures since the new school year began.

January 22, 2022

Earlier in the press conference, Biden confessed that Omicron is “not cause for panic,” and later reported that the White House is “preparing for a future beyond the pandemic” as it had caused “two years of physical, emotional, and psychological weight.”

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The President went on to say they “have the tools” to keep schools open, including “vaccines, boosters, masks, tests, pills.” Masks are one of the primary factors that cause social, psychological, and other developmental problems in children.

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“We’re not going back to lockdowns, we’re not going back to closing schools,” he said. “Schools should stay open.”

But when asked by a reporter about teachers “revolt[ing],” when in reality it is mostly teachers’ unions advocating the closures, Biden claimed, “very few schools are closing,” and rebuked the questioner, saying it would make people watching think, “‘My God, there must be all those schools must be closing, what are we gonna do?'”

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January 22, 2022

Thousands of schools across the country, in fact, do remain closed – many of them in the largest districts that serve the largest populations of students.

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Last week at Simi Valley Unified School District, northwest of Los Angeles, there were only enough substitutes to cover about half the teachers who stayed at home after testing positive for COVID-19. “It’s untenable,” Superintendent Jason Peplinski said last week. “It is so bad.”

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The good news is that public health experts across California predict the Omicron surge will be over by March. But the fallouts of the highly contagious variant and the acute school staffing crisis it has caused could long outlast the spike in case numbers. The teacher shortages and unprecedented absenteeism are disrupting learning, extending the long-term academic fallout of COVID-19.

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January 22, 2022

“But what’s a teacher to do when she has half of her class gone?” Peplinski said. “Do you just keep teaching long division and hope the class will catch up?”

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COVID-19 infection rates among students and staff are at all-time highs at many school districts. At Simi Valley Unified, positivity rates among students went from below 1% to 6.5% in the past month. Just in the past two weeks at school districts across California, the numbers of positive COVID-19 cases have tripled from what they were before Omicron.