“If you would’ve told me two years ago that I would be alienated from the Democratic Party, I wouldn’t have believed it,” Angie Schmitt, a Cleveland writer with two young children, said in an interview.
“I hated (Donald) Trump and what the administration was doing,” she said. “But I just don’t think people realized what a big deal closing school for a year was.”
Asked by reporters last week if school closings could be a potent issue to help Republicans win control of Congress, Biden said: “Oh, I think it could be.”
Democrats across the nation have pushed in recent months for in-person schooling even as the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus has spread.
The Democratic governor of Illinois and mayor of Chicago went to battle with the city’s teachers’ union this month after the union briefly refused to return to classrooms in person.
Biden has pointed to his administration’s efforts to fund school testing and other safety measures.
“We’re not going back to shutting down schools. Schools should stay open,” Biden said in a news conference last week….
Source : cnn
