Grenita Lathan, the Interim Superintendent for Houston Independent School District, joins MSNBC's Craig Melvin to discuss some of the challenges of reopening the largest school district in Texas amid the coronavirus pandemic. Aired on 08/10/2020.
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HISD Interim Superintendent On Reopening The Largest School District In Texas | Craig Melvin | MSNBC
If we don’t control the pandemic, there will be no children in schools, no getting back to work. America, start acting responsibly.
Cool Beans not everybody lives in your crazy country, full of conspiracy theories….
@Cool Beans https://www.thewrap.com/celebrities-deaths-coronavirus-star-hollywood-notable-stars/
@R C daily testing in the White House, anyone who is not on his staff has to get tested before they are allowed in his presence. Meanwhile we have hours long lines for “ordinary” people to receive a test, then the majority of those do not get their results for at least a week, if not two.
@Kristen Rdesinski So there really IS an insta-test that gives you results in 15 min.? But only the hospitals & the White House get that test… Why isn’t the press covering THAT story & telling us who makes that test?
@R C yes, there is an Insta-test, but it has proven to be less than totally reliable. There are also tests with results within 48 – 72 hours, a friend of mine had one at our local hospital last week, but those don’t seem to have wide availability either…my friend is high risk.
If the President had invoked the Defense Production Act to have supplies manufactured here we would be in a much better place where testing and PPE is concerned. If he was to do it today we could be better off sooner than later. Why he isn’t baffles me.
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In Gwinnett County, GA, a bunch of idiots protested schools opening online. Just last week, over 260 school employees tested positive for Corona. So, Texas…how comfortable do you feel sending your kids back to the giant petri dish we now call “schools”? 🤔
Revengelical religious nuts have always advocated and practiced home schooling. Suddenly they’re protesting online school. Hypocrisy and irony much?
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@Doug Lowe 260 employees tested positive. Wow. Such fake news. No one knows how a virus really works. That’s because you all have been dumbdowned. Not one celebrity or famous athlete has died from this hoax. A virus doesn’t just sit and wait for people. It does choose who it wants to infect. It’s sad to see so many sheeple automatically believing the tell-lie-vison. Stop being so gullible and naive please. Thank you.
The choice is this:
Either keep the schools closed.
Or open them and be FORCED to close them again in a few weeks when the Covid cases skyrocket through the roof.
Seems easier to just keep them closed.
The Blue Arrow I seriously hope we do not have to see a lot of kids on ventilators!
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@The Blue Arrow – You are assuming community spread is the same in each school district. That is not the case. Unfortunately, Craig Melvin gave an inadequate report. All he said was Houston had a record high positivity rate. He did not say what the rate was. The CDC recommends a rate of 5% or below. Compare that to Connecticut and New York State which have 1% rates.
I just finished reading the reopening plan for Great Neck Public Schools, Ranked 3rd in the nation. It is very detailed.
• Students are required to wear masks but they get masks breaks.
• Teachers need to take attendance for full day or individual video lessons.
• Bus drivers can’t have hand sanitizer on the bus because it is a fire hazard.
• Children are required to wear masks on the bus but the driver can’t put them on.
If you have children that you’re worried about sending to school, you should read the school’s reopening plan.
The children can act as canaries in the coal mine. If too many die, we can vacate the schools.
What they don’t have a music room that is sound proof. Most schools do. That was annoying!
The lt. gov. was willing to die to open the economy. Is he willing to go teach children in person without a mask to save the school systems? (crickets)
This young woman is assured, competent, and has a cohesive strategy. Unfortunately, Betsy DeVos has no clue how public schools work.
Michael Ulbricht Betsy DeVos paid her way in. She’s a viper with a sick agenda.
Keep kids in the classes and have teachers move from class to class would mean less kids in the hallways. However, lunch is a seperate beast altogether. I remember staying home alone at age 7. If you’re kids aren’t going to start a fire, I think you could maybe hire a babysitter/tutor to help out. That’s the only way I see parents getting through this since their gov’t wants to throw their kids under the bus.
Doc Lewis I came home from school and let myself in the house everyday from the time I was 8 yrs old. I was also responsible for my younger sister who was 6 at the time. If ppl don’t trust their kids enough to do it says a lot about how kids are being raised these days.
No kids should go back to school until Barron Trump goes back.
To a public school no less.
He could if they were open or anygood
What about Ivanka’s brats? Are they school age yet?
@Donald Germanand the other two are having fun!
Doug E to public school ?
She’s doing a good job, seems prepared and good interview, even dealt with the noise at the beginning well
Let’s have trump walk around a busy public school with his youngest kid and eat lunch with the other kids. and then we can open up all schools.
Like a canary in a coal mine? Send him in with his grandkids.
Reopening Schools in the middle of a Pandemic is insane. It’s time to transition to Distance Learning. It is the Year 2020 not 1944. The faster we retire Traditional Schools the better.
I see there’s still no video on the looting and destruction in Chicago last night!? Why not MSNBC?
trump says “STOP TESTING” “PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE, ANYWAY”
I plan to buy a used motorcycle that belonged to one of the guys in Sturgis. I’m figuring there will be some bikes available soon.
She is impressive, sounds like her school board is one that is keeping the health and safety of students, staff and families in mind, unlike many in our government. Way to go
The devil won’t let his son back to school but he insists your children go back to school
Ok, the whole “shut down the school for a cleaning/disinfecting” is ridiculous. The school doesn’t have the virus. The kids/adults in the school have it. Clean it all you want but when you bring the people back the virus comes back with it. 🙄
The GOP is torturing the unemployed in the USA, physically & mentally.