How long can L.A. schools stay open?
Re “L.A. Unified to open, despite rise in infections,” Jan. 8
Rthe astonishingly high 13.5% test positivity rate for coronavirus among Los Angeles Unified School District students and staff, I was struck by how easy it felt to see this information as just another number — frightening yet unlikely to affect our daily lives.
However, as an LAUSD substitute who has worked consistently throughout this pandemic, these numbers paint a tangibly grim picture to me.
With such a significant portion of teachers unable to work due to positive coronavirus tests, who exactly is teaching the students as schools reopen after winter break? Is it me, an uncredentialed substitute with a theater arts degree filling the role of a tenured high school English teacher? Or are other teachers being asked to rotate in during their designated prep periods, as they have often been asked to do this last year?
The district is aware of the risks of in-person learning during the pandemic and has successfully implemented protocols that mitigate those risks. But I believe that now the discussion of safety must include the question of how to return to class without proper staff at schools.
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Nor can it reverse the constitutional power of the House — with one vote per state — to elect the president or of the Senate to elect the vice president if no candidate has a majority of electors.
Commenting on the constitutional flaws highlighted when Congress passed the 1887 Electoral Count Law, a constitutional scholar at the time predicted that our unwieldy system of electing a president “means the accumulation of error until nothing short of revolution can correct it. It means the congestion of the body politic until nothing but blood-letting can relieve it.”
Irvine destructive summer. I would advise the Democrats to follow the lead of Twitter and cut former President Trump off by not talking about him.
As I see it, Jan. 6 was not an attack on democracy, but an attack on the liberal elites who spent four years trying to destroy Trump’s presidency. Talking about Jan. 6 is not a campaign strategy that will work in either 2022 or 2024.
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