IF YOUR CHILDREN DIE, IT IS WHAT IT IS

BY MAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE & DIVERSITY

The President’s information on COVID-19 appears a little boastful. There isn’t any weight to what he says about children being immune to the virus. Infected children have at least as much of the coronavirus in their noses and throats as infected adults, according to the research. Children younger than age five may host up to 100 times as much of the virus in the upper respiratory tract as adults, studies have shown.

Why would Americans with children believe Donald Trump has any credibility when he says children are harmless from becoming sick from COV-19 by returning to school in the fall? It should have occurred to them that it is just one of many things that he knows nothing about. It is just another one thousand measurable facts that he has never validated since becoming president and like all leaders who have tried to benefit from disinformation campaigns; he has used whatever he’s got to make the most of it. Even as the number count increases with children who face a losing battle to survive, Trump battles to maintain his existence as president.

And it is well known by now how commonly the injustices and depredations of Trump’s administration have compelled its minority children to regard themselves with something less than the dignity and respect of human beings. Now they must face the medical toll it will take on those who will be exposed to the germs that lead to a full-fledged virus. Such a price could be exacted by any child and in the long run by any educator. Without a certain degree of skillful and aggressive acknowledgment and caution of the horrific conditions Donald Trump created, some children will not survive. As of August 5, 2020, 161,000 Americans have died from Coronavirus. The truth is, we warned by one of the greatest scientists of our time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who now faces death threats by Trump motivated extremists because his opinions, obviously, differs from Trump’s, and his knowledge exceeds most scientist throughout the world.

Let us remember before we put the food in the lunch boxes of our children and place them on the school bus. The lives of children in the neighborhoods are studied, and their personalities examined and dissected, often with a good deal of self-confidence, by grown-ups far away who do not know them but rely on data generated by the government to come up with partisan conclusions that are used to justify political decisions. Sometimes, though, these generalities are not honest, completely unsound, and too relentless. Sometimes they are complete lies. Don’t let our children become victims of a campaign agenda. Campaigns end but lives once gone cannot come back to tell us what they could have become.

Trump continues to order mandatory attendance in academic institutions, as does Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

Just a friendly reminder that Betsy DeVos has never attended a public school or public college/university. She has no training in education or sociology. She holds no graduate degrees or professional licensures.

She has never published a single piece of peer-reviewed quantitative research in her life. She has a level of education that is lower than what public school teachers possess in most states. Educators stand with kids in the class, and she has never taught in one.

Parents, grandparents, and people who care, there must lie inside you a place to reject the strong counterculture which has been foisted upon Americans and seeks to take advantage of caring and decent people and have nothing to the health of our children. This is where we have to draw the line.

Betsy DeVos would not be considered for any public school teaching position, because she is, in actuality, unqualified to teach in any public school in the United States. Previous Secretary of Education John King graduated from Harvard University (BA), Columbia University (MEd, EdD), and Yale University (JD), Arne Starkey Duncan (Magna Cum Laude) graduated from Harvard University and were highly qualified for their positions they held with distinction.

Khalilah Sabra, Ph.D.; Executive Director, Muslim Americans for Social Justice and Diversity (@khalilahsabra) (202)505–7456