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Letter 2 to President Bidden
Feb. 20th, 2021 05:50 pmFirst, I want to say I’m impressed. Vaccines are rolling out faster than I expected. I was fully assuming we wouldn’t even start hybrid school until Fall, and now it looks like it might be possible to get some in this spring.
On that note, please, stop saying we need to open schools. Schools are open. Students are learning. Distance learning is open schools, and teachers working their tails off. You can talk about schools being in person, or campuses opening, but schools have been open through the whole pandemic, and it minimizes the hard work of our education professionals to suggest schools aren’t open.
I like the progress you’ve made on immigration reform, but I want to see more on how we’re taking compassionate care of those in our custody because of border enforcement. This is most vital for the children, but also important for adults. We as a country need to be humane in our treatment of all people.
I’m really worried about Texas. I have friends there, and I see the stories of power outages for days, unsafe water, and freezing temperatures. I worry too, about what will happen as things warm up and all that snow and ice melts. Please do what you can to get aid there and encourage more sustainability in the grid and infrastructure for future. I know this is freakish weather, but now it seems like we’d better prepare in case it comes back.
On that note, please, stop saying we need to open schools. Schools are open. Students are learning. Distance learning is open schools, and teachers working their tails off. You can talk about schools being in person, or campuses opening, but schools have been open through the whole pandemic, and it minimizes the hard work of our education professionals to suggest schools aren’t open.
I like the progress you’ve made on immigration reform, but I want to see more on how we’re taking compassionate care of those in our custody because of border enforcement. This is most vital for the children, but also important for adults. We as a country need to be humane in our treatment of all people.
I’m really worried about Texas. I have friends there, and I see the stories of power outages for days, unsafe water, and freezing temperatures. I worry too, about what will happen as things warm up and all that snow and ice melts. Please do what you can to get aid there and encourage more sustainability in the grid and infrastructure for future. I know this is freakish weather, but now it seems like we’d better prepare in case it comes back.