(THE COLLEGE FIX) -- A teacher in the Chicago Public Schools recently asked “Are we going to let nice white parents kill black and brown families?”
Writing in Education Post, Mike Friedberg says Chicago is “catering to a minority of parents” — white parents — in its plan to reopen its public schools for in-person instruction.
“A new COVID-19 strain is more contagious than ever,” Friedberg says. “The Trump administration’s sheer neglect in the face of this deadly pandemic is enraging. Federal inaction has cost lives, and we are far from getting back to daily normal life.