Mike Pence to visit Raleigh in push for schools to reopen

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Bryan Anderson, Associated Press/report For America
Updated 2:32 am CDT, Wednesday, July 29, 2020

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Raleigh on Wednesday morning in a push to encourage more K-12 schools to reopen with entirely in-person instruction.

According to an announcement from his office, Pence will join a roundtable discussion highlighting how a private school has worked to safely resume classes. Thales Academy allowed 300 students to return to campus on July 20.

The move comes as President Donald Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy Devos have threatened to withhold federal funding from K-12 schools that don't allow all of their students to return to physical classrooms.

Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced earlier this month that public schools may offer a mix of both online and in-person instruction, though districts can choose to offer fully remote learning.

“We don’t respond to those kind of threats,” Cooper said in a July 14 news conference of the Trump administration's consideration of withholding federal funds.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Mike-Pence-to-visit-Raleigh-in-push-for-schools-15441659.php

[Sherman A1]

1. Maybe he and Mother

Could step up and teach a couple of classes this coming term. Put your money wear your mouth is.

[groundloop]

2. Where is funding for needed safety upgrades, additional nurses, etc.?

They're pushing for schools to reopen without providing any help to do it safely.

If it was all that safe a thing to do then let's see GOPer governor mansions open for public tours.

[Jamastiene]

3. I wish those disease-ridden filth would stay out of NC.

We have enough extremist Republican pieces of shit here already. Can he take his followers back with him and never let them come back either? For once, I would love to see NC not held back by extremist Republican crooks and literal vote stealing* thugs.

*I will try to warn people in other states again. They literally stole absentee ballots here in NC and got caught, but didn't get so much as a slap on the wrist. Try to imagine how frustrating that is and try to imagine that giving us four more years of this Hell on Earth. PLEASE MAKE SURE voters in your state know not to hand over their mail-in ballots to random Republican thieves who show up at their houses claiming to be election officials. You don't want this frustration and seething unresolved anger. Trust me.

When Trump projects about the mail-in ballots, he's only admitting the Republicans are planning to do it AGAIN, en mass, in November. Everything Trump has accused others of doing, so far, has been stuff he, himself, and/or the rest of the Republican Party is really doing or planning on doing.

[ms liberty]

7. Well said. n/t

[Chipper Chat]

4. Calling Detective Barney Fife!

arrest that mother lover the minute he steps foot in Raleigh

[Jamastiene]

8. Gotta nip it in the bud, Ange.

Gotta nip it in the bud.

[unc70]

5. Thales had staff member test positive last week

A visiting staff member tested positive and they closed for a deep cleaning last Thursday, reopening on Friday.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. I think this is his flight.

https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfe51

[catsudon]

9. keep it close

i will continue to provide education at home with our 'pod', i guess having a lot of taiwanese phd friends helps.

[Bayard]

10. Headline should read:

Mike Pence to visit Raleigh to encourage parents to put their children in mortal danger.

[CaptYossarian]

11. Is he rooting for the virus, the shooters, or both?

Gotta protect those fetuses. After the cord is cut, they're in season.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. "We'll ollow the science to guide our decisions unless it conlicts with our political agenda."

Why are Trump and his evil cronies pushing so hard to have in-person school openings? How does this benefit Trump's re-election efforts? Everything he does is aimed at that goal. If he wins he and his family get four more years to grift, and to remake the country in Fat Donnie's image. Ycch!

[sarcasmo]

13. GOP convention is canceled, kids back to school ASAP.

[CRK7376]

14. Pence and mother need to stay the hell

away from NC. We don't need you fundies telling us to open schools with COVID19 raging across the country. I teach in a public, Title 1 high school and we have way to many kids to practice social distancing, teenagers socially distancing, PLEASE, not to mention getting them to wear masks all day in call and hallways. Pence just stay the hell away from NC.