Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan prided himself on “never once” closing the schools he ran in Chicago before his ascension to Barack Obama’s cabinet. He knows “how important schools” are, particularly to “vulnerable children.” That exercise in throat-clearing preceded Duncan’s full-throated endorsement of closing schools down “during the epidemic.”
His was a defensible reflex at the outset of the Covid-19 outbreak, but Obama’s former education czar held fast to the view that schools were deadly petri dishes long after the benefit of the doubt expired.
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