Earlier today, the Michigan Senate's education committee held a hearing on the impact of school closures on Michigan's kids. As a parent of two kids in Ann Arbor public schools, I was honored to testify (I show up at the end, 1:21.47). misenate.viebit.com/player.php?has…
The key point that I made -- and the one that I hope landed -- is that the Michigan legislature has to make a choice about how much discretion school districts should be given to deal with COVID for the 2021 to 2022 school year.
Especially after teachers and staff are vaccinated, there's no excuse not to go back to five days of face-to-face instruction. But I have no confidence at this point that district leadership and the school board share that belief.
Why do I think that? Here's a bill of particulars. It could be expanded. 
For the fall, the legislature should adopt three simple guidelines to make sure that school boards don't continue to neglect the concerns of their students. Nothing about this should be controversial; it's just a return to something like normal.
Without guidelines like these, I fear that school boards to continue to dismiss the concerns of parents who witness, every day, the toll that continued isolation and online education is having on their children. /fin
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