Editorial: Going to school shouldn't be life risking. Common sense, not politics, is the remedy
Monday, Sept. 13, 2021 -- North Carolina students are headed back to school but they and their teachers are risking their lives in classrooms and hallways. Gun violence and inexplicable resistance to basic health precautions are putting our children and school workers in jeopardy. It doesn't need, and shouldn't, be this way.
Posted — UpdatedNorth Carolina students are headed back to school but they and their teachers are risking their lives in classrooms and hallways.
Gun violence and inexplicable resistance to basic health precautions are putting our children and school workers in jeopardy. It doesn’t need, and shouldn’t, be this way.
North Carolina’s legislative leaders need to wake up to the realization that what they may see as a political game – and appealing to a narrow partisan base – has consequences.
The new school year has hardly started. COVID-19 is already disrupting efforts to return to much-needed classroom instruction.
Politics is no game and the consequences for making it one are, as we’ve seen in the first few days of the new school year, life and death.
The governor’s veto of legislation to do away with state background checks for pistol purchase is no attack on the Second Amendment – it is a small effort toward keeping guns out of the hands of those who present a real public danger. Back the veto.
Schools should be places where public health and safety are a top priority. Legislative leaders need to stand up and support safety mask mandates, rather than look for ways to stifle these policies. In fact, they need to go further and support mandated vaccinations for ALL eligible students and school personnel.
The security and well-being of North Carolina needs to be their top priority.
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