As school districts across the country consider whether to re-open schools in the fall, bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., believe they know what's best for America's children.
The Centers for Disease Control released guidelines for school re-opening that will be almost totally impossible for most schools to meet.
The guidelines recommend that schools space desks six feet apart; seat only one child per row on school buses; discourage students from sharing toys, books or sports equipment; close communal spaces, such as cafeterias and playgrounds; and create staggered drop-off and pick-up schedules to limit contact between large groups of students and parents.
President Trump rightly called the guidelines "very tough and expensive," and his administration has been pushing for schools to reopen according to their own plans. His Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, said that local communities should be able to decide whether to send their kids back to school.
“Kids need to be back in school and that school leaders across the country need to be making plans to do just that,” DeVos said Sunday on CNN’s State of The Union. “There’s going to be the exception to the rule, but the rule should be that kids go back to school this fall. And where there are little flare ups or hotspots, that can be dealt with on a school-by-school or a case-by-case basis.”
What's more, the American Academy of Pediatrics agrees with the Trump administration's goal of in-person class meetings. Its guidance on school reopening reads:
The AAP strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school. The importance of in-person learning is well-documented, and there is already evidence of the negative impacts on children because of school closures in the spring of 2020.
The fight between federal bureaucrats and local communities has been raging for decades, and the bureaucrats have been winning. Bureaucrats dictate policies for schools across the country, and if they get their way, America's children will be forced to stay out of school for at least another semester -- no matter how bad the coronavirus situation is in their community.
It's time for We the People to stand up to federal overreach and reclaim our right to self-governance. Elections won't change the deep state, as we've seen over the last four years. Only one thing can effectively limit the power of federal agencies: an Article V Convention of States.
A Convention of States is called and controlled by the states and has the power to propose constitutional amendments. These amendments can return decision-making power to local communities by restricting the power and funding of some federal agencies and eliminating other agencies altogether.
America's families should decide what's best for America's children -- not a faraway bureaucrat in D.C. We can make it happen, but only if we call an Article V Convention of States.
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