Dr. Joseph Allen Still Thinks Kids Can Safely Return To Schools
Dr. Joseph Allen, opinion contributor for the New York Times and Washington Post, professor at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and author of Healthy Buildings, rejoins the Dom Giordano Program to discuss why he, and many other experts, believe that students should be back in school for full in-person education. Allen, who knows that the risk to children is incredibly low, explains the biggest hurdles that school boards face as they organize to re-open. Also, Allen explains whether or not he’s faced any pushback for having what shouldn’t be a controversial viewpoint, and tells that he believes the risk to children in the classroom can be controlled, while the risks outside of school cannot.
PA Rep. Frank Farry Recaps Call With State Officials On Failed Vaccine Distribution
Pennsylvania State Representative Frank Farry returns to the show to provide an update on an interview on the Dom Giordano Program last week, in which he revealed that he and other state officials were hoping to have questions answered regarding the distribution of vaccines. Farry and his co-sponsors have introduced legislation that’ll require state distribution for the 66 counties to be solely based on population, with any county who has been short-changed have the shortfall made up, and the decision-making to fall to individual counties’ Boards of Health.
Farry explains the formula the state currently uses, called the COVID Index, which has left behind many areas of Pennsylvania, particularly in suburban counties surrounding Pennsylvania. Farry reveals that there were over 80 people on the call, but the Wolf administration remained incredibly selective in which questions they were willing to answer. Now, because of the failure to hear the issues of multiple counties around the state, Farry and other Republicans are calling for the National Guard to be the main distributor of the vaccine rather than the State.
Keeping Kids in School’s Clarice Schillinger Uncovers Blatant Disrespect By Local School Board
Clarice Schillinger, local mother heading up the Keeping Kids in School PAC, returns to the Dom Giordano Program to update the audience on her continued fight to get children back into schools. Last week, Schillinger filed a ‘Right to Know’ request to the Hatboro-Horsham Education Association, and uncovered emails from Hatboro-Horsham Education Association President Bryan Moore in which he accused parents in his school district as seeking ‘babysitting.’ In an email that Mr.
Moore wrote to Superintendent Dr. Scott Eveslage, Moore writes, ‘we are not a childcare center and I fear babysitting drove parents to demand an amount of in-person instruction.’ The email continues, ‘high school students simply wanting to be in school also doesn’t qualify as a legitimate reason to bring them back.’ Schillinger notes that parents, as well as teachers, should be aware of the dismissive view of the union’s leadership.