NEW: In leaked audio from a private call, Texas Gov. Abbott admitted “every scientific and medical report shows” state reopenings “ipso facto” lead to an uptick in COVID-19 cases, even as he publicly announced plans to end a stay-at-home order.https://t.co/weCKK2sJVG— Olivia Messer 🧬🧼 (@OliviaMesser) May 5, 2020
Texas has 1,227 independent school districts. (No, I'm not kidding; I looked it up and everything.) Each district sets its own date for graduation. Almost all graduation ceremonies in every district have been cancelled due to the coronavirus. Most districts are struggling to set up "virtual" graduations in May, with possibly some sort of "real" graduation ceremony in July; if that's possible.
Today the Governor announced that graduations can take place in June. This, of course, will inflame parents who will demand their precious scholars be allowed to graduate high school (!) (honestly, who remembers their high school graduation?) "for real," and that it be done in June. It also throws a frantic month or so of planning right in the crapper for 1,227 school districts.
And then when the number of cases explodes, and school districts want to cancel June graduations because of the danger? And no, none of the 1,227 districts had any prior notice that the Governor was going to make this announcement today.
And you think things are fucked up in the White House....
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