Lifelong Oklahoma Republican Nancy Shively said she is 'terrified' at the prospect of returning to class during the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ preaching “to career educators about the benefits of being in school, is not only unnecessary but downright insulting,” Shively wrote.Of course our kids need to be in school! And teachers want to be there with them. For most of us, it is not only a profession but a calling,” she said. “However it needs to be done safely. With the status quo as it is, that cannot be done in most of the country. And we need to stop pretending that it can.
Shively said she voted for Trump over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton because she believed him to be “the less bad of two choices.”“When the pandemic hit, the incompetence of the man for whom I had voted and the complicity of everyone around him forced me to admit that I could no longer maintain any kind of self-respect as a Republican,” Shively said.
Trump and his allies have repeatedly suggested, without providing any evidence to back up the claim, that
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