David Chauvin Trial "Cliff Notes" .....

The Trial of the Century ? Former Officer David Chauvin 
faces judgement on the murder of
George Floyd .

Here we GO! the long awaited Trial of former officer David Chauvin has begun . NOW am going say a few rather shocking things here . First of all ... what officer David Chauvin did by putting his knee on the neck of George Floyd was wrong period , BUT maybe the "knee" was on his shoulder ?. Secondly , am sorry for the those people who want to make George Floyd as some kind of "martyr", but he did use a counterfeit bill . Was it planted on him ? Did he know ? NOW look at the consequences for doing that He could be in prison for up to 20 years in . NOW as the evidence now shows that how a simple matter of judgement both on George Floyd and Officer David Chauvin part created a situation that could have been avoidable or a different outcome . (1)>>The arrest of George Floyd was no random act of pulling a man over  which led to police brutality . BUT the TESTIMONY of Christopher Martin a store clerk who happens to be black himself , he was the clerk that reported that Floyd passed a counterfeit 20 $ bill to his manager which led for the police to be called up. Like a surreal world we live in . WE have Camera   footage that was from at all angles , besides the police body cameras , there was the store cameras, the street cameras . Yes , ITS LIKE BIG BROTHER WAS WATCHING .  MOST noteworthy  was the  17 year old girl who happened to have filmed Chauvin's knee on Floyd's  neck at the moment exact coincidence  moment   that Floyd screamed   "I can't breathe "  a  segment that went viral world wide and led massive riots in the streets of the American nation last year . NOW we are looking at things that were not exactly known last year . Besides her film,  now we have recordings of the store camera on [ we have to remember too how video documentation can be used in evidence in a court room these images can also "change" a outcome of a trial ] 

Newly released video show George Floyd buying
cigarettes at the Cup Foods Grocery store.
What started it ? Passing a counterfeit 20 Bill.
His refusal to walk back to the store when approached 
by clerks , which led to the police being called .
WE live in  a amazing world where Big Brother 
is watching us , lots of cameras footage 
may have changed the official narrative .

We should examine how things are now 

being  played out. We have Floyd interacting with the clerks . The footage was played as Christopher Martin, 19, a clerk at Cup Foods, testified about discovering  (2)>>the fake $20 bill that he said Mr. Floyd used to buy cigarettes inside the store. It was a clerk’s call to 911 over the bill that brought several police officers to the area, where they handcuffed Mr. Floyd and pinned him to the ground outside, and where Derek Chauvin, who is now on trial for murder in Mr. Floyd’s death, was recorded kneeling on Mr. Floyd’s neck.In the surveillance footage, prior to the police being called, Mr. Floyd can be seen laughing with employees and shoppers as he moves around the store, at one point holding a banana and at another point pulling out what appears to be some cash. “When you were communicating with him, what was his demeanor like?” Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank asked during direct examination. “When I asked him if he played baseball, he went on to respond,” Martin answered. “But it kind of took him a little long to get to what he was trying to say. (3)>>"So, it appeared that he was high.” The footage, which does not have audio, then shows the moment Floyd hands over the phony bill after exchanging words with the clerk. The Clerk noted the strange bill  as he testified,  “When I saw the bill, I noticed that it had a blue pigment to it, kind of like a $100 bill would have,” Martin said. “So, I found that odd,” the worker said. “I assumed it was fake.” The Cup Foods footage shows Martin confronting Floyd in the background before Floyd leaves the store and walks out onto Chicago Avenue. From that point most of mainstream media did not know that before the police were called . The Store clerks were told by their manager to go after Floyd, they walked across the street from the store to the SUV that Floyd was in the front seat , it also appears that Floyd refused to return to the store .Remember at the Christopher Martin testimony that going after Floyd to get him to return to the store to talk to the manager was part of a store policy . The fact the  (3.1)>>Floyd refused to return to the store was the vary cause that led for the police to investigate . Last his crime is a separate issue from the one Police officers crime— WE should stop conflating the two. one wrong doesn't make Floyd’s crime right. If what he did if he did was wrong  and deserved to be arrested. What happens after that is a separate issue that only involved one COP. This has a lot of implications for the whole George Floyd incident as well as for former  officer David Chauvin's trial . 

Chauvin's Defense 

(4)>>Was the Police out of line ?Where did things go wrong? He was visibly annoyed while being taken out of the vehicle, which who wouldn’t be? Then was sat/stood on the wall under the camera. There’s no audio, not that that matters with the outcome... Read on another thread it was Bc of counterfeit 20’s?? What the hell would normal protocol be for that type of situation? Floyd was resisting the police , the footage shows , this part is puzzling . The prosecution seems to be epicly falling to pieces. From the initial release of the video, that's what the hold looked like to me. When the autopsy and rest of the encounter came out, that sealed it. Moments after George Floyd was taken away in an ambulance last May, former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was confronted by a witness who took issue with  (5)>>Chauvin’s allegedly kneeling on Floyd’s neck.“That’s one person’s opinion,” Chauvin responded as he got into his squad car. “We had to control this guy because he’s a sizable guy. It looks like he’s probably on something.”Jurors in the murder trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin have heard testimony from 11 witnesses so far who have recounted the death of George Floyd over the last three days. Chauvin is facing multiple charges in connection to the May 25 death of Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody, including second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The former officer was caught on camera with his knee allegedly pinned against Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes as Floyd cried out he could not breathe. Police ChiefArradondo agrees with Chauvin’s attorney that Chauvin’s knee appears to be on Floyd’s neck in the bystander video, but appears to be on his shoulder blade in the body-cam video.  Thought it was pretty interesting that they stated that there wasn’t even bruising on the neck of Floyd when he died. Not even on the muscle when they performed the autopsy. They ruled it as cardiopulmonary arrest. This was also released a while ago too. If the lack of bruising is true, then this can not be argued with. There wasn’t enough force laid down on his neck to kill the man. I am not biased on this btw, I’m just looking at the evidence provided. Without adequate bruising, I do not believe that he was murdered. It seems to have been a combination of uppers mixed with a panic attack, leading over into cardiopulmonary arrest. Apparently dude had some medical issues as well associated with his heart.Needless to say the rest of the US won’t agree with this, and if he walks, well then gear up for round two of the bullshit.  During Chauvin’s  let’s say the state does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Chauvin killed Floyd by the knee on neck. Chauvin’s defense team successfully convince the jury that Floyd died from drugs and that Chauvin acted reasonably. Let’s say Chauvin testifies and says he believed Floyd was on PCP and thought he would go through the superhuman strength stage, so he wanted to have Floyd controlled. An acquittal is very likely because the medical examiner admitted Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl and the defense’s medical experts drive the point that pulmonary edema of the lungs proves Chauvin’s innocence. What are the consequences of an acquittal? Will a angry Mob burn down cities nation wide ? This is all unfortunately very possible.I think there would, obviously, be protests and even riots. I don't think we'd see anything at the level of what we saw summer of 2020. That was a perfect storm of a number of factors. Right now it's too cold and people don't have as much anger running their veins, societally.

NOTES AND COMMENTS: 

 (1)>>The arrest of George Floyd was no random act of pulling a man over  which led to police brutality .  The series of evens that led to the death of George Floyd are vary bizarre . LAST year we only saw only one camera footage , that of the 17 year old girl Darnella Frazier filming Chauvin and the "knee" .Her 10-minute video shows Floyd clinging to life and repeatedly saying, “I can’t breathe,”   But we have now seen a lot of camera angles trying to piece together the unfortunate circumstance of Floyd. Like I was said , had Floyd returned to the store with the clerks , the police would have never been called. [ emphasis]  This whole incident was recorded even by onlookers standing out side the store . The surreal nature of it was no random act in my own words. The theories it was a set up to start the riots that followed are not baseless , but we have to look at the boiling point trigger with American culture the last few years were we have had people purposely filming police officers using brutality against young black men . There is no escape out of that . Police brutality has been a subject in the news for a decade . Floyd became the patsy for social uprising .  (2)>>the fake $20 bill.  Was George Floyd Set UP?  The Counterfeit 20 bill is a long story . Only from the clerks testimony we know . The store clerk who accepted a $20 bill from George Floyd shortly before Floyd died in a confrontation with police says he immediately suspected the bill was counterfeit — and he says he offered to pay for Floyd's cigarettes himself."I thought that George didn't really know that it was a fake bill," Christopher Martin testified Wednesday about taking the $20 bill. "So I thought I'd be doing him a favor."But he later had second thoughts, Martin told the jury in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is facing murder charges over Floyd's killing.Martin eventually told his manager about the situation, and after Floyd refused to return to the Cup Foods store to talk to the manager, the police were called. The encounter that then transpired ended when Floyd died in police custody, on the street outside the store. Remember was  just for some cigarettes, come on that is just dumb this is going against one of your amendments, the eighth one to be exact! The Store Clerk shouldn't even had to call the police in the first place for something like this that was a bad choice on the store clerks part but since the police did come here they should have done two things: One of them or all of them should have at least had a one-on-one conversation with George Floyd that giving out a fake twenty dollar bill to a cashier to pay for some cigarettes is not a good idea because according to the United States law you can go to jail for . (3)>>"So, it appeared that he was high.” This is part of the difficulty of the Chauvin defense strategy to prove that Floyd was under the influence of drugs prior to his scuffle with the police . While the blunt force used by Chauvin could have accelerated certain medical issues with Floyd , but fentanyl question in system . A day earlier, jurors heard testimony that cast the level of methamphetamine and fentanyl found in Floyd's system after he died as relatively low.Notes in a witness contact form from an interview with Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County medical examiner, show that he found the level of Fentanyl in Floyd’s system was “higher than a chronic pain patient,” but adds, “I’m not saying this killed him.” The notes also mention “a relatively low level of methamphetamine.”Another issue is how most of the mainstream media is downplaying the drug issue , putting a racist label on the drug question.  The defense’s attempt to paint Mr. Floyd as a crazed drug addict relies on retrograde myths about the impact of drugs on our bodies and minds. The store clerk said that Floyd "appeared high".  (3.1)>>Floyd refused to return to the store . It's unclear how the situation escalated but one video shows police dragging Floyd out of his vehicle and sitting him down on the sidewalk. Police claimed he resisted but he doesn't appear to do so in the surveillance footage from a nearby store. According to owner, Mike Abumayyaleh, Floyd had tried to use a counterfeit $20 bill but was turned away by an employee. He is said to have come back a second time, using the fake bill,👉👀 NBC News reports.     After Floyd paid and left, a clerk passed the bill he used through a machine that identified it as fake. Another teenage employee confronted Floyd outside the store. According to Malik, Floyd refused to return the items he had purchased and cursed them out—“basically trying to be extra on them,” as Malik put it. As the other teenager returned to the store, Malik said the employee told him to call 911. So Malik did. “He [Floyd] is sitting on his car cause he’s awfully drunk. He’s not in control of himself,” Malik told the 911 operator.  (4)>>Was the Police out of line ?Where did things go wrong?  I just don't understand why George Floyd refused to walk back to the store with the clerks to talk to the manager .  First I think if Floyd had done that he would have still been alive . Second, why did Floyd stick around for nearly  30 minutes longer . If George Floyd has INTENTIONALLY passed a counterfeit bill and knew what he did, why would he stick around until the police show up? Does it make sense that he would do that? You'd think after knowingly passing out a fake bill that anyone would stick around . This is why the whole thing is so out of wack . Why the police were called in the first place . The police body cameras used by Officer Chauvin deferentially showed a number of things . It showed that the officers approached Floyd in the drivers seat having both hands on the steering wheel of the SUV pleading with the officers " don't shoot me" , he was crying . BUT the officer cam show the police officer holding a gun to Floyd dropping "F Bombs" at Floyd . Is this standard procedure ? Regarding when a counterfeit bill is used ? Sending multiple squad cars just to investigate a rather "minor" crime is heavy for standards. But the law is the law am assuming .  States also can punish people who use counterfeit currency. A person suspected of passing fake money may be charged with one or more crimes, including forgery, fraud, or other theft-related offenses.  The alleged counterfeit $20 bill used by George Floyd wasn't inspected or collected before his fatal arrest in Minneapolis, according to one of the first officers at the scene.Former police officer Thomas Lane said in newly-released audio that he didn't obtain the bill before, during or after the incident that led to Mr Floyd's death on 25 May.In response to questioning by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Mr Lane said that he didn't look at the alleged $20 forgery being held by the Cup Foods worker identifying Mr Floyd."We were more concerned with a least attaining that person on suspicion of passing a counterfeit bill and then figuring out the validity of the bill," Mr Lane can be heard in the audio recording. (5)>>Chauvin’s allegedly kneeling on Floyd’s neck. When Officer Thomas Lane confronted Floyd in his SUV, drew his gun and demanded with a few expletives that he show his hands, a panicky-sounding Floyd said: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry” and “I got shot before.” Seemingly crying, he begged repeatedly, “Please don't shoot me, man.”Then, when told to get into the squad car, Floyd repeatedly yelled, “I’m not that kind a guy!” and “I'm claustrophobic!” As officers shoved his upper body and then his legs into the car, he writhed and screamed, “Please! Please! … I can’t breathe!"Officers were clearly exasperated as Floyd braced himself against the squad car and arched his body while they tried to get him inside. At one point, he threw his upper body out of the car, and officers tried to push him back in.Officers eventually pulled him out and brought him to the ground. Floyd thanked officers as they took him out of the squad car.Once Floyd was on the ground — with Chauvin’s knee on his neck, another officer’s knee on his back and a third man holding his legs — the officers talked calmly about whether he might be on drugs.

How COVID Ruined America's Public Education System.

During the Pandemic . Schools 
have never been more secure, now 
gates have to kept locked .
Mask Mandates , Covid testing every two
weeks . Is this Normal??? 

After nearly a year of lock downs . Many schools are reopening .  One of the biggest victims of Covid  has to be the American Education system . Last year in ways the government can screw up. I am speaking from a California perspective .  (1)>>Schools are the most essential of all things. If we have to close anything, they should probably be last. Anyone that has the ability to do virtual, such as those with stay at home parents or nannies should probably be encouraged to do so to lower the class volumes (maybe with a virtual classroom bonus?). In terms of everything else, obviously if numbers get out of control we should target closing sectors that are contributing to spread the most based on contact tracing and evidence and avoid sweeping shutdowns if at all possible. I think that's most sensible thing to do in my opinion.  I think the government will be content to let closures happen on a year-by-year, school-by-school basis for the foreseeable future. Many schools will be fully open, many will be sending individual year groups home here and there. Some will have cases across multiple years, so will only be open for a minority of their students. While MANY SCHOOLS are returning to what "maybe called" normal ? By this April 2021 . The desire to return to  formalism of pre-pandemic days is obvious,  also  Evidence is mounting of students falling behind in their classes. .The part of a possible 4th wave ,  (2)>>a worrisome CDC directors message looms over the education system  right now.. Another factor in California could be possible is  the recall effort to get rid of Gov. Newsom . A Republican replacement would turn California into a Florida system system that all school in person learning has to return , gutting all hybrid models .   Keep in mind all POSSIBILITIES . That might be remote for now .  Many students are likely to be in, then out, then back in a number of times over the coming months. School related COVID cases have been less than 10% of overall cases. and very few (if any) have actually been linked to being spread at School, but cases identified because the people are in the school system. The benefits to keeping Schools open at the moment far outweighs the risks. While   (3)>>the education world was turned upside down . Shelter in place that began last March , hurt blue states a lot more than red states . Former President Trump last year was pushing to reopen schools . That led to conflicts between state governors , CDC officials but it 

has rocked the education boat .  (4)>>California was probably hit worse . Forcing the state governments to dish out billions to get the schools back open  . ANOTHER problem is many school districts had to get the teachers to return to class . This is a vary controversial point here. LAST year the CDC gave guidelines for schools to reopen. Schools could have been in  hybrid model last year . Politically the resistance came from the State Teacher Union(s) , but this was nationwide . We know many teachers did not feel safe .   Like I said that  COVID cases have been less than 10% of overall cases. (5)>>Children can be carriers. They may not exhibit symptoms, but they could spread the virus to the adults working at the school, worse case take the virus back home to their parents .   Many teacher's unions kicked the post further by pushing the vaccination of teachers as part of returning safely to school. THIS ONLY SLOWED REOPENING  . It mad things more complicated . With finally the children themselves,  that they may need the vaccine in order to return to school .

School Bureaucrats and Covid -19.

Covid probably revealed  a lot of idiocy on many school bureaucracies. Prime number has to be the  (6)>> San Francisco School District  for example, it  could get the idiocy reward . While it appeared that the SFSD pimary focus was to rename  44 schools rather than planing to reopen schools as a priority . But is this how Covid scrambled the minds of the bureaucrats?  Public schools are a giant assembly line of rigid work rules, legal entitlements, course plans, metrics, granular documentation, and legal proceedings for almost any disagreement, including classroom discipline and comments in a personnel file. Day after day, teachers and principals grind through the dictates of this legal assembly line. There’s little room for innovation or creativity, and not even the authority to maintain order. The only certainty is no accountability. No matter how much or how little someone tries, no matter how badly a school performs, there will be no effective accountability.The Covid crisis could be the impetus that finally pushes the broken machinery of America’s schools over the cliff. And while bureaucrats and union leaders clash over whether the schools they mismanage should make any sort of effort to serve students, those kids are backsliding.

Schools Disrupted again in the next few months ? 

There is a strong possibility that schools might close down again. Keep in mind that schools were really late in reopening , the summer is on its way . (7)>>If anything that might lead to a nationwide lock down by the Biden Administration . I think they will do everything to avoid national school closures but if the virus gets out of hand again.  I reckon it’s likely secondaries will switch to a part time timetable. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are planning this for the winter months and it’s already expected behind the scenes.  If any new surges of covid like the new variations  , if you take the data of infections FOR FACE VALUE .  I think that the Government of the state could make it worse .  One problem is that there is so little data on extended school disruptions – even after disasters, most children are usually learning again within a few weeks. A year is a long stretch. During the pandemic, many schools have adopted some form of distance learning, with teachers providing material through online portals such as Google Classroom or holding lessons over Youtube or Zoom.  The shuttering of the American education system severed students from more than just classrooms, friends and extracurricular activities. It has also cut off an estimated 55 million children and teenagers from school staff members whose open doors and compassionate advice helped them build self-esteem, navigate the pressures of adolescence and cope with trauma. I have to admit it here , but my opinion is here . The American education system with particular attention to blue states , the ED system was ruined . What I mean by ruined is what we used to consider "normal" for public schools . 

The Coming Vaccination Mandate ?

 Example , The matter-of-fact admission to schools will mark the first acknowledgement from the head of a major school system that the vaccination is likely headed to the list of required school immunizations. (8)>>ONCE A coronavirus vaccine is widely available for children, immunization will be required for students in Los Angeles to attend classes, that district's superintendent said. So closely examining this makes me wonder how the school system was transformed by the pandemic ? As a result of the schools being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, classes were almost universally disrupted for months in the first half of 2020. As pupils gradually return to school, the high costs of not learning should be taken into account. The future impact of past and future learning losses need to be considered when it comes to the design of mixed in-person and home learning and when classes are potentially cancelled again locally or regionally due to newly occurring infections.Whether it’s safe to reopen schools is a difficult calculation: though children seem to show fewer symptoms of Covid-19, we still don’t have definitive evidence of what role they play in spreading the virus between households. Any reopening must weigh the risks to society at large, to children’s education, and to the economy, as the continuing closure of schools prevents parents from returning to work.

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS .

It will remain to be seen how long the hybrid model will last in most school districts .  According to the Ed Source article " No Going Back"👉[ https://www.edweek.org/technology/no-going-back-from-remote-and-hybrid-learning-districts-say/2021/01 ] is vary chilling . Here is a quote :  “There’s no going back now,” said Pedro Martinez, superintendent of the 49,000-student public school system in San Antonio, Texas, where voters recently approved a $90 million bond to pay for new technology–including cameras and microphones that will be used to broadcast teachers working from their classrooms into the homes of thousands of students learning remotely across the city. REMEMBER this is TEXAS not California ! The lock downs have in sense already ruined the national education system with all the cautionary requirements in keeping students , staff "safe" . The secondary problem is a lot of the regulations are over done to a point that most schools will look like prisons with padded restrictions on the children themselves by wearing masks and social distancing [if you keeps children away from each other , good luck] Another problem is the "over sanitation " of use of chemicals in the classrooms to fight the "virus" . Personally the virus can't exist on any surfaces for a long time , so the over spraying could lead to other health issues by the chemicals themselves . If you understand this , the virus needs a "host" to jump from one body to another . You can't catch it on table tops , you can get it from a infected person , that has been verified medically .  (9)>>Now Will schools remain open through the year ahead . We will just have to see ? 

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>Schools are the most essential of all things. But for nearly all of the state's biggest school districts, no amount of money will allow them to provide in-person learning because of the rising levels of coronavirus infections. In Los Angeles, for example, nearly 1 in 3 students from some of the city's poorest neighborhoods tested positive for COVID-19 during the month of December , according to data from the school district, which is overseeing a testing program for students and teachers. AN  op-ed in the Washington Post illustrated how the terms of the debate have shifted. Two epidemiologists from Johns Hopkins University wrote that “it strains credulity to claim that schools play no role in driving viral spread” and noted that multiple studies have shown school closures were associated with “substantial reductions in community spread.” Rather than insisting schools are safe, they argued that the benefits of in-person learning were so important that leaders should be “honest” about the risks posed by Covid-19 in schools so communities could more effectively tackle them. The authors recognize this is easier said than done. “Frank and open conversations among stakeholders … might be even more difficult than finding time and money for mitigation efforts,” they wrote, identifying the charged politics around the issue.The $1.9 trillion relief plan has a lot of money going to education. About $129 billion goes directly to K-12 education. Before a school reopening summit meeting , President Biden announced the release of $81 billion of the funds. Separately, colleges and universities will get about $40 billion.  Districts have until late 2024 to spend the money, which they should receive within a few months. Experts said the long timeline is an acknowledgment of how much investment students may need to recover from this past academic year. (2)>>a worrisome CDC directors message looms.  see this  👉 [ https://cnb.cx/3mkjOxU ]  In an emotional plea during the White House COVID-19 Response Team briefing on Monday, the CDC chief, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, described a feeling of "impending doom.""We have so much to look forward to, so much promise and potential of where we are and so much reason for hope," Walensky said. "But right now, I'm scared."The cause of her concern? A rising number of coronavirus cases in the United States. “I'm going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom," Walensky said, appearing to hold back tears. "We do not have the luxury of inaction. For the health of our country, we must work together now to prevent a fourth surge.""The trajectory of the pandemic in the United States looks similar to many other countries in Europe, including Germany, Italy, and France looked like just a few weeks ago," continued Walensky. "And since that time, those countries have experienced a consistent and worrying spike in cases." In fact, "Europe and Russia," one of eight global regions that The Washington Post tracks daily, is experiencing the most daily new infections per capita: 29 per 100,000 people on March 29, followed by South America with 27 per 100k and the United States with 19 per 100k. Among the countries that Walensky cited, France is experiencing the most severe surge: 70 per 100k, a 45% increase in the past week, making it the sixth-highest in the world. Walensky said those numbers are especially worrisome because the pattern looks similar to the trajectory of European countries, including Germany, Italy and France, which are now battling a new wave of infections. President Biden echoed her dire warnings.  (3)>>the education world was turned upside down. Most governments have temporarily closed schools, now many are reopening in the U.S.  World wide affecting over 1.5 billion students in 191 countries. The pandemic has laid bare the difficulties of distance learning and reaching and teaching students in a crisis. Let’s be clear: The first order of business for educators, in the midst of massive school closures, has been to make sure their students are safe, fed and have access to as many social programs as possible. The second priority has been to find a way to continue a plan of learning. In both cases the pandemic is exposing and exacerbating the deep inequities that have long shaped public education across the globe.(4)>>California was probably hit worse . Schools across California face a devastating fiscal future, with a loss in revenue of $1,400 per student — or more, state education experts said. How big is still unknown.Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to release a revised budget proposal in May with his guess. In January, he anticipated increasing school funding to $84 billion, with $3.4 billion in new revenue. Part of the money for schools has to come from the Federal government in order to sustain education funding in California . Right now school districts are facing serious uncertain budget adjustments for 2022 to 2023 . Shifting to distance learning is costing many districts an extra $200 per child,Providing summer school would cost an additional $500 for each. The news could've been worse for schools. Because California law closely ties education funding with state revenues, schools could've lost billions more. But Newsom proposed a series of temporary measures — including injecting another $4.4 billion of federal coronavirus relief money directly into district budgets — to backfill some of the revenue loss. With additional money of 6 billion to re-open schools this year . Still many school districts face enrollment issues .(5)>>Children can be carriers. They may not exhibit symptoms, but they could spread the virus to the adults working at the school. Many studies contradict each other . Early data from K-12 schools do not confirm fears that bringing students together in classrooms inevitably creates COVID-19 petri dishes — although the absence of a standardized national database of school cases makes it impossible to know for sure. University researchers have partly filled the void with a plethora of data analyses from selected schools and grades.When researchers at Duke University School of Medicine asked selected parents in the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area to track symptoms in children who tested positive for the coronavirus early in the pandemic, among the notable answers was this: After 28 days, more than one-third of the 6- to 13-year-olds had shown no symptoms at all.  In a study of 192 children ages 0-22, 49 children tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, and an additional 18 children had late-onset, COVID-19-related illness. The infected children were shown to have a significantly higher level of virus in their airways than hospitalized adults in ICUs for COVID-19 treatment, according to Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Mass General Hospital for Children ((MGHfC).The Duke studyfound that children carry large amounts of the virus in their respiratory systems, says Matthew Kelly, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Duke who co-authored the study with Permar and others. He posits that for several reasons, younger children might not transmit the virus as effectively as adults; for instance, children may not generate aerosols as effectively as older children and adults when they cough, sneeze, or breathe.(6)>> San Francisco School District  for example.  This School District became unhinged after its board was look to re name 44 schools rather than opening up the schools . I thought I was all about politics , it was about Trump , BLM , Cancel Culture . But ridiculous waste of time for school board members shift priorities. BUT that scandal did not end there . It was more of huge joke .  Alison Collins, the embattled vice president of the San Francisco School Board, has filed a lawsuit against the district and her colleagues, saying they violated her First Amendment rights with their response to her posts on Twitter. The lawsuit says the district and her colleagues infringed on her right to free speech in their response to her tweets posted back when she was a private, non-governmental employee. The Cancel Culture went after a black women over tweets that seem anti- Asian . Seems like this race thing is more about eating each other with stupid accusations . (7)>>If anything that might lead to a nationwide lock down by the Biden Administration .   Biden expressed similar sentiments in August, saying he would do "whatever it takes to save lives," including a national lockdown, if COVID-19 infections surged in January, exacerbated by the flu season. "I would shut it [the country] down; I would listen to the scientists," Biden told ABC News anchor David Muir.A president does have the power to take other nationwide actions, like closing the borders, to slow the spread of the virus. On NBC's Meet the Press, Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, called the B.1.1.7 variant a "brand-new ballgame" because of how quickly it has spread among children, citing roughly 750 Minnesota schools that have reported the variant in just the last two weeks. Osterholm also suggested the U.S. may need to consider new lockdowns before school lets out this summer, saying vaccination alone won't curb rising cases in the next six to eight weeks and telling Fox News Sunday that "there isn't a country in the world right now that has seen a big increase in this [variant] that is not locking down."(8)>>ONCE A coronavirus vaccine. Several pharmaceutical companies are doing clinical trials in adolescents or young children. Pfizer was already testing its vaccine in kids aged 12 to 15, and it just announced results showing that its vaccine works very well at preventing COVID in this age group.* Moderna has been testing its vaccine in those aged 12 to 17. And this month both companies began trials in children aged six months to 11 years. Johnson & Johnson recently described plans to test its vaccine in young children and adolescents, too.  BUT STILL likely be months before the vaccine becomes widely available for children, since drug companies are in the beginning phases of including them in ongoing vaccination trials. As it stands, the Pfizer vaccine can be given to people age 16 and older, but the Moderna vaccine is for adults 18 and older. Both drug companies have enrolled children as young as 12 in ongoing trials. Novavax Inc.plans to expand its COVID-19 vaccine trials to include children and teens by the second quarter. The biotech also said it will start crossover trials in its ongoing trials of the vaccine candidate. The crossover will ensure that all participants in the trials, including U.S. participants, will receive an active vaccine candidate, the company said. The trials will remain blind to preserve the ability to assess their efficacy.(9)>>Now Will schools remain open through the year ahead . We will just have to see ?  To be honest, I foresee them being FORCED to close them, if things continue getting worse, and parameters around what kids need to be back in school don't change.  Had those two overlapped, the school would have struggled to fill both of the vacancies. Add in flu season, and you'll have so many teachers who are also parents needing to be getting their kids Covid tests that the system won't be able to stay open, so it'll make the most sense to just have teachers in their own homes teaching (vs. coming into schools to to teach digitally).