ReOpenNC Schools

The education of our children is the State of NC's most valuable resource. Denying consistent in-person education is a threat to the future of this state and to the future of each individual child. Roy Cooper has failed to lay out a plan that can be consistently and fairly executed across the state of NC. Parents, teachers and public instruction officials have all expressed concern about the ability execute the requirements of this plan. All students subjected to this plan will not receive a fair and equitable education, and to further the divide, school districts have been given the right revert to a more restrictive plan which will even more negatively impact education.

We also maintain that this will cause harm to society by forcing undue stress and economic burdens on businesses whose employees now must perform part-time teaching duties as MANDATED by the state. In addition, the inconsistencies in science and data used by the Cooper administration to justify its policies gives us a lack of confidence is his ability to perform his duties. His mask mandate arbitrarily required children 11 and older to wear a mask, but children of all ages attending public school this fall must wear masks. We must ask, why is there a difference between the mask mandate and the school mask requirement. The data has not changed and shows that children are not as susceptible to this virus.