It’s 10 a.m. Why Are Your Children Still Home?
Apparently none of the Covid spending went toward central air for schools
Public schools across Michigan can’t stand the heat. Summer vacation just ended, and they’re already taking days off.
In Southfield, where I live, the public schools were closed Tuesday. It was too hot, with real-feel temperatures in the triple digits. So, there will be no school. Out of an abundance of caution.
If school has started, and your kids are at home with you because it’s hot in August, this is a good time to ask questions.
First, what happened to all that stimulus money? Public schools in Michigan were granted a collective $6 billion in Covid cash, supposedly to make them safe.
All that money to improve our schools, and nobody thought to spring for central air? Maybe some fresh window units? Are we to believe that the people who insisted on returning to school in August didn’t know it would be hot in August?
The Mackinac Center, my old stomping grounds, compiled the stimulus money that Michigan school districts spent during that pandemic.
