I’ll never forget the fateful week in late June of 2020, when America went from being on track for a mostly normal 2020-21 school year to an unjustifiable second year of profoundly disrupted education for tens of millions of children.
The initial American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) school guidance called for all schools to open that fall and said having kids in the classroom was the most important thing: “Desks should be placed 3 to 6 feet apart when feasible,” they said. “If this reduces the amount of time children are present in school, harm may outweigh potential benefits.”
Masking was recommended only for “older students (middle or high school)” who “may be able to wear cloth face coverings safely and consistently.”
Then President Donald Trump invited the AAP president to the White House as part of an all-day conference on schools and touted AAP support for his pro-school policy. Just 11 days after the AAP issued its pro-school guidance, they reversed in a joint statement with the teachers unions.
What could explain that other than political corruption?
Why hasn’t that corruption been more widely exposed and condemned?
One reason is that unlike the Centers for Disease Control, which Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigations have shown was completely captive to the teachers unions once the Biden-Harris administration took over, AAP is not a government agency and thus does not have to release information under FOIA.
The chair of the AAP’s Executive Committee for the Council on School Health,
