‘Adults are not standing up’: Bensenville caller blames parents for kids not in school during pandemic

An angry caller from Bensenville blasted Illinois parents for granting Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Democrats too much power in the ongoing debate over school closings due to COVID-19 in a recent early-morning call to Chicago Morning's Answer.

"You are allowing these to do this to our children because adults are not standing up. It's mind-boggling," the caller identified as Phillip from Bensenville said. "Everybody says blame Pritzker; our parents would not have allowed us not to go to school because of this co-called pandemic."

The Chicago Public Schools high school students remain in remote learning with no date for the return of in-person instruction. Grade-school students receive in-person instruction on a limited schedule.

And in Naperville, hundreds of parents recently turned out for a demonstration where they demanded that schools be reopened on a full-time basis after more than a year of being limited in some way.

"We are doing it to our children as adults and parents," Phillip said. "It is so mind-boggling."