On radio show, Bensenville caller places blame on parents for not standing against remote learning during COVID-19 health crisis. | Adobe Stock
On radio show, Bensenville caller places blame on parents for not standing against remote learning during COVID-19 health crisis. | Adobe Stock
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."
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