The school Barron, President Trump’s 14-year-old son, attended, the St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, will not fully reopen in the fall, according to an announcement on its website.
In a information from the coronavirus working group On Wednesday, Trump said he “had no problem” with Barron and his grandchildren returning to school full time as he pushes for schools across the country to reopen full time in the fall.
The St. Andrew’s website said the school has been preparing for full-time distance learning or a hybrid model with students learning both on and off campus. The school said it “is hopeful that public health conditions will support our implementation of the hybrid model in the fall.” It also left open the possibility of continuing with distance education implemented in March.
The final decision will come on August 10, weeks before the first day of school on September 8.
According to The New York Times, The Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital, where Ivanka Trump’s children attend, has yet to make a decision for the fall.
Trump has been pushing for schools to reopen in the fall. He told CBS News’ Catherine Herridge Earlier this month, schools are making a “terrible decision” if they decide to continue distance learning in the fall amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“I would tell parents and teachers to find a new person to be in charge of that decision, because it is a terrible decision,” Trump said. “Because children and parents are also dying from that trauma. They are dying because they cannot do what they are doing. Mothers cannot go to work because suddenly they have to stay home and watch their children and parents.”
On Thursday afternoon, the The Centers for Disease Control released new school reopening guidelines and a document that argued that schools should reopen in the fall, despite what the CDC described as “mixed evidence on whether returning to school results in further transmission or outbreaks” of COVID-19.
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