Btw F-Npr they used to good but now it’s a New York Times like propaganda network.
My child's classroom closed for a week because of a positive case. My child tested negative, so she can still potentially get sick which would cause _another_ closure plus she would have to quarantine for 10 days. There are 8 kids in the classroom, so I could be looking at losing 7*5+10 days of child care before this is over.
It's a cascading failure, and it doesn't stop there. The parents end up watching their own kids and have to call out of work themselves (or work remotely at greatly reduced capacity).
I don't know how you convince anyone in the current environment to be a childcare provider or teacher, when there are robust alternative employment options available that pay more for a better work environment.
And no, closing classrooms isn't necessary to protect teachers. They've been vaccinated for months now, and are free to wear PPE if they choose.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Not familiar with NPR as a European, what do you mean by this
They famously hold funding drives a couple times a year, interrupting much of their usual programming to ask their listeners for donations... but these are also only a small part of their funding, and the drives amount to a kind of roundabout advertising or PR more than anything else.
Most of their funds come from corporate and non-profit donors. [EDIT] And these get ads on the stations, read by NPR staff. "Donors", but actually many are just businesses paying for ads, like any other station has. This practice has gone from "they might name their donors sometimes" to "they frequently read ad copy on-air for them" in the last couple decades.
On the left—so, among their traditional listenership—they are perceived, increasingly, as having a strong pro-corporate and pro-status-quo bias. This crowd perceives them as staunch defenders of the neo-liberal consensus that's driven US economic and foreign policy since the 80s, though they are (as corporations have, now that it's convenient, become) left-leaning on many social issues.
Basically, lots and lots of people, right and left, don't like them. One might take this as a sign they're doing something right, but... well, I'll leave it to the listener to judge the quality of their coverage, whatever its leaning, for themselves. Suffice it that I, at least, think it's gone from "pretty good" in the '00s to total crap, now. IMO the best news coverage in a given broadcast day, for my local NPR affiliate, is when they're just re-broadcasting the BBC.