<p>Vice President Kamala Harris is the latest Biden administration official to dodge questions about the White House&#8217;s pledge to return teachers and students to classrooms, telling a story about her first-grade teacher rather than address new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).</p>
<p>Speaking to NBC News on Wednesday, Harris neatly sidestepped questions about whether the Biden administration is still pledging to return students to in-classroom learning five days per week within the first 100 days of President Joe Biden&#8217;s term &#8212; a pledge Biden reiterated in a town hall event Wednesday night.</p>
<p>&#8220;Teachers should be a priority,&#8221; Harris answered, going on to note that her &#8220;first-grade teacher had attended her law school graduation,&#8221; per <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-joe-biden-vaccination-schools-return-evasive-1569869">Newsweek</a>.</p>
<p>Asked if she believed teachers must be vaccinated in order to return to classrooms &#8212; something the CDC said last week is not necessary for safe in-person learning &#8212; Harris would only say that teachers should be a &#8220;priority&#8221; for the COVID-19 shot and that real policy on the subject should be left to the states.</p>
<p>“Teachers should be a priority,” Harris reiterated, noting that teachers “are critical to our children&#8217;s development, they should be able to teach in a safe place and expand the minds and the opportunities of our children. So teachers should be a priority along with other front-line workers.”</p>
<p>&#8220;The states are making decisions individually about where they will be on the list of who gets vaccinated,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Harris did go on to say that other &#8220;preventative&#8221; measures should be in place and that a fourth billion-dollar COVID-19 relief package is necessary for schools to be able to implement safety protocols.</p>
<p>NBC News Savannah Guthrie then pressed Harris on the CDC recommendations themselves, which tie the ability for schools to open safely to the infection rate in surrounding communities &#8212; a statistic that could leave many students mired in a virtual learning system until at least next year, even as many schools, in what the CDC considers &#8220;red&#8221; &#8212; or dangerous &#8212; areas of community spread have been in-person since the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year.</p>
<p>&#8220;The issue here is not just about statistics — it&#8217;s about our kids, it&#8217;s about their parents,&#8221; Harris said, fumbling. &#8220;It&#8217;s about the fact that every day our kids are missing essential, critical days in their educational development.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Each day in the life of a child is a very long time,&#8221; Harris added, &#8220;And that&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve got to collectively do everything in our power to reopen our schools as quickly as possible, as safely as possible.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Biden administration has fallen under sharp criticism over the last several weeks over the plan to reopen schools. Although Biden himself promised to re-open schools for five-day-per-week in-classroom learning within the first 100 days of his tenure, the plan puts him at odds with teachers&#8217; unions, who were major donors to Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign. Administration spokespeople, including Press Secretary Jen Psaki, have waffled between reiterated Biden&#8217;s commitment to his pledge and distancing the White House from CDC recommendations and scientific data.</p>

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